#44 A Fine How Do You Do (That)

Online "How To" sites are fun to explore, but I'm not sure just how seriously one can take them. I enjoyed looking at a few topics on eHow, such as "How to Add Solar on a Tight Budget", and "How to Survive Tough Economic Times With Your Dog", and while the instructions were amusing I came away a bit dissatisfied with the content. One subject, "How to Properly Inflate Your Tires", said it featured a video. "Now this could be useful," I thought as I skipped off to learn how to do that job correctly, once and for all. Unfortunately, I was not happy with the video. In fact, I felt like a victim of bait and switch marketing. I clicked on that story particularly because I wanted to see a video of proper inflation technique, but instead of enlightenment I was subjected to an extremely short clip of someone's radio controlled car navigating their driveway. Ummm....huh?

I did like that you can choose to write for eHow and earn cash for articles. I also signed up to receive the "eHow of the day" email. Some examples of the email alerts I've received thus far include: "How to Vote Conscientiously" on 11/2, "How to Get a Ride to the Polling Stations" on 11/4, and "How to Deal With Your Presidential Candidate Losing" on 11/5.

Other "how to" sites include WikkiHow, HowStuffWorks, Instructables, Quamat, ExpertVillage and VideoJug. At HowStuffWorks.com, I enjoyed watching 5 year old Emilien Combaret solve the Rubik's cube in less than 2 minutes but I didn't learn the protegy's secret, because the video was more like a news report than it was instructive. Instructables.com had such a wide variety of information, including How to Make a Senegalese Style Drum, and How to Build a Sarcophagus, I found it a bit intimidating. I began to think that probably the only thing you wouldn't find posted there is how to build a nuclear bomb. Actually I checked. And I was shocked to find an article. It turned out to be a joke though, involving protecting oneself with some lead, building a rocket, and procuring a quantity of beans.

So far, the video I've liked the best was one I found on VideoJug.com.







General Etiquette:The Fist Bump: America's Handshake


I think that covered Fist-Bump etiquette very well, thank you.

Now I'm off to further explore the virtual cornucopia of learning on "How To" sites. I absolutely HAVE to find out "How To Use Tree Spirits for Self Transformation".