Brighten Up a Classic Sandwich: How to Make
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi Rolls

post from How to of the Day on 15 March 2010 04:00:00 PM. © How to of the Day

A very cute treat and twist to brighten up a classic sandwich, these "sushi rolls" are perfect in a child's lunch box (or bento) or for a birthday party. Makes 1 "roll" or 8 pieces

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How To Make Stone Planters: {DIY}

post from TipNut.com on 15 March 2010 03:08:31 PM. © TipNut.com

Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with instructions for making these lovely Stone Planters:Make your own stunning planter using stones and cement.Making these is easy! Fill a large plastic bin with sand and make a hole inside, arrange the rocks along the sides of the hole, fill with cement, stick in a couple dowels for [...]

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What Plants Are Cubicle-Friendly [Ask Lifehacker]

post from Daily DIY on 15 March 2010 03:00:00 PM. © Daily DIY

Dear Lifehacker,I am thinking of decorating my cubicle with plants to make it feel less dreary and a little more alive/fresh, but I don't sit at a cube with access to a window. What sort of plants are good for cubicle-decorating?Photo by[...]

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Phonebooth a Strong Alternative to Google Voice
[Telephones]

post from Daily DIY on 15 March 2010 02:00:00 PM. © Daily DIY

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DIY Lockring Pliers

post from Toolmonger: The Week In Tools on 15 March 2010 01:58:00 PM. © Toolmonger: The Week In Tools

Instructables has a short post on a quick way to make your own bicycle lockring, or head race, pliers that I find quite elegant in its simplicity. You take an inexpensive pair of water-pump (a.k.a., channellocks, or tongue-and-groove) pliers. Then file or grind away most of the teeth except the front ones, and, voilà, you’re good to go — and at a much lower cost than for a dedicated spanner or lockring pliers that can be $30 to $50 or more.

It seems like these might also work well on those electrical box connector nuts when pounding on them with a screwdriver doesn’t seem to do the trick.

DIY Lockring Pliers [Instructables]
Hozan Head Race Pliers Via Amazon [What’s This?]

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Hot Or Not Garage Door Insulation

post from Toolmonger: The Week In Tools on 15 March 2010 01:46:00 PM. © Toolmonger: The Week In Tools

What’s the word in Toolmonger land regarding the pros and cons of insulating garage doors? The picture above shows the beginning of an installation using a reflective foil kit, one of the apparently three main DIY approaches (the other two being foam panels and fiberglass rolls). Texas Garages is one site that discusses and compares the various approaches. Costs to do a single garage door range from $69 to $129.

I tried white fiberglass rolls in the garage door of our previous house and they did seem to help, although it was quite subjective as I didn’t make any before-and-after temperature measurements. I suspect that it just generally felt better out there because the white rolls helped brighten up the dingy old dark door.

What do you think? Have you done this? Would you do it? If the garage’s ceiling and walls are already insulated, doesn’t it make sense to insulate the door, too? Does it make more sense if you live in a cold climate than if you live in a warmer — or, like in central Texas, a damn hot at times — climate?

Garage Door Insulation Kit Via Amazon [What’s This?]
Garage Door Insulation In A Weekend [Owens Corning]
Owens Corning Kit Street Pricing [Google Products]

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The many faces of Rickard

post from ikea hacker on 15 March 2010 01:19:49 PM. © ikea hacker

Emily has been hard at work modding the Rickard chair for her thesis. I like Citizen Cane, a nice mix of old and new. Pretty solid ideas, I must say.

She says, "I've been hacking away at the $19.99 Rickard task chair. I'm working on my MFA Design thesis exploring ways to extend the useful lives of task chairs, and how to create infrastructure to recover the parts for recycle at the end of the chair's useful life. One big reason people chuck out this kind of chair is that they get bored of it, so to combat that I've been trying to breathe new life into them and make them fresh, pushing the limits of what a task chair can be. Here are some pics of my hacks so far...

Flower Child chair covered with Ikea's own flower pattern fabric, embellished (by me) with hand embroidery.

Citizen Cane chair with covers made with reclaimed caning from two old discarded chairs, and recycled wool felt. They're removable, the back cover is held on with velcro and the seat cover slips on like a shower cap, with elastic around the bottom.

Wrap chair, this one's just a piece of stretchy fabric pulled all the way over the chair with an elastic holding it around the waist. When you sit, the fabric stretches to allow regular sitting but when you get back up, it bounces back into this shape.

The Maria, a play on the leather executive chair. For this one I increased the size of the back using foam-core that I taped onto the back, then covered the whole back in quilt batting and upholstered over it. The covers are made from recycled leather jackets - one maroon bomber jacket and one black leather trench coat. I kept the zipper and pockets of the bomber jacket and used them as a detail on the back of the chair. The pockets and zipper are still functional, so you can hide things in them.

This one's named the Miyazaki, in honor of my favorite animator. For this one I again extended the back using foam-core taped onto the back, then padded it with quilt batting, and upholstered over it. The U-shape in the top is a neck cradle, so you can lean your head back into it, a little like when you're getting a shampoo at the hair salon - only more comfortable and without getting wet. I covered the legs and cylinder base in matching fabric to add to the cartoon-ish quality. The fabric is from Ikea as well.

I'm currently working on a wingback version, stay tuned for that..."

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Robotic Twitter Songwriter Generates Tweet Poetry

Marvim Gainsbug: the Twitter based Song Composer from jeraman on Vimeo.It should come as no surprise, but Twitter can compose existential nihilistic poetry.Just ask the creepy, detached voice of Marvim Gainsbug. The robotic, generative songwriter will produce a “song” from Tweet keywords of your choice. And be prepared for some finger snaps at the end [...]

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OSC Files: Play That Funky Music, Hexagons

Didgeridoo from bar|none on Vimeo.You can’t quite dance to it, but bar|none has a beautifully-shot video of a strange, invented instrument constructed with some of the technologies we saw last week. As noted then, new support for OSC in the powerful Kyma sound system means the ability to control imagined instruments in more sophisticated, higher-resolution [...]

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The Complete Guide to Google Wave Now in Print!
[Announcements]

I'm thrilled to announce that the online book by Adam Pash and myself, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now in print! Order your copy here.The new edition is double the pagecount of the Preview PDF which we released in October and packed with[...]

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