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Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations. Creation Museum - Creation, Evolution, Science, Dinosaurs, Family, Christian Worldview. Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee. (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.

Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee

Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) Layout 2012.9. - StumbleUpon. Reynolds Wrap has lock in taps to hold the roll in place The color on the bread tab indicates how fresh the bread is And those colors are in alphabetical order: b, g, r, w, y.

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You can divide and store ground meat in a zip loc bag. Just break off how much you need and keep the rest in the freezer for later. If you place a wooden spoon over a pot of boiling water, it won't boil over. Marshmallows can cure a soar throat. Stuffing a dryer sheet in your back pocket will repel mosquitoes. You can freeze cupcake batter for later use. You can paint upholstery You can make your own laundry soap. . You can dye plastic buttons. You can run a paper bag through your printer. You can print directly onto fabric. A dry erase marker can be used on most desk tops. You can mail anything that will take a stamp and weighs less than 13ounces without a box? If you break your blender jar you can replace it with a mason jar.

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All mythologies. The Best Page In The Universe. 100 Websites To See Before You Die (Part 1) HeroMachine Comics Blog. The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history! Ana Somnia - lights out! Inception in Real Life: Make These Lucid Dreaming Glasses and Take Control of Your Dreams. Inception in Real Life: Make These Lucid Dreaming Glasses and Take Control of Your Dreams Dreams are like an internal human holodeck.

Inception in Real Life: Make These Lucid Dreaming Glasses and Take Control of Your Dreams

Inside your mind, anything is possible, from your grandest wishes to your worst nightmares. This is all well and good, but what if you could control your dreams and become the omniscient god of a handpicked reality whenever you go to sleep? Inception took this idea to the logical extreme by invading other people's dreams. While we can't hack into the dreams of others, we can definitely play an action hero movie star in our own! Today, we are going to make our own lucid dreaming goggles and hack our subconscious into submission. Materials Goggles or glassesLEDs (2)ATtiny85 microcontroller8-pin chip holderAVR programmer or Arduino3 volt coin cell batteryBattery holderperfboardSwitch Step 1 Cut the Goggles Mark where your eye level is on each lens of the goggles. Ideally, the hole should be just wide enough that the LEDs are held in place.

Step 2 Program the Chip. FBI. The FBI’s Reading Room contains many files of public interest and historical value.

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In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI’s capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Please note, that the information found in these files may no longer reflect the current beliefs, positions, opinions, or policies currently held by the FBI. The image quality contained within this site is subject to the condition of the original documents and original scanning efforts. These older files may contain processing procedures that are not compliant with current FOIA processing standards.

All recently scanned images posted to the Reading Room adhere to the NARA 300 DPI standard. Some material contained in this site may contain actions, words, or images of a graphic nature that may be offensive and/or emotionally disturbing. That Video Site. Corporation Map. Low Price. 11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks. Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries.

11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks

We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world's lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. Aerogel isn't just neat, it's useful. Price: $35 2. Inside these sealed glass balls live shrimp, algae, and bacteria, all swimming around in filtered seawater. EcoSpheres came out of research looking at ways to develop self-contained ecosystems for long duration space travel. Price: $80 3. NASA has been trying to figure out how to get a sample of rock back from Mars for a while now.

Every once in a while, a meteorite smashes into Mars hard enough to eject some rocks out into orbit around the sun.