DIY Creations: Make Noise Reduction Headphones for $20 - Lifehacker

Hack Attack: Get more from Google Desktop - Lifehacker

I want to buy one now to see this for myself. I don’t know if they are alkaline though.

How To: Get 32 AA Batteries from a Single 6 Volt Battery - Lifehacker

Cairo School of Carpets - Child Labour Part 3 - Ethical Sourcing & MEC

Makes you wonder if those nice carpets are worth it? Are the Kashmiri ones made with child labour?

Rocketboom Weblog: Hiding an Airplane Factory

Also check out the complete Rocketboom weblog, lots of interesting short to read posts.

Note that I like the writing style of the post. But it is a good tip on how to do a steak. I think I’ll try it this week.

How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steaks into Gucci “Prime” Steaks | Jaden’s Steamy Kitchen

bookofjoe: Fetish Coffee: The search for the Holy Grail Bean

Perfect Coffee

Technical SCUBA Diving Equipment for Advanced, Wreck and Cave Diving: Dive Rite, Inc. - Dive Rite » Dual Bladder Wings

I can’t help but remember one of Billy Dean’s talks on equipment management. He called it the triangle of influence (TOI), starting at the neck draw a triangle from shoulder to shoulder down to just above the navel. In this area should only be items needed for life support, primary and secondary regulators and BC inflation. Everything else should fall outside this area so it doesn’t interfere with survival needs.

A study of 10,780 British twins shows food fear to be 78% inherited. Another 22% of food fear comes from environmental factors that affect one twin but not the other, report Lucy J. Cooke, MSc, of University College London and colleagues.

bookofjoe: BehindTheMedspeak: Fear of new foods is genetic