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How to do… almost everything. It’s a big page. I never knew that instead of washing, you could just freeze your jeans for a week. Or that you could chill wine by adding salt to the ice bucket (which makes perfect sense now that I recall my Chemistry classes).
Boing Boing linked the Howtoons how-to guides for kids and adults alike. Such as this Visual Communication guide, a godsend for someone as inept at drawing with pen and paper as me.
There should be more things like this. It really pisses me off the fact that despite the exponential growth in access to information, there’s a thorough lack of great explainers in many areas. I wonder, for instance, if I could have learned any degree of programming without the kid-friendly ZX Spectrum programming books I read back in the day. I probably wouldn’t.
