Archive: September 2010

You already know the best way of cleaning the glass on a moving walkway (or sidewalk). So why not complete the task by learning how to properly clean an escalator’s steps too? JOB COMPLETE! [via]

How the Pig Gets Smoked at Fatty ‘Cue from Gregory Stefano on Vimeo. If you don’t like meat you might want to skip out on the video above which shows pitmaster Robbie Richter (of Hill Country restaurants) preparing a full pig for a roast. Man, I would never make it as a chef. I’d eat [...]

The Big Picture took a tour of Southwest Florida via Google Maps today and found that a lot of the developments in the area are unfinished or left completely empty due to the financial meltdown of recent years. The grid that has been built in these areas reminds me of Ross Racine’s drawings of suburban [...]

Photo: Kathy Gibbons / Kalamazoo Gazette Megabus just can’t catch a break. First they had an incompetent driver smash into a low bridge earlier this month, killing 4, and now it seems that at least one of their buses has the ability to spontaneously catch on fire. Luckily, the bus which was traveling on I-94 [...]

In celebration of today’s 50th anniversary party for The Flintstones, here’s a look back at how the cartoon helped make addicts out of an earlier generation. Ahh…times have changed haven’t they?

These Concrete Canvas Shelters are really neat. You can deploy them really easily using a small team and the end result is a structure that is fire-proof, weatherproof, and also bullet-proof to some extent. And since the shape of the building is so organic, you can literally bury it in snow, dirt, or earth and [...]