OK, here's another bar trick that will have you sipping free suds in no time. You'll need a box of wooden matches, a piece of paper, a pen and a ruler. This simple game of skill looks completely fair, but always leaves the sucker short.
Building a fire in the wild is key to survival. A simple way to get the job done is with a piece of charcloth (carbonized cotton fiber). Charcloth makes for a highly effective piece of tinder to ensure you'll have a warm fire tonight. You'll need your hardened steel, your sparking stone, dry leaves or sticks and of course your piece of charcloth. Get cooking!
OK, so visitors are coming to your website and they're even leaving comments! Now, with some simple PHP array programming you can find out what browser and OS they're using. This tutorial shows you how to create a simple and efficient user agent sniff script to get the information you want. Sniff, sniff. Is that Chrome running on OS X I smell?
If you're into creating your own dried herbs and spices, you will eventually start to have questions about how to store them long-term, rather than just leave them hanging. This tutorial shows you how to properly store and care for home dried herbs.
Hone your origami folding skills - as well as craft a pirate-chic treasure chest that can actually store your precious plunder - by checking out this origami video. Your finger dexterity will be challenged by the curved fold, an advanced origami fold that leaves the leagues of angular folds behind in the dust.
The curling iron is both our friend and enemy. While there's nothing better to give you curls as voluminous as those buxom Victoria's Secret Angels, if they touch your skin you can end up with bad burns.
These cupcakes look almost too good to eat...ALMOST. These would still disappear in a heartbeat if left alone with us. But anyhow, these glittered holly berry cupcakes are so gorgeous and beautiful for the holidays.
Once your Thanksgiving dinner table is set with beautiful gourds, autumnal leaves, and candles and your turkey, green bean casserole, and pies are out of the oven, it's time to mess everything up. While a beautiful dinner presentation is great and all, unless you plan on having your guests rip off drumsticks from the turkey caveman-style you'll probably want to carve the bird.
Gltiches and bugs are riddles in the release of Fallout New Vegas, and as Obsidian rushes to put out patches for these problems, that leaves us free to abuse them! If you're in combat and are noticing that your companions are taking quite the beating, you can actually glitch their companion wheel to heal them without even worrying about using up your stimpaks! Check out this video for details on the gltich!
Brussels sprouts get a bad rep (mostly from picky kids), but they're actually super delicious if you prepare them right. Caramelized brussels sprouts bring out the best flavor because doing so exposes more of brussel sprouts' surface area to the pan.
Make your own armor with a weathered look out of Sintra (or expanded PVC foam). You'll need a heat gun, a padded cushion, paper towels, rub'n'buff in silver leaf, a knife, a marking pencil, water and a can of spray primer. Trace your piece onto the Sintra, then use the heat gun to shape it. Useful for costumes, Halloween or larps.
Combat is a fundamental part of many boffer larps, and you'll need to know how to fight well in order to have a successful PC for most games. This tutorial starts with the very basics of weapon grip, and shows you other important boffer combat techniques, like footwork and how to attack without leaving yourself open for a counterattack.
Are you getting a little tired of getting the same boring French manicure every single time at the salon? Then whip out that tin of rhinestones and crystals left over from your Halloween fairy costume makeup stash and get to work doing this beautiful crystal and rhienstone manicure!
Not stretching after a good run will definitively set you up for injury or muscular pain. While stretching before a workout lubricates your joints to prepare them for work, stretching afterwards helps prevent you from building too much bulk so you get long, lean muscles, and so your tensed up muscles can relax again.
Turn yourself into an Aphrodite or Artemis this Halloween! You don't even need a pattern to make yourself a sexy Greek goddess costume! All you need are a few yards of your favorite fabric, some chantilly lace for a wrap, and a laurel leaf crown to top it all off!
Hawthorne berries are a fantastic super food that you can find right in your own backyard! (in some areas of the world) Especially in the UK, you can find them everywhere! You can even use the leaves to make a great tea and they're edible! In this video you will learn how to make an amazing Hedge Row Jam/Jelly with Hawthorne berries, Crab apples and Elderberries.
Apple pie, the most american thing here, besides hot dogs, and about the only thing left that isn't completely processed! Well, sort of. Regardless, this amazing video shows you in, great detail, the steps to baking an awesome apple pie completely from scratch.
Runescape has more sidequests than US Government has mortgage-backed securities. This video will teach you everything you need to know about one of them. It's a miniquest called Tarn's Laircommentary here is great, and will leave almost no room for you to lose, you lucky devil.
One achievement for you to earn in Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty is the "My Precious" achievement, and you can get this in the Colonist mission of Save Haven. In order to obtain the achievement, you must successfully rescue two Colonist bases from the Protoss attack on HARD difficulty, i.e., destroy the Purifier while at least 2 Colony bases are left un-purified!
Try corn on the cob with a little outdoor flavor! This video will show you the steps to grilling corn on the cob. If you've never had, then you're missing out a crunchy corn cob delight! The trick is, when peeling the husks back, leave them attached and tie them together with some kitchen string, then soak them in water thirty minutes before you're ready to slap them on the grill.
Here's how to remember what wires go where when wiring a plug in the United Kingdom. UK plugs have two or three wires going into them: brown, blue and yellow-green. L in the blue tells you it goes on the left. The R on the brown tells you it goes on the right. If there's a yellow-green one it's the ground or earth.
Try out these colors for fun - red, burgundy, black and smoke-ish colors for a hot blood-red look. Petrilude walks you through this amazing and gorgeous blood red makeup look. Pair it with a red dress that will leave your date hot with lust and passion.
In this clip, Betty will show you how to make a beautiful lattice topping for your fruit pies. Don't leave a boring plain pastry topper on your masterpiece, make an easy basket-weave pattern instead. Nothing is more delicious than a pie for the holidays. Enjoy!
This clip demonstrates a left-leaning decrease sometimes used in knitting. It is usually called the "pass slipped stitch over" decrease (PSSO), or the K1, SL1, PSSO (knit one, slip one, pass slipped stitch over). In this clip, it's shown in the continental style. For complete, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this stitch in your own knitting projects, take a look.
This clip demonstrates a left-leaning decrease, the SSK (slip, slip, knit), shown in the English, or throwing style. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using English-style slip-slip-knit stitches in your own knitting projects, watch this free video crafts lesson.
If you are a serious about being a 3D artist, you are going to have to leave the confines of 3DS MAX at some point and start integrating other programs into your work. This video will show you how to use Photoshop to create depth-of-field blur in a 3DS MAX project, allowing you to integrate live action and 3D models more realistically.
As with most female comic book heroines, Ms. Marvel, created by artist Gene Colan in the 1960s, is a bodacious babe with killer curves and an even more killer abilities of superhuman strength, stamina, flight, and precognition.
In this clip, learn how to make a fresh punjabi bread that is a delicious side dish with most any Indian meal. This bread is quite easy to make, but doesn't last long so make sure you make it right when you'll be serving it. Don't worry about leftovers, though, you won't have any left - it's so good!
June is graduation month, and while for a lot of youngsters that means leaving one phase of their lives behind in order to pursue newer and greater things at college/the workplace, for their relatives and friends that means cards, presents, and money.
Sure, there's lots of bicycling clothing out there, but most of it doesn't work too well for everyday wear, leaving you a bit out of place when you've reached your destination. You know what we're talking about, guys: those too tight, super contouring bike pants that facilitate biking but majorly decrease our style points.
Often in creating crochet patterns, crocheters will pick natural objects with natural symmetry or a pretty shape, like shells and blueberries, to be the inspiration for a new crochet pattern.
Okay, so just to be clear, this is not a crochet tutorial for crocheting a stitch that resembles your new Blackberry Pearl (though, admittedly, that would be pretty damn awesome).
In this quick tip from CHOW, learn how to perfectly line a cake pan with parchment paper. Sure, you can trace the pan and cut it out, but it always seems like there is left over around the sides and never quite fits. In this tutorial, learn a simple trick that will get you perfectly sized paper every time and only takes a couple of minutes to do. Have fun!
Peonies are a flower evocative of the freshness and exuberance of spring, with bouncy, silky leaves, buoyant hues, and a bright yellow center/stamen.
If you're a beading novice, there's one very important thing to know before you venture into the pastime: No matter how many projects you complete, you will always have a lot more beads left over than you know what to do with.
These melt and pour soaps kind of look like Belgian chocolate seashells, so be careful when you leave them lying around that no curious hands get to them and think they're food!
Alt chanteuse Hayley Williams and rapper B.O.B seem like an unlikely duo who play at opposite ends of the genre spectrum, but when they came together for B.O.B.'s bittersweet "Airplanes," the result was a dulcet melody.
What's better than a paper ninja star, or shuriken? A shiny paper ninja star, of course! Leave those blase plain white paper stars in the recycling bin or toss them to a frenemy.
Leave your schlubby ponytails to your hot yoga class. Ponytails are great for getting hair out of your face for times when you're doing things more active than clicking a computer mouse, but braids add that extra chic touch that looks like you've actually put some effort into your hairstyle.
This recipe for corn, avocado and tomato salad is an ideal salad to serve in the summer at your next barbecue. It offers a lighter alternative to the piles of meat without leaving people pining for something hearty and filling. The corn and avocado are plenty filling and the tomato adds a great zest to the dish.