Monthly archives: June 2007

Scale reference

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I keep getting mixed up over scales and gauges and figure scales. So here’s a list compiled from sources around the internet to refer back to.

1:285 6mm
1:220 8mm Z
1:180 10mm
1:160 11mm N
1:120 15mm TT
1:87 20mm HO
1:76 24mm OO
1:72 25mm
1:64 28mm S
1:60 30mm
1:48 37.5mm O
1:45 40mm
1:35 51.4mm
1:32 54mm I
1:30 60mm
1:25 72mm
1:24 75mm
1:22 80mm G
1:20 90mm F
1:18 100mm
1:15 120mm

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Raised bed

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Raised bed
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
This bed started life as stackable storage, but when the previous owners were throwing it out my sister managed to bag a few and let me have one. I’ve dug it in a bit and filled it with compost and soil improver. There’s spring onions (which are supposed to keep slugs at bay), rocket and beetroot seeds in there, as well as the first batch (probably sacrificial) of propagated lettuce.

Amazonian Airfix

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Amazon really are trying to sell everything. In their Toys & Games section you can now get Airfix models. I stumbled across this list whilst searching for something completely different. They also stock Revell, AMT (but not much), Tamiya, Italeri, Hasegawa and no doubt others. They’ll never have the arcane stuff available from a specialist shop or site, but might be worth checking out every so often.

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Wythenshawe's carbon neutral festival

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Wythenshawe is to hold the “Party without Pollution” festival next month, and is encouraging local residents to save enough energy to make the whole event carbon neutral. The headquarters for the festival are in a building made from shipping crates that incorporates a number of energy saving, if gimmicky, devices such as a cycle powered photocopier.

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My employer is not my friend

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Employers are turning to MySpace and other social sites to vet potential employees. And too many of them are being dumb about it.

One of Poolia’s city-based clients who wishes to remain anonymous says he regularly checks up on his potential candidates in this way: “Sometimes its easier to find out what’s going on behind the CV before you waste time in an interview, you have a clearer idea what to expect and can whittle down the process quite sufficiently. In the past I have simply Googled prospective candidates, whereas now I will type their name into My Space as well. I have found some interesting things on that site. One candidate declared in his personal profile that he was against religion and anyone who believed in it. Working for such a diverse company I dropped that application like a hot potato. Funnily enough he wasn’t so quick to admit to that on his CV.”

Would they have done the same with a Christian who said the same about atheists? Did the candidate say that they would rant about this in the workplace?

Most personal preferences and social experiences are unrelated to how well you can do a job, so employers should keep their noses out of our profiles.

Jamie Hewlett's Ultimate Members vibrators

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Jamie Hewlett, of Tank Girl, Gorillaz and Monkey: Journey to the West fame, has produced a range of cartoon themed vibrators, available through high end sex toy maker Jimmyjane. Each vibrator has a character etched on it, with their own biography in the style of the Antipodean armour lover.

Neat, but at $275 each, a bit expensive for most geeks.

via Fleshbot

Japanese Kei cars

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Kei cars are a class designed to get around Japanese tax and insurance legislation. They’re tiny, the light weight making them nippy around town despite their one or two cylinder engines.

Jalopnik drove a trio of kei cars belonging to an American fan, then took anexample of Mazda’s first ever four wheeled vehicle to a dealer so they could compare it to the manufacturer’s current models.

If you want to model these cute little things, then Arii’s Owner’s Club range has a number of them, and the three wheeled delivery trucks and other classic Japanese vehicles of the 60s and 70s that you keep seeing in Kung Fu movies.

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