The game Facebook Security Simulator from Usvsth3m is a satire on the ever-changing privacy and security settings on Facebook and other social networks. Honestly, their desire to sell your personal information sets up a cat-and-mouse game in which you must hustle to keep things the same. In the simulator game, you really have to hustle to answer the often-confusing questions because there's a timer! Remember, the aim is to keep your information private and thwart Zuckerberg in his goal to sell your data. I might have made it past level two if I had the time to keep trying. -via Metafilter
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Two hours a day on this and he could escape from any tight situation.
Personally, I disagree,
Is this an old fashioned trouser press?
but personally i think its a device to handle and lift materials in blocka [bricks maby]
In order to keep the craft going many snake pressers moved on to flower pressing which proved more successful in the long run due to not only flowers being safer to obtain but much prettier to look at.
It is conjectured that DaVinci may have used this device to create his famous "Vitruvian Man", but that hypothesis has not been proven as of yet. However, ample circumstantial evidence via Leonardo's other sketches show that his mathematical prowess and geometric forms likely benefited greatly from having this 'prototypical spirograph' invention, and there are many proponents of this theory, in fact, a 10,000 dollar award is being offered by private investors in Italy to disprove that Leonardo used this device in his sketches. No one has claimed that prize yet.
On a more serious note - Im gonna guess its an old clamp. Where when you turn the dial - the rope gets tighter and tighter pushing the two boards together. And the holes in the dial are so you can put a piece of wood, a stick of sorts, through it so that it does not unravel.
P.S. - If im right, email me :)
And no, despite Neatorama's strange obsession with torture lately (just read the comments), it's not a torture device.