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SuTree: An Online How-to Video Hub

by Tim Stevens on May 4, 2007 at 04:36 PM

Ever wanted to know how to grow potatoes in your living room, care for a harmonica, whistle with your hands, counter a punch and kiss someone properly? Look no further than SuTree, a new user-driven video site hoping to establish itself as the how-to home of the Internet.

With more than 5,000 instructional videos currently online, users can log on and learn to do literally anything -- from the random (as listed above) down to more everyday pursuits like how to throw knuckleball, how to apply makeup and how to fix a killer banana split.

Of course, SuTree users are also the teachers, submitting videos (their own or someone else's), which are then categorized and rated by other members.

So, what's a SuTree? According to the site it's the combination of the words Sutra and Tree. Sutra is, "a rope or thread that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual." Therefore, SuTree is, "a tree of lessons, a tree of knowledge."

The funniest branch we could find on the SuTree was posted by professional magician Tim Mannix. In fifteen videos, Mannix schools viewers on to make things disappear, how to do card tricks and how to make things levitate. But if all of his lessons are lost on you, Mannix's 16th video teaches you how to hire a professional magician. You can't make this stuff up.

From TechCrunch

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