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Structural Archaeology Geoff Carter's radical view of building in the ancient world, especially the archaeology of the lost timber built environment of Southern England. It is new research into of prehistory of architecture
With the ultimate conclusion that Stonehenge is the remains of a roofed shelter.
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at 10:14 PM on May 19, 2013
(76 comments)
A Primer on the agents of Chemical Warfare part
One,
Two,
Three,
Four and
Five.
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at 10:37 PM on March 23, 2013
(16 comments)
Inventions that Changed the World is a 2004 BBC Miniseries in the vein of Connections (
previously) hosted by Jeremy Clarkson (yes the Top Gear guy).
The Gun.
The Computer.
The Jet.
The Telephone.
The Television
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at 5:10 PM on March 17, 2013
(11 comments)
Wood Central is a
long lived forum for woodworkers predating even young upstart Metafilter. Having been around for so long the forums are a source of immense knowledge of all things wood and some of that has been collected into posting archives and essays on their
Articles and Reviews page. So if you ever wanted to know
Wood Central's article page has you covered.
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at 6:42 PM on February 15, 2013
(15 comments)
The comment period for the
DRAFT Wireless code [
PDF] to address some cellular provider abuses is expiring soon (February 15th). Comments can be
made here.
Highlights of the draft code include:
- A $50 (or less) monthly cap on incurred fees.
- A limitation of cancellation fees equal to the remaining amount of the prorated incentive amount
- Mandatory unlocking at no cost for non subsidy phones with no waiting period.
- Limits on deposits and non payment cancellations.
- No termination fee, 15 day cooling off period
- Mandatory listing of limits on "unlimited" plans.
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at 6:28 PM on February 12, 2013
(17 comments)
Gus Wilson, master mechanic, pipe smoker, cap wearer, crime fighter, sage, is a part owner of the Model Garage. These are his
stories.
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at 4:32 PM on November 24, 2012
(7 comments)
Posters of famous movie cars (and trucks;
and planes; ... a few space ships; .... the odd train.) done in the style of vintage race advertising posters.
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at 9:34 PM on November 10, 2012
(35 comments)
Machinery Scans a showcase for some of the most detailed advertisement engravings produced. During the later part of the 19th century most machinery and equipment makers spent large sums of money to have their tool or piece of machinery converted into an engraving for advertising. The scans are of engravings produced from the 1850s-1890s.
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at 2:17 AM on February 28, 2012
(27 comments)
During the cold war Wartburg and Skoda exported cars from the Eastern Bloc to the United States. An action that was . . . controversial. One dealership received both
love and hate mail.
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at 6:55 AM on October 17, 2011
(20 comments)
The Berglas Effect aka The Holy Grail of Card Magic or Any Card at Any Number (ACAAN) and named after its inventor David Berglas is a very simple magic card trick that Berglas claims only two people know.
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at 8:07 AM on August 20, 2011
(107 comments)
An amazing bit of photoshoppery transforms an extreme oblique view of a poster into a straight on view.
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at 5:07 PM on April 12, 2011
(71 comments)
Claymation of the Roesch - Willi Schlage (Hamburg, 1910) chess game featuring fight scenes between the pieces. [SLYT]
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at 9:55 PM on March 15, 2011
(10 comments)
Tom Lehrer’s
“Elements Song” accompanying Google Instant Search [SLYT].
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at 1:42 PM on September 9, 2010
(33 comments)
Four years after being spawned Fraser River Sockeye salmon return to the same creeks in which they were born to mate, spawn and die. Salmon have a strong preference for heavier returns every four years. Prior to 1913 this cycle peaked every second odd year (IE: 1905 - 1909 - 1913). However in 1913 (a year that had a record high 31 million fish harvested) construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway along side the Frasier river resulted in massive rock slides that
prevented most of the returning fish from making it to their ancestral streams. Clean up efforts in subsequent years and the construction of fish ladders at Hell's Gate saved the Salmon from extinction and switched peaked returns to every second even year (IE: 2010 - 2014 - 2018) but numbers of fish returning were way down.
Until now. This year's projected returns are the highest since 1913's record year and not far short of it. This is bound to make the organizers of
Salute to the Sockeye very happy.
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at 9:45 PM on August 25, 2010
(37 comments)
What do you do when your
40 year old, 1 of
377 351 343 ~350, vintage
Japanese sports car's original body is too far gone to repair? If you are Shin Yoshikawa, the man who
wrote the book on the 2000GT, you hand fabricate a new body (and some trim)
completely from scratch in aluminum.
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at 10:07 PM on June 22, 2010
(32 comments)
Sprocket Rocket is a physics game whose goal is to collect sprockets to unlock argumentations to your egg shaped rocket ship
(and school you about IP law but you can ignore that part).
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at 10:34 AM on May 31, 2010
(41 comments)
Yarchive is one man's collection of UseNET posts on the topics of
Air Conditioning;
Aircraft;
Bicycles;
Cars;
Chemistry;
Computers;
Electrical, Electronic;
Environment;
Explosives, Pyrotechnics;
Food;
Houses;
Guns;
Jokes;
Medicine;
Metalworking;
Military;
Nuclear;
Telephones;
Physics;
Risks;
Security;
Space mostly from a select group of authors. It has been updated several times since it
first appeared here in 2001 and it never fails to sucker me in for hours every time I stumble upon it from a Google Search.
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at 1:25 AM on May 19, 2010
(37 comments)
Six Myths of the Art Market
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at 7:52 PM on March 27, 2010
(55 comments)
One World Technologies, manufacturer of Ryobi tools, has been
ordered to pay damages of US$1.5 million to Carlos Osorio who injured his fingers while using a Ryobi table saw. The case hinged on the Ryobi's lack of "flesh sensing technology" which is found only
SawStop's
[previously] saws.
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at 12:27 AM on March 18, 2010
(225 comments)
Building Codes for the US by state.
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at 10:11 AM on February 26, 2010
(38 comments)
George Steinmetz takes aerial landscape photos from lightest powered aircraft in the world, a
motorized paraglider (and sometimes a helicopter, a motorized hang glider, and a hot air balloon). Some of the places he has photographed include
Arabia's Empty Quarter;
Africa; the
Dead Sea; the
Altiplano; the
Salt Deserts of Iran; and
China.
Warning: Flash based image display.
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at 6:50 PM on December 23, 2009
(16 comments)
Self assembling GSX-R (SLYT) Five minute stop motion video of a bike being assembled.
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at 10:01 AM on December 14, 2009
(19 comments)
Whether it's trailer hitches or complete rebody customizations;
Ford,
GM and
Dodge all provide guides to body builders or upfitters to make safe and reliable modifications to light and medium duty trucks and vans. The guides contain wiring diagrams; dimensions and specifications (eg:
how much weight can you put on your van's roof); emissions information; and information on areas to avoid mounting equipment in for safety.
posted to MetaFilter by Mitheral
at 5:19 PM on October 10, 2009
(9 comments)
Alloy Artifacts an "online resource for 20th century hand tools and the companies that made them".
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at 8:27 PM on August 25, 2009
(9 comments)
Pictures of military subjects, many of them annotated, from all over such as
Russia,
Malaysia,
Japan (
Special Police),
Ireland,
Cyprus,
Sri Lanka and
Canada.
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at 1:14 AM on July 20, 2009
(14 comments)
Preserved in the cave excavations of
Mogao and listing 1,339 stars the
Dunhuang Star Chart is the
oldest graphical star atlas known to exist. Dated to between 649 and 684 AD, it features two sections. The first consists of 26 diagrams of asterisms (including a recognizable Big Dipper and Orion) and the second contains 12 star maps each showing a 30 degree east-west section of sky in cylindrical projection plus an azimuthal projection circumpolar map. Star positions are accurate to within 1.5 degrees and it includes some stars in the southern sky.
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at 10:30 AM on June 28, 2009
(10 comments)
Real time Dracula "
Experience Bram Stoker's Dracula in a new way -- in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,)" Whitney Sorrow is posting each entry in real time starting on
May 3rd the date of the first diary entry.
[via]
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at 10:31 AM on May 4, 2009
(27 comments)
"
Josh and Nina are two friends. Every day, they each take a photo. Operating under a pact of absolute secrecy, neither knows what the other is working on. Each morning, they post their photos on Minty Forest side by side."
Despite the diversity of their subjects the individual days often have
consistency,
consonance,
coincidence,
congruence or
discord.
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at 8:12 AM on April 12, 2009
(13 comments)
The Fovant badges, "an historic and unique cluster of military badges cut into the chalk hills of Wiltshire", are one of
many hill figure sites in the UK.
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at 10:09 AM on January 31, 2009
(4 comments)
EclipseCrossword is a powerful
windows tool for automatically creating crossword puzzles. You can create multiple puzzles from the same word list; print the puzzles in assorted formats; or export interactive puzzles for web pages.
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at 8:28 PM on December 8, 2008
(9 comments)
100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters
part 1 and 2
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at 9:05 AM on October 31, 2008
(27 comments)
National Geographic Map of the Day. Previously featuring maps that run the gamut from
automotive discovery and
exploration; through
literary,
witchhunts and
imaginary; to
historical and
Olympic.
posted to MetaFilter by Mitheral
at 10:57 AM on August 15, 2008
(9 comments)
Like shiny things? Bill Owen has a
step by step tutorial on getting a mirror paint finish on objects with paint and wax.
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at 10:38 AM on August 14, 2008
(35 comments)
US Traffic & Road Sign Test. Five part, 30 questions each, multiple choice test on US road, highway and traffic signs. Results include inline scoring and explanation of each sign.
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at 8:23 PM on June 20, 2008
(73 comments)
Plans for a Simple Atmospheric Gas Forge that can be constructed using mundane tools. Zoeller forge is also a
parts source for speciality items you may not be able to source locally.
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at 6:49 PM on May 23, 2008
(17 comments)
Hammer quiz. Identify the intended use of speciality (mostly vintage) hammers. A sister site of
Puzzle Photos (
previously).
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at 12:09 AM on April 3, 2008
(28 comments)
Cope pipe without a jig. Enter a few parameters and get a pdf that will give you a printable pattern that will allow you to notch tubing for welding or brazing to another pipe.
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at 6:19 PM on March 15, 2008
(35 comments)
Fritz Cam [
german homepage] is a
collection of pictures taken by a cat during his daily walkabout using an
interval camera attached to his collar.
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at 3:00 PM on February 5, 2008
(27 comments)
Junior General is intended to promote the use of historical simulations as a tool for teaching history by providing free resources that anyone can use. To go with their teaching scenarios they make available thousands of
paper solders for download and printing. Everything from
stone age primatives thru
Myceneans,
Confederate gunboats to
US Iraq infantry and futuristic
Cyber Assault Droids. Also available are
accessories like castles, houses, trenches, battering rams and hangers.
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at 4:47 PM on October 31, 2007
(10 comments)
Build your dream home. Answer a page of questions and real fortune-tellers on a steady diet of tea leaves and tarot cards will show you the house of your dreams.
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at 10:03 PM on September 28, 2007
(15 comments)
An
espalier is a plant trained to grow flat against a wall, fence, or trellis. Developed by the Romans, they were popular in Middle Age Europe as a
source of fruit in castles and monasteries because they could be grown against the keep's stone walls leaving open space unencumbered. Now they are an excellent choice for apartment and condo dwellers with
small yards. For larger yards
espaliers can be used as a
decorative feature, to provide
shade or to increase the
variety of trees under cultivation. University of Florida
PDF detailing the technique.
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at 1:52 AM on September 17, 2007
(16 comments)
Aerial building heat loss maps. Haringey Council has contracted with
Hot Mapping and
Horton Levi to put a searchable heat loss map online for every building in the London Borough of Haringey. The
thermal images were collected using overflights with a
military style imager. The council's hope is that residents with hot buildings will take
steps to reduce the amount of energy being leaked to the environment.
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at 9:31 PM on September 15, 2007
(19 comments)
Social Wallpaper. A community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high resolution images for use as computer wallpaper.
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at 7:08 PM on August 12, 2007
(24 comments)
Digitized Book of the Week. An eclectic collection of works digitized from the
Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They include books and serials from its collections that focus on
Illinois history,
literature, and
natural resources;
rural life and
agriculture; railroad history and
engineering; and
works in translation. A
project of
MsMolly.
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at 2:55 PM on August 8, 2007
(5 comments)
What did you do this weekend? I played
Onslaught a mildly addictive, protect your base using upgradeable towers, flash game. Basic
manual, extra detail
FAQ and
unlimited* money sandbox version.
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at 9:36 AM on May 22, 2007
(12 comments)
Solstice/equinox calculations Been hankering to
build your own Stonehenge but got stumped at the planning stage? Paul Doherty shows you the math to construct a modern ancient observatory with angles and facings correct for your latitude.
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at 6:25 PM on May 1, 2007
(5 comments)
The US Navy Safety office features a new
Safety Yikes! Photo every week. Featuring cases such as: 12 foot
Sunroof T; Are 20 splices in a
8 splice box too many?;
Trust; I don't need a
truck; Ladder
trouble,
2,
3,
4,
5;
Jack Stands; What's the amp rating on a 5/8
ths lug bolt; and the always popular
Humans make good tiedowns. Special mention to this
nice try.
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at 2:07 PM on April 27, 2007
(17 comments)
LA6NCA's WW2 German Radio Collection Pictures and a little history on many WW2 German radios including a cute as a button
spy radio and the
Lichtsprechgerät 80, an incoherent light audio transceiver. Also featured are a few photo essays of the equipment in use (
Enigma,
Luftwaffe Signals unit redeploying). [
dorian
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at 9:22 AM on February 8, 2007
(20 comments)
Autoplaying an Encrypted Thumb drive: Step by step instructions to get a thumb drive encrypted with
TrueCrypt to automatically mount on Windows when inserted.
Truecrypt requires Administrative Access.
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at 1:55 PM on January 31, 2007
(15 comments)
