Duct Tape Wallet
This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Ok, maybe not THE coolest, but it is clever. Ok, maybe not clever… Actually, it’s probably kind of dumb. But who knew Duct Tape could be so useful?
Most people agree that Duct Tape can save you money on costly repair bills but did you know that you could create a wallet to hold all of the money you’ve saved? It’s not as difficult as it sounds and in just a few simple steps, you could be the proud owner of this year’s most important fashion statement (Duct Tape is my life).
Full step-by-step instructions for your very own Duct Tape wallet are available directly from 3M:3M Canada | 3M Scotch Duct Tape | Duct Tape Workshop.
UPDATE: The 3M Duct Tape Workshop is (temporarily?) closed! Bummer!
But despair not, Duct Tape Apprentice! Here are some other sites and tutorials that may interest you:
More things with duct tape:
- Another good tutorial is on Instructables.com
- The Duct Tape Guys’ How to make it yourself with duct tape
- Duct tape ipod shuffle case
- All kinds of stuff at ducttapefashion.com
(The Mythbusters have since done an episode on all things Duct Tape where they built a sailboat out of Duct Tape. Unfortunately, they did not get the plans from me.)
New Verse-O-Matic Released
The new Verse-O-Matic plugin is here. This handy WordPress plugin displays a random verse and has an optional “translation bar” to link to additional translations.
Click here for more information or to download the plugin.
Verse-O-Matic 2.0 alpha
I am testing a new version of the Verse-O-Matic plugin that will get it a little closer to my original idea. I have allowed for the text file storing the verses to be multi-dimensional in that it can store the version, the scripture reference, the verse text, and an associated link in a delimited format. The new Verse-O-Matic then randomizes the set, picks one, and displays appropriately.
I will be testing this a little more and release Verse-O-Matic 2.0 beta in a day or two. Until then, feel free to continue to use the current version as the upgrade will only require modifications to the verse-o-matic-list.txt file.
The new alpha version is currently being used in the sidebar of this site.
[UPDATE: This version is not longer available. The current Verse-O-Matic is available at wordpress.org]
Verse-O-Matic Plugin
Awhile back I created a plugin to display a random verse on the sidebar of this site. I usually do things like this mainly for the tinkering.
Anyway, I’ve packaged this up for download if anyone needs a random verse display on their site. It is fairly straighforward and simple.
- Download the .zip file and extract it.
- Copy the files (except install.txt) to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Figure out where you want the verse to display.
- Call it with the function verse_o_matic()
- Go to the plugins area of your WP admin
- Activate Verse-O-Matic in the menu
That’s it.
You can edit the list of verses from within WordPress by clicking the link in the plugin menu, or by editing the file verse-o-matic-list.txt directly. Just make sure that you put the entire verse on one line.
Also, I put a link to an online tract around the function call, so all verses go to the same link. But you could probably put links into the txt file as well if you wanted to send things to different places. That might be something I work on in the next version.
Most Wanted Plugin
Yesterday I added a new plugin to the side bar. It is “Most Wanted” from Richard Boakes.
This plugin works in conjunction with StatTraq and shows the number of unique views for a given number of posts. I have set it to show the top ten.
It is an easy to install plugin, and adding it to the sidebar was straightforward. You just have a single function call to put in.
Thanks Richard!
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