Library: Other Link Page
Individual Pages and Essays
- Strength Properties of Commercially Important Woods: A compact yet useful table of woods and their strength, density, and elasticity; it is great for selecting the proper wood for a given project. This is a condensed version of a much larger table in Chapter 5 of Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material, created by employees of the US Government's Forest Products Laboratory: http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr190/chapter_05.pdf
Blog Posts
- Boyfriend Doesn't Have Ebola. Probably.: by Allie Brosh. Despite what images the title of this post may conjure up, it is actually about a pain scale: those useless scales and charts in doctors' offices that seek to quantify the amount of pain a patient is experiencing. Except, her new pain scale is totally awesome. And it really works.