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Art of Manliness

By Brett McKay

Tech Tips: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Internet Speed

A fast Internet speed comes with many benefits, whether you're a gamer, an artist, or a FarmVille fanatic. When you want to browse at faster speeds, stream media in the blink of an eye, and run several programs at once, you need your Internet to carry you.

A Mini-Me Kitchen for a Little Chef

Materials: TROFAST unit & accessories, RIBBA frame, tile, fabric, paint, hardware Description: Searching out the perfect play kitchen to actually fit in our big kitchen proved to be a challenge. The TROFAST toy storage unit was the perfect solution.

Stop should-ing yourself

You see, I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use should, we are, in effect, saying “wrong.” Either we are wrong or we were wrong or we are going to be wrong. I don’t think we need more wrong in our life. — Louise Hay, quoted by Jim Hughes When we go to make organizing decisions, we often know, deep down, what’s right for us.

The Big Crash

It happens to everyone at some point in their financial journey. Everything is going along perfectly. Savings are building up. Debts are going down. Financial goals are being reached (or at least approached). It’s all chugging right along. Then something happens. Someone gets sick or, even worse, passes away. A car’s engine block fails.

How To Clean Up Data in a CSV File

Regardless of the size of your business, there are growing expectations that you will be data proficient.

Expedit Desk with Hutch

Materials: Ikea Expedit Series, L brackets, Description: I wanted a desk that would fit all my monitors and have a hutch. I bought a 2x4 Expedit, Expedit workstation, and the new Expedit that has different size holes. I laid the 2x4 on its side and attached the workstation to it with a L bracket and a small metal brace in the front.

The 5 most popular coupon sites (and one with a mission)

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. I tried for years to be a coupon clipper. Every now and then, I’d decide I was going to save as much money as possible on my groceries, or at least on stuff like toothbrushes and razor blades. I’d gather all the coupon circulars that normally went straight in the garbage, and I’d review the ads and clip the coupons that spoke to me.

The 5 Greatest Personal Development Strategies That Actually Work

There are thousands of different strategies and ideas on how to improve your life. But how are you supposed to know what really works?

Feeling down? Try These Body Actions to Counter the Feeling

Are you feeling down? How many times have you felt down, or start to feel sad and just wanted for it to pass, to go away? I know I have. For a lot of people when the feeling starts, they crash. They might get down and depressed. If you are constantly depressed, I urge you to look for help, you might be having chronic depression, or even  bipolar disorder.

The Yanomamö and the Origins of Male Honor

In 1964, anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon arrived in an almost entirely unexplored region of the Amazon Basin to spend a year studying the Yanomamö: one of the last large, isolated, and virtually uncontacted tribes in the world. Over the next 35 years, Chagnon returned to this area on the border between Venezuela and Brazil 25 times and lived among this primitive people for a total of 5 years.

The Challenge and the Opportunity

Once upon a time I lived in the small country of Togo in West Africa. I was based on a hospital ship docked in Lomé, the capital, and the team I worked with had a project three hours’ north in a village. One of our team members needed to be there during the week, but not over the weekend.

Looking for an Idea for a Fathers’ Day Gift? Look No Further!

Warning: blatant self-promotion to follow. You’ve been warned. If you’re looking for a gift for Fathers’ Day, for a father in your life, may I suggest…my books? From what I hear, many people give my book Forty Ways To Look at Winston Churchill to their fathers.

Coffee with your light? A DIY Chandelier

Materials: Ikea'€™s Regolit paper shade, Ikea'€™s Hemma Cord, a glue gun, sticks of glue, 500-800 coffee filters, light bulb, zip tie (optional) Description: To start begin by gluing the coffee filters in one area of the lantern and slowly spread outwards. I found it was helpful to glue the coffee filters at the bottom to the lantern, and on the sides to the previous coffee filter.

The Assets You Have That Don’t Fit on Your Balance Sheet

I’m a big believer in using one’s net worth as a quick assessment of personal finance health. A person is making a good move if they calculate their net worth every month or every quarter, then compare that net worth to where it was at a year ago or, if they have the data, five years ago (or even more).

Hacker Help: HEKTAR Apply light bathroom

Materials: Hektar apply Description: Hello. I would like to transform this spot-clamp light bathroom, above my mirror, but it is a clip, I do not know how to fix it on the wall. I would like to put 2 or 3, just like the picture on the other fixture (this is just to show the system). Also, my electrical box flush with the wall, so I have to hide ...