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Interesting stuff for February 7th, 2012

101 Cookbooks – Healthy Recipe Journal
A collection of recipes using natural foods
Overflow – a secret benefit
Careful reading of the spec allows for a very neat clearfix trick.
CSS playground
Impressive set of UI features done in pure CSS3
Scifri Videos: Where’s The Octopus?
Now that's camo. I'd scream too.
US Postal Service "Hacked" Ad
yes, because having tens to hundreds of people physically handle sensitive information is way more secure.
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San Pel in Glass

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Playing with WordPress for Android 2.

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Woodworking

A Sign of Accurate Sawing

The kerf

A few nights back I was sawing the side aprons for my Stickley Lost Side Table to length. My procedure is to mark all of the faces using a knife, nip out a small starter notch for the backsaw, and then saw away the waste; it’s pretty standard stuff.

Knifing in the lines does a few things: it gives you a clean entry line on the shoulder, it makes it easier to track the saw, and if you cut things fat, it gives you a nice place to register a chisel when paring. One thing I discovered is that it also lets the waste piece break away before the saw gets to the bottom of the work piece.

In the picture above, notice the little shelf of wood left on this piece of waste? The top of the shelf is where my knife scored the wood fibers. The width is the width of the kerf on my backsaw. I looked through my other waste pieces, and this only appears when your cut is square and plumb, that is, when you’re exiting the cut with the saw right against the marking lines.

If you see the shelf, you made a good cut.

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Building a shower that won’t leak

Great writeup by Bob Borson on building a shower that won’t leak.

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Shopping Video

Inside Ikea

A creepy fun look at what happens when you turn the page.