— via deviantART
Deus has opened shop in LA, on the corner of Lincoln and Venice Boulevards. And this is the first full-blown custom motorcycle to roll out of its doors: an intricately crafted machine packed with high performance parts and a healthy dose of attitude. It’s called The American, and it began as a personal project for Michael Woolaway, Deus’ Design Director in the US. Woolaway’s goal was to convert the legendary C&J Low Boy dirt-track chassis into a street legal cafe racer, using as many American parts as he could — via Bike EXIF
Jason Michaels is one half of Dime City Cycles, a leading light of the contemporary US cafe racer scene. Being a good son, he planned to do some light custom work on his father’s Honda Shadow VT800 — creating a comfortable cruiser his Dad could pilot around town in a relaxed posture. But after a thirty-day build, the bike delivered to the house of Michaels Snr. on Christmas Day was quite the opposite — via Bike EXIF
Altius Architecture have designed this residence in Clearview, Ontario, Canada — via CONTEMPORIST
A month ago, while I was camping out in a hotel in Colorado Springs, a copy of USA TODAY slid under our hotel door in the night. A question — does anyone actually read that thing? I look at the front page and all I can see is Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit…
in turgid American journalese. The so-called stories
on the front page are not news; they’re perfectly shaped pieces of text that outwardly conform to the aesthetic of modern American journalism while actually containing nothing of any significance — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A website has been launched that aims to get the public involved in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Announced at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Los Angeles, the site will stream radio frequencies that are transmitted from the Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Allen Telescope Array.
Participants will be asked to search for signs of unusual activity.
It is hoped the human brain can find things the automated system might miss — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Davy Jones, Manchester-born lead singer with 60s band The Monkees, has died aged 66, his publicist has confirmed.
He died in his sleep at his home in Florida. His publicist, Deborah Robicheau, said he had a massive heart attack.
The band, who included musicians Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, were famous for hits including Daydream Believer and I’m a Believer.
The Monkees were an American pop band, assembled in 1966 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Large Hadron Collider, a steely pinnacle of physics and engineering, doesn’t generally bring soft, snuggly thoughts to mind. But that may change for people who see Kate Findlay’s quilts. For four years, she has been making fabric-based artwork inspired by the accelerator and its experiments. I’ve been living and dreaming and sleeping and eating hadron colliders,
she says — via symmetry
Yesterday I received an email from Stratfor CEO and founder George Friedman. Deplorable, unfortunate and illegal,
he thundered
Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimised twice by submitting to questions about them.
The release of these emails is, however, a direct attack on Stratfor. This is another attempt to silence and intimidate the company, and one we reject. As you can see, emails sent to many people about my resignation were clearly forged.
It’s the most exciting correspondence I’ve ever received from Stratfor.
Unfortunately after all this time as a low-level subscriber, Stratfor has never given me the inside running on a story. Not even once.
Nor, during my years travelling for Foreign Correspondent, have I ever seen evidence that Stratfor’s big corporate clients, who pay many thousands of dollars for their subscriptions, received insights they couldn’t have gleaned if they were avid readers of Britain’s Economist, the august US journal Foreign Affairs, or the excellent Australian foreign policy blog, The Interpreter.
Stratfor’s real talent lies in marketing to corporate America — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Victorian stately home — and one that’s still in its original condition, just a half hour drive from Manchester and indeed, in a town that’s on a train route to that same city. Apparently it was up with a previous agent for £1.6 million, but now it’s a fraction of that money. Oh yes, it was also designed by the same architect behind Sandringham (AJ Humbert presumably), which has got to be worth a few status points.
Woodlands dates back to 1860, a former mill owner’s pile and one that obviously had some money lavished on it once — check out that original oak staircase, panelling and parquet flooring, not to mention the stained glass. This is opulence from a bygone era — the kind of thing you’d rarely find today, although work would need doing on the place to give it the real wow
factor and to make it a liveable home.
Great as a huge home, not to mention impressive as a boutique hotel or wedding venue. The price is amazing value at £450,000 — and with the house being on the market for six months, you could bag it for even less — via WowHaus
With just 2 percent of the Smithsonian’s archive of 137 million items available to the public at any one time, an effort is under way at the world’s largest museum and research institution to adopt 3D tools to expand its reach around the country.
CNET has learned that the Smithsonian has a new initiative to create a series of 3D-printed models, exhibits, and scientific replicas–as well as to generate a new digital archive of 3D models of many of the physical objects in its collection.
Representative of that effort, the museum is touting the 3D printed replica of a Thomas Jefferson statue that it recently installed for the Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty
exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to the museum, this is the largest 3D printed museum quality historical replica
on Earth and is a copy of a statue on display at Monticello, the Thomas Jefferson museum in Virginia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The old theory that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world may be somewhat far-fetched. But that a ship dropping anchor can disrupt the lives of millions has become painfully evident.
That is what happened off the Kenyan coast when, by unlucky chance, an anchor scored a direct hit on an underwater fibre-optic cable.
The knock-on effect is a predicted 20% slowdown in internet speeds in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Sudan, the BBC reported.
The offending ship was waiting to enter the port of Mombasa at the weekend when it halted in a restricted area.
The damaged cable, owned by The East African Marine Systems (Teams) — in which the Kenyan government has a share — is one of three serving east Africa. It could take up to three weeks to repair — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today appeared to consciously tell a factual inaccuracy with respect to the current implementation status of Labor’s controversial Internet filtering project, stating that Telstra and Optus had implemented the mandatory filtering system, when they have only implemented a drastically reduced voluntary version.
In a press conference this afternoon with Prime Minister Julia Gillard televised live nationally, Conroy was asked whether he was still philosophically committed to the Internet filter project, and whether it would be implemented during the current term of government, or the next. The full transcript is available online here.
Well, two companies, in fact three companies have already introduced it,
he said. It may come as a great surprise to you that the internet hasn’t slowed down or collapsed. Telstra and Optus and a small — apologies to the third company — have introduced the filter.
However, as Conroy is aware, no Australian Internet service provider has implemented the Internet filtering system which remains the current policy of the Federal Government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A husband and wife team called Oeuf came up with the cleverly simple design for these knitted stuffed pigeons. It’s pretty amazing how they managed to capture that vacant stare with yarn — via CRAFT
Wool Free and Lovin’ Knit made a really cute little sheep coffee mug mat. He is a sweet little guy and isn’t too intimidating to beginner knitters like me — via CRAFT
This new build from Shaw Speed & Custom had a total cost of just £8,500. Shaw Speed is an offshoot of a major UK Harley-Davidson dealer, so they plucked out a 2006 XL1200R from the fleet of trade-ins and set to work. The bike was lowered front and back, and a bespoke rear fender was fabricated — via Bike EXIF
These photos show Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo’s Dingo pups at 3 weeks old with their eyes open. The pups spend a lot of time yawning when they are awake. The puppies’ parents Mattie and Naya are one of only about 75 pairs of pure Dingoes worldwide, so the pups are an important addition to the pure Dingo population. In Australia, Dingoes have widely hybridized with domestic dogs, so pure Dingoes are rare. Mattie and Naya came to the zoo from Australia in 2010 — via ZooBorns
A retail manager who deliberately underpaid an adult employee $30,000 — saying he had the mental capacity of a 13-year-old and didn’t deserve the full amount — has been fined $11,500.
The Fair Work Ombudsman took action against Maria Doherty, who formerly managed and part-owned the Garfield Berry Farm Store in Gippsland, after she underpaid the casual employee by $31,040 between December 2006 and June 2009.
The male staff member, in his 20s, was paid $10.79 to $12.78 an hour, but entitled to almost twice that rate.
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When inspectors raised the problem with Doherty, they were told he had the mental capacity of a 13-year-old and was not worth $17 or $18 an hour,
‘ Federal Magistrate Heather Riley said during the court judgment last Friday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Technologists at telecommunications hardware provider Cisco have predicted that within the next few months mobile carriers will begin to use offloading to seamlessly load-balance data from cellular networks on to faster, lower-latency Wi-Fi networks.
At a media briefing in North Sydney last week, Cisco Systems Australia chief technology officer Kevin Bloch said that in the next 12 months, he expected that carriers like Telstra would begin to make use of Wi-Fi to help balance the load from their cellular networks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A replacement limb that moves, feels and responds just like flesh and blood. It’s the holy grail of prosthetics research. The Pentagon’s invested millions to make it happen. But it’s been elusive — until, quite possibly, now.
The body’s own nerves are arguably the biggest barrier towards turning the dream of lifelike replacements into a reality. Peripheral nerves, severed by amputation, can no longer transmit or receive any of the myriad sensory signals we rely on every day. Trying to fuse them with robot limbs, to create a direct neural-prosthetic interface, is no easy task.
But now a team of scientists believe they’ve overcome that massive barrier. Their research is still in the early stages. But if successful, it’d yield artificial arms and legs that can move with agility; discern hot from lukewarm from freezing; and restore even the subtlest sensations of touch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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