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POPSHinges for Scrapbooking Remember walking around in the hardware store when we were kids? Doodads up and down every aisle. Hinges you would find on doors or fascinating books, now you can find on scrapbooking pages. The following page explains in detail about how hinges have become a part of the scrapbooking craft today.
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POPSRare ancient jewels found cont: A number of offerings including scarabs, amber seals and earthenware were also found in the burial chamber which was two metres high. The town of Eleutherna is believed to have reached its peak in the Geometric Era around 3,000 years ago. Excavation in the last 25 years has so far yielded over 500 items of clay, metal and ivory including sculptures, tools and weapons. One of the most prized sculptures of the Louvre Museum in Paris, a limestone female statue called the Lady of Auxerre, is believed to have come from Eleutherna. -- AFP
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POPSExpensive Pleasure Boats Being Abandoned continues:" Derelict boats are environmental and navigational hazards, leaking toxins and posing obstacles for other craft, especially at night. Thieves plunder them for scrap metal. In a storm, these runabouts and sailboats, cruisers and houseboats can break free or break up, causing havoc. " Hmm, what about salvage rights or does that only work out at sea?
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POPSHow to bottle homemade soda: get the pop in the bottles, but make sure the bottles don’t pop A decent article, but as a former homebrewer (on hiatus for far too many years, due to lack of space), I must pedantically clarify that you're not sterilizing your equipment, you're sanitizing it. And for sanitization, if you're going to go to the trouble of tracking down either bail-top bottles or a capper and new caps, buy a bottle of Iodophor while you're at the brewing store. You'll thank me later, when your clothes aren't covered with little tiny bleach spots. :-) Oh, hey – it's even available through Amazon . How convenient!
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POPSRobot Party! Creative cupcake guru Hello Naomi is just the coolest! I wish I would’ve stumbled on her adorable robot cupcakes earlier - they would’ve gone perfectly with a robot kids party I recently created! (see below)
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POPSGREAT Basic Metal-smithing Jewelry Book I just found this book on Google's book site, while looking for information on riveting in jewelrymaking. You can preview quite a lot of the book on the site, and it looks to be WELL WORTH buying! The directions are very clear and complete, plus written in terms a beginner can understand. PLUS there are step by step photographs! GREAT ones! This book is definately going on my wish list!
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POPSThe Skycar Will Be Operated Completely By Computer And Guided By GPS
The four-seat Skycar is powered by eight rotary engines that are housed inside four metal housings, called nacelles, on the side of the vehicle. There are two engines in each nacelle so that if one of the engines in one of the nacelle fails, the other engine can sustain flight. The engines lift the craft with 720 horsepower, and then thrust the craft forward. The Wankel engine replaces pistons of a conventional engine with a single triangular rotor spinning inside an oval-shaped chamber, which creates compression and expansion as the rotor turns. There are three combustion chambers in the Wankel, with a crankshaft between them. To make the Skycar safe and available to the general public, it will be completely controlled by computers using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, which Moller calls a fly-by-wire system. In case of an accident, the vehicle will release a parachute and airbags, internally and externally, to cushion the impact of the crash.
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POPSMaking a Comeback: Male Belly Dancers in Egypt
More: Mesbaah is shimmying in a society that has long struggled with ever-changing limits of social tolerance. A carved relief at a pharaonic-era tomb near Cairo shows today's dance prohibitions were yesterday's norm. It depicts a chorus line of men at a religious festival; each wears a sash knotted on his left hip, a fashion for dancing men and women that lingers today. Male performers were once considered more reputable than females. In his book "The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians," Edward William Lane, an Englishman who lived in 19th-century Cairo, observed that male dancers were preferred by Cairenes who thought women "ought not to expose themselves." From 1834 to 1849, women dancers, known as ghawazee, were banned from the city. Rakia Hassan, 62, a retired dancer, recalls that in her childhood, males peddled their skills along with women on Muhammed Ali Street, then a one-stop shop for belly dancer hires. Me: Never even knew males use to belly dance.
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POPSDo It Yourself Tons of "how to's". There's enough stuff here to keep one occupied until Easter and beyond. There's still time to make, (yes, I said make , not buy) some really cool Christmas presents too and I personally like getting home-made stuff much better anyway. Go check out some of the links. :) Here's some background music. *LOL* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xwDDLuLcY
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POPSProject Orion - Nuclear space travel The fundamental design of a Project Orion spacecraft consisted of four parts: a payload of nuclear bombs, propellant, a pusher plate, and a spaceship. During launch from the Earth's surface, the nuclear bombs would be rapidly detonated behind the Orion craft at pre-calculated distances. A disk of propellant material attached to each bomb would be vaporized to a plasma by the explosion. This plasma would expand into a cigar shape while being propelled at astounding velocities toward a heavy metal plate at the base of the ship. That pusher plate, attached to enormous hydraulic shock absorbers, would absorb the momentum of the plasma and propel the Orion spaceship forward.
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