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Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger I don't have time to write an explainer for this, so you'll just have to settle for the raw news. Short version: In the past few months, a large number of street kids, mostly refugees from Morocco, have been living near Stockholm's main train station. The police have been wanting more powers to get rid of them, but haven't gotten much. Last week, they announced that the main train station was now "unsafe" and had been "taken over" by said street children.  Yesterday, a group of about 200 masked men stormed the station, distributing leaflets and beating anyone who "didn't look Swedish." This action was coordinated by the NMR (a local Nazi group), and a follow-up rally was held this morning in Stockholm by the SDP (a far-right party, think the Swedish version of Donald Trump).  Police made no attempt to stop the attack. Three people were arrested, one for punching a plainclothes cop, another for possess...

A fine piece of machinery.

The first time I find something that could be considered a design flaw by nop head. But it's fixable, once I get the printer to a state where a new fan mount could be printed.

With a bit of help from the sewing room.

Little Linux horrors. http://bytbox.net/malloc_info.html

For map nerds: How hard can it be to find out if your capitol area has a coastline? Pretty hard, it turns out, if you're in Australia. Originally shared by Paul Cowan Fun project for Anthony Baxter and I today: trying to work out, once and for all, if the ACT has a coastline. For you non-Australians: the ACT is the Australian Capital Territory. The place where Canberra is. Think DC in the USA; there are many similarities, including the fact that states donated land to carve out a neutral HQ for the national capital. (Side note: you may see references to the FCT, or Federal Capital Territory, in some of the stuff linked below. It's the same place; it was renamed along the way.) You'd think "does a federal subdivision have a coastline" would be an easy question to answer. You'd be so, so, so wrong. This is a pub trivia kind of question in Australia; the problem is, most people get it wrong. At best, they get it right, but for the wrong reasons. Like, maybe it d...

I'll try again another day. http://repstrapdk.blogspot.com/2016/01/unclogging-failure.html

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One... tasty English muffin That's exactly what I am One... tasty English muffin Filled with raspberry jam And home-made. Followed the http://thekitchn.com/search/?q=106360 recipe. They innards are not as bubbly as the commercial ones, but they're quite delicious. Also a special no-thanks to http://allrecipes.com for being a horribly ad- and popup-laden monstrosity that I shall never visit again. I really don't think my best place to get my yeast is the Wal-Mart in Cincinatti, and I don't know how on earth they could place me on the wrong continent .

Extruder problems, both with the bolt and potentially the nozzle or somewhere in between.

Print on!

Make Munich 2016: The Robots Take Over

Via theallium.com . https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=YV4-7fFDOpo&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3ukyQ-v5pvk%26feature%3Dshare

I never watched Twilight, I heard it was bad. I didn't realize just how bad it is, for all of us! http://what-if.xkcd.com/

Did a lot of prints over the weekend, and truly see the value of a good, all-round fan now.

Example of bad design. There are four distinct gtaphi patterns, plus four people silhouettes, mixed together. It took me about 10 seconds to even figure out what the brand name is, just because the rest interfered. If you care at all about your brand name, don't do this.

Yesterdays tests. So many cubes!

What does this sign indicate?

Sorting out extruder problems rather than printing real things:(

Better OpenSCAD, usable things getting printed, and a fan getting added. I'm amazed at how precise this is, and I'm quite certain I could never have gotten the old machine to this stage, ever.

Just became aware of the Doctor Monocle tumblr feed. So much great steampunk. Lovely. http://doctormonocle.com/

A very detailed and apparently well-researched account of the battles in England 1066. The description of the Battle of Hastings is particularly interesting. https://deadliestblogpage.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/the-battle-of-hastings-1066-a-d/

Does anyone here have experience with switching out office chair wheels to protect hardwood floors? I'm starting to see marks where our office chairs are used the most. I looked online and found some places selling polyurethane or rubber wheels, claiming they're easier on the floors. Have anyone here actually tried such a switch? Does it work? Would rubber wheels leave stains?

This web page may be mainly about different filaments, but its also interesting for people who don't get what you can use a 3D printer for, due to numerous excellent examples. Just scroll past the technical explanation and look at the pictures below the spools. http://thrinter.com