Individually numbered, the Ernst Benz by John Varvatos Limited Edition ChronoScope features contrast finishing with brushed and polished stainless steel. The watches adhere closely to Varvatos’ design aesthetic of perfectly imperfect
. The unique dials feature sepia luminous numerals complimented by a distinctive set of hands inspired by a mid-century gauge — via Watchuseek Watch Blog
Store your wine bottles in style with this tentacle wine stopper featuring an incredibly detailed resin-cast tentacle design. This sculptural piece sits atop a stainless steel stopper with rubber lip — via Shana Logic
South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will host the biggest radio telescope ever built.
The nations belonging to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organisation took the decision at a meeting on Friday.
The 1.5bn-euro (£1.2bn) SKA’s huge fields of antennas will sweep the sky for answers to the major outstanding questions in astronomy.
They will probe the early Universe, test Einstein’s theory of gravity and even search for alien intelligent life.
The project aims to produce a radio telescope with a combined collecting area of one million square metres — equivalent to about 200 football pitches.
To do this, it will have to combine the signals received by thousands of small antennas spread over thousands of kilometres — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Drawing weapons with chalk? Chalk Warfare?!
The aviation-inspired Torgoen T30301 is part of the T30 family — via Wrist Watch Review
This is stunning — and while the price might be high — it’s perhaps not as high as you’d imagine for the 24-bedroom Dunecht House, Westhill, Aberdeenshire.
This is a stately home and then some. Sat within 1700 acres of designed
landscape, Dunecht House was built in 1820, for William Forbes, whose family had owned the estate since the 15th century. The original square neo-Greek house was designed by John Smith, Aberdeen’s most prominent architect. In 1845, Dunecht was purchased by the 7th Earl of Balcarres. Two years later, it passed to Lord Lindsay, who remodelled the house using the architect that was working on Balmoral Castle for Queen Victoria.
Fancy it? Well, if the idea of a stately home appeals, £1,000,000 is the asking price. Not cheap, but it’s a lot of house for the money — via WowHaus
Create a quick and pretty bracelet with this crocheted seed bead bracelet tutorial from EVEnl at Cut Out + Keep! — via CRAFT
In Cthulhu Dice, by Steve Jackson Games, you, the player, are a cultist of Cthulhu and are ever eager to placate his dark hunger by offering up the sanity of those around you, while trying to maintain some level of your own. The game comes with a single twelve-sided die marked with five Cthulhu inspired icons, and a bag of 18 glass sanity marbles — via Gamers Daily News
In recent days The Pirate Bay announced the addition of a new proxy-friendly version of their site supported by a new IP address. This means that customers of ISPs that had previously implemented a court-ordered blockade could now access the site again. In the Netherlands, anti-piracy group BREIN is already battling to have that censored too. However, it seems that some ISPs are refusing to play ball, and several are challenging the entire blockade — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two Sydney sisters accused of forcing girls to prostitute themselves have been refused bail, with a magistrate describing the case as appalling and distressing.
Adrienne Garner, 22, and her 19-year-old sister Thalia waved at their mother from the dock, where they faced more than 40 charges.
The pair are accused of taking in girls as young as 12 and running a child prostitution racket from their Warwick Farm home in Sydney’s south-west.
The court heard the girls were repeatedly raped — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Swiss-made chocolate bunny, wrapped in gold foil and with a red ribbon around its neck, cannot be registered as a trademark, the EU court has ruled.
Lindt and Spruengli have made the rabbit since 1952 and applied for an EU trademark in 2004.
But other firms make Easter chocolate bunnies too and an Austrian company has even wrapped them in gold foil.
Now the European Court has confirmed an earlier ruling that Lindt’s rabbit is devoid of any distinctive character — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cabot Watch Company (CWC) is a British company, located in London, and they’ve been producing watches for Great Britain’s military for over 30 years. Their 1970 Remake Chronograph Mechanical features a 29 jewel hand-wind Valjoux 7760. With the two sub-dials, you’ve got a 30 minute chrono register at 3 o’clock, and the running seconds at 9 o’clock. The 41mm stainless steel case (14mm thick) is polished, and holds the solid strap bars and acrylic crystal in place. Wrapping up the whole piece is a military-issue strap, which just absolutely fits well to the aesthetic of the watch — via Wrist Watch Review
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We believe that openness is crucial for the future of the Internet. When something gets in the way of the free flow of information, we believe there should be transparency around what that block might be.
So two years ago we launched the Transparency Report, showing when and what information is accessible on Google services around the world. We started off by sharing data about the government requests we receive to remove content from our services or for information about our users. Then we began showing traffic patternsto our services, highlighting when they’ve been disrupted.
Today we’re expanding the Transparency Report with a new section on copyright. Specifically, we’re disclosing the number of requests we get from copyright owners (and the organizations that represent them) to remove Google Search results because they allegedly link to infringing content. We’re starting with search because we remove more results in response to copyright removal notices than for any other reason. So we’re providing information about who sends us copyright removal notices, how often, on behalf of which copyright owners and for which websites. As policymakers and Internet users around the world consider the pros and cons ofdifferent proposals to address the problem of online copyright infringement, we hope this data will contribute to the discussion.
For this launch we’re disclosing data dating from July 2011, and moving forward we plan on updating the numbers each day. As you can see from the report, the number of requests has been increasing rapidly. These days it’s not unusual for us to receive more than 250,000 requests each week, which is more than what copyright owners asked us to remove in all of 2009. In the past month alone, we received about 1.2 million requests made on behalf of more than 1,000 copyright owners to remove search results. These requests targeted some 24,000 different websites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
To be honest, we might have skipped this place ordinarily. But when we heard that Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex was the last home of Brian Jones, as well as the home of AA Milne, we suddenly got interested.
The house actually dates from the mid-16th century. AA Milne bought the house back in 1925 as a country retreat and this is the place where the author would write the stories of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. Galleons Lap, Poohsticks bridge and Pooh Corner are all based on locations in the nearby 500-acre wood, if you happen to be a fan.
Fancy it? As you might imagine, a house with this kind of heritage isn’t cheap — £2,000,000 to be precise — via WowHaus
Turn your basic, boring down comforter into the super stylish focal point of your bedroom with this Valentina Ramos Octopus Bloom duvet cover. Custom printed when you order it, this duvet cover is not only personal, but incredibly cosy as well. Created out of microfibre material that is unique to DENY Designs, our duvets are ultra soft and amazingly comfortable. This Valentina Ramos Octopus Bloom duvet cover will make getting out of bed in the morning just a little big harder — via DENY Designs Home Accessories
The Triumph Scrambler must be one of the hardest bikes to customise. Along with Moto Guzzi’s current V7 and the Kawasaki W800, it’s one of the few production machines that have a retro-slash-custom feel right from the start. This hasn’t deterred the Triumph Tridays team though. The Rumbler accentuates the Scrambler’s classic good looks, and cranks the performance up a notch — via Bike EXIF
Breitling presents the 44mm Superocean Chronograph II with a new red rubber bezel. This new version is limited to 2,000 individually numbered pieces — via Perpetuelle
Several governments in the Asia-Pacific region responded to the Arab Spring protests with a clampdown on dissent, Amnesty International said.
Leaders from China to Thailand employed a range of methods to silence critics, the group said in its annual report.
But activists were increasingly able to use new technologies to voice their opinions, it said.
The rights group also noted positive changes in countries including Burma.
Despite serious obstacles
, many human rights defenders and activists in Asia were still able to navigate their way towards greater respect for their rights
, said the 2012 report on the state of the world’s human rights — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Peer inside an antique radio and you’ll find what look like small light bulbs. They’re actually vacuum tubes — the predecessors of the silicon transistor. Vacuum tubes went the way of the dinosaurs in the 1960s, but researchers have now brought them back to life, creating a nano-sized version that’s faster and hardier than the transistor. It’s even able to survive the harsh radiation of outer space.
The new device is a cross between today’s transistors and the vacuum tubes of yesteryear. It’s small and easily manufactured, but also fast and radiation-proof. Meyyappan, who co-developed the nano vacuum tube
, says it is created by etching a tiny cavity in phosphorous-doped silicon. The cavity is bordered by three electrodes: a source, a gate, and a drain. The source and drain are separated by just 150 nanometres, while the gate sits on top. Electrons are emitted from the source thanks to a voltage applied across it and the drain, while the gate controls the electron flow across the cavity. In their paper published online today in Applied Physics Letters, Meyyappan and colleagues estimate that their nano vacuum tube operates at frequencies up to 0.46 terahertz — some 10 times faster than the best silicon transistors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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