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Crafty Stuff - If you like to make gifts to give, or just crafts in general, there are some great links on this page.
Urban Legends & Folklore This is a very interesting site. Check it out before you forward email hoaxes that have been going around for years (such as the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe and the Walt Disney hoax) Get the facts here!
Chimpwarp! Meet my friend Mr. Chimp. You can click and drag on his picture and rearrange his face to your hearts content. You have to have a java-enabled browser to be able to view this page. Have fun!
Find anyones Birthday!
MegaGo One Click Search ! All kinds of catagories.
Antiques Roadshow - PBS program in which expert appraisers uncover the stories and reveal the true value of objects brought in by amateur collectors.
The Incurable Collector - official site from A&E. Garage Sale Susan provides tips, links, auctions, and more.Personality tests, iq tests and entrepreneur tests online, more iq tests
How to Grow Super Tomatoes in a Hanging basket
This is a neat way to get great home-grown tomatoes:1. Buy an inexpensive plastic bucket and a young tomato plant.
2. Cut a small hole in the bottom of the bucket slightly larger than the main stem of the plant.
3. Put a little gravel in the bottom of the bucket, then some good dirt.
4. Push the tomato stem into the hole you made in the bottom of the bucket so that the plant sticks out of the bottom.
5. Fill up the rest of the bucket with good dirt about 3/4th full.
6. Use the bucket handle as the hanger.
7. You can water the tomato plant and fertilize the roots very effectively this way and the tomatoes will grow and ripen without supports or get damaged from the weight.
How to Pick Out a Good Melon
1. Weight: the heavier the better. This means that there are lots of juice in this melon which generally means a good ripe one.2. Don't get the greenist ones. Look for that patch of yellow on it. Those melons with the yellow patch tend to be sweeter.
Try it out and have fun picking a good one!
What causes an "ice cream headache"?
When something cold touches the roof of your mouth on a hot day, it triggers a cold headache. The cause is a dilation of blood vessels in the head. The dilation may be caused by a nerve center located above the roof of your mouth - when this nerve center gets cold, it seems to over-react and tries to heat your brain. Therefore, the easy way to avoid brain freeze would be to keep cold things away from the roof of your mouth!
What exactly is Jell-O made from?
The gelatin you eat in Jell-O comes from the collagen in cow or pig bones, hooves, and connective tissues. To make gelatin, manufacturers grind up these various parts and pre-treat them with either a strong acid or a strong base to break down cellular structures and release proteins like collagen. After pre-treatment, the resulting mixture is boiled. During this process, the large collagen protein ends up being partially broken down, and the resulting product is called gelatin. The gelatin is easily extracted because it forms a layer on the surface of the boiling mixture.
"Did you know?"
It is best not to skip meals. Skipping breakfast and lunch leads to overeating later in the day. So, eat regular meals and avoid very-low-calorie diets.
How to calculate your body mass index (BMI)
BMI is an index of body fat that conveys risk for disease. A healthy BMI is in the range of 19 to 25.
Step 1: Multiply your weight in pounds by .45. For example, if you
weigh 150 pounds -- 150 x .45 = 68Step 2: Multiply your height in inches by .025. For example, if you are
5'10" (70 inches) -- 70 x .025 = 1.75Step 3: Square the answer from step 2.
(1.75 x 1.75 = 3.0)Step 4: Divide the answer from step 1 by the answer from step 3.
(68 / 3.0 = 22.6)
Your estimated BMI is 22.6 which falls within the healthy range of 19 to 25.
When Harley Procter decided to develop a creamy white soap to compete with imported castile soaps, he asked his cousin, chemist James Gamble, to formulate the product. One day after the soap when into production, a factory worker (who remains anonymous) forgot to switch off the master mixing machine when he went to lunch and too much air was whipped into a batch of soap. Consumers, delighted by the floating soap, demanded more, and from then on, Procter and Gamble gave all white soap an extra-long whipping.
Ivory Soap is the best-selling soap in America because the air-laden bars dissolve twice as fast as other brands, compelling consumers to buy twice as much.
Dr. Benjamin Green, a physician from Miami, Florida, helped the United States military develop sunscreen to protect soldiers stationed in the South Pacific during World War II from getting severe sunburns. After the war, he noticed that tourists in Miami used all kinds of home-made concoctions to bronze in the sun. He began experimenting with different formulas, using his own bald head as a testing ground, until he came up with the recipe for Coppertone suntan cream with the essence of jasmine in 1944.
As a child, actress Jodie Foster appeared in Coppertone commercials
Toy store proprietor and former advertising copywriter Paul Hodgson came up with the name Silly Putty off the top of his head while playing with the pink polymer.
In the 1940s, when the United States War Production Board askedGeneral Electric to synthesize a cheap substitute for rubber, JamesWright, a company engineer assigned to the project in New Haven,Connecticut, developed a pliant compound dubbed "nutty putty" with noreal advantages over synthetic rubber.
In 1949, Paul Hodgson, a former advertising copywriter running a NewHaven toy store, happened to witness a demonstration of the "nuttyputty" at a party. He bought 21 pounds of the putty for $147, hired aYale student to separate it into half-ounce balls, and marketed theputty inside colored plastic eggs as Silly Putty. When it outsold everyother item in his store, Hodgson mass produced Silly Putty as "the toywith one moving part," selling up to 300 eggs a day.
Tabasco pepper sauce was named after the Tabasco River in southern Mexico by creator Edmund McIlhenny because he liked the sound of the word.Tabasco pepper sauce is made from a variety of pepper called Capsicum frutescens, known for centuries in Latin America and first recorded in 1493 by Dr. Chauca, the physician on Columbus's voyage.
Capsicum peppers contain an alkaloid called capsaicin, a spicy compound found in no other plant.
In 1912, pharmacologist Wilbur Scoville devised an organoleptic test to rate the hotness of peppers. The mildest bell peppers rate zero; habaneras peppers score 200,000 to 300,000 units. Tabasco pepper sauce scores between 9,000 to 12,000 units on the Scoville scale.
Tabasco pepper sauce is still made much the way Edmund McIlhenny first developed the sauce. Ripe peppers are harvested, crushed, mixed with Avery Island salt, and aged in white oak barrels for up to three years. The peppers are then drained, blended with strong, all-natural vinegar, stirred for several weeks, strained, bottled, and shipped.
"Liming" is the Caribbean art of "doing nothing, guilt-free," and it's a revitalizing habit that's virtually unheard-of in America. It's an ideal time--taking as little as five minutes--for personal pursuits instead of ordered recreation, for private reverie instead of public expectations. If you play a sport, for example, you would play it for the pure love of playing, not for winning or even doing well.
Make time for a little liming in your life!
Things you can do to get rid of fruit flies
All you need is some type of small container. The lid of a mayonnaise jar, the top of a piece of Tupperware; anything that can hold about a 1/4 inch of vinegar. That's right, vinegar. Add a drop or two of dishwashing detergent and you've got a combo that will draw the fruit flies away from the fruit and to an early grave once they drink the dishwashing detergent. It may be cruel, but it's very effective.
Life Savers were invented in 1912 by Clarence Crane, a Cleveland chocolate maker who wanted a sweet product that wouldn't melt in the summer heat. He decided on a peppermint hard candy in the shape of a circle with a hole in the middle. Since the mints looked like miniature life preservers, he called them Life Savers and registered the trademark.
If any of you guys or gals don't always flush after you go, and you have a dog,
this is what could happen:
