Hookin Up with HoH #40

post from House of Hepworths "hoh" on 16 March 2011 09:52:16 PM. © House of Hepworths "hoh"

Sorry about the party mishap last week, guys. Here’s to a better one this week! When you post this week, please feel free to put as many links as you’d like. I want to catch up on all the ones I missed last week. The party two weeks ago, Hookin Up party #39, was stuffed [...]

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7 Ways to Make Filing US Taxes Easier

post from How to of the Day on 16 March 2011 08:34:19 PM. © How to of the Day

US tax filing doesn't have to feel like root canal. The pain can be dulled once you realize that tax withholding, filing status, and allowable deductions are much more simple when you have a plan. If you keep abreast of the newest updates, which change from year to year you can gain mastery over filing taxes and walk away with some cash!

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Does Self Publishing Make It Easier to Get an
Agent: Publishing Your Own Book

post from Do It Yourself Videos - Metacafe on 16 March 2011 08:00:00 PM. © Do It Yourself Videos - Metacafe

Does self publishing make it easier to get an agent?: Publishing Your Own Book
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Gaunt and Glimmering Remains of Gastropods

post from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories on 16 March 2011 07:40:27 PM. © Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Here at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, tall grasses and other slender plants thrive around the edges of our often-salty marshes.

Towards the end of every summer, as the grasses start to dry out, you'll sometimes see a gleaming white jewel, shining from the top of a stem.

And if you look closer, it becomes quite a puzzle what that might be. A chrysalis? A gall of some sort?

But it turns out to be both simpler and stranger than that. The little jewels are actually the desiccated shells of brown garden snails, bleached by the summer sun.

The common garden snail in this area is helix aspersa, the culinary snail of France, imported here in the gold-rush era by a Frenchman who intended to sell them as food. Normally, they are chestnut to ebony in color, with lighter striations.

But the snails that we find in the grasses-- I count at least eight in this picture --have dried up after their food sources, and have been left to sit in the sun for much longer than they would like. Seems clear enough that they climbed up the stem for a leafy snack while the plant was still green, but didn't make it down in time.

Depending how long it's been, the shells may still be striped, faded, or fully bleached. In some cases the shell is long empty and backlit by sunlight. In others, the resident has only recently passed.

In some cases the surface luster weathers shiny like a jewel, catching your eye from a distance. And that's how we end up with ornamented grasses, glittering with the gaunt remains of gallic gastropods.

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Gamer Wednesday: Voidwalker from World of
Warcraft

post from Craftster.org Blog on 16 March 2011 06:34:41 PM. © Craftster.org Blog

I’ll be honest with you. I don’t know much about what I’m looking at here but I know it’s AWESOME. This Voidwalker was created by eternallyeve from ~~the chaos of the Twisting Nether~~ Sculpey III with a “foil, wire and bamboo armature.” I especially love the cloud at his feet. So cool! The full thread can be found here: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=331943.0

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Flowers Bobby Pins

post from Cut Out + Keep on 16 March 2011 05:35:13 PM. © Cut Out + Keep

My love for washers;)

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Bug Necklace

post from Cut Out + Keep on 16 March 2011 05:35:13 PM. © Cut Out + Keep

Based on Bug Necklace by zombiewander

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Rock Band 3 Mustang Guitar as Expressive MIDI
Controller: Frets, Strings, and Accelerometer

As a guitar, the Rock Band 3 Mustang is a bit unusual – there are strings, but an array of buttons replaces the frets, and it is intended as a game controller. But with all those buttons, strings, and sensors, it makes a remarkably flexible, surprisingly inexpensive controller. Our friend nay-seven puts it to good … Continue →

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Ice Cream Cup Top Hat

I scream you scream we all scream for... umm what is it...oh yeah ICECREAM

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