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I’m always concerned about how to clean and do it safely. Here are some tips:

By Treehugger.com

Updated: 10/16/2007 9:36:38 AM

What’s the Big Deal? Cleaning products are everywhere in our homes and offices: on dishes, countertops, furniture, clothes, floors, windows, and floating through the air. In our war on dirt and germs we may often actually be making things worse. Most of the conventional cleaning products we all grew up with are petroleum-based and have dubious health and environmental implications. Instead of opting for cleaning products that annihilate everything in their path, there are plenty of natural products and methods that keep a house clean and fresh-smelling without the toxic side effects.

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I put together this list of my favorite figure drawing, sketching and anatomy books for fellow artists and student friends. You can download any and all of these books for free. I hope you’ll find them useful. Link

When you get bleach on your clothes usually means ruining the fabric, but Phelyx managed to turn bleach into a tool to “inverse” stencil an awesome t-shirt design!Here’s the tutorial: Link – via Boing Boing

This is super excellent: Howtoons by Saul Griffith, Nick Dragotta, and Joost Bonsen. What is it? It’s a DIY comic book to teach kids about science, engineering, art, and crafts: it contains how-to projects such as marshmallow shooter, turkey-baster flutes, and soda bottle submarine (above).

So wanna make a soda bottle submarine? You can print a downloadable PDF from the website (designed with help from Ryan McKinley and Phil Torrone):
Link