Radishrain

This thread is to list and talk about cold-hardy houseplants. Of course, it's not going to be as cold in a house as it will be outdoors, but if you want to be sure that putting your plant in a windowsill during the winter isn't going to make it suffer, I imagine the plants in this list might work for that.

List:
* English Ivy (sometimes listed for zone 4)
* Deadnettle (zones 3-8; I've read you can grow them as houseplants in hanging baskets)
* Hostas (sometimes listed for zone 3)
* Cast-iron plant (sometimes listed for zone 6)
* Sempervivum
* Dracaena indivisa (I've seen it listed for zone 7)
* False Shamrock (I've seen it listed for zone 8)
* Sedum (some are for zone 4)
* Camellia (at least some are listed for zone 6)

Other than the usual Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Yandex, etc., here's a list of search engines that are remarkable:
* startpage.com (added on 22 May 2023)
* gigablast.com
* mojeek.com

Interesting meta search engines:
* metager.org

Limited scope:
* sweetsearch.com (for students)

Also, you should probably look up distributed search engines, peer-to-peer search engines, decentralized search engines, custom search engines, etc. These could in theory be great, but I don't know of any actual search engines of these types that you can just go to a website and use (or download and use), without having to do more than you're bargaining for.

A pennywhistle, also known as a flagolet, whistle, or tinwhistle, is an instrument with six fingering holes and about a two octave range. Some other instruments, such as low whistles, Irish flutes, and dizi flutes are fingered the same way (although dizi flutes have one or more extra holes, but you don't finger those).

If you've played a lot of music on the pennywhistle that wasn't written for it, you might know that many songs are perfect, except they have a note that's just a half-step lower than the range of your whistle. You might think this requires you to play the whole song an octave higher, or else play it in another key--but you don't! You can play that note (the TI below DO). Here's how:

Cover all the holes as if you're playing the lowest DO. Keep doing that while you cover half of the very end of your instrument (the opening on the end), and blow. You can cover it with your pinky, or if your pinky is too far away, you can lean the end of your instrument against something to cover half of it up. It may take some practice and time, but you can indeed get good at using this method in a song.

I came upon this miraculously while experimenting with my whistle(s) one day--probably between 2007 and 2010, or so.

I play a lot of hymns on the pennywhistle, and several of them benefit from this.