If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files – backup immediately.
Sounds of a Defective Hard Drive
| February 19, 2011
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Turtle Interrupts Underwater Wedding
| February 18, 2011
Turtle was trying to steal his girl.
That’s the Most Illegal Thing I’ve Seen in the History of Wrestling!
| February 18, 2011
The Dow Piano
| February 18, 2011
The daily trading of the Dow Jones industrial average determines the songwriting here, translating the ups and downs of 2010’s market into musical notes. Using a five-note scale spanning three octaves, pitch is determined by each day’s closing level.
Heavy trading volume – most notably on the day of the May 6 ‘Flash Crash’ – leads to high musical volume. Notice the piano tends to play quietly around holidays. The notes are generally clustered in series of five, representing Mondays through Fridays. Follow along with the graph to experience the market in a (somewhat) musical way.
Click here to play the Dow Piano…Animal-ipstick Series – Paige Thompson
| February 18, 2011
Animal-ipstick creations are made using water-based Halloween face paint to create lips that look like animals.
Make Your Own Slime – Recipe
| February 17, 2011
There are many recipes around for ways of making slime, lots based on PVA glue. This recipe is however a bit different, and is very similar to the commercially available slime toys. It has a key advantage that the materials are cheap and so large quantities are possible. You could even fill a bath full if you wanted to!
Gather the materials together. You will need;
Guar Gum- This is available from health food shops.
Borax (sodium tetraborate)- Can be found in supermarkets as a water softener with laundry items. Check it doesn’t have anything else added to it.
Glycerine- available from chemists or the baking/ cake decorating aisle of the supermarket
Colouring- food colour, poster or powder paint
Suitable container to mix in
Scales
Wooden spoon, whisk or similar
Measure out the following quantities of materials. I use plastic cups to do this, but a piece of folded paper will work as well. Quantities do not have to be precise, but it may help you make a batch the same in the future if you can be fairly accurate.
The water can go into the mixing container straight away.
Guar Gum 10 grams (1%)
Borax 10 grams (1%)
Glycerine 10 grams (1%)
HOT water 1 litre
