Home & DIY Portal
→ General How-To, DIY, & FAQ:
↓ General How-To, DIY, & FAQ:
FAQs
· alt.home.repair
· CDs & DVDs
· Clean anything
· Cleaning forum
· Do It Yourself
· eHow
· Fix Ya
· Glue
· Home repair FAQ
· Instructables: lots of instructions for projects
· Knots
· Learn2
· Ready made
· Repair FAQ
· Tutorials
→ Home - DIY repairs & maintenance:
↓ Home - DIY repairs & maintenance:
- Ask The Builder
- Alfresco
- Dixieline how-to - concrete repair
- DIY net
- DIY network
- Do It Yourself - improvement & repair
- Electrical:
- NFPA Electrical Code: free access to 2005 version
- Hammer zone
- House blogs: community, favorite posts
- House in Progress
- Instructables
- Joe Farmer
- Locks & Security (MIT lockpicking guide)
- Oolsi - free stuff
- On the House - tips
- Our Victorian House: blog
- Outdoor Structures
- Saw Stop - stops sawing when fingers detected (Slashdot discussion)
- Squalor Survivors
- Survival tin
- Thrift Deluxe - DIY zine
→ Home - DIY Energy (bio, electric, gas, recycle, solar):
↓ Home - DIY Energy (bio, electric, gas, recycle):
- Biofuels
- Residential energy consumption survey (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
- Electrical references
- Electricity savings
- Energy flow: oil, carbon emissions, water
- Energy selector: compare energy sources for your circumstances
- Grist: environmental news & opinion
- Drive Neutral: car CO2 calculator
- Native Energy: energy and CO2 calculators
- Incentives for renewable energy: state and federal
- Reactual - efficient designs
- Renew Online: “Extracts from the News sections of NATTA's bimonthly journal”
- Water footprint: water use for various foods
Solar
- Nick Pine - solar guru (more links)
- Home Power - mostly solar, some hydro generation
- Solar Buzz: news
- Sterling Energy: converting solar into heat with Sterling engines
- Slashdot discussions: Solar power to grow 45%
- Energy.gov
Recycling
- Recycle Now: recycling info
- Recycling Guide
- Techno Trash: get a box for nearly any kind of electronic recycling
→ Home - DIY Woodworking:
↓ Home - DIY Woodworking:
- Lumber dimensions - nominal (rough sawn) and actual, includes metric
- Wood Finish supply
- Wood Working
→ Home - Decorating & Cleaning:
↓ Home - Decorating:
Cleaning:
- Cleaning tips
- Fly Lady - housecleaning tips
- Real Simple - organize & simplify, keep it clean
→ Personal:
↓ Personal:
- Bike forums
- Cosmetics cop: problems with cosmetics
- Homeless Survival Guide: blog
- Instructables: step by step instructions for various DIY projects
- Life Hacker
- Life Hacks
- No Nonsense Self-defense
- Personal data collection
- Print tools: make paper containers
- Public speaking tips
- Tie a tie
- ToDo lists
- Vice guide to getting beaten up
Creativity Techniques:
→ Genealogy:
↓ Genealogy:
- Cyndi's List - lots of links
- Ancestry
- Family Search
- Social Security Death Index - find death dates and SSNs by name
Names:
→ Pets & Animals:
↓ Pets & Animals:
- Dog breed info
- Dog Whisperer Q & A - Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer blog
- Bird Identification
- Pets 911
→ Textiles & Clothing:
↓ Textiles & Clothing:
Fun with Clothing:
→ Gardening:
↓ Gardening:
- Gardening launchpad - links
- Ag View
- Jerry Baker - tips & tonics, FAQ
- Container Herb Garden
- Environmental Scorecard
- Cornucopia Institute: family farming, news
- Epicurious
- Colorado Cooperative Extension's AnswerLink
- Garden Web - forums, includes home repairs
- Grain: grain news (world)
- Local Harvest: organic foods grown nearby
- Oregon Tilth: organic certification, research, and education
- Organic Consumers Association
- Organic Report: organic info
- Paghat
- Cold Climate Gardening: “Hardy Plants for Hardy Souls” (blog)
- Pesticides in produce
- Pesticide Info: large database of pesticides
- Plant Names
- Soil Association (UK): organic gardening and human health
- Virtual Garden
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
- Teri's Kitchen: well-stocked pantry
Food & Drink
→ Restaurant - info & reviews:
→ Food - info, nutrition, & recipes:
↓ Food - info, nutrition, & recipes:
- World's Healthiest Foods - food list
- Eat Well guide
- Food Reference
- Foodsel: contents and nutrients from various manufacturers
- Labeling: trans fats (US)
- Local Harvest: organic local food
- Nutrition data
- Recipezaar: friendly community of recipe-sharers
- All Recipes
- America's Test Kitchen
- Calories in various foods
- Alliance for Natural Health (?)
- Belly Bytes - 29 healthiest foods
- Bread making recipes
- Budget banquets
- Caffeine in various drinks
- Calorie King
- Carbwire - food blog
- Cellblock cafe
- Codex Alimentarius: FAO & WHO food standards
- Consumerist: Fast food salads
- Cooking for Engineers
- Cook's Thesaurus
- Cooperative Grocer
- eGullet
- Epicurious - videos
- Ethicurian: sustainable, organic, local, and ethical food blog
- Food Engineering
- Video Jug: food and drink videos
- Food & mental health
- GBS Foods: recipes
- Healthiest Foods
- Hillbilly Housewife
- Mental health and food
- Nutrient data
- Nutrition Reporter
- Organic worthwhile?
- Perceptor
- Smoking & BBQ
- Spices
- Trans fat, ban (partially hydrogenated oils)
- Virtual Weber Bullet
- Viking food
- Yogurt: making it yourself
Raw Foods, Vegetarian
- Gone Raw: Vegan and raw food recipes, forum
- Veg Web
- All Recipes
- Fat Free recipes
- Top Tastes
- International Vegetarian Union: recipes from around the world
- Whole Foods Market: grocery store chain
Hunting & Fishing
- Foraging and ethnobotany: lots of links
- Shellfish:
Hot Sauces:
Miscellaneous:
- The 5 basic tastes: bitter, salty, sour, sweet, and umami (e.g. butter)
- Omnivore - learning to eat anything
- Eating tips - discussion
- Steve, don't eat it!
→ Food - cooking, drying, & handling:
↓ Food - cooking, drying, & handling:
- Food Preservation
- George Foreman grill times: chart
- Japanese basics
- Knife cutting techniques
- Safe food handling - sell by dates: chicken
- Washing fruits & vegetables
- Poultry and bacteria - chicken handling
- Non-stick pans: dangerous household products?
Dehydrating (drying food):
- University of Illinois Co-op: long list of basics, equipment, tips
- Drying time estimates: (old site via archive.org)
- Clemson University's tips