This is how they make cheap swords that are of reasonable quality.
But I have expensive tastes. I would want this one.
How they make production blades
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Digital History: Presenting The Past on The Web
A while ago I stumbled across this website:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/
It is a book presented as a website. As they say,
This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the […]
Poem of the Week: 12/9/07-12/15/07
In homage to this week’s essay of the week, the poem of the week is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot
Rant of Week: 12/9/07-12/15/07
As SippicanCottage says, “This is the part of the year that grinds”. We could not have said it better ourselves.
Essay of the Week: 12/9/07-12/15/07
No one at the Ethereal Voice cares one wit for John Lennon but we do like a well written essay. And The Day We Killed John Lennon by Gerard Van der Leun is a well written essay.
Only a little smoke
Twice this week I came in to find the database that was supposed to be cranking out morning reports instead saying, “Invalid argument.” For those without any coding background, this is basically saying “The thing you want to use can’t be used that way, or maybe it doesn’t even exist.”
In a previous generation of the Click Here to continue reading.
Western Digital’s DRM Infected Hard Drive
Western Digital makes a huge Network-Ready hard drive that blocks all music formats from being shared with other users. This means you can pull music files off your hard drive, but you can’t let anyone else pull music files off your hard drive. There are legal, legitimate reasons why I could want to share my Click Here to continue reading.
This is why you can never depend on the Police to protect you
This from The Evening Standard….
Although unhappy, her parents tolerated their daughter’s dismissal-of Islam as a “teenage phase”.
But when she opted to get baptised, while studying at Manchester University, her family were incensed and the death threats began.
Her father arrived at her home with 40 men and threatened to kill her for betraying Islam.
“I saw my uncle and around 40 men storming up the street clutching axes, hammers, knives and bits of wood,” she said.
“My dad was shouting through the letter box, “I’m going to kill you”, while the others smashed on the window and beat the door.
“They were shouting, ‘We’re going to kill you’ and ‘Traitor’.
“It was terrifying. I was convinced I was going to either die, but suddenly after about ten minutes the noise stopped and the men suddenly went away.”
Since then Hannah, who gives talks to churches on Islam, has been on the run from her family, often being forced to flee her home with only a few minutes’ notice.
After receiving the latest text threat from her brother, in June, she finally went to the police.
No one has been arrested or charged in connection with the death threats, but officers have put her on an “at risk” register and have given her a panic number to call if she fears for her own safety.
I imagine that she is so much safer now that she has a panic number to call. I thought that police services all over the world had an emergecy number if people feared for their safety. What good does it do her to give her another number to call?
Hodgepodge
The Revenge of a Construction Crew.
I don’t know if this story is true or not, but I have worked with guys who might have done something like this. But I find it hard to believe that cops would have let people get away with doing something like this.
The One Thing That Worries Me About Click Here to continue reading.
Josiah Jones
Somebody actually managed to get some video footage of that recluse Josiah Jones. He was famous years back when he was still very young for being able to run 5 ball mills for longer than everybody else—with ease. Now, lots of people can do 5 easy—and the best can even sometimes get a qualify of Click Here to continue reading.