Inspired by the well known mobius strip (discovered by August Ferdinand Mobius in 1858), an interest in the unusual, and 3D modelling, I created the Twin Rail mobius pendant.
A half shell and 3 rails form a bearing-like structure to encapsulate a train of 6mm balls in a mind-warping cage with a twisting, fascinating movement bringing to life the only pendent of its kind in the world.
Includes a 4mm loop for attaching to a necklace or leather cord — via Shapeways
CSIRO has begun talks with global manufacturers to commercialise microwave technology it says can provide at least 10 Gbps symmetric backhaul services to mobile towers.
The project, funded out of the Science and Industry Endowment Fund and a year in planning, could provide a ten-fold increase in the speed of point-to-point microwave transmission systems within two years, according to project manager, Dr Jay Guo — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The building [LIAG] forms a powerful and colourful (a la Mondriaan) completion of the Leeghwaterplein. Seen from the train, it serves as a calling card for ROC Mondriaan. The building has a grid shaped concrete façade decorated in the ROC colours. The effect in combination with the windows results in a strong whole — via ArchDaily
Ready to be overcome by cuteness? Check out this amigurumi crocheted hedgehog pattern from Nickie Engle that I spotted on Ravelry! I mean, how could you say no to that face?
Fair warning: If you don’t already have a Ravelry account, you may need to sign up for one to download the pattern — via CRAFT
As much as I love these they’re not my favourite porthole around here. That honour is reserved for my $11 used-to-be-a-flimsy-brass-mirror porthole that I sunk into the floor and now serves as my laundry chute.
My laundry chute porthole was featured in the Los Angeles Times twice last year alone. When I get completely frustrated writing, painting, making films, curating AWMoK.com and everything else I fill my time with I always think I could go into the business of selling porthole laundry chutes — via Allee Willis Blog
Sure, we’re all familiar with borders. Is there anything new that could possibly be introduced? Well, I bet there’s quite a few things in this article that you never knew about!
Not only can CSS3 be used to create rounded corners, but plain-ole’ CSS can also be wrestled into displaying custom shapes. That’s right; in the past, before these techniques were discovered, we might have resorted to using absolutely positioned background images to display circles or arrows. Thankfully – as we gleefully take one more step away from Photoshop — this is no longer the case — via Nettuts+
Trauma surgeon Dr Dennis Filips saw lots of blood in operating rooms during three tours of Afghanistan.
But only after he retired from the Canadian Navy in 2008 and worked under contract to teach army medics in field operations at Suffield Base near Medicine Hat did the light bulb
come on about how hard it was to stop bleeding — the single largest cause of preventable trauma death.
Inspired by a simple hair clip, Filips used his surgical knowledge to design a device which stops bleeding from wounds within seconds.
Filips said the $65 device could save thousands of lives and represents a global “billion-dollar opportunity” for his fledgling company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Richard Bell, an Australian Film Maker, on a fellowship in New York, produced and directed approximately 18 hours of raw footage for a film with the help of an assistant called Tanya Steele and paid her for these services. Ms Steele, through her American lawyers, sent letters to Mr Bell and his agent claiming that she owned the copyright in the footage and demanding that the trailer be removed from the Internet. She also caused the Vimeo website to remove the trailer. In response, Bell went to the (Australian) courts, which declared him the owner of the copyright in the film, and deemed Steele’s threats unjustifiable
. Bell then asked for damages. These were granted in the latest judgment because Bell had lost the opportunity to sell some of his works, which typically cost tens of thousands of dollars, as a result of Steels’ threats. The Australian judge awarded over $150,000 in damages plus another $23,000 costs against her — via Slashdot
Twitter has filed a lawsuit against five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers
in a federal court in San Francisco, opening a new front in its battle against spam, it said Thursday.
With this suit, we’re going straight to the source,
Twitter said in a blog post. It hopes the civil suit will act as a deterrent to spammers. By shutting down tool providers, it expects to prevent other spammers from having the services at their disposal, the company said.
Twitter is the latest among Internet companies to use legal action against alleged spammers. In January, Facebook and the Washington state attorney general announced dual lawsuits against the co-owners of Adscend Media, an ad network that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam, including through so-called clickjacking
. Adscend denied the allegations, and instead said it would investigate for the malpractices the affiliates it hires to drive traffic to advertisers’ sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vietnamese designers Vo Trong Nghia combined natural materials like bamboo with contemporary design practices to create the wNw Bar in Thu Dau Mot Town, Binh Duong, Vietnam — via CONTEMPORIST
Another fun experiment with colour and graphic brush strokes. Relative of Blue Crab, Rainbow Pig, and Painted Shark. This time I painted the colours as a solid block, and put the grey over the top. Way easier than painting a bunch of tiny coloured stripes — via CrashOctopus Blog
Selected in an open design competition, the scheme by Denton Corker Marshall for a new library for a university of international standing deftly bridges the past and the present. Located in a highly visible and central site on the side of the campus lake, its circular form responds to the strong circular buildings and roadways that distinguish the campus pattern. Conceived as earth architecture, it cleverly integrates building and landscape to become an occupied tropical landform — via ArchDaily
Though unlikely to pass any First Amendment test. Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer has a bill on her desk that would in essence make trolling
illegal. The law states It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.
This did indeed manage to pass through both houses of legislature and only needs a signature to become law — via Slashdot
A team of Australian researchers developing a bionic eye that could help restore sight to the blind will test a full prototype later this month.
The Monash Vision Group, a team of 50 scientists, believes it is on track to be the first in the world to implant a microchip into the brain of blind patients.
A patient will wear glasses with a tiny camera, which will act like an eye’s retina. A pocket processor will then convert these images into electronic signals to be sent to a microchip implant in the brain.
The procedure will insert 650 hair-thin electrodes into the visual cortex. When fully operationally, the patient will see low resolution black and white images — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Queensland researchers say a new study has found people get a better night’s sleep with pets in their bed rather than a partner.
Researchers at Central Queensland University did an online study into sleep patterns with more than 13,000 people earlier this year.
Professor Drew Dawson says about 70 per cent of respondents were regularly woken at night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I am a Chambered Nautilus, one of the world’s living fossils!
I am 15 inches long, from the tips of my tentacles to the back of my shell. I am plush and very huggable! I would prefer that you not put me in a washing machine, I will get very sick.
This nautilus has a silver skull print on it’s shell — via Etsy
All footage taken from the original Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The order of events is pretty much as seen in the movie.
more info: Rear Window Loop (2010)
Three children whose mother was stabbed to death by their abusive father in front of hundreds of people at the Adelaide Convention Centre have spoken of their shattered lives.
Zioalloh Abrahimzadeh is awaiting sentencing for the murder of his estranged wife Zahra in March 2010.
He stabbed her repeatedly in front of about 300 people at a Persian new year festival because he felt she had dishonoured him by fleeing his abuse.
The family’s three children testified against their father at trial, before he changed his plea to guilty.
Now they have read tearful statements to the South Australian Supreme Court — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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