Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information. Using our latest project, the Bus Pirate universal serial interface, we can dump the memory from many common smart cards. In today’s How-to, we show you how to interface common smart cards, and walk you through the data stored on a FedEx Kinko’s prepaid value card.
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How to Smoke Cigars: A GP Primer
How to Smoke Cigars: A GP Primer - via GearPatrol.com - OK, I may have quit smoking cigarettes recently but that doesn't mean I can't have a nice stogie after a steak dinner. We're not savages, after all. Check out this link...lots of info for the budding cigar enthusiast.
How To: Grow Tomatoes Upside Down

Another cool idea posted over on the Wired How-to Wiki - Grow Tomatoes Upside Down
This is a great idea if you're short on space.
How to: Host a Whisky Tasting

Another good one from Wired.com's How-to Wiki - Host a Whisky Tasting
And if you're not familiar with how to taste whisky, the supplemental link - Taste Whisky
If the only "social networking" you're familiar with consists of Facebook or Twitter, then here's an idea for how to get some friends together in the real world. Just make sure they know what they're in for. I once watched a friend of a friend slam a thirty year old Canadian Club like he was drinking a Jager Bomb. I wanted to pimp-slap that guy.
How To: Grill A Pizza
Two things that are high on my List Of Awesome? Pizza and my Weber Genesis barbecue (pictured at left because she's so photogenic). Not things that I would normally think of going well together until I saw this Wired How-to Wiki on how to grill a pizza. I'm going to have to try this.
How-to: Read a FedEx Kinko’s smart card (SLE4442)
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How To Think About Science
If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years.
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