This may or may not be quicker than the way you do it, seems the key is having it spread out flatly which should be considered in the time of the technique.
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How many times have you received an email forwarded to you from someone that starts off with, “I don’t usually forward these things but…” Here’s a site that I always go visit to investigate all those claims that those forwarded emails make. They do their homework to find out where these things originated and if there’s any truth to the claims. Most of the time they are false and the emails make the rounds year after year.
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Plastic Bag Crochet
Cristen says we consume 1 million plastic bags a minute worldwide. So she’s come up with a creative way to reuse them, crochet them into hats, koozies and purses.
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Site Helps You Give It Away
To help curb the amount of junk we send to landfills, this site offers a community forum to give your stuff you don’t want to someone who does. Great concept!
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Uses for Wood Ash
This Old House Magazine gives 10 uses for wood ash. One in particular interested me. I have a pond in my backyard that tends grow algae during the hot summer months. According to the article, “One tablespoon per 1,000 gallons adds enough potassiumm to strengthen other aquatic plants that compete with algae, slowing its growth.”
Most believe it’s the MSG(Monosodium glutamate), a food additive to enhance flavor. Seems to stimulate the taste buds and send the saliva glands into overdrive. Also this MSG is a sodium, what salty treat doesn’t make your thirsty? Another idea is that there’s a lot of rice, which absorbs moisture. Anyone else have any conclusive facts about this?
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Sport Stacking?
I saw these plastic cups being sold in a Toys-R-Us store billed as some sort of game. Sure enough, it’s all the rage with kids, stacking plastic cups, who’d a thunk it? And of course it originated in California. Here’s a video of a world record stacker.
My son asked me the other day what a.m. and p.m. mean. Of course I could tell him what they mean, but what do those letters stand for. Turn’s out they’re Latin of course! My first guess for p.m. was close, “post meridian” but couldn’t come up with the a.m. A.M. is ante meridiem (a.m., from Latin, literally “before midday”) and post meridiem (p.m., “after midday”).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock
Other great time related info courtesy of the US government
http://time.gov/exhibits.html
I was wondering about the origin of some of these sayings we use everyday. And the fact that, at least in the US, they are universally known. For example this jewel, “Close, but no cigar” I suspected had some origin at a carnival, but this site traces when the phrase was actually recorded in print or media. Seems we can thank screen writers for this one, which would make it’s ubiquity understandable.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/close-but-no-cigar.html
Here’s another site that discusses word origins.
UPDATE: see this post for an update
I stumbled on this page one day that shows a scale model of an atom. It demonstrates the vast amount of empty space between the proton the electron that spins around it. By making the electron one pixel in size, that makes the proton 1,000 pixels wide and the space between it 50,000,000 pixels wide. If your monitor displays 72 pixels to the inch, then that works out to eleven miles – making it possibly the widest web page you’ll ever see!
See it for yourself!
http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom/
