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If you've got one or access to one they're ideal. You just have to make sure you mark up the face of each piece, and only work with that face uppermost.
It means you can locate the shelves in their correct position, pilot them and screw them all without needing an extra arm. And they of course add a little bit of strength to the shelf.

You honestly wouldn't cut a rebate into the vertical elements to accept the shelves?

I was going to go for the "fill with books ASAP" approach.

I definitely wouldn't, no. I've never had a unit fail on me yet. Most of the time I'll put biscuits in there, but only cos it speeds up production.

Routing them would be an awful pain. Each groove would have to be done in two passes, you'd have to set up the router for each and every pair of grooves, it'd take fucking ages, and if you bugger one up... And ultimately in my experience it really isn't necessary.
But then again if you're doing it for the pleasure of doing it, then that's a good enough reason to do it.

But I've made many units that are held with screws only, no biscuits, no glue and they're all fine to this day. I only use birch ply, and I only use good quality screws, and I make damn sure the shelves are cut square across their width and thickness.

You are supposed to use a sleeping bag :-/

And a thermarest to insulate your underside

Sounds good, apart from the radiator getting in the way. They are always in the way.
If you get the timber yard to rip down the ply to your finished size then all you'd need for a job like that is a chopsaw, a cordless or two and some time.

Are the walls plumb? Best way to avoid scribing would be to put some backs on the units. Or fill them up with books immediately so you can't dwell on any gaps.

I think 90 would probably be ok - I always exercise the precautionary principle and then regret having put in too many verticals.
An alternative (my prefered option) to kitchen legs (especially when doing a run of cabinets along a wall) is to build two 1.85m long plinths and level them on adjustable legs ( these + these ). Once levelled and fixed down just plonk your cabinets on top, clamp them all together and you're away.

I want to make some simple bookshelves from plywood.

Construction method which I am probably going to go with is cutting rebates in the side panels and gluing/screwing the shelves in place.

In order to do this I think a router with a circular base would be easiest- I can clamp a straight edge to the board and run the router down it.

Can anyone recommend an inexpensive router that will cut an 18mm rebate into plywood?

I wouldn't bother with the grooves. If you're using 18mm birch I would just use 4.0 x 50 screws.
Make sure your horizontals are cut perfectly square (in both directions).

Get them in the right place and pilot drill a 3mm hole through the vertical into the horizontal.
Don't release either piece and wind in a screw straightaway. 3 screws across a board approx 250mm wide, 4 across one 400mm wide.

If you have a biscuit jointer this process becomes a lot easier and a little stronger.

But I really wouldn't bother with routing grooves unless you want a massive ballache - they will be strong enough without if constructed diligently.
I'd worry more about the shelves being too wide and sagging.

(Not theoretical, have made hundreds of cabinets this way over the last 12 years, no recalls yet)

Never have middle names. Middle names are for dullards and cricketers.

David Cameron and George Osbourne.
I know it's universally accepted that these two are grade-A cunts of the highest order, but when I see these chinless motherfuckers going out around the world to congratulate themselves on how fucking marvelous they think themselves to be it makes me sick to the stomach.
They look like a pair of unctuous pustulating penises, and I would love to see someone kicking their faces to a pulp. Fucking self-serving amoral cunts.

And people who don't understand that sharing a cycle path will one day involve moving your wheel off the centre line of the path. Move over you self-absorbed fuckwits!

Slightly dull article on the BBC website about this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25018543), but it does close with these words from one of it's interviewees:

Mr Hutchinson adds that he fears accessories such as helmets are something of a "distraction" in the bigger picture of improving cyclist safety.

     "At a fundamental level, helmets will not prevent a single accident," he says.

Twat it, tighten loosened screw, now horizontal.

Or do an Obree and make a world-beating bicycle out of it.

If the bearings are shot you might be able to replace the unit that holds the bearings and connects to the drum - on my old machine it's a three-armed contraption, bit like a large crank spider.
However, your machine may be non-serviceable in that respect, or the bit might be horrendously expensive.
Worth a look though, cheaper than getting a new machine every third year.

Once out of warranty, manufacturers/merchants will just tell you that you've overloaded it and it's got nothing at all to do with their built-in obsolescence.

A washing machine man told me that a full load in manufacturers terms is roughly half-way up the door at the most, which in turn is roughly half of what normal people put in their machine.

Lemond and Hinault in the procession... Armstrong must be dialling up the hitman about now

I think it refers to his rags-to-riches ascent, by analogy with Slumdog Millionaire, because he comes from somewhere hot, dusty and poor.

Wrong. He is so-named because he has a strong physical resemblance to a children's TV character, "BoomDog" which ended up being taken off the air because there was a concern that it was teaching young kids to set things on fire all the time.

Thanks for that; if the latter is the case it's suitably obscure to make me wonder why everyone was so keen to pick up on what is rather a lame alias; in fact if the Slumdog theory is true it's not much better really.
Anyway couldn't do better myself, and I am now enlightened, thanks.

Please excuse my being so utterly out of touch with the spirit of the times, but where does the nickname 'Froomedog' derive from?

For the past few weeks, every night, around 8 or 9 at night my broadband drops down to between 2 and 4 Mbps (from 10). Usually lasts half an hour to an hour and never happens during the day. Also, quite often in the morning I have to reboot in order to connect to the internet.
I have called Virgin three times and feel like I am being fobbed off; could it be my modem is old and not working? But only for short periods at the same time every night? Etc etc. The first couple of times they first said there had been no work being done in the area and then corrected themselves to say there had been work done but everything was back to normal.
I have the feeling they know exactly what is going on and are bullshitting me.

When I was with Virgin ADSL my internet started doing this, and to say it was annoying is an understatement.
Most of my conversations with Virgin were based around them trying to diagnose the fault either when a) it wasn't happening, or b) when it was happening therefore rendering it impossible for them to do any tests. Ultimately they did fuck all about it for about 9 months.

To cut to the chase, Virgin showed themselves to be absolutely non-interested in sorting out anything that couldn't use the old switch on/switch off and phone back later treatment.
So I left them as soon as possible and joined Be Broadband, who were great. But are now owned by Sky so I've got to leave them.

Leave Virgin ASAP is the only advice I can offer, apart from getting matey with a telecoms engineer who could sort it out unofficially for you, if such people exist.

I'd primarily agree that getting smaller tyres is the easiest option... but on one of my bikes I've ground a significant amount of metal off the central knuckle of the brake in order to achieve a working clearance. Used a bench grinder and a half-round bastard file.
I'm sure some boring old fart might want to explain to you how foolish that is, but it worked for me, my brake still works many many miles later and the sky hasn't fallen down yet.

Lance being sued by the government

This

Is it not the whole point of this thread, to regurgitate that which is instantly available on millions of other web pages?

Even if you are capable of ignoring the damage she did to significant proportions of our society, how the fuck can you write off the fact that she was best buddies with,and supported, a fucking despot like Pinochet?
If you think she was so great maybe ask the opinion of some people from Chile? Don't ask the 30,000 who were tortured though, that might introduce some bias and that would be unfair.

Stock up on curry, head south-west and you'll be fine.

Unless you ignore the strictly enforced county-wide smart-casual dress code, in which case you're fucked.

I defy anybody to remove a BB in 5 minutes, clocking the time properly from the time the previous job goes out of the door to the time the BB removal job does the same. Just go through all the stages of doing a job, from greeting the customer as he enters to waving goodbye to him on his way out, and you'll see that a job which needs 2 minutes of hands-on-tools action from a mechanic takes at least 15 minutes.

Quite right. Jeez baulks at the 22.5 minutes to remove a BB, at £40 per hour. Even if it was removing a nearly new, super greased-up BB it'd only take just shy of that when you factor in all the other processes involved, but if it's a manky old thing that's all but welded in... Of course you'd gladly pay more than they quoted if it turned out to be like that? No, didn't think so.
And £40 p/h to cover staffing, overheads, upkeep of equipment, profit etc etc sounds pretty reasonable to me.