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31 Jul 21:12

Top 10 Ways to Bring a Garden into Your Small Space

by Alan Henry

If you want to add a little green to your home—whether it’s green for nature’s sake or green because you like the idea of growing food—you don’t need a lot of space to do it. Here are some suggestions to add a little plant life to your home or office, no matter what size it is.

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02 Oct 12:41

One of My Favorite Web Sites Coming to An End

by admin

Scouting New York is coming to an end, as the proprietor appears to be moving up from film location scouting to perhaps writing and producing his own films in LA.  For which I wish him luck.  But I will miss his long posts on quirky and interesting New York City locations.  His archives are still there, and fans of NYC or urban architecture in general are encouraged to look at his past work.

But of course, he just started Scouting LA

27 Jul 11:48

Build a Split-Screen, Raspberry Pi-Powered Portable Retro Game Station

by Thorin Klosowski

We’ve seen all kinds of portable retro game consoles over the years, but Thingiverse user Jooxoe3i’s project manages to make the smallest device we’ve seen yet using a Raspberry Pi.

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20 Sep 01:03

Inverted sense of risk

by John

Watching the news gives you an inverted sense of risk.

We fear bad things that we’ve seen on the news because they make a powerful emotional impression. But the things rare enough to be newsworthy are precisely the things we should not fear. Conversely, the risks we should be concerned about are the ones that happen too frequently to make the news.

26 Feb 20:25

Kitchen Scraps You Can Regrow with Nothing But Water

by Thorin Klosowski

Kitchen Scraps You Can Regrow with Nothing But Water

Since they're cheap and come in bulk, we tend to waste a lot of vegetables and herbs in the kitchen. If you'd prefer to cut down on that a bit, a few kitchen staples are dead simple to regrow and don't need a full blown garden. In fact, these ones don't even require dirt.

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