Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Mutate Your Garden Spoils

Mutate Your Garden Spoils


Mutate Your Garden Spoils

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Mutate Your Garden Spoils Horticulture mad-science offers a slew of marketing possibilities. How is it that our grocery stores aren't filled with Mickey Mouse shaped melons or, as in the case of Chinese farmer Hao Xianzhang, baby shaped pears? Xianzhang isn't the first to come up with the idea of young produce grown into a specifically shaped mold; the Japanese have been growing square shaped watermelons for the purpose of ...more

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HowTo: Clone a White Castle Slider

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PDT

HowTo: Clone a White Castle Slider Serious Eats' Burger Lab offers an extensive guide to making sliders at home. For those who have not sampled the beloved American classic, a slider is NOT just a mini hamburger. Nope, there's much more to it than that.

"Invented in Wichita, Kansas, in 1916 by Walter Anderson (who five years later founded White Castle), sliders were at one time the predominant form of burger on the planet. Weighin ...more

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597 Crystal Glasses + Insane Skills = Superb Symphony

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PDT

597 Crystal Glasses + Insane Skills = Superb Symphony Forgive me, I am posting an ad. But Czech glass musician Petr Spatina is incredible. He achieves amazing range with just crystal glasses, water, and his extremely deft hands. He is really that good, check out these two vids shot on the street, not the best quality but amazing. ...more

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HowTo: Spot a Hidden Handgun

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:45 AM PDT

HowTo: Spot a Hidden Handgun Another elegant and informative infographic (previously, The HowTo Behind an Exploding Grenade). This news graphic was created by Megan Jaegerman, while working for the New York Times in the 90's.

Jaegerman's reporting behind the infographic is quite interesting. She interviewed Detective Robert T. Gallagher:

"He was a New York City policeman for 18 years, who for much of that time worked as a p ...more

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