Web Zen: making things zen

video panoramas
lamp sphere
fire extinguisher speakers
bleach printing
sock puppet
vinegar shrub
photomake
finkbuilt

previously on web zen:
making stuff zen 2007

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[#1 posted by Tommy , November 21, 2008 8:40 AM]

The bleach link is dead, but you can always look at mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommybear/sets/72057594114214999/

[#2 posted by dragonfrog , November 21, 2008 9:43 AM]

This quote from the last page of the vinegar shrub article had me puzzled:

Modest mess aside, shrubs couldn’t be simpler to make: find a good-quality apple-cider or wine vinegar, soak any fresh fruit in it for a week, then add sugar, boil for an hour, strain and bottle it up. It can keep in the fridge for months. Unsurprisingly, the vinegar you begin with makes an enormous difference. The savior of the home shrubbist is Bragg, an excellent, widely available unfiltered and unpasteurized apple-cider vinegar

If you're going to bother with unpasteurized vinegar, don't for heaven's sake go pasteurizing (or heaven forfend, boiling) the stuff as soon as you get it. You'd be completely clobbering any subtleties of flavour that had been preserved by not pasteurizing the vinegar to begin with.

[#3 posted by travelina , November 21, 2008 2:14 PM]

I'm glad to know how to make a mouth for a sock puppet. The drawings kinda remind me of this electron micrograph of suckers on the tentacles of a long-finned squid:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/photogalleries/2008-best-science-photos/photo3.html