Pinboard: bookmarks for ignatz tagged 'engineering'

The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake - ACM Queue
programming engineering software c
august 2011 by ignatz

Canadian photographer Todd McLellan's latest series "Disassembly" captures relics of our past in a unique, dismantled and exposed form. Disassembled items include a typewriter, a push lawn mower and a rotary phone

art tools engineering photography mechanical parts
may 2011 by ignatz

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Microcars: The marvellous Magyar microcars | The Economist

tiny, tiny cars of the Eastern Bloc

cars history hungary engineering
december 2010 by ignatz

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Fuel saving - a professional engineer's view

debunking of fraudulent fuel saving accessories and advice on actual fuel saving from an engineer in the field

debunk fraud engineering cars gadgets
september 2010 by ignatz

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M1911A1 Animated Demonstration

Flash animation of the M1911A1's function including cutaway, exploding view, interactive safeties

guns engineering M1911A1 animation flash firearms
august 2010 by ignatz

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The INTIMIDATOR- by GarE Maxton

125-piece 40-pound metal puzzle piece that when solved can be reassembled into a working .45 pistol

firearms guns puzzles engineering sculpture art
july 2010 by ignatz

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Electric Power eTool: Substation Equipment - Transformer Vault
infrastructure electricity power design engineering safety
july 2010 by ignatz

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Stolzer & Son's Gunsmithing - 2 Bore Jones Underlever

Building a ridiculously huge black powder rifle

guns engineering yow
june 2010 by ignatz

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bit-player » Blog Archive » A hole in the bottom of the ocean

A good perspective on the Gulf of Mexico disaster as an industrial accident and the necessity of an independent investigatory body.

oil disasters engineering bp deepwaterhorizon politics failure
june 2010 by ignatz

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M-4A1 Firing Test - Video Library - The New York Times

thing is on fire and keeps shooting. yikes

m4a1 m4 video engineering firearms test fire
january 2010 by ignatz

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BrokenBridge

possible explanation for bay bridge breaking

engineering sf baybridge failure
october 2009 by ignatz

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A beginner's guide to understanding a small marine steam power plant
engineering boats
september 2009 by ignatz

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English Russia » The Most Unusual Underground in the World

One man attempts to build a subway station against tremendous odds and any kind of sanity.

russia eccentrics engineering subway crikey
august 2009 by ignatz

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One extra ampersand in code leads to IE exploit - Ars Technica

Sorry about the deadly ampersand.

security typos failure microsoft software engineering ampersand
july 2009 by ignatz

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HyShot - Centre for Hypersonics, The University of Queensland

The HyShot Flight Program is an experiment designed to develop a correlation between pressure measurements made of supersonic combustion in The University of Queensland's T4 shock tunnel, and that which is observed in flight.

engineering aviation engine scramjet hypersonic ramjet
march 2009 by ignatz

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Scramjet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variation of a ramjet distinguished by supersonic combustion.

engineering aviation scramjet hypersonic
march 2009 by ignatz

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shouting at a disk can increase latency

no really

performance i/o yow ha engineering sysadmin storage
january 2009 by ignatz

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224,000 Rounds in 12 days

Serious torture test of firearms. It's interesting what broke.

guns firearms engineering testing qa
december 2008 by ignatz

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What Your Computer Does While You Wait : Gustavo Duarte

This post takes a look at the speed - latency and throughput - of various subsystems in a modern commodity PC, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz.

technology computers sysadmin engineering
december 2008 by ignatz

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Fogonazos: The flipping ship

The FLIP research vessel (Floating Instrument Platform) is the only ship in the world having the ability to flip from a horizontal position to a vertical position while at sea.

ships tech engineering design research yow
november 2008 by ignatz

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zipper machine on i-95 james river bridge project (2001)

gigantic highway repair truck apparatus that moves the medians around.

via:britta engineering photos trucks equipment gadgets
september 2008 by ignatz

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jwz - engineering pornography (GIANT UNDERGROUND HIGH-AMP CABLES)

2.3KV DWP cable work

electricity engineering power dwp infrastructure energy
may 2008 by ignatz

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Naval Safety Center: Photos of the Week

Weekly photo illustrating some poor safety practice. Black humor goldmine.