Comments on: How to do stuff

How to do stuff

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:06:29 -0800

— learn how to write cover letters, crochet baby booties, make a home, how to self-medicate, and do other stuff.

By: pineapple

pineapple — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:28:35 -0800

How is it different from eHow or HowStuffWorks, other than being a Barnes & Noble microsite?

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:40:16 -0800

How is it different from eHow or HowStuffWorks, other than being a Barnes & Noble microsite? Domain name registration? Content? Is this a trick question?

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:47:19 -0800

I alreeeady... know how... to self medicarate... thankuverymuusch. *swigs martini at 11am*

By: pineapple

pineapple — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:00:09 -0800

Blazecock PileonPoster said: "Content? Is this a trick question?" No! I'm totally serious, and not being snarky. I'm trying to understand how this site is somehow different or better than the other sites already out there doing the exact same thing -- other than the addition of the huge BN book link ads, and the relative smaller body of contributed tutorials. Is the content differentiated in some way I don't see? Are the expert contributors more expert-y?

By: dylan20

dylan20 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:00:44 -0800

Proving definitively that the internet really is, finally, running out of pronouncable, memorable, non-ridiculouos domain names.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:08:01 -0800

GUESS WHICH LINK I CLICKED ON FIRST

By: everichon

everichon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:48:26 -0800

I wish there was a site devoted to "hacks", if you will, for my life.

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:36:14 -0800

That's a great idea Everichon! I'd like to see a site that had a couple cool projects, an amusing anecdote disguised as a how-to article and a zillion posts where adolescents talk about the awesome destructive power of the gun they just make with K'nex.

By: lunit

lunit — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:39:59 -0800

"Your health-care practitioner should monitor your use carefully." Hardly seems like self-medicating to me...

By: everichon

everichon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:25:18 -0800

I snark, but OTOH I can't do much in real life. I am not the type to attend MAKE(tm) gatherings, because I can't. Except that thing where you press leaves with wax paper and and iron. I can do that. And self-medicating, I practice and I practice.

By: Maias

Maias — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:32:45 -0800

I love their drug posters: Is dextroamphetamine right for you? is the header on the ADD drug. Sure, sign me right up!

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:39:08 -0800

If you can iron you can etch brass! It's just like the bit with the leaves only you add a car battery and some copper sulfate.