clay pot painted on foliage
Ran across this today, which explains the photo HOW TO MAKE A TERRA COTTA FLOWER POT BIRD BATH
I was going to turn the photo upside down to illustrate the point, but the pictures at link – bottom of page – do a better job. Plain clay pots are still [...]
Archive for July, 2006
Make your own clay pot birdbath, Wal-Mart and the treading water economy
Posted in Environment-wildlife, economics on July 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Cartoonish Gecko wallpaper, Nationwide drought while politicians peek in bedrooms
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Tech on July 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
cartoon gecko
Nanoglue Stickier Than Gecko Toes
Geckos have very hairy feet. Each gecko foot is covered by half a million setae, tiny hairs 50,000 nanometers long. The length is often compared to the width of a human hair. Each setae branches off into hundreds of even more miniscule hairs, called spatulae, just 200 nanometers wide.
What an [...]
Antelope Canyon Arizona wallpaper, Top Ten Dumb Guy Ideas For Lowering Gas Prices
Posted in Environment-Energy, Environment-General, Humor on July 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Antelope Canyon Arizona
Top Ten Dumb Guy Ideas For Lowering Gas Prices
10. Make all roads downhill
9. Cheaper self-service price if you pump the oil and refine it yourself
8. Gas comes from dinosaurs, so all we need are more dinosaurs
7. Invade Iraq
6. Give Cheney a sawed-off shotgun and have him stick up an Exxon
5. Tax cuts for [...]
Falling Water Falls Wallpaper, PBS to allow program downloads, New Genus of cricket found
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, New Media, Politics, Society & Culture on July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Falling Water Falls Arkansas
Just about the entire world is in the middle of some pretty miserable hot weather. Well if we could all knock off work and sit by a nice cool pool all day it wouldn’t be so bad. Since we can’t its hoped that the wallpaper will help in thinking cool [...]
Busy Bee Yellow Flowers Wallpaper, Redefining America’s Lawns, Worst Cars of 2006
Posted in Environment-General, Society & Culture, Uncategorized on July 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
busy bee on flower
This story, Redefining American Beauty, by the Yard was originally in the NYT and had a nice picture of the young lady in her new functional and beautiful front yard garden, but that story has moved into paywall archives thus the link to Truthout.
WHEN Cecilia Foti, a seventh grader at the Bancroft [...]
