Redditor BlondeRed snapped this photo. There's a Kroger grocery store in Bloomington, Indiana where customers can pick their own living mushrooms from an active bed of them. That's a fancy Kroger! Or, as some redditors are calling it, "Kro-Gucci."
Some redditors suspect that it stinks, but BlondeRed says that it doesn't smell at all.
It's very impressive, but I'll wait until the store offers Super Mario Bros. mushrooms.
-via Messy Nessy Chic
Over at Kitchen Ghosts, photographer Daria Khoroshavina and food stylist Olga Kolesnikov have been creating cinemagraphs that detail the creation of entire meals. Some are more like step-by-step recipes, while others just document the general preparation of different ingredients. They also run a Tumblr of additional food prep GIFs at Buttery Planet. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
Father of YouTubber Kristoffer Örstadius discovered a lost GoPro in a field in Gringelstad, Sweden. When the pair checked out the memory card, they discovered video of the camera’s rapid, spinning descent to the ground after falling off a skydiver at around 10,000 feet up. Örstadius posted the downright dizzying footage online, which eventually helped him locate the camera’s owner, ensuring its safe return.
via PetaPixel
Werner van der Meulen of Nico van der Meulen Architects has recently completed a home in Blair Atholl, a golf estate located north of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The window washers in the footage above were trapped at the mercy of high winds for 15 minutes on the 91st floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center April 2. The scaffolding they were perched upon swayed drastically from side to side and violently hit the windows of the 1,600-foot-tall building (shown in the photo below) numerous times. According to this article at Gizmodo, the Shanghai World Financial Center is the seventh tallest building in the world. Can you imagine? My heart is beating out of my chest just from watching the video!
Shanghai World Financial Center | Image: Wikipedia
Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects have designed ORTE, a new tray and chopping board set made from stone, that was recently launched for Italian brand MONITILLO MARMI.
VGZ Architecture have designed a home in Mexico City that is surrounded by gardens, where every space has natural light and fresh air during the day.
Photo by Jovell Rennie
As the story goes, the original owner of this unwieldy building located in Willow, Alaska built his house shortly after a forest fire with a clear view of Mount McKinley and Denali National Park. As the surrounding trees recovered, the pristine view was obscured and the owner decided to add few more stories, eventually spending a decade adding floors until it reached the 12-ish story tower you see today. Not surprisingly, locals refer to the building as the “Dr. Seuss House” as the design so closely mimics structures you might see in Theodor Geisel’s illustrated storybooks.
While the tower sat abandoned for a while, the Dr. Seuss house apparently has a new owner who is currently working on renovations. Photographer Jovell Rennie and Alaska Aerial Footage recently stopped by to capture some of the images and video you see here. (via Jeroen Apers, Unusual Places)
The SnapPower Charger is a new wall outlet cover plate designed by Provo, Utah-based hardware startup SnapPower that features a built-in USB charger, which can be installed with no rewiring required. The cover, which is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, uses two prongs that draw power directly from screws on the sides of the outlet.
images via SnapPower
via Gizmodo
photo via Cafflano on Facebook
The Cafflano Klassic by Cafflano is an all-in-one portable coffee maker that includes a drip kettle, grinder, dripper, filter, and cup all tucked into one travel mug-sized package. Its small size makes it very portable for travel or camping, and the only things a user needs to add are coffee beans and hot water.
The Cafflano Klassic is available for sale at The Fowndry.
image via Cafflano on Kickstarter
photo via The Fowndry
photo via Cafflano on Facebook
submitted via Laughing Squid Tips
reddit user WestCoastBestCoast94 has created a series of extremely complex maps of the United States, featuring every single road from coast to coast. The map is available both as the entire continental US and as all 50 states individually. Of particular note are the high concentration in big cities and the empty space for large farmland, parks, and other vast unpaved expanses.
New York
California
Oregon
images via WestCoastBestCoast94
How would you like to be able to use the same resources that graphic designers use, so you can create amazing websites and other projects? There are plenty of well-known, and not-so-well-known tools on the Internet that the world’s top designers use for many of their projects, and you can access these same tools for all of your projects. Here are 30 of the best online resources for graphic designers of all levels.
This is the world’s largest user interface design database. You can download more than 46,608 UI elements, such as progress bar, music player, and more.
You will likely be needing images for websites and documents, and you don’t necessarily want to pay for them.
This is a great free tool to use if you deal with clients and associates from other parts of the world. This plugin will let you translate text layers into a variety of different languages, and it is easy to use.
This is a great site to use for PSD files. You will also have access to UI and blurred background elements. Find all kinds of templates and more, for free.
If you need grid paper, don’t bother running to the store, or trying to use a ruler and a pencil to create it. Instead, use Gridzzly to create grid paper you can print out for free and use any time.
Sure, you have a decent color pallet on your computer, but you likely only have the basic Pantone color pallet. This website has more than three million free color pallets which you can use to inspire you to create amazing projects.
Sometimes, you just want subtle patterns for backgrounds. Find about 400 different patterns here for free. You can even get a Photoshop plugin.
This Photoshop scrip will convert rectangular marquee to labeled measurement mark. This is a great free tool for web designers and front-end engineers.
Design a website for free, and you don’t even need to use code, so it is also super easy. You can manage content, and even publish independently using Webydo.
It can be really hard to use guides when you are creating websites. Guideguide will show you how to easily use guides. You can download this tool for Photoshop 3.1.3. There is no cost to use this site.
Don’t you just hate it when you try to do gradient colors, and they end up banding? Put an end to it with this tool, which is free to use.
Here is a fast way to turn your designs into app icons. Simply drop your files, and your icons will be created for you. It doesn’t get much easier than that, and it’s free.
You don’t have to select layers, highlight text, or open the Color Picker to get a hex value of a certain color any longer. Just use the free Hexy eyedropper tool to click on any color on the object, and copy it right to your clipboard.
This is a site for photographers, where you will be able to add effects. The great thing about this site is that it is faster and easier to use than other photo editing software, and it is free.
Export assets to various devices quickly and easily with Cut & Slice. You can even name layers for a better workflow. This is a free Photoshop plugin.
Download this Photoshop extension for free, and make doing this tedious job a whole lot quicker and easier. Here you will find seven scripts to make layering actually seem like fun.
If you miss those great color swatches from Illustrator in Photoshop, you can find them here for free. Connect layers and then re-color them together using multiple PSD files.
It can be difficult to find the best backgrounds and textures for your graphics. At CG textures, you will find just about any texture you can think of, free of charge. One of the really neat features of this site is that you also can check out tutorials on how to use the textures.
Build presentations for your Behance portfolio in a single click. This free PDS File and Action tool is easy to use, so you can build presentations without worrying about all of the hard stuff.
Sometimes you see a font that you really like, but you don’t know what it’s called so you can’t use it. Now, you can send a screenshot to find the closest match to the fonts you like, at no cost.
When you need icons, you can get them at Fribble for free. Some of the neat tools you can use include a Halftone Pack, an iPhone/iPad PSD Mockup, and a Sketch Icon Set. You even get 50 free icons.
Using Photoshop, you can design an awesome website in a matter of seconds, for free. Choose from loads of templates and modules, and get the design aspect out of the way so you can get down to the nitty-gritty of creating a website.
Use this free tool to broadcast any Photoshop document to an unlimited amount of people via a LiveShare meeting. Everything is in real time, so if you make any document changes, they will be seen by everyone instantly.
This app has 13 filters that are just like the app Instagram for Photoshop, and it is simple to use. You do have to buy the art, and the cost will depend on the work and the artist.
Choosing the right fonts for your website can be difficult. Typewolf will show you the fonts used on various real websites, so you can see how they look in use. This tool will also recommend fonts for you to use. This tool is free to use.
Any time you need free images, this app has nearly 400,000 for you to choose from. No matter what you need, you are sure to find it here. There are even tutorials on how to use the images to your best advantage.
This free app will let you see how your design looks with default text or Lorem Ipsum. Customize options for generating words, sentences, and paragraphs in a single click.
This tool lets you search for icons, and then click to make a new layer shape that you can edit. There is a huge selection of font icons, and you can download this tool for free.
This free tool lets you share your designs instantly. The great thing is that you can do it all from one app, so you no longer have to switch back and forth between apps.
This is from Made by Source, and it covers images, ad banners, and profile photos for social media. This plugin is free to use, and you will find customizable templates for Facebook.
Featured photo credit: Trapped in Suburbia via flickr.com
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There are people out there, real artists, creating amazing pieces in seconds. And here's you, struggling with a simple stick figure. Wouldn't it be great to draw that, at least? Imagine your friend saying "I can't even draw a stick figure," and you, cutting in: "I can!" How awesome would that be?
With that remarkable skill, your dreams would come true! Imagine people approaching you on the street and asking you to draw a stick figure for them! You could become rich and famous! All you need to do to make it come true is to follow this life-changing tutorial. Let's get started!
Let's start from the basics. A common stick figure is constructed of:
It is widely known that a stick figure seen in the side view (2) shares most of its characteristics with the front view (1). Therefore, perspective is useless when you want to draw a stick figure (isn't it pretty useless anyway?).
Draw a medium-length vertical line. It is the spine of a stick figure.
Just kidding! Of course, every stick figure has its own personal spine, and it doesn't need to be as straight as... something very straight.
Add a circle for the skull.
By "circle" I mean, of course, something resembling this noble shape. Perfection is overrated.
A legless stick figure moves by floating in space. Practice these simple poses for a while before we make it more complicated.
A stick figure without legs is more like a fish than a man. Let's fix it.
Draw one long leg.
Add another leg on the other side.
However, these long sticks won't stand on their own unless they're stuck into the ground. For a proper support we need to add tripod feet:
The tripod structure is visible the best in the front (2) and back (3) view.
So, add feet to your stick figure.
The legs are not done yet. They're too straight! How is the figure supposed to move?
To give our stick figure full mobility we need to add joints to every leg:
Each joint has its own range of motion.
The spine can use the hip joint, too:
The problem is, one joint can't manage three different moves at the same time. How to create a pose like the one below?
We need to use two hips. This way both legs and the spine get the mobility they need, and the pose is more stable. Keep in mind that these three joints merge into one when in side view.
Practice! It's going to be harder with every step, so it's good to work on small chunks at a time to avoid chaos.
By dividing the spine you get the neck point. The arms start there.
Of course, we can predict that the neck and arms will want to have their own mobility, so let's add the clavicles.
The arm has three joints that make it very mobile:
Just as with the leg joints, arm joints have a defined range of motion:
We can re-use one of these new joints to move the neck:
Hands are very complicated—they're actually stick figures on their own—so we'll take only a brief look at them. There are two things you can remember about them:
Time for practice! Forget the hands for now and just have fun.
We need a chest to put the stick figure's heart in. Draw an oval between the shoulders and the elbows.
The chest is very heavy, and it's placed high in the body, making it unstable. The spine needs to be modified to hold this weight!
Cut the roundness of the chest by adding the sternum—that flat area between the breasts.
Arms have such a great range of motion thanks to being attached to the shoulder girdle. Each shoulder is attached to scapula (shoulder blade) and clavicle, which is attached to the sternum, which is attached to the chest, which is attached to the spine. The spine and chest are quite rigid, but the arms aren't connected to them directly, hence their mobility.
Anyway... just look what your shoulders can do!
The lower torso is a bit more complicated, but that won't stop us! Draw a flipped heart to create buttocks. In side view they look like a drop.
In the front, in the middle, add a circle. It indicates the pubic area.
Add two "wings" for the iliac crest.
Traditionally, there's a type of silhouette typical for men (1) and women (2), although it's not always the case. It's safer to say that narrow hips and wide shoulders make the silhouette more masculine, and wide hips/narrow shoulders—feminine, whatever the gender.
The spine is attached between the buttocks. If humans had tails, this is where one would start.
The human spine is not very flexible, and it changes its shape very slightly when bent.
The spine limits the range of motion of the hips, too.
The head isn't overly important for a stick figure, so let's make do with this simple scheme:
I was kidding about the importance of perspective. It is, in fact, very useful. However, it's much simpler than you may think. Perspective defines what happens to the view in transition, for example between front and side.
If you want to turn the stick figure around, simply imagine one side turning into the other side. Imagine a transitional form between two sides. For example, if in the front view two arms are visible, and in the side view one arm overlaps the other, in the transition one arm is coming closer to the point where it will be overlapped.
When it comes to proportions, there is no one perfect recipe for them. Humans are very, very different, and "average" doesn't really exist. So instead of remembering all these "x heads long", observe your own body:
It's very easy to forget what we've just learned, so take your time to practice!
I hope you forgive me that little trick I've used to drag you through quite a complicated tutorial about drawing a simplified human skeleton. After all, that's still a stick figure—except it's far more useful than its cousin.
You're now ready to practice gestures—a base for the human figure. If you manage to practice at least 15 minutes every day, congratulations—you're on the way to drawing interesting, dynamic human poses without a reference! And all this thanks to a simple stick figure.
In a series of three articles, Dianna Kenny examines the life expectancy of pop musicians, the myth of the 27 Club1, and how genre affects popular musicians' life expectancy. It is from the third article that this chart is taken:
For male musicians across all genres, accidental death (including all vehicular incidents and accidental overdose) accounted for almost 20% of all deaths. But accidental death for rock musicians was higher than this (24.4%) and for metal musicians higher still (36.2%).
Suicide accounted for almost 7% of all deaths in the total sample. However, for punk musicians, suicide accounted for 11% of deaths; for metal musicians, a staggering 19.3%. At just 0.9%, gospel musicians had the lowest suicide rate of all the genres studied.
Murder accounted for 6.0% of deaths across the sample, but was the cause of 51% of deaths in rap musicians and 51.5% of deaths for hip hop musicians, to date. This could be due to these genres' strong associations with drug-related crime and gang culture.
Heart-related fatalities accounted for 17.4% of all deaths across all genres, while 28% of blues musicians died of heart-related causes. Similarly, the average percentage of deaths accounted for by cancer was 23.4%. Older genres such as folk (32.3%) and jazz (30.6%) had higher rates of fatal cancers than other genres.
In the case of the newer genres, it's worth pointing out that members of these genres have not yet lived long enough to fall into the highest-risk ages for heart- and liver-related illnesses. Consequently, they had the lowest rates of death in these categories.
(via mr)
The 27 Club is a group of musicians who died at the age of 27. Membership includes Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Amy Winehouse, and Robert Johnson.↩
T-Mobile’s dynamic coverage map for the greater Washington, DC area.
T-Mobile has been trying, for the past few years, to break away from the dominant competition in the mobile space by doing anything they can think of differently. And now, that extends to information for potential customers, too: their coverage map.
The company announced the change to the new map today. Basically, it has two big differences from everyone else’s, the company claims. First, it’s going to be updated at least twice a month, instead of being a static, annual thing. And secondly, it works backwards.
Your typical wireless coverage map is a visual representation of where the company claims to provide service. Customer experience, for a variety of reasons, may not always line up.
So T-Mobile’s new map is coming at it from the other angle: it’s a visual representation of where customers say the company provides service. The so-called “Next Gen Network Map” isn’t 100% made up of customer data points; it also includes data from third-party network monitoring services like Inrix.
The map doesn’t just say where customers get T-Mobile coverage, but specifically breaks down what level of coverage — 4G LTE vs 3G, and so on — is available at a given address. The map also incorporates speed test data for some (but not all) locations, showing the average of customer network speed-tests run over the past 90 days.
It’s not hard to see why T-Mobile would be gung-ho for the new coverage mapping tech. Despite aggressive expansion, T-Mobile still faces a popular perception of having a small, slow, crappy network. If the “uncarrier” can refute that perception with real, real-time data, they may be able to win over more customers from AT&T and Verizon.
As for consumers, it’s a good way to get a look at what T-Mobile offers in your area, or in an area you’re likely to travel to. Though data that granular can be of mixed utility: two addresses, each within six blocks of yours truly, offered wildly divergent speed test results, with one clocking in at barely 1 Mbps and the other reporting an average of 12 Mbps. And none of the customer-verified nodes in between those two addresses had speed test data attached.
Still, more transparency is basically always a good thing. And T-Mobile’s chief tech officer Neville Ray seems to agree. “We want the rest of the competition to do this,” Ray said. “In the future, customers will demand greater visibility on all aspects of their service.”
T-Mobile ditches static coverage map [CNet]
Merry Coor produces ethereal designs from cremated remains within custom glass beads. Coor crafts each bead by hand, first melting glass into a round bead, then spiraling the design out of ashes on top, and finally sealing the design with an outer layer of clear glass. For each bead she not only requests a 1/2 teaspoon of ashes, but also a picture, letter, or story of the deceased so she can develop a personal connection while forming the piece of jewelry.
Coor has been making glass beads for about 15 years, but it wasn’t until last year that she began incorporating ashes into their designs. After this development Coor explained, “My bead making now gave me a new purpose, and a way to honor others, both living and passed.”
Custom beads can be requested by the California-based artist either through her company’s website, Ash Beads, or through her Etsy. (via Laughing Squid, Bored Panda)
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Artist Andrew Maxwell-Parish is developing a 3D printer that makes 3D objects out of Easy Cheese. As this very amusing test video demonstrates, making an Easy Cheese printer is not so easy. We previously posted about Maxwell-Parish’s High Five Camera.
via reddit
As the internet evolves, it’s hard to believe that we use to search for jobs on the back pages of newspapers. Today, searching for jobs is much easier than it use to be, but whether you want to work for a startup, a Fortune 500 company, or work from home, finding a job can still be a challenge. The internet is filled with wonderful niche job websites, but many of these job-hunting treasure troves are hard to find– they are hidden behind the wall of search engines results that are dominated by sites like Indeed, Monster, and Craigslist.
To make your job hunt easier, I have compiled a list of 10 niche job websites to help you hack your job search, connect with great companies, and find your dream job. If you know of other great job websites, please let me know.
Also known as Hacker News, Y Combinator has a job feed that features an array of jobs at startups that were funded by Y Combinator. The job feed features jobs from established companies, startups, and jobs that range from newly posted only be a few weeks old. It’s a great place to job hunt, especially if you are a developer or tech enthusiast.
The Job Board features advertising jobs at the world’s top agencies, it’s updated daily, and it’s quickly becoming one of the best places to find creative industry jobs in graphic design, web development, copywriting, account management, social media, and a wide selection of internships. The website’s clean design makes for a pleasant job browsing experience.
From airline to hospitality, this job board features an incredible variety of open positions around the world. If you like to travel, this is a great place to find a job.
Despite an outdated user interface, the sheer quantity of jobs on Star Chefs make it a great place to find restaurant and hotel industry job.
Originally designed for connecting outdoor education professionals, this site has expanded to include a job board that features high-quality jobs in the outdoor industry. If you have wanderlust, job hunt on Outdoor Ed.
From bar tending to restaurant and hotel management, Poached features an easy to use job board that’s segmented by city.
Want to work in the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Mexico in the same week? Maybe a job in hospitality on a cruise ship is your calling. All Cruise Jobs is the place to go for cruise ship jobs, and it will have you day dreaming in your cubicle.
Tech Cocktail lives and breathes the tech world–they got their start by hosting tech meetups and their community grew from there. After a $2.5M investment from Zappos founder Tony Hsieh, their site only continues to improve. Consequently, their job board always features quality tech jobs, and is worth checking out on a weekly basis.
While the Egotist Network has multiple websites, it was started in Denver, CO and its job board featured consistently updated advertising and marketing jobs. It’s a great place to find ad industry jobs, internships, and freelance opportunities.
The oil and gas industry continues to grow as a place for high-paying, little-experience required positions. The Rig Zone features jobs in the oil and gas industry, and is one of the easier to use job websites.
Featured photo credit: job search/slightlyeverything via flickr.com
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Want to capture excellent photos? Then you need to understand three things — the aperture, the shutter speed, and the ISO.
The aperture controls light that passes through your camera lens. If you shoot with the aperture adjusted to the smallest opening, the smallest amount of light is allowed to enter. Let’s say, you need to take a picture in an environment that’s too bright — how do you fix that? Simple — just choose a smaller aperture. The aperture’s sizes are measured by f-stops. A higher f-stop means a smaller aperture hole while a lower f-stop means a bigger aperture opening.
Now, the shutter speed. It’s the duration of time a camera shutter is open to allow light into the camera sensor. Shutter speeds are usually measured in fractions of a second. Fast shutter speeds allow less light into the camera sensor and are used for high-light and daytime photography while slow shutter speeds allow more light into the camera sensor. Obviously, slow shutter speeds are ideal for nighttime photography.
Finally, the ISO. ISO is all about the sensitivity level of your camera to available light. Usually, it’s measured by numbers. A lower number represents lower sensitivity to light while higher numbers mean heightened sensitivity. The drawback in using increased sensitivity is that it produces noisier images. Simply put, you end up with grainy pictures if you use high ISO.
How do you take properly exposed photos, then? Those that are not too dark or too bright. The three – Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO – need to play together well. Let’s say it’s high noon. Of course, you have plenty of sunlight. If your camera aperture is very small you block most of the light. It means the camera sensor needs a longer time to gather light. Now, for the sensor to collect enough light, the shutter has to stay open longer. In other words, you need a slower shutter speed.
Look at the diagram featured here. From the top, the first level represents aperture sizes, the second level represents shutter speeds, and the third level represents levels of ISO.
Diagram: New Mobile Life
Sources: PHOTOGRAPHY BASICS #2: APERTURE, SHUTTER SPEED, AND ISO via IMPROVE Photography
Basic Photo Tips: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO via Photo.net
Featured photo credit: Photographer/atalay KARACAÖRENLİ via flickr.com
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Sometimes, you’re just not into cooking. Takes time. Can get tricky. You can cut yourself. Don’t want to miss the newest episode of your favorite show. But, you love to eat.
You love enjoying a nice dish, and want to start the good habit in life, cooking. Does it really need to be that tough? Absolutely not.
Take a look in your kitchen for slow cooker. This handy all-in-one cooking appliance can be used in many recipes, and produce delicious meals without effort. It’s basically made for the people who don’t want to spend hours in kitchen. First thing that comes to mind when you think about slow cooker – a soup. Or a stew. However, you can prepare a variety of meals with it, considering the way of preparing food. A tasty dinner, lunch or a dessert.
Big advantage of using a crock pot is – you just get the ingredients, mash them all together, put them in and forget about it. An alarm after needed hours is a smart move, to remind you that your meal is done.
Using the slow cooker, you won’t miss your favorite show on TV. Here are the slow cooker recipes that will change your cooking:
For this one, you’ll need a skillet and slow cooker. Ten ingredients (probably already in your kitchen), and just 10-15 minutes of preparation.
Then, you just leave it for 3 hours if you set on “High” or 6 hours if you set on “Medium”. Set the alarm, relax, and let crock pot do the rest.
Can’t be easier. It’s healthy, delicious, and you didn’t brake a sweat making it.
When you usually don’t have time to cook, and want to make something tasty, you use scrambled eggs. It’s easy, and done quick.
With this slow cooker recipe, you can have them prepared and waiting for the next 8 hours for your needs. Excellent idea if you need to snack, and have no nerves to cook again after lunch.
Preparation is easy, and you can make variations suiting your taste.
The Fajita soup tastes delicious, and the preparation is easy; put the ingredients in a crock pot, and let them cook slow, 4-6 hours. Extras like tortilla and cheese topping are fine but not necessary. (Or can be bought on the side)
Healthy, tasteful meal.
Bean and spinach soup can be served as a whole meal, served with bread. The process is same like the before mentioned soup, just pour the ingredients and cook for 5-7 hours. (Depending on setting)
Season to taste, and surprise your partner with tasty meal, nutritional and good-looking. People won’t believe you made it yourself.
Have you tried this combination perhaps? It’s well-known in Paleo circles these days. Paleo diet has been a blast on the Internet lately, and we know that it is healthy, and losing a pound or two wouldn’t hurt you, right?
With this slow cooker recipe, you can stick to the diet, and prepare meal in advance. Same principles as always, put the ingredients in crock pot, and cook them for 8 to 10 hours. Enjoy combining apples and pork.
Beef is low-fat, tasty and stacked with protein. Broccoli is one of the healthiest green foods you can eat. Rice is great for the bowels, and keeps you full for long time. And yes, its tremendously easy to make this meal.
This one is really easy. Wrap potatoes in foil, put them to slow cooker, and leave them. They’re done in nearly 4 hours and prepared in five minutes. Can’t get any easier than this. And, they are more healthy when not fried.
Vegetarian food can also be great, and well prepared in slow cooker. This meal will need about 4-6 hours, depending on heat setting. There is a lot of veggies involved, so health benefits are obvious here.
You need 8 ingredients, and slow cooker. That’s all. And the taste is unbelievable. (Takes around 6-10 hours, depending on setting the cooker)
Same as always, mix the ingredients and put them into cooker for 2 to 4 hours.
This delicious dip is awesome appetizer and starter, even though can be used for a meal with friends. Serve it on a crunchy bread and enjoy.
This slow cooker recipe is a bit “harder” to make. You need to bake beef and sausage 5 minutes, and then put that in slow cooker for next 7 hours with rest of the ingredients. 15 minutes before the end, adding Italian tortellini to mixture can’t be that complicated, right? Only thing left to do is to enjoy the meal.
*Tip – this meal is caloric, be sure to have it before 6 PM. Healthy eating must induce consuming lighter food after 6 PM, as this habit is not difficult to implement in your daily life.*
This one doesn’t need many hours to complete. It only takes 50 minutes, and some small preparation. Shrimp are good protein source, and it’s recommended eating seafood once a week at least.
This is a healthy meal your whole family can agree on and you will love the ease of prep. Small preparation before cooking in pot, (4 minutes) and than 3 hours and 15 minutes of cooking.
Potato chowder is yummy! This meal, when is “seasoned” with little bacon and chives on top, tastes amazing. Cooking time – 8 to 10 hours.
You will be able to set it up in 10 minutes, and go to work, and when you’re back, you’ll have your delicious meal waiting. Simple as that.
In slow cooker, combine chicken, garlic, salsa, chiles, chili powder, 1 teaspoon salt, and teaspoon pepper. Cover and cook on high, 4 hours (or on low, 8 hours).
After it’s done, tear the meat apart in small pieces, add spices to taste and enjoy the easy made delicious tacos. Much more healthier than regular tacos bought on the street.
This scrumptious meal can turn your house to an restaurant, smell-vise. Cooking lasts for 6 hours, or when chicken gets tender, and during this period your house will be filled with delicious smell which will last for hours after. Preparation of ingredients before cooking in crock pot takes only 5-6 minutes.
When you get used to crock pot and using it every single day (which will happen if you try at least two of the recipes from here) you can start on some bit “complex” meals. Even though they’re still so easy to make.
Put in, cook, remove chicken, add rice, return chicken and cheese, serve. Easy.
One of the easiest yet.It can be done for 5 minutes prep, and 4 hours cooking. Three ingredients. These are a party hit!
Small suggestion: they are yummy, but caloric. The good advice for consuming them is to make sure you eat them during the day, and don’t overdose.
Easy recipe. Mix the ingredients in crock pot, and cook for 8-9 hours. 20 minutes before the end, add meaty stuff, and let them cook together. Extraordinary delicious, and healthy meal.
Seafood should be implemented in your weekly feeding regime for health reasons, and it’s tasty.
Excellent recipe for weight watchers. Low calories, high protein, and healthy and delicious meal. Cut the chicken, put it in crock pot with spices and sauces, and cook on Low for 2 hours.
Preparing this will take around 30 minutes. You need to make the paste for meat, and bake lamb in skillet until it goes brown on all sides. And then, put it in slow cooker for 8 hours. It will melt in your mouth later.
Your slow cooker does all the work. Real barbecue taste from a crock pot. Cooking lasts for 8 hours, and then you just cut it thin with onion and enjoy.
Ice cream, milk, and espresso. Delicious combination. When crock pot mends them together you’ll forget about regular coffee.
Melt the ingredients in your crock pot, and pour into baking dish. Let it harden, and than cut on small cubes. Delicious.
2 hours of cooking will make this latte with pumpkin taste unforgettable. And you’ll prepare it for 5 minutes, and all the rest will be done by your crock pot.
Delicious desert. Easy to make, and you get to mix and crumble dry cake mix with butter. 2 to 4 hours cooking in cooker, depending on heat.
This seriously could NOT be any easier! And, you’ll wake up in the morning with a house that smells delicious and a slow cooker full of piping hot oatmeal!
This delicious low calorie treat will be done in about two hours. Rum and honey give exquisite taste to banana slices, while slow cooker melts them to perfection.
You can make a healthy fruit punch for an vivid afternoon sip. It can replace a tea as well as cocktails at your brunch party.
This low calorie dessert is delicious and healthy. Combined with whipped cream it is a pleasure for all senses.
The slow cooker can make your life easier. You will prepare meals like professional without too much effort. Don’t be afraid to make a first step, you can enjoy your specialty even today.
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The Beer Engine is a custom-built motorcycle commissioned by the Hogs Back Brewery in Surrey, UK for a Discovery Channel competition. The motorcycle features a sidecar built from a beer barrel, as well as an onboard bar. Though it was ultimately disqualified from the competition due to its sidecar, the bike is still on-display at the brewery.
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Private space exploration company SpaceX has recently released all its photographs freely to the public under a Creative Commons License on their Flickr page. CEO Elon Musk also said on Twitter that he would be releasing them under “full public domain,” but the photos are currently listed on Flickr as Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license meaning they can be used for any reason with attribution.
@Pandoomic Just changed them to full public domain
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 21, 2015
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MinutePhysics (previously) explains an extremely common problem among computers when it comes to displaying and blending different colors and offers up a solution for how it can be addressed.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of software ranging from iOS to Instagram to the standard settings in Photoshop takes the lazy, ugly and wrong approach to photo brightness.