Here are some cool links for Saturday, 17 September 2011:

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  Pick Punch: make guitar picks from old credit cards, plastic gift cards, photo IDs, etc.

• Which Book: service that suggests books for you to read based on your criteria, mood, and other preferences

• If I owned a castle, this is what I’d …

So I recently found two interesting spiders in my yard, both of them fairly large. That, combined with seeing five praying mantises recently, and I’m beginning to wonder if there’s some strange mystical insect vortex centered on my house.

Here’s the first spider.

The Next Step is Yours

There are books and DVDs for learning martial arts available online, but your best way to learn a martial art is from a martial arts instructor, so be sure to ask around or search martial arts online forums for places to train if your initial searches for schools near you …