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Please go and see this video of a prototype sidebar for the Zeitgeist journal. The Zeitgeist hackers are kicking ass!
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Make yourself a nice cup of your favorite hot beverage, sit down while it rains outside, and see this lecture on urbanism by Andrés Duany, one of the founders of the New Urbanism movement.
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Check out these two sophisticated clamping techniques: first, rope-and-tourniquet; second, combining all my bar clamps to make a longer one.
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Over the past year I have been slowly learning woodworking. A shelf here and there, a handbag hanger, and other trinkets that didn't require accurate joinery. For the past weeks I've been making the pieces for my first "real" thing, a small table for Luciana.
These are the mortised legs, and the tenoned skirt pieces for the table:
Here is the table, assembled without glue, for a sanity check:
The most useful things in making this were a page on mortise and tenon joints, pages with pictures for cutting mortises and cutting tenons, a cute hack to get rid of the gap between the pieces, and a very nice book on woodworking in general.
I'll glue the table tonight.
