Life Hacks — Death to Paper! Viva Paper!
The dead tree version is always better than the digital version. Except when it isn’t.
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Welcome — Lazy Progress
The marvels of 21st century technology have made me look at my microwave, toaster, and yard sprinkler with disdain.
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A small family farm in Mexico will go under due to drought conditions and you decide to help.
HOW TO – Make Toxic Waste (a tasty dessert)
Detailed story of making a creepy Halloween-themed jello and pudding dessert in an acquarium. Made from all sorts of gummy worms, gummy salamanders, candy eye balls, licorice and lips – along with 19 packs of Jello. It’s so gross looking, I want to make this. Link.
Make a cursor following flying bat
Here’s how to add a javascript driven cursor following flying bat to your pages. You can download the 2.6kb zip archive, containing all you need and get startet…Good for Halloween, or if you have a goth site or something. Link.
How Halloween candy is made (video)
Candy Addict writes “A blog from The National Association of Manufacturers where they post videos of things being manufactured commercially. There are some really interesting videos!” Here’s a post (with video) on how the Just Born candy company makes their treats. Link.
LEGO barcode reader
Complete HOW TO and source code for making a barcode scanner out of LEGOs. The Barcode Scanner uses standard LEGO parts with two exceptions. The first is the laserbrick, a selfbuilt LEGO brick with a modified laser pointer connected to an output of the RCX. The second part is the barcode label from a LEGO box.Thanks Douglas! Link.