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- Reuters Manufacturing Summit 2008
It’s time for the Reuters Manufacturing Summit:
Chicago – CEOs and other executives in the manufacturing industry will visit the Reuters bureaus in Chicago to participate in the annual Reuters Manufacturing Summit on February 25-28. During closed on-the-record sessions, summit speakers will discuss the outlook for the manufacturing sector. Exclusive stories from the summit will be [...]
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:51:57 +0000
- Steel Buildings Extreme-ish Makeover
It looks like one of my favourite steel buildings in the history of building stuff out of steel has had a bit of a makeover. The Atomium in Brussels has had a bit of a spit and a polish.
Atomium post-renovation
But it ain’t the only one. According to a recent Euro Inox email, the following have [...]
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:33:27 +0000
- Jasper McDingle and the Unfolding Internet Cable Mystery
Ever since moving to my apartment here in Wheeling I’ve had intermittent internet service at best and a downright lousy connection at worst. It doesn’t flitter like a wonky fluorescent tube as much as completely disappear in one solid chunk for most of the day. I wouldn’t care to hazard a guess as to how [...]
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:27:24 +0000
- Copper Anti-Fettling Device
EXTREMELY RARE ANTI MASTURBATION DEVICE DATING FROM c1880. THE COPPER SHAPED DEVICE WAS ATTACHED TO A BELT AND WORN BY BOYS AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS. VERY MUCH AN INDICATION OF SOCIETIES VIEWS ON ONANISM IN THE 19TH CENTURY. THIS IS THE FIRST EXAMPLE WE HAVE OFFERED FOR SALE IN 24 YEARS. THE [...]
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:09:56 +0000
- The Diversification of Rosie the Riveter
These are heady days in America. After eight years of an illiterate hick pretending to be President, we have the excitement of a woman and a black guy duking it out. But, that’s hardly news, is it?
As riveting as the current state of affairs truly is, you have to go a long way to find [...]
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:44:23 +0000
- Gruelling Growlers
Every time I visit the mother-in-law, or she comes to visit me, there’s a conversation about meat pies. It’s not me who starts the conversation either, I’ll have you know. If I’d married some working class heroine from some lovely part of Preston I’d maybe understand it, but my mother-in-law is a fairly well-to-do surgeon’s [...]
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:46:04 +0000
- Free 2D/3D CAD Software with Sheet Metal Design Module
Not knowing a cotton-picking thing about CAD I’m throwing this one out there in case anybody might find it useful.
From the press release:
CAD Schroer, long serious about offering engineering solutions that support flexible systems strategies, released the commercial version of MEDUSA4 3.0.1 in Autumn 2007. Now MEDUSA4 Personal users can benefit from additional functionality, and [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:14:15 +0000
- Drill Bit Cityscape by Chu Enoki
This is fabulous. Just take a close look and you’ll notice an entire Bladerunner cityscape made out of drill bits and other associated things you may have lying about the old workshop. Well, not our workshop - all the drill bits and hole saws I’ve ever seen aren’t quite as shiny. Chu Enoki, the sculptor [...]
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:20:55 +0000
- Powder Coated Planters Getting Planted
If only we knew we were moving in more illustrious circles then we could bang on incessantly about them. Apparently we did some stainless steel tree rings that were to be inspected by Her Majesty not so long back, but nobody deemed it newsworthy enough to tell us what they were for until way after [...]
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:17:51 +0000
- Where’s Ya Bin? No, Where’s Ya Wiilly Bin?
Well it was all a bit too short and a bit too whistle-stop. Also remind me never to be so cheap as to fly in every direction of the compass when you’ve only got a week off. I’m not set out to be a jet setter. I’m not so much still in a different time [...]
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:34:00 +0000
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