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Arbitrary List of Popular Lights - Fall Equinox 2024 Edition Happy (belated) Equinox! In honor of Fall Equinox, I've made an updated list of popular lights. Days are getting shorter in the northern hemisphere. It might be time for a new flashlight. The best flashlight …
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Knife Steel Nerds
Articles and original research for knife makers and enthusiasts about steel metallurgy and knife design.
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Coatings vs Foil – Heat Treating Steel Thank You Patreon Thanks to my Patreon supporters I was able to buy all of the coatings to test for this article. If you want to support more knife steel research come join us at …
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Pottendorf
By Tim Hale. More infoUpdated
A journey from here to there A personal philosophy In order to be a modeller of railways there needs to be a model railway. It doesn't matter if it is a loft or an Ikea box, there has to be a …
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The modelling workbench of James Hilton...
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First and last… A couple of weekends ago I made a concerted effort to get out to see the last ‘timetabled’ train on the Llangollen Railway for 2024. This bookends my year of observing and enjoying the railway…It …
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Phil's Workbench
A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
By Phil Parker. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Mobil Box - Lucerne I nearly gave Mobil Box a miss - the shop doesn't open until 2pm, and my time in Lucerne was limited. However, in the window were some fascinating G1 UK prototype locomotives, and I couldn't …
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The Corner Side Yard
Yelling from the window as the world passes by.
By Pete Saunders. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
So Long Blogger, Hello Substack It's time. After 12 years of writing about cities with a Rust Belt perspective on this platform, I'm closing it down. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. I'm moving on to a …
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Cap'n Transit Rides Again
Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit….
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AirBnb can be really useful sometimes In the past several years I've seen a number of posts attacking the company AirBnb, which is fine, but often they go further and attack the general concept of short-term housing rental outside of hotels. …
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Caltrain HSR Compatibility Blog
This blog exists to discuss compatibility between HSR and Caltrain, integration issues, and the impact on adjoining communities.
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Caltrain's Plan for Level Boarding Some good news: Caltrain is working on a level boarding plan, as documents requested under the Public Records Act attest. Their "Level Boarding Roadmap: Technical Task Force Platform Report" dated April 2024 is a reasonably …
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DGM Live
The aim of DGM is to connect music, musician and audience in a way that supports the power of music, the integrity of the musician and the needs of the audience.
By Robert Fripp, David Singleton, et al. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Toyah & Robert's Weekend Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments, today at 19:30 CET! And, tomorrow at 13:00 CET, a festive vintage Sunday Lunch: Silent Night:
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Movies Silently
Celebrate Silent Film.
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The Queen of Spades (1916) A Silent FIlm Review An old countess has a secret: she knows the three cards to play in order to win every time she gambles. When a military officer learns of this, he becomes obsessed with gaining the knowledge …
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Greenbriar Picture Shows
Classic movie site with rare images (no web grabs!), original ads, and behind-the-scenes photos, with informative and insightful commentary.
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How Long Will a Cutting Edge Still Cut? Hep As Was and Maybe Still IsFrom Mark Vieira’s book, Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950, here is thought expressed by critic John T. McManus for PM magazine, circa October 12, …
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aka pastor guy
Everything including the kitchen sink... but with special attention paid to board games, Jesus Christ, my family, being a "professional" (and I use that word loosely) Christian….
By Mark. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Unpacking Over the past couple of months, I've written a number of posts about the multitude of reasons I believe that President-elect Trump is a spectacularly bad choice to lead the United States for the next …
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GamerDad: Gaming with Children
Video game news, views, & reviews from a parental perspective, presented by Andrew S. Bub - The GamerDad.
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Stilt Fella (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC) When I was a kid, I always thought it would be fun to learn how to walk on stilts. But where would you buy them? And because of my disability, being blind in my left …
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esngblog
The East Surrey N Gauge blog keeps you up to date with what’s happening in the club, and gives news and views on N-gauge modelling generally.
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Tolworth Showtrain 2024 – 2 Next up is the familiar, but always interesting, Elbow Lane (OO). A show favourite was Drws-Y-Nant (2mm finescale) a station between Bala and Dolgellau. A simple passing station, but with a very strange piece of …
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Chris Nevard Model Railways Blog
I've been into photography, railways and modelling them in miniature for over 40 years.
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Power to the Little People Here we have a nice summer scene at Catcott before the little people moved in, the bus is driverless, there are no passengers, the engine has no crew, no animals, not even the omnipresent Bob …