The World’s Most Expensive Heavy Bike

The World’s Most Expensive Heavy Bike

Google Office versus Facebook Office

comparison between the two coolest Google Offices vs Facebook Offices Which giant would you prefer to work for: Google or Facebook?It might be a question of personal preference. You can’t help but love one company’s work more than another, which leads to desire to work for them. Aside from that, you could use some objective measurements in choosing between the two.

This might help you. We give you a chance to have a sneak view at the offices from both Google and Facebook. You’ll find that both are design great, to enhance the productivity of their workers. Absolutely no trace of standard office cubicles.

About Google: (as if you needed this)

Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are available via paid subscription. Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters, often referred to as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data each hour.

Facebook Office

About Facebook:

Facebook, Inc. is a company that operates and privately owns social networking website, Facebook. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website’s membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide.

So what is your choice? I already made up my mind but I won’t tell you mine

Sea Monster

Mummyfied Sea Monster… or Not?Original owner claims this is a real sea monster that was dumped by the sea on a near-bye beach. Discovery Channel also claimed that unbelievable sea creatures live in deep-sea, and that we aren’t aware of their existance. Probably this one is a representative… but I doubt it. Decide for yourself, but before you do, jump inside this article for more pictures, and then jump to eBay for more info on this bid.

How to Make Homemade Toys For Kids

Making homemade toys for baby is incredibly fun and addictive. Few baby crafts are more rewarding than handmade toys. Once you see a child play with and enjoy something you personally made you won’t be able to stop!

Babies don’t need fancy toys with batteries and sounds and flashing lights and once you realize this, the world of toy making suddenly opens with all its crafty goodness.

From sewing projects to woodworking to felt and more, enjoy these free toy making tutorials and patterns! There is something for every skill set here, from beginners to crafty masters.

Wooden Birdie

Make handmade toys for baby easily out of wood! Even if you’ve never done any woodworking before you can make this simple birdie toy. This small birdie is the perfect size for a baby to grasp and bang against other toys. Leave it natural and it could be used as a teether…but please make sure you are using woods that are safe for teethers.

Toy Bird

My one year old picks his birdies up and says “tweet! tweet!” and pretends to fly them around. As he gets older I know that more elaborate pretend scenarios will arise from the wooden toys I’ve made him.

Materials Needed:

Wood - 1 inch thick wood board (which will actually be 3/4 inch thick). A good size to start with is 4″ - 6″ wide by 12″ long. Beginners should use pine because it cuts easier and is the cheapest. Pine (a softwood) is ideal if you will be using a coping saw because it will be much faster to cut. Check what hardwoods are available in your area as prices will vary greatly. I use poplar, beech, cherry, maple and douglas fir. The birdie in these instructions was made of poplar. If you plan to use a coping saw, use pine or another soft wood.

Scroll Saw or Coping Saw 

If you can operate a sewing machine you can operate a scroll saw! It really has the same feel, only where a sewing machine attaches a scroll saw cuts apart. The instructions shown are for a scroll saw, but If you don’t have access to a scroll saw a coping saw is a much more affordable option. A coping saw is a handheld saw that does the same thing…only you have to do the work! I suggest starting with pine if you will be using a coping saw.

Sandpaper - You’ll need medium grade (100) for sanding edges and a fine grade (220) for finishing. YOu may also use sanding drums with a rotary tool to save time on the edges.

Optional Paint/Sealers - You can leave your birdie all natural, paint it or seal it using a variety of methods. Please read the instructions below for natural and baby safe finishing option ideas and tips.

Wooden Birdie Toy Instructions:

Print out and cut out your birdie template and trace onto your wood with a pencil. Use a pencil so that you can erase the lines when you are finished, in case you cut out of the lines.

Step Two

Cut out along the pencil lines using your scroll saw or coping saw. Try to stay directly on the pencil lines but don’t worry if you veer off a bit. Take it slow and know that you can always stop and adjust. If you are using a coping saw I find it easiest to clamp the wood down to my work table so I can have both hands free for guiding the coping saw. Then remove your wooden birdie shape. See, isn’t making handmade toys fun?

Step Three

Now sand all the sharp edges down so they are rounded using the medium grade sandpaper and then finish by sanding the entire bird with the fine grade sandpaper. It is very important that you sand down any rough or sharp edges when making handmade toys for babies so take the extra time here to make it nice and smooth.

Step Four

You can also use a rotary tool with a sander attachment to further shape and round the edges even faster! You will still need to hand sand with the fine grit sandpaper after using your rotary tool on the edges though to get a truly smooth finish.

Now your bird is finished! You can leave all natural or seal the wood with a natural, childsafe wood sealer. If you want color, you can even paint the birdie with non-toxic paint! Make several in a rainbow of colors!

Once you master this simple technique you can branch out and create more animal shapes! These birds are the very first thing I learned to make and it opened up a whole new world of handmade toys for me. Enjoy!