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The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet. Make Money in Your Spare Time Doing Simple Online Tasks. Yes, many "online jobs" promising quick riches and little effort are really scams. While the tasks below won't make you rich, they can earn you a little pocket money on the side—and these days that can make a big difference. Photo by Janis Neilands Most of these online money making opportunities only require you have a computer, a decent internet connection, and some sort of marketable skill (or the ability to provide valuable consumer insight to marketers).

You'll be operating as a free agent and can choose when, where, and how much to participate. Sound too good to be true? It's not, because as mentioned earlier, you won't likely be able to quit your day job with any of these programs, which typically pay way less than regular part-time gigs. But if you're a student, insomniac, or just someone who wants an occasional cash boost without the commitment required by a typical job, these are some of the best tasks you can do online in your spare time. 11 Unusual Household Uses For Food Items That Will Save You Money. Photo: charles chan * The next time you find yourself in need of a household product like stain remover, shower cleaner or ant deterrent, check the pantry before heading to the store. You might just find what you need, in the form of a common kitchen ingredient.

From a green perspective, going the DIY route eliminates some of the harsh chemicals in your home, reducing your family’s exposure to them. It can also save you money. In a pinch, using cinnamon or cayenne pepper could save you the $5 needed to buy a set of ant traps. And in the long run, buying bulk containers of multi-task products like baking soda and vinegar is cheaper than shelling out for bottles of specialized, one-task cleansers. Post your own tips below, and try these household uses for common foods: Baking soda * Jan Patterson of Cotati, Calif., uses it to remove “stubborn sticky stuff of any kind” from furniture and other household items. Bananas Use the inside of the peel to polish silver, Reichert says. Beer Cayenne Pepper. Dumb Student Late Assignment [PIC] Ransom note generator. Hi-Res Images of Hydrogen. Nonmetal, mass: 1.008 u, 2 stable isotopes (1, 2), abundance rank (earth/space): 9/1 Click image to magnify.

Vial of glowing ultrapure hydrogen, H2. Original size in cm: 1 x 5. How to make gases glow. Hydrogen is the lightest and simplest element and, with a ratio of 80%, is the main ingredient of the visible universe. 20% consist of helium, the ratio of the heavier elements is below 1%. Most stars, including our Sun, generate energy by fusioning hydrogen to helium. Right: The Great Orion Nebula, 80% hydrogen. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, unless otherwise noted. Household Hints. Disclaimer - As with all home remedies on this page, use at your own risk. 1) Flies or bees bothering you?

Spray them with hairspray and they will take a quick dive. 2) Sealed envelope - Put in the freezer for a few hours, then slide a knife under the flap. The envelope can then be resealed. (hmmmmmm...) 3) Use Empty toilet paper roll to store appliance cords. 4) For icy door steps in freezing temperatures: get warm water and put Dawn dishwashing liquid in it. 5) Crayon marks on walls? 6) Permanent marker on appliances/counter tops (like store receipt BLUE!) 7) Whenever I purchase a box of S.O.S Pads, I immediately take a pair of scissors and cut each pad into halves. 8) Opening brand new jars can be a feat in itself. 9) Blood stains on clothes?

10) Use vertical strokes when washing windows outside and horizontal for inside windows. 11) Spray a bit of perfume on the light bulb in any room to create a lovely light scent in each room when the light is turned on. 21) . * Clean a vase. The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking. An interesting new lockpicking technique has been making its way around the internet. This technique uses 'bump keys' to open locks in a similar fashion to lockpicking guns but without requiring specialized hardware. You can read about bump keys in this document, and see a news report about them here. --- Presenting ---(drumroll please) I am told that the university which has its' name associated with this document would prefer not to. Fine. I will now no longer refer to it as The MIT Guide To Lockpicking or The MIT Lockpicking Guide. Truth be told, I am a member of the Bavarian Illuminati and I wrote it myself shortly after I instigated Watergate and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I hereby absolve a certain highly respectable university in Massachusets from any and all responsibility for this document. Which is too bad in a way. My original copy of this file was a text file zipped up with several GIF's. Otherwise, enjoy the file. . - Akira - Dave Ferret Ted the Tool February 14, 1992 Contents. The Top 10 Psychology Studies of 2010. The end of 2010 fast approaches, and I'm thrilled to have been asked by the editors of Psychology Today to write about the Top 10 psychology studies of the year.

I've focused on studies that I personally feel stand out, not only as examples of great science, but even more importantly, as examples of how the science of psychology can improve our lives. Each study has a clear "take home" message, offering the reader an insight or a simple strategy they can use to reach their goals , strengthen their relationships, make better decisions, or become happier.

If you extract the wisdom from these ten studies and apply them in your own life, 2011 just might be a very good year. 1) How to Break Bad Habits If you are trying to stop smoking , swearing, or chewing your nails, you have probably tried the strategy of distracting yourself - taking your mind off whatever it is you are trying not to do - to break the habit. You may also have realized by now that it doesn't work. J. J. M. J. Know Your Rights: What To Do If You're Stopped By Police, Immigration Agents or the FBI. Hack Apart a Highlighter to Create UV-Reactive Flowers [Science] - How-To Geek ETC.

College students have long been hacking apart highlighters to create glowing bottles of booze to line their dorm room walls. Far more interesting, however, is the application of the hack to flowers. Many of you may remember a science class experiment from years gone by where in you put food coloring in a beaker and then some freshly cut white flowers; returning to the experiment a day later yielded flowers colored to match the dye you added.

This little experiment relies on the same technique, only instead of blue food coloring the flowers suck up UV-reactive highlighter dye. Check out the video below to see the experiment in action: Have a fun science experiment to share? Let’s hear about it in the comments. Make Flowers Glow in the Dark (with Highlighter Fluid and UV Light) [YouTube via Make] Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek. My Progress Bar. New Page 1. Money Saving/Free Stuff. FREE GONG BUTTON.

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California's Online Law Firm - Foresight Legal Group, P.C. - We Make the Law Affordable. LII | Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. How to Read a Book. (With Apologies to Mortimer Adler) Susan Wise BauerDo not reproduce without permission. Please give appropriate credit for quotes and ideas. All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise. Thomas Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham If you are fortunate, you encounter a particular teacher who can help, yet finally you are alone, going on without further mediation. GRAMMAR-STAGE READING. 1. 2. For a novel: Keep a list of characters as you read Briefly note the main event in each chapter For a history: List the major events of the history Look for a stated pupose. 3.

For a novel: Make initial notes on passages that seize your imagination. For a history: Mark central dates and people. 4. For a novel: Who is the central character? For a history: Who is this story about? 1. 2. 3. Top 100 April Fools Pranks and Gadgets. Top 100 April Fools Pranks and Gadgets April Fools Day is not too far away, and this is when you could get back at all those people who were not really nice to you; however, you could still go ahead and play some pranks on those you like and love as well, making April Fools Day one of the best holidays every year.

It is celebrated in most parts of the world people either hate it or love it, but they just can’t ignore it. Now that the holiday is less than a few weeks away, you certainly need to start preparing for all the wonderful pranks that might turn your loved or detested ones into gullible fools. You could play a number of hoaxes and practical jokes on almost anybody including friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors. Since the aim of the prank is to embarrass the gullible and not physically or emotionally hurt them, you might want to be sure that you do not take the jokes too far, and cause offense to the victim. April Fools Prank Gadgets Puzzle Toilet Paper Scratch Sticker. Inverse Graphing Calculator. 16 Anti Theft Gadgets and Designs to Deter Thieves. 16 Anti-Theft Gadgets and Designs to Deter Thieves We all own many different cool gadgets and items that are important to us either for the utility they provide or perhaps because of an intimate or personal reason.

Whatever the reason is, we really hate it when someone comes and touches our personal belongings and worst yet…steals them. In order to avoid such mishaps and unfortunate events, we have gathered here a great collection of different Anti Theft Gadgets and Bizarre Designs that are meant to help individuals make their devices and belongings less attractive, appealing or desired to a normal bystander. Moreover, there are a few security gadgets and projects that may also interest the more techy of you, who may be looking for some new gizmos to own or security diy to built. The following aren’t guaranteed to deter thieves or work colleagues from getting at your gadgets but are meant as additional things to make them think a second time before getting at your personal stuff. 1. Source. Best Hidden and Secret Safes to Hide Valuables. Howstuffworks "How Police Interrogation Works".

There are "Law & Order" addicts everywhere who think they could get a perp to confess. A little glaring, some getting in the guy's face, a revelation that his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon and voilà! He's recounting his crime. In real life, police interrogation requires more than confidence and creativity (although those qualities do help) -- interrogators are highly trained in the psychological tactics of social influence. Getting someone to confess to a crime is not a simple task, and the fact that detectives sometimes end up with confessions from the innocent testifies to their expertise in psychological manipulation.

No two interrogations are alike, but most exploit certain weaknesses in human nature. Police interrogations weren't always so complex. While the Supreme Court had ruled as early as 1897 against involuntary confessions, it was in 1937 that things really started to change. When the case Miranda v. Top 10 Space-Saving Household Projects. Whether you live in a tiny apartment or just have too much stuff, there's likely a lot of space you aren't using, like your walls, your ceilings, or the nooks and crannies in your furniture.

Here's how to use it most efficiently.P 10. Hang Your Bike on the WallP SExpand If you're in an apartment, you probably don't have a lot of great places to store your bike outside, and it can take up a lot of floor space just sitting around. 9. If you've already exhausted the storage nooks under your bed, the ceiling is ripe with unused space. 8. If floor space is at a premium, you can maximize it by moving those bookshelves up onto the wall, freeing up the floor for storing other things (and making it easier to clean). 7.

Whether you're trying to pack light for a trip or just fit as many clothes into your dresser as you can, proper folding technique is key. 6. Most animals are pretty small, but it seems like their stuff takes up as much space as yours. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Top 10 Creative Ways to Store Your Stuff. Get Your Complaints Solved With One Simple Question. Bright Star's MDMA Synthesis for the First Time Chemist - [www.rhodium.ws] Introduction Thanks to Strike, Rhodium, Ritter, Osmium, r2d3, Semtex Enigma, Spiceboy, ChemHack, Labrat, Eleusis, Ketone/LabGrrrl, and a personal hero, Dr. Shulgin. And to the object that made this possible - the Internet. Disclaimer: This is for theoretical argument only. IF someone chooses to follow this synthesis, note that the product has been 'Scheduled 1' by the United States Government, and offenders can be prosecuted.

In no way do I condone this activity. This is a hypothetical synthesis for: 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine. Overview: Distillation: of Natural Oil to obtain pure SafroleRxn: Formaldehyde + Ammonium Chloride -> MethylAmine.HCl (MeAm.HCl)Rxn: Safrole -(Wacker Oxidation(PdCl2+Benzoquinone))-> MDP2PDistillation: of Reaction contents to yield pure MDP2PRxn: MDP2P -(Al/Hg Amalgam (MeAm.HCl) -> MDMA oilCrystallization: (MDMA oil + HCl in IPA/Xylene) (anhydrous conditions) What you need: This list is the basics. Apparatus and Glass: Chemicals: Step 1. (4 hours) 1. 2. 3. Distancing language. Distancing language is phrasing used by people to "distance" themselves from a statement, either to avoid thinking about the subject or to distance themselves from its content.

Distancing language is often a means of self-deception, but distancing language used orally may indicate that a person is lying. Examples of distancing language[edit] Distancing clinical language partly shields health workers from the impact of workplace experiences, e.g. "bled to death" substituted with "exsanguinated".Military personnel may use a range of distancing terms for combatants either killing or getting killed. They may also employ distancing, dehumanizing terms for enemy combatants. People use many techniques to distance themselves from the truth. See also[edit] External links[edit] Learn how to throw lethal playing cards. If you watch the following video, you will be able to see one of the world’s leading card-throwing experts practicing his craft.

With a business card and a flick of his wrist he can pop balloons, extinguish candles, hit targets, etc.: Around the 50-second point, you will also see him impale a tomato with a business card. Around 3:15, Rick Smith demonstrates his technique very quickly. How to throw cards fast and effectively !!!!! See also: If you need a source of cheap playing cards, check out the dollar store – two decks for a buck. One level up from card throwing is knife throwing: - the fastest knife thrower in the world - How to throw knives [[[Jump to previous How To - How to blow your money if you are super-wealthy]]]

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