cool links from Loren

Water-rocket powered cars
Toy cars, that is.

Welding plastic bags
..using a soldering iron and oven paper (is that parchment? I'm not really sure..)

Build your own infrared paint remover
Using the guts from an infrared quartz heater, you can make a paint remover that normally retails for $400 or so.

How-To: Make a surface mount soldering iron

Another big GPS-driven clock
This one is a 2' x 12' 7-segment display style of clock. Looks pretty funky.

Fear of Girls
A funny documentary short about a couple of really, really lonely guys.

Super Simple Light Tent
Instructions for building a basic lighting box for taking good photos of small objects.

GPS-driven large LED clock

142 Online Tools for Webmasters

Pixoh: Edit pictures online
Like the name says: online photo editor. Probably handy if you're not on your own machine and need to get some editing done.

How-To: Make a popcorn popper coffee roaster
Turn an old hot air popcorn popper into a device for roasting your own coffee beans. Cool idea!

How to Brew - By John Palmer
Free online book that has a basic tutorial for brewing your own beer, followed by a lot of in-depth information about the brewing process. There is a ton of information here, and I was impressed by how in-depth the book goes in telling about how far you can go in controlling the characteristics of your brew.

Electrical Tricks of the Trade