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BME: Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification News » Lead Story » BME’s Big Question #2: The Melancholy of Anatomy
Aside from not wanting to work on a minor, have you ever refused to do a certain procedure? What would make you refuse to do one? Are there any you’ve done that you now regret?
They have a [...]

Last night I finally stained my entertainment center. Kevin has done an awesome job building it, and last night we decided that I could say I helped make it because I paid for it and helped a little.
I almost did a coat of finish this morning, but since it only takes 2 hours between [...]

The Dry Side » Yanko Design
The slats on these benches can rotate to the dry side by cranking the handle.

The Yanko Design blog has all kinds of cool ideas / designs for stuff and things.  Some of them are purely conceptual, like I think the above is, but some are real products.

Coleman’s FlashCell: Yes, a Cordless Screwdriver That Really Charges in 90 Seconds - Popular Mechanics
We’ve tested this cordless screwdriver, and in this case, the truth is stranger than any hype. The $90 FlashCell doesn’t use a new kind of lithium-ion cell, or a trusty nickel-cadmium battery, or even ancient lead-acid technology. This bizarre device doesn’t [...]

Chris’s Crypt, The Bleeding Portrait
To make the blood flow off the painting I gave several coats of varnish and a final coat of Rain-X.
Rain-X is awesome stuff, everyone should put it on their car.  And it apparently also helps the fake blood not stick to bleeding portraits.  I have always been infatuated with home made [...]

Decent Amp for my Office
I have always loved analog audio projects, and have made several amps in the past, including some vacuum tube amps and a handful of solid-state amps based on chips from Apex Microtech.

I have always loved analog audio projects but haven’t actually made anything other than a crystal radio from a kit [...]

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » SmartStyle Sucks
Well I went back during my lunch break and the manager was working. She apologized and redid my haircut from the beginning. She was awesome, and she shampooed my hair at the end as well (apparently its included in the price(I didn’t get it on [...]

SmartStyle :::: Welcome.
I needed a haircut, but it was getting late on Saturday. We called SuperCuts, my normal salon since moving away from home (and Heidi) but they were closed. We were at walmart for um, windshield wiper fluid (turns out they stopped carrying RainX brand) and crap. Anyway, they were cutting [...]

Have you been Needled?
I love tattooing and piercing, and I used to read Needled regularly.   She changed the site formate a while back and I just stopped reading.  I don’t want video blogs, or crazy multimedia flash website blogs.  Text, maybe some pictures, something I can READ.
Modblog (NSFW), while more pictures, less talk, is [...]

8 Surprising Household Deodorizers : RealSimple.com
Deodorize Your Freezer
Problem: Odor on Ice
Those UFOs (unidentified frozen objects) in the freezer make your piecrust smell like a substance from another planet.
Solution: Wipe the freezer with a cotton pad dampened with pure vanilla extract. Refrigerator shelves will benefit from a wipe-down with a 50-50 mix of white vinegar and [...]

Instructables Giant Match
One matchbook contains 20 matches, one matchbook box contains 50 matchbooks, so each box (in the photo below) contains 1000 matches. About 15 boxes (or 15,000) matches are needed to complete the giant match

Anything involving a 4×4 and 15,250 match heads is gonna be awesome!

Keyless Entry - Aydiosmio.net
My apartment building, of course, uses an intercom system to remotely unlock the front door for guests, deliveries, etc. This keychain upgrade gets me in the front door… keylessly.
Auto Roll 2 Channel RF Remote Control
the auto code rolling 2 channel RF remote control is only 30 bucks and while I am currently [...]