Archive for October, 2007
Color Trend - More Gray
More gray news here for home interiors, fashion, and it’s seen everywhere. Blinkdecor calls it gray skies and shows interesting examples of what’s happening on the (gray) streets. Beautiful wallpaper from Mod Green Pod.
Unrelated to gray, but I must show you these tiles, seen again at Blink Decor…
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Using a speaker as a microphone
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If you are anxious to capture some low-frequency sounds with the help of a standard microphone, you may be out of luck. that is, unless you employ a speaker driver as your microphone. I’ve performed that hack in a different lifetime for some amateur studio ambitions and it does work.
Speakers…
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City Shrinker
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Ben Thomas sent by a URL to a very cool project:
CITY SHRINKER
He shrinks down cities to model size. The detail blows me absent. How does he find the instance?
The site is worth definitely worth a visit.
Original post by grfinney
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How To Prepare A Wall For Painting
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Original post by MestUpfan
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How To Discover the Latest Design Trends
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One of my favorite pastimes is goods mining design. It’s a labor intensive hobby, but one that I get great enjoyment out of. So, what is documents mining design? It’s basically scouring the world for new designers and design trends. Do you ever wonder how design blogs come up with so many interesti…
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Keep your home and family safe from fires
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Each October, The National Fire Safety Prevention organization (NFPA) commemorates the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 with its educational campaign centered around Fire Prevention Week. Several years ago, the Federal Emergency Management organization (FEMA) took the view a step further by designatin…
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A Kitchen Treat
Happy Halloween! In honor of that holiday, which could go either way, depending on my mood (tread carefully today) I’ll give you a treat, rather than a trick! Take a look at that (appropriately pumpkin colored) kitchen. How charming is it?? A perfect kitchen for nowadays, October 31, with it’s warm,…
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Build an infrared receiver for that Windows Media PC
Filed under: computers and internet, electronicsIf you have a personal computer running Windows XP Media Center Edition and have all your TV shows sitting on your PC’s tough drive (assuming you have a tuner card), wouldn’t it be nice to have a isolated control to that PC — particularly whether it i…
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Rakish hoe gets around the garden
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The notion of promiscuity rarely enters the intellect when reviewing tools, but there was something about the RakeHoe that just seemed a little, well, easy.
The tool, on one side, is a fine garden rake. On the other side, it’s a hoe. That’s right, a soil-shifting, weed-whacking, ground-grading d…
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DIY spa treatment - The manicure
Manicured nails assemble a great impression. For most of us, distant nails dazzled with jewels just don’t match our DIY’er lifestyle. In that edition of DIY spa treatment, I’ll show you how to achieve a spa quality manicure that you can habitable with and easily preserve.
What you’ll need
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Shingling Your Roof
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If you’re buying a tract-built house, the chances are close to 100 percent that the roof will be asphalt shingles, the most cost effective roofing material currently available. The builder will ask you to pick one from a selection of colors and grades displayed on sample boards. But if you’re …
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Shingling Hip Roofs
What is a hip roof? you ask. No, it’s not a roof that’s into the latest fashion and music. Actually, you’ve seen it a million times, you just didn’t know there’s a name for it. A hip roof is gable roof with the ends brought together at the same pitch as the rest of the roof. Now you know what it is …
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