Outdoors

Keep Car Windows From Fogging with a Potato [Clever Uses]

If you'd like a clever and cheap way to keep windows, goggles, and other glass and plastic surfaces from fogging up, you can use a potato to keep the vision-blocking condensation at bay.Photo by jimmihomeschoolmom.

Reuse Wine Bottles as Garden Edging [Gardening]

If you're ever on the lookout for ways to reuse and recycle—or perhaps just to drink a lot of wine—this wine-bottle garden border is a clever and attractive repurposing project.

Use a Fertilizer Spreader to Spread Salt Evenly [Clever Uses]

Shaking a tin can is such an ineffecient way to spread ice-killing salt on your sidewalk and driveway, and casting it about with your hand is hardly an upgrade. A fertilizer spreader, however, is a perfect match for the job.Lifehacker reader Sonicjosh shared a great tip in #tips about spreading salt:

Use a hand held fertilizer spreader to spread salt.

Learn to Snag Stuff with a Whip [Outdoors]

Good news, Indiana Jones wannabes: Wired's How-To Wiki offers a quick, five-step instructional guide for grabbing an item with a whip—so let's get cracking.It's a pretty simple step-by-step process, though remember—simple doesn't necessarily mean easy, and that whip of yours can do some serious damage, so be careful:

Make a Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeder from a Bottle and Candy Tin [Garden]

If squirrels are looting your bird feeder and the poor birds aren't getting anything, this inexpensive DIY bird feeder can help keep the squirrels at bay.

Build a Pizza Oven Out of a Weber Grill [DIY]

We've covered building your own pizza oven before, from nice and cheap to really cheap.

Survive a Fall Through Ice [Outdoors]

Crashing through thin ice into frigid water is an extremely precarious situation to be in—increase your odds of survival with this guide.Photo by Treefell.

Use the Universal Edibility Test to Find Food in a Survival Situation [Survival]

While we hope you never find yourself in the kind of survival situation that has you foraging for wild plants to eat, if you should find yourself in such a situation the Universal Edibility Test can save your life.Photo by BarefootGardener.

Star Viewer Explores the Night Sky Google-Map-Style [Astronomy]

If you've never abandoned your 4th grade obsession with the night sky (and who has?), Star Viewer is a web-based tool for peeking at some of the most interesting and vivid sights in the night sky.

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