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low-phosphate and phosphate-free detergents may be keeping your dishes dirty
I guess i’ll have to go check my detergent…
… low-phosphate and phosphate-free detergents just don’t work as well as the higher phosphate content detergents. They don’t rinse the grime and food away as well as the older detergents. Because the change was made suddenly and without much fanfare, owner first suspected that something was wrong with their dishwasher because (a) the dishes weren’t getting as clean, and (b) the dishwasher was malfunctioning in odd ways because the grime and food weren’t being rinsed away effectively.
via Think your dishwasher is broken? Think again | Mighty Bargain Hunter.
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replacing the broken glass on an iphone
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LED vs Fluorescent lighting – Fl wins
I did this same rough math a little while ago and came to the same conclusion… glad someone did the work in spelling it out – LED’s are neato, but way too expensive…
Shop lighting upgrade: T5 vs T8 fluorescent vs LED
I am in the process of upgrading the lighting in my shop. It currently has a number of 4-lamp and 2-lamp T12 4-foot fluorescent fixtures. The best solution is to replace the ballast in each of these fixtures with high-efficiency electronic ballast ($15), and replace the lamps with T8 high-CRI bulbs. This will save energy, and greatly improve the quality of the light. LEDs and T5 fluorescent are MUCH more expensive to install, and their energy savings are not nearly enough to justify the cost. Remember that running a T8 with an electronic ballast will provide more light than it’s nominal rating, which is for magnetic ballasts. T5 are always rated for electronic ballasts, so it is not a fair comparison.
For new fixtures in my shop, the cheapest/best solution is to buy $10 "shop lights" and replace the ballast. The total fixture cost is $25, and efficiency is 96 lumens/watt for a total output of almost 6000 lumens. It can’t be beat! Commercially-available T8 fixtures with electronic ballasts are more expensive, and the quality of the ballast is suspect.
via YouTube – Shop lighting upgrade: T5 vs T8 fluorescent vs LED.
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Don’t cut off the mold and eat the rest… don’t.
I guess I need to stop doing this… yuck
It’s Not OK to Eat That: Mold Goes Deeper than the Surface
Most of us have done it at least once, you see the smallest spot of mold on the crust of a loaf of bread, and you figure that if you just cut that little part off then there’ll be nothing to worry about. The problem here is that the mold we see on food is really just surface spores. Like plants, mold has roots and branches—and they travel deep.
By the time we see mold growth on food, it’s already pretty heavily embedded (it’s quite tiny, after all). The USDA has an entire page set up just for mold
via It’s Not OK to Eat That: Mold Goes Deeper than the Surface.
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Fixed lcd display on my well used harmony 890 remote
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The History Of Ham Radio on Ham Nation via TWiT
TWiT has rolled out a new podcast about Ham Radio…
HAM Nation is the new TWIT show about ham radio. Bob Heil, with various co-hosts and guests will cover the excitement and importance of ham radio – from tossing an antenna wire in a tree allowing you to talk to the world, to the importance of ham radio operators in time of disasters. HAM Nation airs live each Tuesday at 6:00 PT/ 9:00ET on http://live.twit.tv.
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Results in: Xenex technology decreases infection rates
The video shown in this link is very compelling… everyone should demand that their hospital rooms be “Xenex’ed”!
In America’s hospitals, approximately one in 20 patients will contract a hospital-acquired infection (HAI). At Cooley Dickinson Hospital last year, one in 129 patients got an HAI. Now, those better odds of avoiding an infection at Cooley Dickinson have improved even further, as the hospital has documented a groundbreaking 82 percent drop in one type of infection, Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a nasty germ that can cause diarrhea, sepsis and even death.
"This decrease translates to many more people leaving the hospital safer and with better outcomes," said Joanne Levin, MD, CDH’s Medical Director of Infection Prevention.
The 82 percent drop in incidence of C. diff occurred following adoption in January of room cleaning with portable UV light, an added step among many CDH already takes to eliminate infections, reported Levin. Cooley Dickinson Hospital was the first hospital in the Northeast to use the Xenex PX-UV Disinfection System.
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repairing the garage door opener receiver board
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I hope you’re not a “Social Media Expert”
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way about this…
If you call yourself a social media expert, don’t even bother sending me your resume.
No business in the world should want one on their team. They shouldn’t want a guru, rockstar or savant, either. If you have a social media expert on your payroll, you’re wasting your money.
Being an expert in social media is like being an expert at taking the bread out of the refrigerator. You might be the best bread-taker-outer in the world, but you know what? The goal is to make an amazing sandwich, and you can’t do that if all you’ve done in your life is taken the bread out of the fridge.
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Have ‘are you 18’ age tests really come to this?
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Converting old vinyl records to digital
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Do you like Apple products? Its likely you’re religious.
I always wondered if this was true…
In a recently screened BBC documentary, UK neuroscientists suggested that the brains of Apple devotees are stimulated by Apple imagery in the same way that the brains of religious people are stimulated by religious imagery.
via Apple causes ‘religious’ reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists.
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Don’t buy a used car, buy it new
This situation doesn’t happen often… but if you’re in the market for a car right now, buy new…
It’s the best time in years to sell your car.
People are holding on to cars and trucks for about a year longer than they did before the recession, which has created a tight supply of used vehicles. So few are on the market that prices have risen to their highest in at least 16 years.
via High used-car prices make it ideal time to sell – Business – Autos – msnbc.com.
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Why Nintendo’s Mario is a plump shape with a big head
Heh… who knew?
“The reason Mario is a plump shape is because gaming devices at that time could only read collisions between square boxes, not because I wanted to make him cute. His design turned out like that because I adjusted for the capabilities of the gaming device of the day. For example, resolution was low, so I made his face big. But today’s game consoles can handle collisions with round or irregular shapes.”
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MJF-269 antenna analyzer takes a LOT of batteries!
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