links for 2009-03-13

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"Can Vise-Grips save a life? Sure, and they can replace a stick shift, save a marriage and clamp blood vessels. They can do all this, and so much more. PM shares ten "unbelievable tales" of rescue and ingenuity from Irwin's "Tell Us Your Vise-Grip Story" contest."

Leigh Butler's re-read gets to the point where the books become awesome (for a while).

"A RECENT Amazon.com search for âgreen homeâ pulled up more than 15,000 book titles. Who has time to read them all? So this week, The Green Home tracked down Eric Corey Freed, the author of âGreen Building & Remodeling for Dummies,â and asked him to distill this growing cottage industry of green advice into five must-do steps."