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On this thursday every thing will be random!

Check me out on this hump back whale.
I’m always looking for something hot to slaughter, but i’ll settle for this.
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It’s getting cold out try to keep warm!!!!!

A front-page New York Times story about ground beef, one that definitely raises a few health and safety questions about your standard burger. One solution, then, is to grind your own beef.

No meat is perfect, of course, and ground beef in particular has a lot of surface area, and needs to be closely looked after to hit the right internal temperature while cooking. But buying a whole cut of meat that you know the quality and source of eliminates a vast number of variables that commercial products leave you guessing at.

NY Times food writer Mark Bittman has suggested that if you don’t have your own grinder, either stand-alone or attached to a KitchenAid-type mixer, a standard food processor can do a fine job of meat grinding, if you watch what’s happening:

Next, don’t overprocess. You want the equivalent of chopped meat, not a meat purée. The finer you grind the meat, the more likely you are to pack it together too tightly, which will make the burger tough.

If you want to delve a bit deeper into the specifics of ground beef issues, a Grocery Guy blog post will indulge your curiosity—just don’t read it right before lunch. That said, he brings up a nice halfway compromise to making a mess of your kitchen counter: Get to know your butcher, and have him or her grind your meat to order. That post also contains a few more nitty-gritty tips on cuts, seasoning, and patty preparation.

Have you long been DIY-ing your burger patties? Got any tips for those of us looking to escape the shrink-wrapped section? Share the wisdom in the comments.

While the idea itself is not revolutionary, sticking to a daily cleaning frenzy is a good way to avoid looking like a tornado hit your home. Browse the post for other suggestions on how to keep your home “clean enough,” then chime in with your own quick cleaning tips in the comments. And if you’re looking for more suggestions on how to clean your place, browse our previous post on attack plans against a cluttered home.

Homeland Security loves non-lethal weapons: from sound cannons, to the $1M flashlight that temporarily blinds, disorientates, and screws equilibrium. And now you can build your own for $250! Does it really work? Not that well, but it’s great for raves…

Those wacky Ladyada hardware hackers (Adafruit Industries) and Phil Torrone from MAKE Magazine, trawled the net and found the patent from the outside consulting firm that built the device for the government.

They discovered it flashes green LEDs at about 10Hz to induce its effects, and modified a Sears flashlight to build their own version called the BEDAZZLER. And true to form, they’ve put the schematics, source code, and circuit board layouts online so you can make one yourself. Watch it in action below. Fun! [Ladyada]

Homebrew soda was a lot more common in the days before there were 212 varieties available at every grocery store. Grab some yeast, sugar, water, and flavoring, however, and you can craft your own bubbly soft drink in your fridge.

How To Make Your Own Soda Video [Howcast.com via Serious Eats]

We already knew that toothpaste boasts all kinds of magical scratch-removal powers, so it’s no surprise that the handy paste can also be put to work improving scratched computer monitors.

Photo by manu contreras.

Laptops can and do break, and, needless to say, professional repair jobs often cost a princely sum. Computerworld offers six cheaper DIY alternatives for some common laptop problems including how to do away with monitor scratches.

According to the mag, simply dabbing some toothpaste (not the gel variety) on the screen will help do away with obtrusive screen scratches. All it requires is to gently rub the toothpaste in a circular motion over the scratch for several seconds. Admittedly, the tip doesn’t entirely remove the scratch, but it should help to make it less glaring, which if you can’t afford to go all out, is good enough. Plus, as the author notes, the toothpaste hack will leave your laptop with “a minty fresh aroma.”

Railgun 5.6kJ – Composite of 7 shots from Ravi gaddipati on Vimeo.

How have I not seen this project before? It may not be quite as powerful as the Navy’s, but this DIY rail gun packs 5.6kJ. That’s five point six kilo Joules of Oh-my-dear-sweet-Geezuss-I’ll-never-piss-off-a-DIYer.

The rail gun seen in the video below is only the first revision Ravi Gaddipati’s project. The next one will be capable of “forty caps each rated at 400v and 3900µf.” Holy crap! I’m not even going to question why he’s building one of these. I’m just excited that there are plenty of pictures to walk you through the process on his site. [Vimeo via RP181 via Make]
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