Neat and Possibly Useful How-To Tricks

From the Lifehacker site, a virtual smörgÃ¥sbord of interesting how-to guides: how to turn a flashlight into a hand-held burning laser (and excellent match-replacement); how to get rid of sweat stains; how to pick locks; how to use a wristwatch as a compass; and how to disable the annoying Windows “restart now or we’ll do …

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“Computing the Volume of a Cat”

Although the sound volume of our three part-Siamese cats is generally set to “annoying,” this article gives a possibly-useful, and definitely-interesting, method of approximating the true physical volume. And it’s something that the cat will cooperate with. 🙂 (Be sure to check out the “rat-like creature” link, purely for the hilarious pictures.)