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Useful for pruning and transplanting tall or leggy plants.

Common houseplant that can grow to over 20 feet.

Garlic and Parmesan Sourdough Bread

Sourdough bread recipes on Recipezaar

A cool demo of facial recognition software which offers a blend of two faces to show what your offspring might look like. Site features the ability to upload your own pictures as well as "make babies" with popular celebrities.

True or false, the information people find about you on the Web can have a big impact on your life. Here are five techniques to make sure that what people read about you is good (or at least true).

"Leave your keys in your pocket," is the advice given by computer programmers at University of California San Diego who recently created 'Sneakey' software; an application that uses a digital image of a key to produce an exact copy in physical form within minutes.

All photos taken with my Pentax. To see the full size image click on ORIGINAL below each photo. The IMSA GTP cars were my favorite racing cars and Road Courses are my favorite tracks. So I had a great time at the GTP race at the terrific Riverside International Speedway in 1986. There was a senseless and horrific accident at Turn One in the middle of the race caused by #$%&! Doc Bundy. I never thought much of Bundy as a racer and this accident that HE caused made me an anti Bundy fan for life.

Listen closely -- you can hear this crackly-crisp bread "sing" as it cools! Step-by-step photos illustrating how to make these baguettes are available at Bakers’ Banter, our King Arthur blog.

Baguettes. Crusty, golden… unattainable-except-from-an-artisan-bakery baguettes. Not so. And we’re here to prove it to you. The late Prof. Raymond Calvel, France’s acclaimed “godfather of bread,” visited this country and did a “blind” baguette baking, using a variety of American flours to make his signature crusty loaf. The result? King Arthur Flour was Calvel’s choice as being most similar to his beloved French flour.

There are few pleasures as simple or sublime as tearing into a crusty French baguette. Baguettes are loved for their graceful form and their shatteringly crisp crust. Served whole, they are a wonderful companion for any main dish. Sliced, they make an elegant presentation on a cheese plate or as crostini. Baguettes are a little more difficult to form than your average loaf, but after practicing these techniques, you will be able to shape baguettes like a true boulanger.

Car information, specifically Le Mans prototypes and supercars

French language site for sports car endurance racing

Corvette Racing news, design, and merchandise

Prototype racing news

Le Mans, sports cars and other info

New video search engine

Coverage of European Le Mans Series events

First up, a scope warning for this article. This is the first part of a two-part piece about XML. Here I focus on uses of XML in areas such as application configuration files, the exchange of structured, machine-oriented data, that sort of thing. In the second part, I discuss XML in document-centric applications such as content/document management and Web publication systems.

At D6, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates took the stage to discuss Microsoft and the future of Windows with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal. After massaging each other's egos for a while, Gates and Ballmer got into Windows 7 and their belief that the Vista follow-up will revolutionize the operating system market. And after taking it all in and listening carefully to what they had to say, I can say with the utmost certainty that they've really lost it.

Opinion: 10 'Net services that will succeed, and 10 that will probably fail

A long weekend usually means less news, but for those looking for a new and quite often attractive take on news, the ongoing battle for geek chick supremacy offers a bountiful choice.

Our Boing Boing Gadgets editor, Joel Johnson, wrote an article for the magic-themed issue of MAKE on how to build a fireball shooter. Today, MAKE's video producer, Kip Kay has a video on the awesome shooter.

May 2004 has brought almost record breaking rainfall. This has led to questions about how much nitrogen was lost from the soil. More to the point, the real question being asked is, "How much extra fertilizer should I apply to keep from losing yield?" This question cannot be answered precisely, since many variables enter the picture, but we can at least start to make some educated guesses.