DIY Cardboard Box Solar Oven

Eco-friendly weblog The Daily Green details how to turn a cardboard box into a DIY solar oven for a little weekend fun in the sun. All you'll need is the box, some construction paper, tin foil, plastic, and a few other items you're likely to have around the house, and when you're done you'll have a full-fledged cardboard cooker. Unfortunately the post is a little light on photos, but the text is detailed enough to figure it out. If you give it a go, send a few images or video our way via the Lifehacker Tip Tester Flickr pool for a better look at the oven in action. If you like the idea of impressing friends and family by cooking with the sun but don't love the cardboard box idea, a parabolic cooker might be more your speed.

Refurbish Appliances with Stainless Steel Contact Paper

Instead of buying costly new appliances for your kitchen, it's cheap and easy to give the old ones a face lift. With cleaning fluid, a toothbrush, and some stainless steel contact paper, you can make old appliances look new, and the Handyman Fix Home Repair site details how. The instructions detail the process for a refrigerator and stove, but it's probably easier to start off with a smaller appliance. The same principles apply—do a deep cleaning and go slow and steady with the paper. Cut a few strategic holes for buttons and knobs, and that hand-me-down toaster is looking a lot more usable. Thanks Kevin!

Chinese investor pays $2.1M to eat with Buffett

Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.

Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening with a bid of $2,110,100.

A spokeswoman for the Glide Foundation, which receives all the proceeds from the auction, identified the winner Saturday.

It appears that Zhao and Buffett share a similar investment philosophy. But Zhao could not be reached Saturday, and no one answered the phone at Buffett's Omaha office.

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will provide a significant boost to Glide, which provides social services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco. The foundation operates on a $12 million annual budget, spokeswoman Denise Lamott said.

"It almost feels like a miracle," Glide's founder Reverend Cecil Williams said in a statement. "We are amazed and ready to continue our work of breaking the cycles of poverty."

Last year's lunch brought in $650,100.

A group of Glide staff members and supporters gathered in a small hotel ballroom Friday to watch the auction results. Lamott said there were shouts of celebration when the bids topped $1 million.

"It was absolutely unbelievable," Lamott said.

Zhao and up to seven friends will dine with Buffett at the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in New York City whenever the two men can schedule it. Last year's winners collected their prize only Wednesday.

The investment philosophy Zhao's fund describes on its Web site is similar to Buffett's approach of finding companies with an enduring competitive advantage that are selling for significantly less then they are worth.

Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is primarily known for his investing success. Berkshire owns more than 60 subsidiaries including insurance, clothing, furniture, jewelry and candy companies, restaurants, natural gas and corporate jet firms and has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co., Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Wells Fargo & Co.

But Buffett is also known for his philanthropy.

In 2006, he announced his plan to give away the bulk of his nearly $49 billion fortune over time. Most of his shares of Berkshire stock will go to five charitable foundations, with the largest going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Lamott said eBay officials confirmed that this year's lunch with Buffett was the most expensive charity item the site has ever sold.

Kate’s Hair For Sale on eBay

Want to have Kate Moss‘ lovely locks??

Then sign into your eBay account and bid on her hair extension, which was picked up from the ground by a German paparazzo dude named John Farr and promptly put up for sale. In defense of his actions, Farr is donating all the proceeds to an anti-drug group called Keine Macht den Drogen (No Power to Drugs).

Bidding ends of July 3 and currently sits at the afforable price of $135.