Gizmodo has posted a collection of free TV Shows you can watch.  I don’t personally watch TV that much anymore and if you want to take advantage of the new DVI cable you connected your PC to your HDTV, here’s some links for testing out the quality of your HDTV connection::

NBC
30 Rock
The Biggest Loser
Chuck
ER
Friday Night Lights
Heroes
Knight Rider
Late Night with Conan O’Brien
Life
My Name is Earl
The Office
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show

ABC
Boston Legal
Brothers & Sisters
Dancing With The Stars
Desperate Housewives
Dirty Sexy Money
Eli Stone
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Grey’s Anatomy
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Life On Mars
Lost
Opportunity Knocks
Private Practice
Pushing Daisies
Samantha Who?
Ugly Betty

CBS
The Amazing Race
The Big Bang Theory
Big Brother
Cold Case
Criminal Minds
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Eleventh Hour
The Ex List
Flashpoint
Gary Unmarried
Ghost Whisperer
Greatest American Dog
How I Met Your Mother
Jericho
Late Show with David Letterman
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Mentalist
Million Dollar Password
NCIS
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Numb3rs
Rules of Engagement
Survivor
Swingtown
Two and a Half Men
The Unit
Without a Trace
Worst Week

FOX
American Dad
America’s Most Wanted
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Bones
Cops
Do Not Disturb
Family Guy
Fringe
Hell’s Kitchen
Hole in the Wall
House
Kitchen Nightmares
MADtv
The Moment of Truth
Prison Break
The Simpsons
TALKSHOW with Spike Feresten
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
til Death

The CW
4REAL
90210
America’s Next Top Model
Easy Money
Everybody Hates Chris
The Game
Gossip Girl
In Harms Way
Privileged
One Tree Hill
Reaper
Smallville
Supernatural
Valentine

Comedy Central
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
South Park

MTV
The Hills
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila
Cribs

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Do you want to be a giant dragon this Halloween with a set of wings you can actually flap?

Well, here’s a really cool Halloween DIY showing you step-by-step with its schematics, diagrams, and transcript.

How to Make Cheap Dragon Wings, controlled by body posture.  You can do this project for $18 if you use plastic garbage bags and Scotch tape for the membranes.

I’m going to show you how to make very light and strong costume wings.  How strong?  That strong.

via make, DIY Page

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I’ve seen camera mounts for motorcycles on the front by the steering but here’s a really radical DIY that shows you how to make a “rear” camera mount for a motorcycle that will fit on your rear peg, where normally a passenger would put his/her foot down.

This mount should support most digital cameras and small camcorders. You have the flexibility to position the camera either front or rear-wards. (or even install two at once!)

Be sure to put a small piece of tape over the mic on your camera or the wind noise will overpower it. (I forgot the tape in my test run video)

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Well, here’s a fun visualization for Microsoft(MSFT) and Yahoo(YHOO) stocks dropping. Well, bad economy isn’t something we can change right now, but hey, take it easy, sometimes things go down and they will go up eventually.

I am just glad I took my money out from the stock market about 6 months ago, it’s just too volatile for me, I will stick to blogging for now.

The source code is included in the DIY page so you can probably do the same thing to others stocks like Google(GOOG) or somethin’.

via make, DIY Page

Need an authentic lookin’ “live” severed hand?  Well, here’s a cool DIY that shows you how to “fool” people to think you are holding a severed hand when it’s actually your hand.

A severed hand that twitches and grabs at those who come near! Make a convincingly gruesome addition to your Halloween costume or a tool for the perfect April Fools prank:

Of course, it isn’t really severed, it’s just an illusion! What you are going to make is a special glove that will make it look like you are holding a living, moving, human arm. In actuality, what people are seeing is your hand, passing straight through a “dummy” glove with an attached fake stump of an arm.

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Check out this cool DIY that shows you how to make Asian-style Japanese Lamp from recycled materials.  I can personally say these Asian-style lamps can add some unique look to your home as these lamps have been used over centuries in Asia including China, Japan, and Korea.

A cheap but attractive paper “shoji” style lamp that uses mostly recycled parts and is easy to put together.

via craftzine, DIY Page

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Here’s a really cool DIY video on how to tie a bowline knot.  I know how to do this too but I keep forgetting, this video should help next time I need a Bowline knot.

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Here’s a really hip way to re-use soda can tabs and turn it into a nice wallet chain.

Re-use, re-make, recycle, save earth!

Make a (Semi)quick wallet chain out of hinges found at the top of every soda can! Finally a good use for those lonely hinges!!

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When I was growing up in Korea, it was pretty common to see people making their own soy sauce including my mom, who used to have 3 barrels of soy sauce that lasted us about 10 years.   I used to wonder why it took so long to make soy sauce but it lasts a lifetime once you make it.

Soy sauce can be created along with fermented soy bean paste, which is another by-product while making soy sauce.

Soy sauce has scientifically been proven to help prevent Cancer and other diseases(One of the Top 10 antioxidants on Earth today).

Now, Korean soy sauce is pretty much same as Japanese soy sauce or Chinese soy sauce as far as taste goes but if you make your own soy sauce, it will be much fresher and every barrel will have a unique taste you cannot buy at your grocery market.

Well, I have always been fond of how long it takes to make soy sauce, a long fermenting process that can be comparable to making fine red wine.

Anyways, here’s how you can make Korean style soy sauce, I’ve translated one of the HOWTO soy sauce pages to English:

1. Choose the Beans

You need to find the right beans from a good organic source and make sure they are all fresh and throw away any “bad” beans in the batch.

2. Soak and Saturate Beans

You need to soak the beans in water for about 12 hours.

3. Boil the Beans in How Water

Once the beans are well saturated, heat the water until it boils.  Keep boiling the beans until they turn to a yellowish color.  You should expect to boil around 3 hours and make sure the beans are so soft if you touch it, they will easily break into pieces.

4. Smash Beans

Once boiling is done and beans are soft, you can get rid of the hot water and put it in a big pot while it’s still hot.  You can smash it now.  Of course, all this helps if you use authentic Korean stoneware as shown in below pics:

(Step 2-4 in old style Korean cookware Image Credit)

5. Make a Shape

One they are all smashed up nicely, you can make a rectangular shape with it somewhat like this pic:

(Step 5-6 Image Credit)

6. Hang It!

Now you have them in rectangular pieces, you need to hang it somewhere where there’s a lot of sunlight.  These rectangular pieces might get some fungus pieces, if that happens, try to let some wind cool to keep it drier.  Fungus isn’t too big a problem, you can always cut that piece out when they dry.

Once the rectangular soy blocks are dry, put them in a box in the shade.

7. Making Soy Sauce

Once the rectangular soy blocks are completely dry (and clean off any fungus on the surface), put the blocks inside a big Stoneware jar (here’s an example of how big) and fill it with water and salt.  Also put about 5 red Korean chilli peppers,

For the first few days, leave the jar lid open to sunlight.

8. Making Soy Bean Paste.

After 1-2 months, take the soy bean blocks out and and put it in another jar.  (After 5 months or so, the soy bean blocks will become soy bean paste)

The leftover water now becomes soy sauce.

Usually, Koreans will start making soy sauce in the winter as fermentation is best during winter and will be ready to eat in Spring.  You will probably do best to make soy sauce in your home if where you live has 4 seasons.  But if you in sunny state California like me, you can always fake the fermentation in a Kimchee fridge.  Of course, Kimchee is also best when fermented in such “cold” manner during snowing winters.

Well, there you have it, that’s how you make Korean soy sauce (sorta, my translation isn’t world’s top notch but you probably get a good idea now).

Now everytime you buy soy