To Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite, everything is an appropriate target for her needle. She cross stitches images onto car doors, old shovels, watering cans, and more. She’d probably stitch a pattern on to you if you’d hold still long enough. You can view other works by her and read an interview at the link — via Neatorama
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here goes a pic I done near 4 years ago about the big tentacle, the lord of the sea, the great sushi… The Kraken — via deviantART
One of the leading lights of the café racer scene in the US right now is Dime City Cycles. Here’s the latest build from Jason and Herm, a very heavily modified Honda CB400 — as you may have guessed from its name. It’s a comprehensive overhaul of the classic 70s Super Sport, right down to the modified, braced frame and swingarm — via Bike EXIF
The world’s oldest scientific academy, the Royal Society, has made its historical journal, which includes over 8000 scientific papers, permanently free to access online.
The plague, the Great Fire of London and even the imprisonment of its editor — just a few of the early setbacks that hit the Royal Society’s early editions of the Philosophical Transactions. But against the odds the publication, which first appeared in 1665, survived. Its archives offer a fascinating window on the history of scientific progress over the last few centuries.
Nestling amongst illustrious papers by Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin are some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution, including gruesome tales of students being struck by lightning and experimental blood transfusions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Ayton Castle is described as one of Scotland’s finest baronial style buildings
and was designed by James Gillespie Graham, Scotland’s leading Gothic revival architect of the early 19th century. It doesn’t look a lot different 200 years on, although we suspect there has been plenty of work in the background to keep it in this condition and to bring the facilities into the modern era.
Many more images on the site and if you want it, offers of around £2,200,000 should buy it — via WowHaus
News Limited staff are unhappy after being required to pay to read their own content behind The Australian’s new paywall. In an email sent to News staff last week, corporate affairs have offered the same three-month trial being marketed to ordinary punters, but with a special staff discount of up to 50 per cent
.
One News Limited employee told New Matilda he thought the payment was a bit of a joke … why should we have to pay for something we worked to produce?
Although staff have been aware of the switch to paywalled content for some months, having to sign up to read their own premier masthead was a development sprung on us in the last couple of days
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Now a team of Swedish and American linguists has applied statistics-based translation techniques to crack one of the most stubborn of codes: the Copiale Cipher, a hand-lettered 105-page manuscript that appears to date from the late 18th century. They described their workat a meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Portland, Ore.
Discovered in an academic archive in the former East Germany, the elaborately bound volume of gold and green brocade paper holds 75,000 characters, a perplexing mix of mysterious symbols and Roman letters. The name comes from one of only two non-coded inscriptions in the document.
Kevin Knight, a computer scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, collaborated with Beata Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer of Uppsala University in Sweden to decipher the first 16 pages. They turn out to be a detailed description of a ritual from a secret society that apparently had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology.
It began as a weekend project this year, Dr Knight said in an interview, adding: I don’t have much experience in cryptography. My background is primarily in computational linguistics and machine translation
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Former NSW Christian Democrat MLC and Family First NSW leader Dr Gordon Moyes has warned that Christian fundamentalists who want to impose religious laws on society are operating in Australia.
Dominionism is a new cult, started in USA, but today is present in Australia,
Moyes warned in a recent newsletter.
Dominionism is not a new denomination. Rather [it is] an interrelated mindset followed by some members of a wide range of extreme fundamentalist and some Pentecostal Protestants.
Dominionism is a term used to describe the tendency among some politically active conservative Christians to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action, with the goal of a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of Old Testament law. Their aim is to control ‘the seven mountains’ — the peak bodies of business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, family and religion
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Glycine Altus Chronograph case is a bit more rounded, but still keeps a tonneau-inspired design that fits nicely on the wrist. The case itself is made of stainless steel, and measures in at 46.5mm tall by 38.7mm wide, ensuring a good presence on the wrist. It also contains a domed sapphire crystal up front, and a mineral glass crystal in the case back. This, of course, allows you to see the ETA 7750 automatic movement at work — via Wrist Watch Review
Note to all heroin producers out there: don’t anger your neighbours. Otherwise, you might find yourself the target of a mass-produced and widely distributed Heroin for Sale
flier with your name and home address on it.
At least that’s the lesson that several Portland drug dealers learned after their recent bust.
Apparently, neighbours were so tired of the house’s drug activity that one cobbled together the makeshift flier. The flier was even handed off to the police.
The flier was simple, all it did was advertise heroin. It also contained the address of the drug house in question. This, combined with the neighbor’s complaint, eventually led police officers to search the home — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A sketch commission for a robot/steampunk octopus. Very fun to do! — via deviantART
Here’s an unusual take on the classic Moto Guzzi custom. It’s called Motomorphosy
, and it started life as an 850 T5 from 1984. When Alessandro (Speedy
) bought the bike in the late 80s, he stripped it down for a more spartan but conventional custom look. The 850 became a feature around the bars of Piedmont in Italy until Alessandro dismantled it, taking the parts to Frankino Torredimare of the Chivasso custom shop Chopworks. Alessandro’s brief was to turn the Guzzi into a vintage American-style bobber — via Bike EXIF
There may not be a wave in sight, but residents can now surf in Brisbane’s parks after the roll-out of wireless internet in public areas.
Locals and tourists will be able to access wireless internet in parks and public spaces in 20 locations, says Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk.
Brisbane City Council has allocated $2 million in this year’s budget for the internet roll-out and a further $400,000 to upgrade Wi-Fi technology in 34 of its libraries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is suspending its publication of classified files.
Wikileaks said that it would focus instead on raising funds to ensure its future survival.
The announcement came after what the group called a blockade by US-based finance companies.
This followed its disclosure on the internet of hundreds of thousands of secret US government files and diplomatic cables.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that since last December an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade
had been imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union.
The attack has destroyed 95% of our revenue,
he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Feet that washed ashore in Richmond in 2008 are those of a New Westminster woman who committed suicide by jumping into the Fraser River in April 2004.
The BC Coroners Service said Wednesday it made the identification after a post-mortem investigation, which included a DNA analysis. The woman’s next-of-kin have been notified but at the request of the family, her name is not being made public — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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Halloween is a great time to show your respect to the great slumbering elder god Cthulhu by carving a pumpkin in his likeness. Sure, you’ll go mad doing it, but we’re all going to go mad and be devoured anyway, so this way you’ll get to do it in style (and take the neighbours with you) — via The Lovecraftsman
I thought it was a mirage the first time I saw it. I was driving through the wastes of the Mojave Desert, two hours from anywhere, when off in the shimmering distance appeared the silhouettes of a hundred parked jetliners. I pulled off and tried to get closer to them, but a mean-looking perimeter fence keeps onlookers far away. All I could do was stand and stare, wondering what the hell this massive armada of airplanes was doing here, silently baking in the 110 degree heat. For years afterward I’d ask people what they knew about it, and I kept hearing the same thing: the place has been on lockdown since 9/11, and they won’t let civilians anywhere near the boneyard. But last week my luck changed — I met a very nice fellow who works there, and with a minimum of cajoling on my part he agreed to take me beyond the high-security fence and show me around. Of course, I brought my camera. — via mental_floss
It’s no secret Monsanto want to increase the 19.9 per cent share it bought in WA’s crop breeding company InterGrain last August. After the announcement, InterGrain’s CEO Brian Whan gleefully said InterGrain was in bed
with Monsanto and proud of it.
Monsanto’s Peter O’Keefe said it was part of their business model
to look towards increasing their share in InterGrain, citing global competition from other big biotech players as well as strong competition for InterGrain on the varietal front in Australia
as reasons to do so — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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