How To: 29 Unexpected, Non-Food Items You Can Add to Your Compost Heap
Most people know that you can add vegetable peelings and egg shells to your compost heap, but did you know that you can also add nail clippings, human hair and pet hair?
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Social Engineering: The Basics
I felt our community would benefit from this article. Social engineering is a big part of what we do, so it's something you should all become familiar with.
How To: 6 Easy Tricks to Remembering People's Names & Faces
No matter who you are and where you are in life, remembering the names and faces of people you've just met is an important social and professional skill to have. So what are some of the best ways to remember names and faces, especially when you're constantly meeting new people through business and social encounters?
How To: 12 Non-Cooking Uses for Butter
Though it may seem like sacrilege for some to use butter for something other than to flavor your food with delicious buttery goodness, butter has many other surprisingly practical uses, like keeping your hard cheeses mold-free or helping you swallow your pills.
News: From Cold Warriors to Targeting Trafficking: US Military Shifts Focus in Europe
Well another great way to burn up our taxpayer money. From Cold Warriors to targeting trafficking: US military shifts focus in Europe - World News.
News: Mudhole + Trackhoe = Ultimate Redneck Waterskiing
As said in the video below, "In South Carolina, you don't need no bass boat. All you need is a trackhoe and a mudhole." Those rednecks. So resourceful.
News: Launch Cars Off Cliffs For Fun
More redneck fun. Bob Moravitz plus family and friends have created an 8 hour event of propelling vehicles off cliffs. Held yearly, admission is free but donations are encouraged (to cover insurance costs).
News: Ew. Livestream of Patient's Brain Being Sliced. Watch Now.
Neuroscience (live!) resumes its 50 hour slicing session 8:00 am PST this morning. According to Gizmodo,
News: SPLAT! Art Made from Everyday Household Items
Tom Friedman. One of my very favorite contemporary artists. Friedman injects the wonder into the humdrum. He creates magic from the unsuspected with his incredible sculptures assembled from simple, everyday materials. His materials have included: toilet paper, drinking straws, construction paper, masking tape, toothpicks, bubblegum, spaghetti, toothpaste, soap powder, sugar cubes.
News: Human-Scale Soccer Video Game
Replace that flimsy, plastic Guitar Hero axe with a soccer ball. These DIY freestyle-footballers play their full-sized, wall-mounted "Football Hero" with skill, achieving a 76 percent accuracy rating after only 17 games.
News: Falcon Annihilates Fox and Deer
From Wikipedia, "Falconry is is a sport which involves the use of trained raptors (birds of prey) to hunt or pursue game for humans."
News: Make your face paparazzi-invisible with infrared
Need to be undercover? Well, make yourself impossible to photograph. Get some infrared LEDs. They're undetectable to the human eye, but that's not the case with cameras. Wire them to the brim of your hat and you've got instant invisibility to any camera -- paparazzi, Big Brother or otherwise.
News: Cook hotdogs like a Redneck
What do Jeff Foxworthy and Nikola Tesla have in common? Not much until this insane innovation came into existance.
News: Hypnotize me with those hips
Ahhh. Obsession. Specifically, Stephen. When the market dove 700 points last week, he was watching this video, on repeat, mumbling something entirely incoherent.
News: Make a perfect structure with ice cream cones
This ingenious how-to is a genuine tribute to the designs of inventor Buckminster Fuller. This ice cream cone Buckyball was fabricated and filmed by New England textile artist Alyce Santoro. In stop motion, Alyce illustrates the carbon molecule, self-supporting Fullerene structure.
News: Strut like a supermodel
The average human will make over 300 million footsteps in a lifetime. Who knew we needed instruction for walking?
How To: windmill
Hip hop windmill. Not Dutch windmill. This 6-step tutorial is elegant. Hi resolution. Tasteful chyron. Appropriate b-roll. Most intriguing is the host's continuous, non verbal breakdown of the athletic motions. Mime like instructions.
How To: Fly a human powered hydrofoil
Also called hull-less watercraft or flapping wing propulsion vessels. Bounce up and down to make the wing fly and propel you across the surface of the water. If you stop, you fall. It's like a human powered water ski Fly a human powered hydrofoil.
News: The Past Two Days (News Clips), May 31
Some interesting news this week, from Obama's new political ad, to the $20,000 payments by Cardinal Dolan. Take a look:
News: This is Shrove Footbal
Each year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, Ashbourne becomes a war zone! The majority of the ablebodied men, women and children take to the streets to play what is probally the largets football game in the world! - The two teams number in the hundreds, and the palying field is 3 miles long, 2 miles wide and has the town of Ashbourne in the middle!
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: MIMESIS
MIMESIS n pl. -MESISES or -MESES mimicry MIMETIC adj 61 points (11 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: HEXEREI
HEXEREI n pl. -S witchcraft 67 points (17 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: FOVEOLET
FOVEOLET n pl. -S a foveola 64 points (14 points without the bingo)
How To: Skip the Pre-Menu Credits in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX:HR) was the biggest AAA release two weeks ago, which has drawn rave reviews and sold well across the entire world. But if you've actually played the game, then you've seen something annoying that it and many other games share. It happens at the beginning of the game—every time you turn it on.
News: Watch Out! Kinect-Based AI System Knows What You're Up To
With Microsoft's release of the Kinect SDK, things seem to have slowed down a bit in the world of Kinect development. Have developers exhausted the uses of Kinect already? No way! Four researchers at Cornell University have created an AI-based system on the Kinect that can recognize what you're doing, and maybe even who is doing it.
News: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: Neuroscience Reveals the Secrets for Living with the Undead
A couple months ago, the world was supposed to end. It didn't. But that didn't stop the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from warning citizens of one global possibility besides complete destruction—ZOMBIES. They used the farcical flesh-eating living dead as an excuse to teach you about the necessity of real-life emergency planning.
News: The Chemistry of a Perfect Bloody Mary
A perfect Bloody Mary on a Sunday morning could be the best thing that ever happened to the human race. It's tangy, it's sweet, it's spicy...and there's alcohol. Need I say more? Flavor chemist Neil C. Da Costa's latest project is to investigate the taste sensations created by Bloody Mary ingredients and create tips for making the best Bloody Mary humanly possible.
News: 1,200 Hot Wheels in Perpetual (NOISY) Motion
Chris Burden's latest piece is a portrait of L.A.'s hot mess of traffic, entitled Metropolis II. The artist has constructed a miniature highway system, complete with 1,200 custom-designed cars, 18 lanes, 13 toy trains and tracks, and a landscape of buildings made with wood block, tiles, Legos and Lincoln Logs. Burden tells the New York Times:
How To: Beef Up Your Medical Skills and Become a Better Doctor with 6 Great iPhone Apps
Think you have what it takes to amputate your own arm? What about somebody else's foot? Now, thanks to the wide array of mobile apps available from the iTunes App Store, you might not need to attend medical school to perform a tracheostomy.
How To: Mutilate Candy Gummy Bears with Exploratory Science Experiments
Who could resist a gummy bear? Those rubbery little candy creatures shaped like a bear are just too cute and too delicious to pass up. If you can't get any enjoyment out of those gelatin-based confectioneries, then you're simple not human. Even scientists love them, but not for their seductively sweet properties...
How To: Analyze Michelangelo's David
Artists have represented humans in their work for thousands of years, and Michelangelo's "David" is one of the most important artistic studies of the human form. Explore the proportions, style, and detail used in this classic marble sculpture. Analyze Michelangelo's David.
News: Best Action Movies
ACTION MOVIES The Hunger Games (2012)
News: Human Jackass
This is what I want. I want the guys who are willing to do so to eat the same string, one after the next.
News: Human Catapult
Fly out of the catapult with the Jackass flag, you could either land in poo or water
News: Privacy in the Internet
Any talk about privacy is a complicated (usually) and touchy subject. In today's world, privacy is an ever eroding pleasure to be had. Numerous cases, like the monumental Kat'z vs United States, have been fought to hold on to this right.
Advanced Social Engineering: The Mind Hacks Behind Brainwashing
Brainwashing is something that happens to us every day, whether you believe it or not. It doesn't take fancy tools or space-age technology. Even if our country didn't intentionally brainwash people (believe me, they do), our country's media is brainwashing people nonstop. Just sit back and think about it for a second—about the way things work in the world and media. But before you do that, let's learn what brainwashing really is.
News: Local Politicians in the Los Angeles area.
Representative Henry A. Waxman is in charge of California’s 30th Congressional district. He is part of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Ever since he began his career in the government business, he has been involved with health and environmental issues. He represents cities such as Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Malibu, Westlake Village and West Hollywood, as well as such areas of Los Angeles as Beverly-Fairfax, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Beverl...
How To: Learn Figure Drawing on Wonderhowto.Com: Interactive Figure Drawing
Hello everybody, I am Merrill Kazanjian (aka kazanjianm on YouTube). I will be your instructor. Before starting your figure drawing session. Please watch this short, funny video first to learn the basics of human proportion. The rules that you learn in this video will be very helpful once we start figure drawing (The second video).
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: SHAITAN
SHAITAN n pl. -S an evil spirit 60 points (10 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: REVENANT
REVENANT n pl. -S one that returns 61 points (11 points without the bingo)