The nationwide gourmet cupcake trend is already stale. . . and overpriced.
What will soon become the popular new culinary art:
Hacking the Easy-Bake Oven – the challenging art of producing fine cuisine from an Easy-Bake oven.
• “The Easy-Bake Oven Gourmet” by David Hoffman.
(via Susan)
Got a mouse in your house and the hardware store is closed? Or just don’t like killing mice? Check out these novel solutions for how to humanely catch a mouse with household items!
Blogadilla reader Laura is actually in this predicament at present, and has attempted a contraption like this. Update coming as news develops.
UPDATE 9/30/08: Trap not successful. Exterminator called. Oh well, it was a fun idea.
(concept via Dezeen)
Everybody loves bacon (the meat of the Gods).
And now we can bathe with bacony goodness.
This should be viewed as more of a jackass experiment than a “how to” by a soapmaking expert. I just wanted to see if it was possible to make soap from bacon fat.
The bonus challenge: make the soap look like bacon.
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UPDATE:
We made it into vol. 18 of Make: Magazine!! Sweet!!
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How I Made Bacon Fat Soap:
Supplies
• Bacon fat
• 100% Lye (sodium hydroxide)
• Purified water and ice
• Liquid Smoke (optional fragrance)
• Red food coloring (optional coloring)
• Stove
• Pyrex baking pan
• Chemical/solvent/heat resistant plastic bowl
• Measuring cup
• Cotton cloth or paper towels
• Wooden (or stainless steel) spoon
• Rubber gloves and goggles
• Metal can
• 1 cigarette
(the rest after the jump)
Ever since I saw this on Instructables, I’ve been fantasizing about making my very own Swiss Army keys.
(via Notcot)
If you don’t do things to ceremoniously embrace Summer, it can often slip by unenjoyed.
A Working List of Things to Do This Summer
• Make lemonade from scratch (even if you have to buy the lemons) and drink it on a porch, stoop, deck, or veranda.
• Go to a beach, lake, or outdoor public swimming pool. Get wet.
• Eat popsicles.
• Have a barbeque – or minimally, eat barbeque.
• Sleep outdoors at least once – either in a forest, on a beach, in a back yard, or on the roof of your apartment building.
• If you have an ice cream man in your neighborhood, buy a popsicle from him at least once. Even if you are in your mid-30’s and look foolish chasing after him.
• Get a sunburn.
• Run through lawn sprinklers, slide on a Slip-N-Slide, sit in a kiddie-pool, wade in a public fountain, or go to a water park.
• Make an extra effort to put ice in all of your beverages. Especially coffee.
• Wear a sunscreen that smells like vacation. Even on a day when you don’t need to.
(barbeque photo from FreeFoto.com)
(images from Trummerkind.com)
This is awesome:
Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto had a nicely decorated 750 square foot apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, for nearly four years. Until the Providence Place Mall security caught them – they made this secret apartment inside the shopping mall.
Their site is rendered in hilarious ‘real estate sales’ format.
“During the Christmas season of 2003 and 2004, radio ads for the Providence Place Mall featured an enthusiastic female voice talking about how great it would be if you (we) could live at the mall.”
(via Make: magazine)
A – The InfraScan SD thermal imaging handheld camera. If ghosts have a fever, you’ll see them! Only $4,995.00, available through Prairie Ghosts Paranormal Investigation Outfitters.
B – The Gaussmaster EMF Meter. A must-have for the new ghost hunter. $39.95, available through Prairie Ghosts Paranormal Investigation Outfitters.
C – The KII EMF Meter (with switch modification). $66.95 (or $44.95 unmodified), available through Ghost Augustine.
D – The TRI-Field Natural EMF Meter. Don’t let the name mislead you, it also works with supernatural EMF fields also. $207.99, available through Ghost TRHAPS.
E – The Baketan Ghost Detector 1.0. Strap it to your cellphone, it changes color to indicate the nature of the supernatural presence. Only $19.89, cute ghost charm included, available through Strapya-World.
F – The Baketan Ghost Detector 2.0. Small enough to strap to your cellphone, it changes color to indicate the nature of the supernatural presence, also includes new ‘ghost voice translator.” $19.12, available through Strapya-World.
“Back off man, I’m a scientist!”
