This is the newest watch from Victorinox Swiss Army, the Alpnach Black Ice Chronograph, and it is quite a nice looking piece. Over the last few years Swiss Army watches have been changing, and I say for the better. The brand has smartly moved upmarket
with a stronger emphasis on watches with automatic mechanical movements, this piece being a good example — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
Staring at a pile of fossilised ichthyosaur bones in the famous Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, paleontologist Mark McMenamin had a sudden insight. It occurred to him that he might have cracked the great mystery of this ancient Triassic site.
He reckoned that the carefully lined-up bones of the ichthyosaurs, of the shonisaur family, were the work of a kraken, an enormous squid bigger and more intelligent than any other invertebrate that has ever lived. That’s what the professor at Mount Holyoke College told the Geological Society of America, anyway, speaking this week at their annual get together — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has lost its cybersquatting fight with typo-snaffle site goggle.com, enabling its owner to carry on enticing clumsy typists into signing up for pricey text messaging services.
The company’s complaint against the domain name’s current registrant, Barbados-based David Csumrik, was dismissed on procedural grounds yesterday by a three-person National Arbitration Forum panel in the US.
Right now, Goggle.com’s website asks visitors a short series of questions before attempting to persuade them to sign up for a £3-per-text quiz competition, offering the latest Apple products as prizes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is a short film shot in Perth Western Australia, on my struggle and solution to my problem with neighbourhood cats urinating on my car and property — via YouTube
The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft. For beginning readers — via deviantART
Rubik’s cube is not just the quintessential hand-held puzzle, though: it’s also an iconic piece of design, so I co-opted it when making a new chest of drawers for my son’s room. This cubic piece of furniture has only one of the three required axes of rotation, so is unsolvable in the conventional sense, but can be arranged in any configuration you like by non-sporting means. The drawers do pose a brain-bending challenge: the first thing you have to solve is detecting that they’re there, and all three have hidden locks in different locations — via Instructables
GText is a new OCR utility that can help you scan text and extract it so you can copy it into another document.
Once installed, GTText lets you select an image file, load it, and then highlight the area where you’d like the app to translate the image into text. When the translation is complete, a pop-up window will appear that lets you highlight the text and copy it. If the app didn’t get it quite right, you can click try again
. GTText recognises BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG images, and is available for Windows only
A species of bee which was believed to be extinct in Britain has been found in East Sussex — 65 years after it was last seen.
A study by entomologist Steven Falk shows the solitary bee, Halictus eurygnathus, is at at seven sites on the South Downs.
Mr Falk said many of the species he recorded were rare and some were doing better than expected.
However, others, including one of Britain’s largest mining bees, were at risk of losing their habitats.
The study recorded 227 bee and wasp species during more than 100 visits to 15 chalk grassland and chalky heath sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cray said it has sealed a deal to overhaul the US Department of Energy’s Jaguar
supercomputer, making it one of the fastest machines on the planet.
The supercomputer at the DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be renamed Titan
after it is beefed up with speedy, powerful chips from California companies NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Edinburgh man who reported the theft of his cannabis plants to the police has been jailed for 10 months.
Sheriff Isabella McColl said she had no option but to jail David Williamson, 34, after he claimed he would continue to smoke the drug.
Police were called to Williamson’s home in May 2011 to investigate reports he had been assaulted and robbed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This project [kadawittfeldarchitektur] is a museum for Celtic art, and is in direct proximity to a historic burial mound. Similar to an excavated archaeological find, the metal body of the museum juts out from the landscape and forms a counterpart to the burial mound. More of a mysterious object itself rather than architecture, the museum should be stumbled upon by its visitors as a marker of landscape discovery — via ArchDaily
An Austin Powers
actor convicted of torturing a woman in Orange County is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Central Valley prison, authorities said Tuesday.
Joseph Hyungmin Son, 40, allegedly killed his 50-year-old cellmate, who was found dead Monday afternoon at Wasco State Prison Reception Center in Kern County.
The cellmate was a parole violator who had been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, according to a prison report. A cause of death was pending — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many people think heavy drinking causes promiscuity, violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s not necessarily true, argues Kate Fox.
I am a social anthropologist, but what I do is not the traditional intrepid sort of anthropology where you go and study strange tribes in places with mud huts and monsoons and malaria.
I really don’t see why anthropologists feel they have to travel to unpronounceable corners of the world in order to study strange tribal cultures with bizarre beliefs and mysterious customs, when in fact the weirdest and most puzzling tribe of all is right here on our doorstep. I am of course talking about my own native culture – the British.
And if you want examples of bizarre beliefs and weird customs, you need look no further than our attitude to drinking and our drinking habits. Pick up any newspaper and you will read that we are a nation of loutish binge-drinkers – that we drink too much, too young, too fast – and that it makes us violent, promiscuous, anti-social and generally obnoxious.
Clearly, we Brits do have a bit of a problem with alcohol, but why? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 1.1 million Myki cards are set to be replaced as hackers have found a method of cloning the tickets.
Myki manufacturers NXP has recommended users upgrade to the newer, 2008 swipecard, the MIFARE DESFire EV1. The Transport Ticketing Authority has said it will replace Myki with the more secure card, but has not said when.
TTA financial reports state the authority has $22.8 million worth of tickets in stock — which could include metcards and single-use Mykis — but this figure was written down this year to $8.1 million after the decision to scrap short term Myki tickets worth $14.1 million — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Life expectancy for people with HIV in the UK has increased by 15 years in the past decade, thanks to modern drugs and earlier treatment, a study suggests.
Health authorities should consider more widespread testing for HIV, given the benefits of early treatment, UK researchers report in the BMJ.
The Terrence Higgins Trust says people at risk should get tested now.
Figures suggest more than 80,000 UK are living with HIV, and about 25% are unaware they have the infection — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After a deputy asked Matthew Falkner for his identification, the Palm City man started taking out a taco.
When another deputy noted the request wasn’t for a taco, the booze-smelling Falkner shrugged and laughed and again started to take out a taco while in the driver’s seat of a pick-up at Taco Bell, according to recently released Martin County Sheriff’s records.
The records didn’t state whether Falkner was thinking outside the bun — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Emergency crews called to an accident on a film set in Toronto were confronted with alarming blood and gore — but it wasn’t as bad as it looked.
Actors dressed as zombies for the latest Resident Evil film were injured when a high platform moved suddenly.
It did kind of catch us off-guard when we walked in,
said police Sergeant Andrew Gibson — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has aired its planned changes to the Numbering Plan that would see mobile phone users get access to free 1800 calls and cheaper 13 number calls.
The Numbering Plan sets forth how phone carriage services and phone numbering works around Australia. Initially enacted in 1997, the plan had been previously adjusted to make way for new geographical areas and new phone prefixes, as well as changes that allow easy access to 1800 and 13 numbers for charities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s carbon tax is set to become law after the lower house of parliament passed the government’s historic but controversial set of bills to establish the world’s most broadly based carbon pricing scheme.
Against last-minute efforts by the opposition to delay the passage of the bills and 11th hour pleas for amendments by some business groups, the government passed its 18 pieces of legislation by a vote of 74 to 72 just before 10am — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Wild, extreme, outrageous, unrestrained: all might be used to describe MB&F’s futuristic Horological Machines, but traditional, classical… round? With its monumental central balance; superlatively finished movement; completely independent dual time zones; unique vertical power reserve indicator and elegant annular case, Legacy Machine No.1 (LM1) is a tribute to the great innovators of traditional watchmaking; and above all, an authentic three-dimensional MB&F Machine — via Maximilian Büsser & Friends
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