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Before the internet, we had encyclopedias. One of the oldest is France’s Encyclopédie from the 18th Century, where editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert gamely tried to cram the world’s knowledge into a comprehensive series of volumes. But the funny thing about French people is that they tend to write in French, so for years the University of Michigan has been translating this massive work into English and posting entries on their website as they become available.

The 18th Century was a bit before the time of industrial designers, but we sifted through the Encyclopédie to find the closest related field and came up with furniture design. Within the Menuisier en meubles ("Art of the cabinetmaker") entry are some twenty plates cataloguing the various parts of fine furniture of the era. Detailed descriptions are nonexistent, but we get to see the components, the joinery, the templates, the weaving patterns of the wicker and even how some of the parts are meant to be cut from the timber:

Thanks to the University of Michigan for undertaking this project, and keeping it Creative Commons!

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Furniture Design Reference: Diagrams of 18th Century Furniture Broken Down Into Its Components

I’m a tinkerer. I have built and rebuilt guns, done the same for tractors, worked on every vehicle I’ve ever owned, and have even been known to weld up some steel sculptures. In all of those pursuits, I have encountered rust, and it’s usually a problem. Removing rust is usually messy, tedious, inefficient, and slow.[…..]

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Egg drop soup may seem like one of those magical things that can only be acquired from your favorite takeout joint, but it’s actually startlingly easy to make at home. Getting that silky texture is the real trick, but all you need is a little cornstarch.

Once you make your stock (this recipe has all the flavor bases covered), you’ll want to make a slurry of 1 tablespoon soy sauce + 1 1/2 tablespoons of cornstarch. Whisk that into about six cups of stock, and let boil until thickened, about two minutes. Beat some eggs with a little sesame oil, and slowly pour them into the hot soup, whisking constantly to form those delightful, wispy strands.

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Make Silky, Takeout Quality Egg Drop Soup at Home With Cornstarch

It started as social software for work, but Slack now has our :heart:, time, and data.
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What Slack is doing to our offices—and our minds

Duck Dynasty’s Jase Robertson lays down the truth about guns and gun control when asked by The Blaze’s Billy Hallowell to respond to people who who demand greater government control over guns.

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Duck Dynasty’s Jase Robertson on Gun Control

Would shooting bowling balls out of a cannon make for good artillery? Sort of! The bowling balls whirrs out fast and strong and tries to strike everything in its way. It won’t break everything because if the ball comes in contact with a hard surface, it basically gets smashed into smithereens. Still, it’s a fun little trick to have in the arsenal.

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Watch a Bowling Ball Get Shot Out of a Cannon and Smashed into Pieces

Back at last year’s SHOT show I was given a peak of a prototype 10/22 chassis. Being a Ruger 10/22 fan with over a dozen various custom 10/22 rifles, I was thrilled to say the least. The Magpul stock I saw then was just released to the public as of August 2015. According to Magpul’s[…..]

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New Magpul 10/22 Hunter X-22 Stock

Sure, it’s easy to find ways to run classic Apple II programs like The Oregon Trail or Prince of Persia. But what about that obscure educational title you remember using as a kid? Is it doomed to be forgotten? You might not have to worry. The Internet Archive has announced that its web-based emulation catalog now includes over 500 relatively tough-to-find Apple II programs that might otherwise have disappeared forever. If you remember using the likes of The Quarter Mile or The Observatory, you can fire it up without having to dig your old computer out of storage.

In many cases, it’s almost surprising that the programs are available at all. They come from an era when copy protection frequently involved hardware-specific tricks, and attempts to crack them often broke code or included unsightly credits to the cracking teams involved. Here, that isn’t an issue — the goal is to preserve the software as faithfully as possible. The Internet Archive likely can’t save everything even it keeps expanding its library, but it could prevent large swaths of Apple II history from being reduced to memories.

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Run 500 hard-to-find Apple II programs in your web browser

Learn how to build your own R2-D2 and join a dedicated community of Makers bringing Star Wars astromech droids to life. This comprehensive guide will get you started!

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