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How-To: Quickly Soften Butter

Whenever I want to start baking, I never seem to remember to put the butter out beforehand. Ok, I admit I’m impatient for the thought of whatever cookies or cupcakes I’ll soon be eating. Simply Recipes has a great tip on how to quickly soften butter by rolling it out between wax paper sheets. Thanks […]

Dorkbot NYC April 1

Douglas Repetto writes: The 1,618,033rd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 at Location One in SoHo. Featuring the divine and proportionate: Erik Sanner: Paintings that Move, Spring Planting, and How to Enjoy Traffic Cones Why make art when every day we encounter strikingly beautiful, impenetrable objects of infinite interpretation? […]

Grow your own bike!

Grow your own bike!

Photo from Third World Tech Third World Tech is a neat site with loads of technologies that are used and created in the developing world. One feature on their site is this great idea of making bamboo bikes. The bicycle is such an incredibly important tool for people living on very little in low tech […]