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NOTICE: Large moosehead wall lights have finally been invented.

360 Modern is a real estate firm in the Pacific Northwest U.S. that specializes in modern homes. Beautiful stuff.

Handy way to skip all the intro crap on DVDs that is usually forced on you when you throw a disc in your player. Apparently the chapters on DVDs that you can't skip (FBI warnings, copyright stuff, etc.) are flagged, on the disc, as UOP, or User Operation Prohibited. This site lists some of the techniques you can try to skip the ennui.

This colour coordinated bookshelf looks cool, but you might have a hard time finding a particular title.

For chewie edge lovers or corner brownie fans - it's the Edge Brownie Pan. All edges, all the time. Via BoingBoing

Puzzle carpet.

This to That is a handy site that will tell you what adhesive to use when attempting to glue various objects together.

Super creative bathroom tiles.

Skinny house in Brazil.

Apparently there are many LED lightbulbs available already. Via TreeHugger

WiiRoomba. YouTube of a guy controlling his Roomba with a Wii remote.

Hardcore Lost fans have a party and repackage the snacks and beer as Dharma Initiative rations. Make your own with the PDFs that they've so generously shared.

Here's a nice set of home improvement videos with the energetic and snappy Eric Stromer.

Faucet Fountain turns your regular faucet into a drinking fountain.

Kids and the Home Office. Here's a list of tips for the parent that works from home.

Save the Internet.

Great Pac-Man bathroom tile work.

Crazy toaster from the future TODAY!

Here is a nice napkin folding howto site with clean pictures and straightforward instructions. I think the shirt's my favourite.

DIY T-Shirt Rack via Instructables.







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Possibly the World's Most Connected House

This is quite possibly the most wired, monitored, internet enabled home ever. Obviously privacy isn't too much of a concern with 9 webcams (some with nice pan and tilt action) and endless stats available openly and publicly over the net, including real time data on water usage, electricity usage, gas usage, doorbell rings, incoming phone calls with caller ID (and playable messages), alarm status, fridge door status, toilet flush count, washer/dryer monitor, temperature, rainfall, wind speed/direction and on and on. The amount of available data from so many different sources is staggering and must have taken a serious amount of time and a herculean effort to complete.

via Metafilter

Bring PCs up to Speed with Google Pack PC Essentials Kit

Many of you will already have most of this software installed on your own PCs, but if you do the tech support for family and friends then this could be of some use to you. Pointing people to this package of fun and useful (and protective, in the case of Firefox, Adaware, Google Toolbar's popup blocker, and Norton Antivirus) software from Google will probably come in handy anytime someone under your unofficial umbrella of technical support buys a new PC. By the way, if you're looking for an alternative to Acrobat Reader, try the ultra quick Foxit Reader, which makes loading and reading PDFs a dream by comparison.
       



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