Fix It Club

The Fix It Club offers you 175+ Fix It Guides with illustrated steps to guide you in troubleshooting and repairing or recycling anything around your home and household.

From repairing your mechanical clock to your wooden furniture and from your electric tooth brush to your coffee grinder.

Daytipper

Daytipper is a service that allows the global community to submit and share tips, information, advice, and ideas. Tips on beauty, cooking, education, finance, gardening, pets, technology, and travel, to name a few.

From how to organize your closet to how to keep your stretch jeans tight, and from how to remove old wallpaper effortlessly to tips for finding a new job, it's all on Daytipper.

Totlol

Totlol is a community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. Launched for beta testing in May 2008, Totlol is an independent website made in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Videos available at Totlol are all intended to be enjoyed by tots. Parents can easily find the content they want because all the 'other stuff' is out of the way.

(thanks Dave)

Ghostbike

GhostBikes are bicycle memorials placed in various cities around the world. A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver.

Ghostbikes are intended to be memorials for the fallen and reminders to everyone to share the road with one another.

Ghostbikes is a project by Code in Motion.

10 Things You Can Clean in Your Dishwasher Besides Dishes

It turns out a lot of stuff you usually clean by hand, can be tossed in the dishwasher. Hubcaps and wheel covers, keyboards, baseball hats, and children's toys, to name a few.

57 Useful Google Tools

If you're like most people, you use Google's products several times a day to search for information, check email, get a map and lots of other useful functions.

What most people don't know, however, is just how many useful tools Google has out there than can make everything from tracking a package to creating and publishing webpages a breeze. Here are just a few of the products Google offers that may be worth giving a try.

Save Your Own Life: How To Survive

Strange things happen every day. For example, almost 2.5 million people called poison centers for help in 2006. In 2004, 112,000 people died of injuries from falls, drownings, and other accidents. In 2006, search-and-rescue rangers in national parks responded to nearly 4,000 calls. Every year, around 3,000 succumb to choking.

You always assumed freak accidents would never happen to you. But they can happen. Here's how to save your own life and survive.

150 Things You Didn't Know About The Human World

* The women of the Tiwi tribe in the Pacific are married at birth.
* The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
* Winston Churchill’s mother was descended from a Red Indian.
* It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
* In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems of men.
* The Dutch in general prefer their french fries with mayonnaise.

Well, that last one I can vouch for.

150 Things You Didn't Know About The Human World.

(via Reality Carnival)

What To Do If The Police Stop You

Being stopped by the cops is scary. This Instructable HowTo gives you everything you need to know to safeguard your rights when you are dealing with the police. All of the information is straight from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Think carefully about your words, movement, body language, and emotions. Do not get into an argument. Do not run. Do not resist. Do not complain. Remember officer badge and patrol car numbers. Write down everything you remember. Try to find witnesses.

What To Do If The Police Stop You.

(via Boing Boing)

75 Skills Every Man Should Master

A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by. People count on you to come through.

For example, a man should be able to cook meat somewhere other than the grill, calculate square footage, play go fish with a kid, ask for help, and tie a bow tie.


75 Skills Every Man Should Master.

I Wish There Was...

Do you have a practical problem, and do you wish it could be solved? Place your wish on 'I Wish There Was...' so others can see it, and suggest solutions.

The main goal of the website is to share wishes worldwide and learn from one another. A problem might have been solved in one country but not in another, so by sharing our problems and solutions, we can share good ideas.

It's Just A Plant

It's Just a Plant is an illustrated children's book about marijuana. It follows the journey of a young girl as she learns about the plant from a diverse cast of characters including her parents, a local farmer, a doctor, and a police officer.

It's Just a Plant does not advocate marijuana use for children. The book explicitly addresses the potential harm of drug abuse and insists that marijuana is something not to be experimented with by children.

Myth Busting Mom-isms

If you shave your facial hair, it will come back thicker. Watching TV too close will hurt your eyes. Don't swallow that gum - it will stay in your stomach for seven years. Eating carrots will improve your eyesight.

Myth busting Mom-isms.

Eight Questions About The Human Body That Kids Always Ask

Why does hair go grey? Why do we blush? Why do men have nipples? Kids are curious about all sorts of concepts and never stop bothering us with their thought-provoking, and annoying questions.

Here are eight questions about the human body, and how to answer them.

(via corsinet)

Encyclopedia Of Death And Dying

Topics in historical, social, cultural, and technical areas are presented in the Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. From brief treatments on autopsy, pyre, and rigor mortis to lengthier articles on euthanasia, graves, hell, and life support.

Biographical entries and information on important associations and journals are also included. Most of the close to 100 contributors are from the United Kingdom, the United States or Australia.

Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

The Simple Dollar is for those of us who need both cents and sense: people fighting debt and bad spending habits while building a financially secure future and still affording a latte or two. Here's how to make laundry detergent at home very cheaply.

Make Your Own Laundry Detergent tells you what equipment you need, what the real-world costs are, howe time you have to invest, and if it works well.

9 Things To Stop Worrying About Right Now

Stress will turn your hair gray. Reading in poor light ruins your eyes. Coffee is really bad for you. Eggs raise your cholesterol. Doesn't this sound familiar?

Forget about it. It's not true!
9 Things To Stop Worrying About Right Now.

Archimedes To Hawking

Cliff Pickover is well known as webmaster of Reality Carnival and Reality Carnival Unleashed of which I am a co-blogger. Cliff is also a prolific writer of books about science, art, and creativity.

His latest book is called 'Archimedes to Hawking.' It's on my coffee table at the moment and it offers an interesting look into the world of some of the most brilliant, quirky, and passionate scientific minds in history. From Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and from Newton's Law of Motion to Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion, Archimedes to Hawking is a fascinating read.

The Universal Packing List

It is easy to claim that all travellers pack too much, but it all depends on what kind of trip you are doing.
The Universal Packing List generates a custom packing list for any journey.

The program makes some of the decisions for you from knowing what kind of trip you are doing. No scuba diving? Leave the snorkel behind! Never warmer than +10 centigrade? Leave your shorts behind!

Why Choose If You Can Combine?

An advertisement from the University of Brussels, Belgium.

(via Grow-A-Brain)