We used to push on the sprue after the pour. A little pressue keeps the aluminum molten to improve the fill and cuts down on porosity. At least that is what my shop teacher told us. And who would argue with an old industrial arts teacher?

Used to do this in high school shop class. Made gear shift knobs with stash compartments, telescope parts, etc.

Goddard Space Flight Center makes the list again. Your killing it lately buildings 7/10/29.

I understand leaving (the) Facebook and Twitter, but the band controls the content on its website.

Oh crap, I thought Susan Blommaert (Blacklist as Ms. Kaplan) and Linda Hunt were the same actresses.

Wait until you get to sinking foundation, talk about fun.

Is no one going to post the xkcd cartoon as the real reason? What has happen to Sploid readers. Fine. I guess I will.

Sorry to see Tyler go. FA was a favorite. So was Indefinitely Wild. Gizmodo continues it slow disintegration. So little left to read.

Please get your units straight. 8 pounds is a force not a pressure. Units matter. Words matter. Your trying to make a living with words. Nuff said.

It is sad we have to read articles like this to see a knife. When Indefinitely Wild was around, Wes Siler used to post at least one knife review a week.

I hate this stuff. It will ruin remakes of “Hunt for Red October”. What fun will it be watching robots hunt robots? So much for crazy Ivan...

All these articles are wrong. A lot of boinking will do it.

Dear me. What are these things coming out of her nose?

Having done the fire extinguisher route once in college, don’t do it.

Silver Line in Boston. QED.

++ on Notepad++. It rules where I work. And has boat loads of plug-ins too.

Always a fun read, but really just follow master Tony’s advice — “Do you best, forget the rest” ...

Use the flat side of your Lodge cast iron griddle to make rectangular pizza.

I was hoping for an article containing a lot of milspec

The typical non-LISP / Newbie programmer complaint is about the parentheses. Yawn. Obviously never had a real (paying) job programing using LISP.