"Thanks for the link to this company. I've been looking to make my tool chests more Kanban. While the look of foam cut outs is very sexy, the pounds of tools per cubic foot of tool box metric grates at my inner operations research calculator. These little bins break up the drawer into zones. They also allow stacking tools like pliers and cutters. The added benefit that I discovered on the first project after binning the first drawer was that I could grab the entire bin and take it to the bench. This is cool when you know you need a Torx driver and your eyeball is only calibrated to Phillips 00 to 4."

"It looks like it ads more confusion than information. It is a style template in Excel, so it is inevitable that it would be used incorrectly. Typically, a polar chart would be used for information that was cyclic, not categorical. Seasonal variation would be an application where phase information would be the subject of interest. The target audience would have to have the abstract cognitive ability to read a graph. Popular magazines are not trade publications or scientific papers; the creators may not be familiar with Tuft's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.""

""Who is going to clean that thing?" is a question I enjoy hearing. When you start your career with a broom, sponge or mop in your hand, the reality of maintenance stays with you. For designs in the food handling industry, NSF, www.nsf.org, has standards with details for cleaning and sanitizing. Find a can opener with a NSF certification, and you won't be putting bits of last night's chili in tonight's cranberry sauce."

"This needs a Steam Locomotive setting, with an option for a "six in hand" carriage and a holiday seasonal option with sleigh bells. Why stop the backward compatible design with fuel injected internal combustion transportation?"

"Marine anchors are cheaper and have the advantage of not having to move a ton of soil for ballast, unless the point of the sport is to drive into places where your vehicle gets stuck so you can dig a big hole in the ground to free it."

"I was in Red Wing, MN for business and visited the factory store. This was a few years back. But, they had the fancy electronic sizing machine. It put me in a boot one size bigger than my normal size. The boots still feel over sized to this day and I wear extra thick socks with them. The thing is, there was a time when every town had a shoe repair shop and a tight leather boot could be stretched. You see the shoe stretching tools at antique shops these days. Had I bought my known size and stretched them for my freakishly high arch, I think I'd be happier. My small collection of antique shoe stretching tools now allows me to adjust shoe fit as needed. The plus is that I can buy higher quality vintage shoes where the soles and heels are replaceable, even if I have to ship them to a cobbler in the next state for the repair."

"Lock stitch machine needles are asymmetrical to allow the loop to form. The eye is optimized to reduce friction since every stitch runs a length of thread through it that is long enough for the bobbin can pass through. Hand sewing needles require some friction to hold the thread enough that it only feeds as the stitch is tightened."

"Those Soviet control rooms are identical to the ones I have seen in the western world. Right down to the paint colors on the panels and the proportions of the meters. "