Dear Jiffy Lube, Thanks much for leaving the air intake disconnected after my last visit to one of your establishments for an oil change. No really, thanks. That helped me detect the smell of burning transmission fluid quickly. The fumes were getting..

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Undoubtedly you've seen people in a video game arcade stomping on colored lights to the beat of a song like crazy people. That's the basic idea of Dance Dance Revolution -- to tap squares in a specific sequence at faster and faster speeds to...
Topics: alarm clock, gadget

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Last month I read this New York Times article that described a new site for the review of gadgets called gdgt . Founded by guys that were involved with Gizmodo and Engadget , the new site is different in that all reviews are written by consumers rather..

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The second assignment in the Strobist blog 's summer bootcamp was food photography. The classic approach for a typical food dish photo is to have the key light coming from the top down using a softbox. I made a softbox quite awhile ago using a...
Topics: flash, food, photography, photos, strobist

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Thanks to the Random Good Stuff blog, I ran across this YouTube video showing a guy with some crazy skills on the band saw. I'd only have 7 intact fingers left if I tried to do something like this. Check it out!
Topics: video, woodworking

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