Well, I stumbled across a few great DIY websites. One deals with how to make your own wind turbine and a variety of other projects, including how to make solar panels (almost) from scratch. There's even a page about how to make your own turbo jet engine. (Of course, this made me conjure up all sorts of wild ideas, and I briefly pondered making a jetpack. Then I briefly pondered the natural consequence of any jetpack that I'd design: instantaneous death and I thought I'd forgo the idea.)
The other website is Instructables, which features how-to projects. You'll find everything here. From the strange and rather beautiful (turn an old suitcase into an ottoman!) to the rather damn helpful, just about every cool food idea ever.
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I also came across a link that intrigued me: a draft of the future, the interplanetary weather report. I've been trying to track down the temperature readings (if they are available) from the Opportunity and Spirit Rovers, as I'd like to make a little widget that tells you the current temp on Mars and then the temperature in a paradise like Fargo, ND, or my current hometown, Cambridge, MN. (Today's low was -13 F.) If anyone's interested, maybe I'll try to learn the code real quick-like.
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