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Making a watch from scratch; like really from scratch (reddit thread. via HN). Here's the imgur gallery with dozens and dozens of photos, including hand made screws.

It's Tuesday, a perfect day to listen to some Mud, featuring the particularly pleasing vocals of Les Gray and guitars by Rob Davis. Let's focus on their 1976 album It's Better Than Working. Recommended tracks: It Don't Mean a Thing. Nite on the Tiles. Beating Round the Bush. Sweet and Sour Lady. Or just listen to the whole thing!As far as I can see,...

Do you have some bulk parts that you need oriented? You need vibratory feeder bowls! Want to learn more? Feeder University has you covered.More tips for tooling your bowl, and a collection of 50 hand drawn diagrams of various part alignment methods from the Vibratory Feeder Company.

At least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten in a Bronze Age massacre in Somerset, England.Scientists have uncovered the aftermath of an "exceptionally violent" attack about 4,000 years ago in Somerset when at least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten. It is the largest case of violence between humans identified in early Bronze Age England, which...

It's been a year since Metafilter aired The Great British Post Office Scandal. Sir Wyn Williams, chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is now taking final submissions from interested parties. Edward Henry KC's piece to camera [15 min], on behalf of sub postmasters, is a great exercise in rhetoric. In the tradition of It is not even the beginning of the end...

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses - "Told of the mail agency's annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations." [link-heavy FPP] President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with...

In the 1980s and '90s, a wave of unapologetically queer cookbooks beat the odds and made it to print. queer historians have since concluded that The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book was the first lesbian cookbook ever (the year was 1954), and amongst dykes who cook, it's the stuff of legends. This is in part due to the fact that it wasn't just a...

The James Brown Show is both an enactment — an unlikely conjuration in the present moment of an alternate reality, one that dissipates into the air and can never be recovered — and at the same time a re-enactment: the ritual celebration of an enshrined historical victory, a battle won long ago, against forces difficult to name — funklessness? — yet whose vanquishing seems...

A soft furred hedgehog, a high-altitude crocodile newt and a keelback snake are some of the of the 234 new species to have been found in South-East Asia.

Scientists explore why penguins on this island are bolder and more aggressive. There are only a few little penguins left on Granite Island, South Australia but they're bolder than most and researchers are keen to find out why.

You have a massive collection of e-books, music, video games, software, and movies that you bought as a digital download, and you probably think you own them, like you own a physical book or a DVD. Think again. from Do I really own the digital media I bought?A "Digital Rights Byte" from the EFF Others include: Why is it so expensive to repair my...

Friendly and Hostile Analogies for Taste. Artistic Taste is like...: A. Physics. B. A Priesthood. C. A Priesthood, But With A Fig Leaf Of Semi-Fake Justifications D. As Above, Except The Justifications Are Good And Important E. BDSM Porn F. Like Fashion. A counterargument to this essay provides a definition of taste.Don't know if these articles are paywalled so here are the two links....

Inspired by jedicus's comment from a Fanfare thread on The Squid and the Whale: "This was a remarkably bad first date movie, as I am occasionally reminded by the person who, despite that, married me." Post title is derived from this Letterboxd feature, Crushed at the movies: ten of our worst dates at the picturesWhat is your story?

"At Dawn We Ate Sugar Smacks" begins as possibly the funniest wargaming session report ever written. It ends as something more.I commenced to slog on and off through the first section or two of the rules, not even thinking about getting into Production, Diplomacy, or Research for now, focusing instead on introductory concepts like Look at the Pretty Pretty Maps and Hey! I Recognize...

"The brilliant exiles it refers to, those creative American women who went to Paris between 1900 and 1939, were not really exiled in the French capital. Rather, they were liberated from convention and expectation in the US, finding new freedom to live their lives as they wished in early 20th-century Paris."I just saw this exhibition yesterday, and it was fantastic. More than just a...

Statistics suggest that the "average" American reads something like twelve books a year. Upon a moment's reflection it should be obvious that this statistic is useless. Millions of people finish school and never read another book in their lives: not long ago I spoke to a recent high school graduate (his grade point average was just below perfect) who had not read a book...

...there is a possibility that some mangos are not mangos at all.India loves mangos. It produces roughly half the world's mangos--and eats them all, exporting almost none. The story has long been that mangos evolved and were domesticated in South Asia, and were exported to Southeast Asia, where new varieties were developed. But as with so much in taxonomy, genetic analysis has complicated the...

Wooden buoys developed to aid research while reducing marine waste. Thousands of buoys used for science end up as marine waste — one Tasmanian group is helping to change this. They've created a wooden prototype that can survive the ocean's harshest conditions.

Youtube channel PeriscopeFilm is a movie archival group that specializes in military subjects, but an anomaly among its collection is "Microcomputers: An Introduction" from 1982, a 17 minute cartoon where farm girl Jennifer positively dances and sings with delight at the prospect of introducing city cousin Jack to the wonders of home computing. They also trap a bank robber remotely in their entirely computer-automated...

America's largest buffet, The Shady Maple Smorgasbord, is 200 feet long and serves 1,200,000 hungry diners each year.Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine is an interesting choice to base any buffet around, let alone the biggest buffet in America. The Pennsylvania Dutch were, despite the name, a demographic of devoutly Protestant German immigrants who favored various degrees of simple living and conservatism, ranging from the assimilated "Fancy...

The Waiting : "Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth. Mysterious deaths occur all over the planet and have a...