Entries published on September 3, 2006

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Tool Wars

A long time ago, in a land far away, there lived people who were called “carpenters”, and their jobs consisted, in part, of the following tasks:

Cutting pieces of wood to particular sizes
Occasionally refining those pieces of wood into particular shapes
Putting the pieces of wood together, and making them stay together.

Now, the last one was particularly problematic, because it usually involved pounding a small metal connector — called a “nail” — through one of the pieces of wood and into another. Many carpenters working in small shops had to ...

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