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How to Start a Campfire

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Fighting a Bear

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How to Survive Being Buried Alive

Epic How-To tells us how to maximize our chances of surviving being buried under an avalanche, and then how to confront the possibility of being buried in a coffin after you are mistakenly declared dead. I don’t think too many people are buried with a working cell phone, but that would be a literal lifeline. They have every possible thing you could do in that situation, which probably won’t work anyway. (via Tastefully Offensive)

How to Make a Square Soap Bubble

CrazyRussianHacker shows us how to make a square soap bubble. Mainly what you have to do is build a cube, which isn't so hard. I built a house like that once. (via Viral Viral Videos)

Extreme Backyard Thrills

While some families are putting helmets and knee pads on their children in order to ride a bicycle, others are installing trampolines in the backyard. Here are some ways new space age materials can intensify the thrill we used to get from an old-fashioned rope swing. As a mother, I would not personally recommend any of the following activities, but boy, are they fun to watch! Check out three such activities in this article I posted at mental_floss.

9 Halloween Pumpkin Projects

There are traditional Jack-o-Lanterns with a face carved on the front and a candle inside. Then there are art pumpkins, with skillfully carved scenes of all kinds. A third category contains the geeky Jack-o-Lanterns that do something strange and unexpected, like the ones we are looking at today in this article I wrote for mental_floss.

10 Awesome Homemade Halloween Costumes

If you have the time and tools to make your own Halloween costume, all you need is a little inspiration to make it awesome, like the ten in this article I wrote for mental_floss. Note: these are presented in no particular order. They all rank #1 in my book!

Recycling a Coffeetable

After who knows how many years (it was used when I got it) and much abuse, the legs on my coffee table could take no more. I wasn't about to buy a new one, and I really didn't want to buy a used one. I considered going without, but realized that the kids would leave drinks on the floor, which would lead to extreme mess.

My mother-in-law had an old coffee table that had made it as far as her storage building, but it had been there so long that the elements had ruined the laminated top. The foundation was still strong, if not beautiful.

I removed the wonky legs from my table, and the top from hers. I also had to remove the frame underneath my tabletop because it was smaller than the foundation of hers.

A bit of carpenters glue. Actually, a LOT of carpenters glue!

I added bricks to weigh it down (not shown) and let it dry overnight.

The finished product (after I cleaned the glue and paint from the tabletop) is nothing to write home about, but it's perfectly serviceable. Sure beats buying another piece of furniture!

Oh, the frame I removed wasn't discarded. The kids are using it to frame their flower bed in front of the playhouse.

Fake Blood Out of Nowhere!

Scare someone this Halloween by making blood appear without cutting yourself! This is real science -the main ingredients are potassium thiocyanate and Ferric Nitrate. Get the printed instructions here.

How To Make Giant Soap Bubbles

Those bubbles are BIG! This video contains the recipe for super-tough bubble formula. (via the Presurfer)