If you still have no idea what to wear for Halloween, but don't want to spend a lot of money or time putting together a costume that doesn't completely suck, welcome to the club.
Need to give yourself a super-cheap back massage? Place a few tennis balls inside a long sock, tie the end, and place the sock on the floor. Then, lie down and roll your back against the sock to relieve your sore back muscles.
If you want to prevent your bathroom mirror from fogging up in the morning, simply rub shaving cream all over the surface before hopping into the shower.
If you ever run out of shaving cream in the morning, just step over from your bathroom to the kitchen and use olive oil as a substitute. Not only does it save you a future trip to the drug store, it also helps moisturize your skin.
It'd be a financial burden to have to buy new shoes every time a current pair gets scuffed up, but thankfully there are some easy DIY tricks for saving us that trip to the shoe store. Scuff marks can easily be remove from shoes and sneakers using common household items found in your medicine cabinet or in your desk.
After you've completely emptied out your coffee can of its coffee beans, put your caffeinated high to good use by getting crafty and productive with the empty vessel that now lies before you.
Cottons balls may not be the most exciting bathroom product in the world, but there are some surprisingly useful things you can do with them.
Do you have an excess of wire clothes hangers from multiple trips to the dry cleaners? Rather than letting them take up space in your closet, you can use them for any number of things, from holding your necklaces and magazines to unclogging your sink and fishing dropped objects behind furniture.
Film canisters, remember those? Those black containers with the grey lids that used to contain... camera film?
According to mainstream media reports, one of Barack Obama’s White House spokesmen said this in response to the recent “free speech” trial in Russia:
How many trips up and down the stairs do you think it took artist Janne Parviainen to create this incredible topographical light painting? Apparently, quite a few. Using only one LED, he moves around his house, tracing all of the surfaces. Sometimes the exposure times are up to 30 minutes to achieve this effect. He's done similar projects in the past, like these fun, but slightly creepy skeletons. Check out Janne's website and Flickr profile to see more of his work.
With many internet/Lego nerds anxiously awaiting the completion of the world's first full size Lego House, Barnaby Gunning Architects and British TV personality, James May, finally unveiled the finished product this past Friday. The house (was) 100% Lego, "including a working toilet, hot shower and a very uncomfortable bed".
This tutorial video will show you how to perform an ollie on your fingerboard. An ollie is a trick where you tap the tail of the fingerboard to make it pop up, while using your fingers to control where it lands. This is the one trick you need to learn in order to be a master fingerboarder, because all else comes from this skill. Ollie on a fingerboard.
A kong vault involves approaching an object at approximately waist height, placing the hands on the top and throwing the legs forward so that they pass through the arms, the end result being that the athlete lands on their feet on the other side and can continue on their route. This is one of the most common vaults as it is one of the most natural to perform. Do the Parkour move the kong vault.
The crane jump involves standing on a wall or an object and jumping to another one. If the distance is a bit to far to perform a precision jump, the athlete instead performs a crane, landing with one foot, leaving the other trailing down the wall, before climbing up and over. Do a crane jump.
Francisco Pinheiro, Joana Schenker, and Neuza Mochacho explain inverted air for bodyboarding. They describe how you need to build up speed, hit the lip and fly, and land. Do an inverted air with a bodyboard.
Francisco Pinheiro, Joana Schenker, and Neuza Mochacho demonstrate how to do the air roll spin for bodyboarding. You need to get some speed, hit the lip, roll and spin, and land. Do the air roll spin for bodyboarding.
Rickard Strongert explains that to learn how to feel where the ball will land, you can try lying two clubs on the green, three feet apart, and try hitting 15 balls in between the two clubs. You should also try to use different clubs and to control your breathing. Practice chipping with drills.
Rickard Strongert explains that to hit impressive drives from a kneeling position, one must tee the ball higher than normal, kneel down, and spread your knees out wide. You also should hit at a steep angle and imagine you want to land the club head in front of the ball. Hit drives from a kneeling position.
Screw the airplane man. Ticket prices are too high. Competitive consumer choices are pretty much nonexistent. And need I go into the pain of being crammed into those tiny seats, elbow-to-elbow, thigh-to-thigh with a perfect stranger? Even your average Richie Rich winces at the astronomically high prices for a First Class seat.
Take some tips from the masters themselves. Kotaku interviews game developer Zynga, "who has generously offered to help, by sharing FarmVille strategy tips on how to make the most of your land, your crops, and your livestock".
Move over NASA— SpaceX is taking over. Well, not really. But today, the privately funded spacecraft company broke all expectations when their Dragon capsule fell to a soft landing in the Pacific Ocean, completing an undoubtedly successful demo flight of nearly two full trips around Earth. It was the first re-entry of a commercial spacecraft ever, bringing commercial space transportation closer to reality.
What happens when you combine Super Mario Land with Minecraft? Maybe some awesome pixel art, but how about if you go a step further? What if you add the computer game within a computer game idea and throw in a little stop motion?
Generally, summer is a slow time for video games, but not when it comes to Xbox Live Arcade where it's harvest season! In the last month, there have been at least four great games released on XBLA, with Bastion getting the lion's share of the attention. But the remaining three are pretty awesome, as well, and should help you while away the time spent indoors away from the brain frying heat sweeping the U.S.
1 Walk into a corner in any online level while crouching. Continue crouching once you make it into the corner.
Last week I did some beach camping at the San Onofre State Beach "Trails" and my experience was less than satisfactory. I'm hoping that by reading what happened through my trip, you'll be able to plan for a better trip.
How to Article: Plan a Camping Trip for a large group It may be more work that you thought, but following these steps is sure to prove you know what you’re doing!
The Fog of Will Suki = a chink in the armor, a psychological weakness. Doubt.
There is a wonderful site that just launched with the youth sports community in mind. The site is http://YouthSportTravel.com , a collaboration of youth sports coaches and a major online travel brand. They offer arguably the best prices on hotel and motel rooms anywhere. For proof, I tested a number of locations with www.hotel.com, Expedia and Travelocity in comparison with YouthSportTravel and in each case; YouthSportTravel was equal to or cheaper than the competition. But this is not all th...
The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was successfully launched from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia and its dummy warhead landed on target on the Kamchatka peninsula on the Pacific coast, the Defense Ministry said.
Wax foods are looking pretty scary-real these days. Here's a demonstration of how lettuce is made for food displays in WTF land itself—Japan.
Ever wanted to look perpetually surprised/insane? This beautiful new mouth exercising product from the land of WTF itself—Japan—can make you look like a startled blowjob fish 24/7. Yay!
The next time you're playing through Rage on the Xbox 360, try killing an authority troop before they land on the ground. If you manage to take it out quickly enough, you'll be able to unlock the 'Jetpacker' achievement for your Xbox Live profile. Just be sure to use a weapon with a lot of stopping power.
I took this photo in Iceland at Snæfellsjökull, a 700,000 year old stratovolcano with a glacier covering its summit. The famous spot provides the setting for Jules Vernes' fictional A Journey to the Center of the Earth, in which the characters find a passage leading to the center of the earth. Standing up there was truly surreal—the strong winds whipped the snow, clouds and land all together into one incredible landscape.
This little guy landed on the window of my truck while I was stuck in traffic.
Red Frog Bungalows Fishing Charters has been added a new boat to its fleet to provided fishing charters in the Bocas Del Toro archipelago. In the last month we have landed Wahoo, Yellowfin tuna, Blackfin Tuna and many other nearshore varieties..Bocas Del Toro fishing can be world class..Check in with us to see what has been biting
A skateboarder pulls an inverted handplant in a distant, upside-down land.
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A family vacation to Mars might be in the not-too-distant horizon, with the first successful manned solo flight of Virgin Atlantic's VSS Enterprise this past Sunday morning. Taking off from the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California, the commercial spaceship separated from its mothership at an altitude of 45,000 feet, piloted by Pete Siebold and Mike Alsbury for a period of eleven minutes before safe landing.
This brand new Zynga game launched today and I'm looking forward to bringing you news and information about the game as well as updates and tips!
