Ah, the hot glue gun…every crafter’s ultimate tool. We’re all familiar with what it’s meant to do — glue things together — but the little handheld appliance can be used for tons of other things! From creating beautiful wall art to helping you keep your clothes from falling off hangers…here’s how you can get the most out of your glue gun. 1. This genius drilled a little hole in their desk and glued their charger into it. Reddit / cmbv 2. Prevent mold buildup inside bath toys by sealing them off with glue. We Love Being Moms 3. Go old-school and seal your envelopes like so. eHow / Susie Delaney 4. Decorate bottles and paint them to create cute vases. Home Heart Craft 5. When you wrap your phone in a plastic bag and cover it with glue, you can make a cool, customized phone case. YouTube / LXG Design 6. If you work with clay, make cool designs on a rolling pin and the decorative options are endless! Pottery Blog: Emily Murphy 7. Use silicone molds to make little pendants to attach to bobby pins, earrings, and more fun accessories. Ashley Hackshaw 8. This ring is easy to make and simple to customize! Dream A Little Bigger 9. You can make cool abstract art by replacing the glue sticks with crayons. 10. Cover wire to make beautiful home decor pieces that look like coral. OhOh Blog 11. Make little kids’ indoor shoes slip-free by doing this to their soles. Facebook / Central Coast Teaching Tots 12. Use it to make an awesome mask! 13. Grab some magnets and whatever else you want and easily make some fridge magnets. Reddit / TenBread 14. Ensure that your wide-necked shirts never slip off your hangers again. Reddit / dan_rathers_is_sexy 15. Craft your own fancy makeup brush cleaning boards. 16. You can basically turn your glue gun into a 3-D printer. YouTube / ElectroBOOM 17. Glue some rope together and you get this cute basket! Alice & Lois Wow, I had no idea there were so many fun ways to use my glue gun! What are you going to do first? Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/glue-gun-hacks/
Houston, we have a problem. About a bazillion birds too many have taken over your city! One or two birds is fine. Five or six on showing off their feathers and eating seeds from my feeders is even better. Hell, I’m even okay with 15 or 20 birds stopping by for a visit. But when you get into the thousands? That’s not cute — it’s a real-life Hitchcockian nightmare. Why are these drivers slowing down? Hurry home before you’re pecked to death! Read More: This Kitten Had A Bump On Its Head. What They Pulled Out Of It Will Make You Queasy I would take cover immediately. Even if they don’t attack, they’re bound to poo all over your car, head, and anything else left out in the open! Be sure to share this crazy footage (and remind me to never, ever visit Houston). Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/houston-blackbirds/
On Thursday, Mars’s Gale Crater was treated to a fantastic sight: a partial solar eclipse. An eclipse very similar to the kind we’re used to seeing from here on Earth, but with the sun blocked, in this case, by a different moon: Phobos, one of the two moons that orbit Mars. Fortunately for us, Curiosity was there to take a picture of Phobos’s transit. Also fortunately for us, as well, Curiosity took precautions to protect its vision as the transit took place. (As NBC’s Alan Boyle put it: “You wouldn’t want Curiosity to blow out its camera on Mars.”) So, to capture the image above, the rover’s Mastcam used a neutral density filter that protected Curiosity’s imaging system in the same way that can be seen from some point on Mars pretty much every day. And it will be only be a year before a transit can be seen again from the Gale Crater. But the relative commonality of the Martian eclipse doesn’t compromise its splendor. And Curiosity isn’t the first rover to capture that view. Below, via Bad Astronomy, is amazing video sent back by Opportunity in November 2010: the sun, eclipsed by one of Mars’s meandering moons. In Defense of Waze, Which Doesn’t Put Police in Danger Introducing the Supertweet Beware the Drone Laws The App Economy Is Now ‘Bigger Than Hollywood’ This article originally published at The Atlantic here Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/09/17/mars-solar-eclipse/
The BBC reported a Jordanian politician threatened an opponent with a gun on live TV. No shots were fired and no one was hurt. Before pulling out the gun, the man threw a shoe at the other candidate. Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/07/07/jordanian-politicial-brandishes-gun/
Somebody call Lando Calrissian, because we just discovered the real-life Cloud City. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/drinking-coffee-above-the-clouds-of-dubai/
The actors on the beloved science fiction series Star Trek are known for having great relationships with their fans. Listen as James Doohan recalls a letter from a fan that would change both of their lives forever… Read more: http://www.wimp.com/scotty-from-star-trek-remembers-the-time-he-helped-a-suicidal-fan/
When you think of your favorite musicians, it’s important to remember that even the most advanced instrumentalists started off as total novices. Learning an instrument can be a difficult task, and having the discipline to keep with it can be even more taxing. But thanks to my love of music I was able to take up band in elementary school, and in addition to mastering the euphonium, I was also able to teach myself piano and guitar in my free time. And while outside practice can be an important aspect of learning a new instrument, not every member of the household will be so keen on listening to you practice. But when it comes to this beginner flute player, her four-legged pal has already reached his breaking point. Whenever the young girl begins playing, her retriever can be heard in the background moaning and groaning for the music to stop. How dare she interrupt his nap like this? Eventually, the young musician can’t help but laugh at her pet’s reaction to her attempts at making music. This honest pooch is able to say what most of us are too afraid to tell our tone-deaf friends. You don’t need to speak dog to know that this little fella has had enough of his owner’s musical nonsense. Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/flute-dog-havoc/
