Police say that a bank robber was captured Saturday afternoon after a witness followed the suspect’s footprints to an Ogden apartment complex.
Officers arrived and were able to track the suspect though footprints that were left in the freshly fallen snow — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Limited Edition of 98 ~ 42″x19″ — via Dale Evers Design Studio
The world’s first and only twin-pulse-jet-engine motorcycle is officially up for auction. The machine was originally constructed by Robert Maddox for a customer who wanted to try his hand at slipping into the 200-mph club. It’s not clear whether the owner had a brief flash of sanity or if he simply found an easier way get his jollies, but the bike is now up for sale with a buy-it-now price of just $25,000.
That’s plenty cheap in our eyes. If we had money bleeding out of our ears, we’d snap up the wild machine, which is supposedly based on a 1929 Harley-Davidson flat-track racer (we imagine that might just mean modelled after…), and park it in our living room. The seller says the bike rides straight and, not surprisingly, is plenty quick. Head over to eBay Motors to check out the auction for yourself — via autoblog
Linda Seaman was 12 when doctors found her first melanoma. She was 29 when they found her second, which was hidden by hair on her scalp.
Melanomas run in Mrs Seaman’s family. Her mother and uncle have both had two, and she checks her children incessantly.
Today, researchers report the discovery of a mutant gene, carried by about 200,000 Australians, which increases the risk of developing melanoma by 2½ times.
The faulty gene is more common in those with a large number of moles and a family history of the disease — via redwolf.newsvine.com
JM Architecture designed the Lake Lugano house in Switzerland — via CONTEMPORIST
Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed that a duet featuring Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson will be released as a new Queen record in 2012.
May told London’s Evening Standard that the song was recorded at Michael Jackson’s house in the late 80s. Michael used to come and see us when we were on tour in the States. He and Freddie became close friends, close enough to record a couple of tracks together at Michael’s house, tracks which have never seen the light of day,
he told the newspaper.
He also confirmed that the Jackson estate have approved the release — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After a 13-year hiatus, Red Dwarf is definitely back for a full series with all the old familiar faces, according to the reddwarf.co.uk website.
Red Dwarf X will be filmed in front of a studio audience at Shepperton Studios next month and in January 2012 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What material can you find in toothpaste, sunscreen, solar cells, on the baseline at Wimbledon, in a Roman church, and along a tunnel in Brussels?
Full marks if you guessed titanium dioxide, a nearly ubiquitous but wholly unsung material.
Its brilliant white has made it a staple in pigments – hence Wimbledon – but its eco-credentials are still coming to the fore.
Titanium dioxide does a couple of clever tricks that mean we may well be seeing a lot of it in the future: it’s self-cleaning, and it breaks down pollutants in the air.
And the fact that thin films of it are clear is the reason that a number of manufacturers use it in glass applications such as skylights — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Originally commissioned as an engagement ring for the illustrious model and artist, Ulorin Vex, this show stopper is the first collaboration between OctopusMe and Stephanie Inagaki of Miyu Decay.
Stephanie designed the ring out of iconic OctopusMe tentacles and carved the Kraken head out of wax. I cast and did all of the finishing work on the piece — via Etsy
Jerrod Maruyama — via PLANET-PULP
Not long ago, an unusual visitor arrived at the sleek headquarters of Goldman Sachs in Lower Manhattan.
It wasn’t some CEO, or a pol from Athens or Washington, or even a sign-waving occupier from Zuccotti Park.
It was Sister Nora Nash of the Sisters of St Francis of Philadelphia. And the slight, soft-spoken nun had a few not-so-humble suggestions for the world’s most powerful investment bank.
Way up on the 41st floor, in a conference room overlooking the World Trade Centre site, Sister Nora and her team from the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility laid out their advice for three Goldman executives. The Wall Street bank, they said, should protect consumers, rein in executive pay, increase its transparency and remember the poor.
In short, Goldman should do God’s work — something that its chairman and chief executive, Lloyd C Blankfein, once remarked that he did. (The joke bombed) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
With a couple of Macs, the internet and a great idea, Melbourne entrepreneur Martin Hosking has built a global business with more than 7 million unique products — a number that grows by more than 5000 a day.
The business, Red Bubble, is a kind of iTunes app store for artists and its success has some of iTunes’ hallmarks. All business transactions are completed online and now all in the cloud, even its accounts and personnel files.
It sells fascinating stuff at modest prices, is as fanatical as Apple about quality and its community has some of the cult aspects you find among Apple devotees.
It’s an all-Macintosh environment, even to the iMacs used to run daily Skype video conferences between the company’s headquarters in Melbourne and the US office it opened recently in Palo Alto, California — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it — a development that promises to open new frontiers in space technology.
The team of engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md, reported their findings recently at the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference, the largest interdisciplinary technical meeting in this discipline. The team has since reconfirmed the material’s absorption capabilities in additional testing, said John Hagopian, who is leading the effort involving 10 Goddard technologists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In response to the pending SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act
), leading civil liberties and tech policy organisations are calling for a Internet-wide day of protest against censorship.
The event is dubbed American Censorship Day
, because it will take place on the day of House hearings on the legislation that will introduce web censorship in the US.
The groups say that under the new legislation, America’s Internet could no longer be free and open as it is now, but controlled by large entertainment industry companies and their fear of piracy. As a result thousands of perfectly legitimate Internet services have to fear for their existence.
Sites are encouraged to participate. All the have to do is put a code snippet on their site so all US visitors will be alerted
.
Visitors to these sites will then see a splash-page with a seizure notice that allows them to contact Congress to vote against the pending anti-piracy bills (they can click it away and it will only be shown once) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Earlier this year, MAKE Magazine’s Phillip Torrone wrote a provocative article asking Is it time to rebuild and retool libraries and make ‘techshops’?
In other words, should libraries join some of the other new community centers that are being created (such as General Assembly which we covered yesterday) and become hackerspaces
or makerspaces
?
Yes!
, says librarian Lauren Smedley, who is in the process of creating what might just be the first maker-space within a US public library. The Fayetteville Free Library where Smedley works is building a Fab Lab — short for fabrication laboratory — that will provide free public access to machines and software for manufacturing and making things.
So far, the Fab Lab is equipped with a MakerBot, a 3D printer that lets you print
plastic pieces of your own design. The potential for 3D printers to revolutionize manufacturing as we know it is huge: imagine being able to design and then manufacture — or print
— whatever you want. Moreover, imagine the tools of manufacturing being in the hands of everyone, not just giant factories (and remember, since this is a public library, this is really putting the technology in the hands of everyone, not just those that can afford a membership at a traditional hackerspace) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Feigning Interest, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
— via deviantART
Two Sydney banks about 15 kilometres apart have been held up in the space of 90 minutes, with the gunman making his getaway on a bicycle both times.
Police said they are investigating the links between the latest robbery at a bank on Great North Road, Five Dock, about 2.30pm and an earlier attempted robbery at Westpac in Westfield Bondi Junction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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