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How To: Install a window valence

Valances add a great touch to windows that you do not want to cover completely, but that you also do not want to leave bare. Bare windows can seem cold and uninviting, and adding window dressing such as a window valance will make your room much more homey and warm. There are several styles of valances from which to choose. This valance is a single rod valance requiring a 2 1//2” flat curtain rod. Although this valance is intended to be poufed, it can be left as a flat valance for a more tradi...

How To: Make a Cajun crawfish etouffee straight out of the French Quarter

The longer you let this New Orleans classic sit, the better it will taste. For this dish, you will need: 2 sticks butter, 1 cup olive oil, 3 chopped onions, 3 stalks celery, 2 green peppers, 10 cloves of garlic, 2 bay leaves, 1 can Rotel tomatoes, 1 can diced tomatoes, 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, salt, cayenne pepper. juice from 1 lemon, 3 pounds peeled crawfish tailes, 1/2 cup chopped parsley and 1/2 cup chopped scallions. Make a Cajun crawfish etouffee straight out of the French Qua...

How To: Make delicious braised boneless short ribs

A winning dish no matter what! For this recipe, you will need: 3 rough diced onions, 3 sliced carrots, 5-6 sliced celery stalks, 3 chopped Roma tomatoes, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 3 cups beef stock, 2 cups dry red wine, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 sprigs rosemary, 4-5 bay leaves, 2 tablespoons butter, 3 pounds boneless short ribs, salt and pepper. To make the roasted brussels sprouts on the side, you will need: 1 pound of halved and blanched sprouts, 5 strips of chopped bacon, butter, salt and pepper....

How To: Make delicious and authentic Filipino adobo tacos

You can make this recipe with either chicken or pork, and you will have to marinate a pickled papaya beforehand. The ingredients you will need are: 3 pounds bork butt, 4 bay leaves, 2 sliced garlic cloves, 1 teaspoon pepper, 2 cups vinegar, 1 cup soy sauce and 1 medium sliced onion. For the atcharang, you will need: 3 pounds grated green papaya, pinch of salt, 2 cups vinegar, 2 cups water, 3/4 cup sugar, 4 ounces julienned carrots, 4 ounces jalapenos, 2 cloves garlic, 1 ounce fresh ginger, Ma...

News: Vinyl Delivery

So you take an album cover...remember vinyl albums? Anyway you take shit...yours, your dog's, whatever. Put it inside the album cover. Make sure the shit stinks bad (preferably with decoative corn) and that it is in the album cover far enough to where the opening of the album cover is closed.

How To: Create a full body rig for a 3D character in Blender

This clip provides a complete guide on creating a full body rig for a 3D model within Blender. It demonstrates how to do a full setup on the left half (creating and placing bones, and also applying constraints), and copy it over to the right side for a perfectly symmetrical rig. Most of the features in 2.5 are the same, however, the keyboard shortcuts and a few menu items have been moved around. Create a full body rig for a 3D character in Blender.

How To: Add a modeled 3D character into Blender's Game Engine

This Blender tutorialc overs the creation of a game-friendly model (i.e. low-polygon), texturing, rigging, animating, and bringing it into the game engine with basic forward and back controls, as well as turning left and right, and running. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial from the ...

How To: Make a homemade anti-aging facial mask for your skin

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a homemade anti-aging facial mask. The materials needed for the facial mask are: 6 tsp of evening primrose oil, 1 tsp of melted honey, 2 drops of neroli essential oil, mandarin essential oil and 2 drops of orange essential oil and some grounded almond. Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix it all together until it becomes a paste. Now apply the paste onto the skin and leave it on for about 20-25 minutes. This video will benefit those v...

How To: Tie the anchor bend knot for boating

The Anchor Bend is the boating knot generally used to fasten a line to an anchor. The free end should be secured with seizing to the standing line for a permanent, secure knot. One side of a Double Fisherman’s also makes a good backup knot to this and any knot. Make two turns around the shackle, leaving turns open. Talk a half turn around the standing line and feed the free end through the turns and pull tight. Now tie a half hitch around the standing part and pull tight. Seize the free end o...

How To: Make a Recycled Piano Hinge Art Journal

In this video, I will show how to recycle food packaging, some old pencils, leftover knitting yarn, broken pieces of jewelery and other bits into an interesting art journal. I don't like the traditional piano hinge technique so much, as it cuts into the pages, so here I came up with a way to avoid it and have pages inside intact. In the video, I paint the food packaging before it goes into the journal, as I want a ready-base journal, but you can leave this and create a junk journal if you wish.

How To: Replace trailer wheel bearings

In this video we learn how to replace trailer wheel bearings. First, place the trailer up on a jack and take the wheel off until you're left with the hub. To remove the dust cap, take a chisel and put it on the hub. Hammer it until it becomes loose and you can remove it. After this, remove the metal retainer from the axle and then you can remove the entire hub. From here, replace the hub with a brand new one and clean off the entire area around it. Once finished, replace the metal retainer as...

News: RADIOACTIVE!!!!!

So the prank starts where you find a resturant or some store that serves food. Walk in wearing Haz mat suits and holding gieger counter. Rig the gieger counter so there is a hidden button to make the thing start clicking. Go around the resturant and make it click when its near food that is on peoples table. At this point you can either leave it as it is and ask to speak to the manager or you can make it click crazily next to someone that seems to be enjoying there food a lot. When it clicks m...

News: Operation Freakout 2

This one would be involving Ape (sorry Ape, I don't have anything against you.) Get some of the slimiest, creepiest creatures you can think of (besides a naked Novak) put them either in her bed whilst she is sleeping or her car. Plan A: If it's her bed, have a naked Novak jump to wake her up. She'll scream from that and start screaming even more when she realizes that there's slimy and creepy creatures in her bed (besies Nudie Novak). Her face will be priceless!Plan B: If it's her car, put th...

News: Donuts

Go to a place where they sell donuts. Buy a whole bunch of different kinds. Leave the store and come back like 30 minutes later, with all the donuts squooshed. Go to the counter and demand to get your money back because the donuts "didn't work". Tell them you went to the doctors for your hemroids and they said to get donuts and sit on them. ( they meant the pillow thing). lol.

How To: Style your hair in pigtail braids

If you love braiding your hair but want to take your style up a notch, then pigtail braids are the perfect solution. All you need is a brush, a hair band,a comb and a hair ribbon. First, separate a small section on the left side of the head, and separate into 3 pieces. Braid this section until you are halfway through the hair. Next, separate a small section on the right side of the head and create another braid. Take both braids and join them in the middle. Create 3 sections to make a new bra...

How To: Style your hair in flip pigtail braids

In this hair styling tutorial, Lisa and Julie show you how to style your hair into flip pigtail braids. All you need is a brush, four hair bands, and two scrunchies. First, separate hair into 2 sections using a comb. Gather the left side at the base of the neck and tie off in a low ponytail. Pull the band down a bit, create a hole, and pull ponytail through. Fluff your ponytail, create 3 sections and braid hair all the way to the end. Tie off with a hair band. Repeat this process with the rig...

News: Book Review - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

I loved The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for so many reasons. For its fantastical sense of adventure, set against the real world action and tragedy of the Jews in Europe during World War Two. I loved the opening chapters of Josef in Prague – a city I spent several months in a few years ago and one of the most beautiful places I’ve been. Reading scenes set in Prague and descriptions of places I’ve seen made the story that much more personal for me.

How To: Create Practically Anything, Part 2: 3D Models in SketchUp

Creating any object you want is as simple as point and click if you have a 3D printer at home. If you don't have one handy, there are a few companies that offer printing services online. But to help services realize your design in extruded plastic, you have to make a 3D computer model for the printing machine. For beginners, the free Google SketchUp application is the best choice of software. Using only a few tool bar buttons and a scroll wheel computer mouse, you can model literally any obje...

How To: Things to Do on WonderHowTo (04/18 - 04/24)

WonderHowTo is a how-to website made up of niche communities called Worlds, with topics ranging from Minecraft to science experiments to Scrabble and everything in-between. Check in every Wednesday evening for a roundup of user-run activities and how-to projects from the most popular communities. Users can join and participate in any World they're interested in, as well as start their own community.

News: Obama's Rise

So far, I've talked a lot about what's going on in the world around us, but it's time I come back to politics for a bit. That said, the name of this world is somewhat misleading, in the sense that I talk about everything, not just politics! But I digress again.

The League: Intro

Author's Note: Hi there, some of you may know but most of you probably won't. My name is Semeria and I am an author on the rising. I plan to be posting one of my novels on this website for people to read. Comment and let me know what you think and I hope you enjoy the story.

How To: Get the New Google Navigation Menu

Get the New Google Navigation Menu Although Google introduced the new Google bar last week, I still didn't have the new look yet. I was curious to see if I could find it, and discovered that +Maximiliam Majewski found a workaround to get access to the new Google bar. It's no longer the black navigation bar at the top of the page, but rather a drop-down menu on the left-hand side, from the Google menu. Install a browser extension that allows you to edit the cookies.

NORTHWAY Games: Cool Indies by a Restless Company on the Road

Game design is sedentary work. Generally its practitioners do their work with their butts planted securely in front of a computer in an office (be it home or away) as their muscles and verbal skills atrophy. Even game journalists are prone to this condition. Not so with Colin and Sarah Northway (pictured below), the husband and wife team behind NORTHWAY Games. Not only do they make really cool indie games, but they do it with just a laptop while traveling the world meeting indie developers of...