MetaFilter posts tagged with repair

A People's Guide to Better Living

netbros — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:42:54 -0800

How to Get Rid of Things — a do-it-yourself guide dedicated to helping you prevent, eliminate or remove common annoyances from your life. For example: How to Get Rid of Voles. "Once you have the vole in hand, simply squeeze until you hear the pop." How to Get Rid of Love Bites — Kayan neck rings; the best defense against love bites. How to Get Rid of Goth Kids — Unlike an itchy nose when you're unable to scratch it, Goths tend to go away when ignored. How to Get Rid of Cat Urine — Sorry hippies, all the Nag Champa in India won't cover up that smell. And many more...

Not real women, mercifully?

Grrlscout — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:10:13 -0800

A Real Doll "doctor" gives an interview, describing the art of patching up the dolls and questioning their treatment by their owners.

Book repair

Upton O'Good — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:35:49 -0800

The Dartmouth College Library hosts a Simple Book Repair Manual, which teaches you how to repair common problems such as torn pages and wet books. For more complicated procedures, the Alaska State Library put together a training manual, with illustrations of repair procedures. (Full PDF here.) There is also a book conservation dictionary hosted by the Stanford conservation department, which explains many of the terms used.

The Bicycle Tutor

Effigy2000 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:46:01 -0800

The Bicycle Tutor is a site with lots of video tutorials designed with a sole purpose; to teach you how to fix your own bicycle. [via mefi projects]

Geek Squad Steals Porn?

charmston — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:48:04 -0800

Using a computer set to auto-screencast, The Consumerist catches a Geek Squad technician copying porn from a client's computer to a thumbdrive, and they've got video and logfiles (CSV) to prove it. Also, the Geek Squad CEO responds, and an anonymous Geek Squad tech confesses that this is not an uncommon practice: "stealing customers' nudie pics was an easter egg hunt." Consumerist users suggest that this practice might not be limited to Geek Squad. Via.

Bulldozer Politics

amberglow — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:48:53 -0800

New Orleans City Ordinance #26031 --...those who have not been able to make the necessary repairs to their battered homes by August 29th risk having their property seized and bulldozed by the city.... Bush says today: Katrina Repair Will Take Time, but time's up for many New Orleans residents. (more here from ACORN, who has been trying to help save homes there)

The Pixel Reanimator

pmbuko — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:06:48 -0800

Bring dead LCD pixels back to life! Did you know you can often fix dead LCD pixels by forcing them to rapidly cycle through red, green, and blue? Neither did I, but the video linked here worked on one of my older screens after a few hours of looped playback. YMMV, but what have you got to lose?

dhartung — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:08:00 -0800

Chicago Rat Patrol. No, not this kind of rat patrol; for this crew, rat spotting is just a sideline. What these guys skulk in alleys for, though, is discarded bike parts to kludge, especially in strange and unexpected proportions. Most of them work. As a result of their experiments, they're attuned to the kitbashed contraptions used by (mostly) economically marginal folk. Additionally, or superfluously, they're sort of anarchist anti-corporate critical-mass types. Updated until almost a year ago. Note: Geocities site. Tread lightly. And stay away from the "Rodeo" link, where there's a quicktime video, until tomorrow.

Spoon — Sat, 11 May 2002 15:47:20 -0800

Toiletology 101. Everything you wanted to know but were too busy to ask.

feelinglistless — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:01:31 -0800

Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? Incisive article which seems to be metaphorically demonstrating the difficulties in repairing society's ills through the voices of mechanical engineering. "The chinks in an escalator's armour are the spaces between step and step, step and wall, and comb plate and step. That is where a shoelace, a scarf, a child's finger or a foot can get caught - which is bad for travellers - and where small hard objects, dragged along and forced between cleats and comb plate, can chew up the aluminium steps, which is punishing for the machine."

normy — Sat, 10 Nov 2001 04:21:23 -0800

Photographers: Consider do-it-yourself lens repair - but remember those safety glasses.