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		<title>Use A Paring Knife To Sharpen Your Vegetable Peeler</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Rae Trover</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s important to keep your knives sharp for a safe and efficient kitchen, but it&#8217;s easy to neglect the other bladed tools, like your vegetable peeler. Food weblog Chow shows us how to keep a sharpener&#8217;s edge with a paring knife.
By running the tip of a paring knife along each blade of your peeler, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creatively Display Your Cables When Hiding&#8217;s Not An Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Rae Trover</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We&#8217;ve talked time and time again about new and different ways to hide the unsightly cable nests lurking in your home. Instead of squirreling them away, artist Maisie Maud Broadhead cleverly decorates with them in plain sight.
Running cables through walls, attics and ceilings isn&#8217;t anyone&#8217;s idea of a good time, and if you&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Make Your Fireplace More Efficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fireplaces are lovely and cosy to sit around but not too great for actually heating your home. Increase the efficiency of your fireplace with these tips and get some of that wasted heat back.
Photo by Cornell University Library.
The problem with most fireplace design is that a significant amount of heat is pulled right up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hide Ugly Door Buzzers With A Hinged Mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/hide-ugly-door-buzzers-with-a-hinged-mirror/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/hide-ugly-door-buzzers-with-a-hinged-mirror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Whitson Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how nice the pads, some rental buildings have very ugly legacy items in plain view: intercoms, doorbells, even exposed electrical boxes. Home improvement website Unplgged has an easy solution for covering them up.
All you need for this project is a few cupboard hinges, some screws and a Molger mirror from IKEA. Depending on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Easy, Less Messy Bacon In A Waffle Iron</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/make-easy-less-messy-bacon-in-a-waffle-iron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/make-easy-less-messy-bacon-in-a-waffle-iron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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You love bacon, but cooking it in a pan is tough to time and leaves you with scalding-hot grease to dispose of. The microwave? Please. Food science miracle worker Alton Brown shows how a waffle iron makes the best bacon.
We&#8217;ve customised the above video embed to skip right to the waffle iron goodness. Watch the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Cleanup: Reclaiming My House After Domestic Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting your home more organised is one of those tasks that&#8217;s easy to put off endlessly, but after a pipe bursts and floods the entire place, you don&#8217;t really have much choice. Welcome to Project Cleanup.
During my recent trip overseas (evidence of which has popped up in various ways on Lifehacker), a pipe decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make A Moss Terrarium For Low-Maintenance Greenery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want some greenery in your home or office but you&#8217;re not too keen on, or skilled at, tending a high-maintenance plant, a moss terrarium is a hassle-free bit of greenery you practically have to try to kill.
Unlike some of the previous plants we&#8217;ve suggested, moss isn&#8217;t going to improve your air quality. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Sliding Chandelier Stays Clear Of Projectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Rae Trover</dc:creator>
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So you bought yourself a brand new projector, but there&#8217;s one not-so-tiny problem &#8212; your ceiling-mounted lighting is in the way. Check out the DIY sliding solution that Swedish designer Linus Åkesson has implemented in his own living room.
Although some of us might have taken the chandelier in question out of the room and headed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use A Bungee Cord To Chop Wood More Efficiently</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/use-a-bungee-cord-to-chop-wood-more-effeciently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chopping wood is a satisfying, yet laborious task. Give yourself an efficiency boost with this simple bungee-cord organisation video tip.
Photo by Muffet.
When chopping large diameter logs into more manageable and fireplace-friendly sizes, it can be a pain to keep all the pieces upright as you split them. Check out the video below to see how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Bicarbonate Of Soda Can Save Your Bathroom</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/how-bicarbonate-of-soda-can-save-your-bathroom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/how-bicarbonate-of-soda-can-save-your-bathroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve talked about the virtues of bicarbonate of soda (or baking soda for our US cousins) for reviving towels. Tech blogger Gail Lipscombe also found it pretty handy for reviving a messed-up vanity basin.
Picture by katalopolis
Having failed with more high-tech cleaners, Gail was astonished to discover that bicarb did the job better and cheaper:
After trying [...]]]></description>
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