The battle to turn the masses green promises to be a long one, but thanks to sites like 2greenthumbsup.com the messages are crossing the lines of communication. We’re talking about the environmentally friendly shade of green, not the St. Patrick’s Day green.

2greenthumbsup has started posting Simple Green Ideas to spread the good green word and promote awareness of green practices. Their most recent simple green idea talks about green electronics. They’ve provided a list of links to online resources where consumers can search for and review electronics, appliances and other consumer products.
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If you like neat stuff for your kitchen and great kitchen designs, you’ll love Ymholiad.com. I know, you’re asking, “what does ymholiad mean?”

Well, according to their site, ymholiad is a Welsh term meaning “enquiry, hunting, questioning or systematic investigation in order to establish current facts or acquire new knowledge… …about kitchens” as the site puts it.

There are some very cool resources on this site including a kitchen contractor finder, tons of picture galleries of small kitchens, modern kitchen cabinet designs, kitchen island designs, and much more. They have a complete review and comparison of 3 top free kitchen design software packages, too. (more…)

This is the most recent addition of to a real estate agent’s tool box used to sell properties. It is an important aspect to showing the beauty of your home as potential buyers come through to see if “your property” meets the search criteria of their “dream home.”

Not Neccessarily An Expensive Project

This does not need to be an expensive venture, but certainly one that is thought through, one that can pay large dividends for the time and effort spent. Your home needs to show its best for prospective buyers. This does not necessarily mean a renovation project or the hiring of contractors, but it will mean a series of smaller chores, some which follow -

• A fresh coat of paint. This will reflect current colour schemes, update your home and add warmth. (more…)

This video focuses on the elements of the facial mask that is derived form the golden ratio. This mask marks the distinctions of faces that are most attractive to humans. After placing the mask on various celebrities that are considered beautiful, or attractive, one can clearly see that there is a remarkable correlation between the mask, it’s points, and what we consider to be attractive.

Further into the video, the narrator shows how the slight variations in the differences between the female and male versions of the mask can easily be manipulated to change the sex appearance of an individual.

The task of applying daubing or chinking between the logs on a log home does not, on the surface, bring to mind any sacred mathematics, geometry, or golden mean however the author approaches the subject with the passion of an artist.

In the articles he speaks of form and function and the importance of presentation of the final product. Interestingly his chinking recipe which he deems as the perfect formula based on his research is a material mixed with a ratio 1:2:3. Coincidence? The golden ratio in a recipe?
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In the 13th century, a mathematician named Leonardo Fibonacci discovered an important number sequence. It’s a very simple sequence of numbers, starting with the number one, twice, each succeeding number in the sequence is the sum of the two preceding numbers, so the sequence goes: 1, 1, 2, 3 , 5 ,8 and so on. And for reasons that are pretty mysterious, this sequence of numbers seems to appear in a wide variety of places in the natural world.

Fibonacci spirals are in scales all around us, from the DNA molecule, to the spiral galaxy.

Also known as “the Divine Proportion”, the Golden Ratio or, phi ( Φ ) has been the mystery, cause, hope and fixation of many of the world’s foremost mathematicians, artists, architects, musicians, scientists, theologians, philosophers and mystics.

Here is briefly the basic mathematical understanding of “phi”, or the Golden Ratio:
AB/CB = CB/AC = 1.618…
“The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length a+b is to the longer segment a as a is to the shorter segment b.” from WikiPedia

Rather than get into a very long, protracted explanation, I’ll attempt to reveal certain features, and provide links to more authoritative sources on each subject.

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