The best retro throwbacks marry classic looks with modern performance, and this is a perfect example. It was built by Greg Hageman of Doc’s Chops, who also built one of the most popular machines we’ve ever featured—the 1982 Yamaha XV750 created for Cafe Racer TV — via Bike EXIF
The most spectacular ecclesiastical treasures to be discovered in Britain for almost half a century have been unearthed in the ruins of a medieval abbey in Cumbria.
An elaborate 14th-15th century abbot’s crook (his staff of office) and his gilt silver inauguration ring were found in a grave just four meters northwest of the high altar at the ruined Cistercian abbey of Furness near Preston.
The top of the crook is decorated with a silver plaque bearing a gilded image of the Archangel Michael slaying a dragon. Remarkably, some of the original wood of the crook also survives, as does the pointed iron spike at its base — and part of a linen and silk sweat cloth
designed to prevent the abbot’s potentially perspiring hands coming into contact with the wooden part of the crook.
The ring, which would almost certainly have been specially made for his inauguration as abbot, is of gilded silver and is set with a large white gemstone — either a rock crystal or a white sapphire — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It may take explosives to dislodge a group of cows that wandered into an old ranger cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, then died and froze solid when they couldn’t get out.
The carcasses were discovered by two Air Force Academy cadets when they snow-shoed up to the cabin in late March. Rangers believe the animals sought shelter during a snowstorm and got stuck and weren’t smart enough to find their way out.
The cabin is located near the Conundrum Hot Springs, a nine-mile hike from the Aspen area in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Timex T2M454 Perpetual Calendar is a very solid and understated watch. The stainless steel case measures in a 41mm in diameter, while remaining a relatively slender 11mm thick. The matched stainless bracelet measures in at 21mm, and looks to be proportionately correct with the rest of the watch — via Wrist Watch Review
Digital Art — Ink, Tea And Watercolour — via Fine Art America
One of our favourite outside activities at our home is drawing with chalk on the driveway. You can play hopscotch, four-square, and of course draw and create silly stories. My daughters and I were talking one day as we played hopscotch about how to make chalk and I thought to myself, let’s try it! It ended up being quite a lot of fun — via oh my! handmade goodness
Shiro Nakajima, the CEO of leading Japanese custom workshop Ritmo Sereno, is a keen vintage racer. He’s been campaigning his Moto Guzzi Ambassador for a couple of years now, and felt it was time for a refresh. In its original incarnation—which we revealed just over two years ago—the Guzzi looked more like a road machine than a racer. Nakajima has now stripped the last vestiges of excess from his bike, and it’s looking better than ever — via Bike EXIF
Often times, for whatever reason, the Internet connection on my Mac will lock up. Only restarting the Airport or Ethernet interfaces seem to resolve the issue in a timely manner. (This is different from a router crash which requires a manual restart of the router — in my case an Airport Extreme.) I have developed some interconnected scripts that will automatically accomplish this task for me when attached to launchctl. This is important for me because I often have to access files over the internet and if the connection has locked up there is no way for me to access them without manual intervention — via Mac OSX Hints
The annual $27-billion boost to Australia’s productivity from internet innovation is at threat from policymakers who would rather restrict online access than embrace it, Google’s Australia boss has warned.
The head of Google Australia and New Zealand, Nick Leeder, said he was particularly troubled by restrictive policies from governments in China and Iran, but also by previous efforts from Australia’s Labor government to introduce internet filtering legislation.
His comments echo remarks by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who told the Guardian at the weekend that freedom of the internet was under attack from governments that tried to control access and communication by their citizens, attempts by the entertainment industry to thwart piracy, and the rise of walled gardens such as Facebook and Apple, which tightly control what software can be released on their platforms
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a Pentagon hallway hung an austere portrait of a Navy man lost at sea in 1908, with his brass buttons, blue-knit uniform and what looks like meticulously blow-dried hair.
Wait. Blow-dried hair?
The portrait of Ensign Chuck Hord
, framed in the heavy gilt typical of government offices, may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history. Chuck Hord
can’t be found in Navy records of the day. It isn’t even a real painting. The textured, 30-year-old photo is actually of Captain Eldridge Hord III, 53 years old, known to friends as Tuck
, a military retiree with a beer belly and greying hair who lives in Burke, Virginia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s a move that will make Australia’s bricks and mortar retailers shudder.
Amazon — the world’s largest online retailer — is in the market for a local warehouse in Australia as part of its massive global distribution network.
The global giant, which made its name as an online book seller, is now said to be turning its eyes to the Asia-Pacific region.
Agents say the group has been making it known in real estate circles that its expansion plans will include Australia, due to the supply of good-quality warehouses at attractive rentals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 100 schoolgirls in north-eastern Afghanistan are in hospital suffering from suspected poisoning.
The health director of Takhar province said the girls fell ill shortly after drinking water at their school.
An education official in Kabul said preliminary investigations suggested the water had been poisoned.
A local official in Takhar suggested that people opposed to education for girls were responsible — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Augmented reality glasses targeted at athletes and other sportsmen and women are being developed by Oakley
The business’s chief executive told Bloomberg that the firm had been working on the project for 15 years and had filed about 600 related patents.
Colin Baden said that the aim was to create a self-contained unit that could also communicate with smartphones.
The announcement comes a fortnight after Google released a concept video of its own heads-up display project — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An electronic paper watch designed by a Canadian entrepreneur to work alongside smartphones has raised more than $3m (£1.8m; 2.2m euros) in less than a week on net funding site Kickstarter.
It is a record for the site which crowdsources cash to fund start-ups.
Eric Migicovsky initially sought $10,000 over a five-week period but the total, six days in, now stands at $3.4m.
It is the fifth Kickstarter project to make more than $1m.
The Pebble watch reached the $1m mark in 28 hours. The firm behind the device, which has been designing smartwatches for three years, said that it was blown away
by the support — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The source code for the original Prince of Persia game has been released on github by its author, Jordan Mechner. This release comes three weeks after Jordan announced the find of a box containing old floppy disks that had been forgotten in the back of a closet for 20+ years. A digital archaeology
effort was launched to recover the contents of the floppy disks, with the help of Jason Scott from textfiles.com. Some photos from the ‘copy party’ have also been posted — via Slashdot
If you’ve got a furry little friend, check out this adorable DIY pocket pet fleece hammock. These pet rats look so cosy, and it’s a great way to use up scrap fleece — via CRAFT
Aermacchi was a fabricator of aircraft for Italy’s war machine during the Second World War. After the defeat of the Axis powers, the company turned its efforts to the production of motorcycles and bikes. In collaboration with Harley-Davidson, many Aermacchi motorcycles found their way to America in the 1960s to meet the growing demand for two-wheeled transport. And this is one of them, a 350cc Sprint now owned by Philadelphia-based Bill Becker.
Rebuilding motorcycles is Bill Becker’s passion. After retiring from a successful 40 year career in architectural design and construction, Becker now turns his energy to what he calls performance based design
— taking vintage motorcycles, fixing what worked well and improving what didn’t — via Bike EXIF
At the age of 65, Diane Pieknik decides to play ice hockey for the first time and joins a women’s 18 and over hockey league
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