This is a WIP redo of my old Red Balloons piece. I’d love some crit on this. Limited palette for t-shirts, but I feel that it isn’t done yet — via deviantART
The 20th-Century factory jack was as robust as they come, made of heavy sheet metal riding on four thick casters and built to withstand the day-to-day grind of intensive use.
This repurposed variant from Restoration Hardware has Steampunk appeal coupled with a modest sense of blue-collar purpose and a natural-iron finish — via Dornob
A new insight into global photosynthesis, the chemical process governing how ocean and land plants absorb and release carbon dioxide, has been revealed in research that will assist scientists to more accurately assess future climate change.
In a paper published today in Nature, a team of US, Dutch and Australian scientists have estimated that the global rate of photosynthesis, the chemical process governing the way ocean and land plants absorb and release CO2, occurs 25% faster than previously thought — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A collection of 300 paintings worth millions of dollars has been discovered in a Polish outhouse belonging to a 92-year-old former bricklayer.
Police are baffled as to how the paintings came to be mixed up with rubbish in a dirty two-storey concrete building in the bricklayer’s garden near the north-western city of Szczecin.
They said the collection included works of art from the Renaissance and German baroque periods, with the oldest painting dating back to 1532. They also discovered a lithograph by the Polish artist Jozef Czajkowski, which disappeared from a museum in Katowice during the war.
A local art expert quoted by the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza said it was impossible to place an exact price on the collection, but he was sure it was worth millions of dollar — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you want to make
your own watch can buy a case/movement/hands then over time put them together. This is not a trivial task and has a lot of geek cred associated with it (and at the end of it you have a mechanical watch).
However, what would it mean to make a watch from scratch with no off the shelf components? Just think about it for a minute. You would have to buy tools and machinery, learn the techniques to use them, understand in a deep and significant way the workings of a mechanical watch, design a movement, build each individual movement component by hand, machine the case by hand , design and turn the dial, machine the hands then assemble and test the watch. What would that actually involve? What skills would you have to develop and how long would it take you to get to the point you could build something that actually worked, let alone something someone would be willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for?
An Englishman called George Daniels did just this, and in a series of videos on the brilliant Web Of Stories he talks about his life and his work. If like me you enjoy octogenarian horologists in cardigans talking at great lengths about lathes this is right up your street! — via Wrist Watch Review
Seen earlier this month, archaeologist Oscar Gabriel Prieto kneels by the 800-year-old skeleton of a child recently unearthed near a fishing village in Peru. The skeleton was among the bones of 42 children discovered in a shallow grave on a sand dune near the town of Huanchaquito.
Alongside the children were 76 skeletons of camelids—most likely llamas but possibly alpacas—perhaps intended to transport the victims to the afterlife, researchers say.
Prieto’s team suspects the children were killed as part of a religious ceremony by the Chimú culture. Famed for irrigation advances, the Chimú occupied the northern and central coasts of Peru from about A.D. 1100 to 1500, when the culture was conquered by its neighbours, the Inca.
The new-found mass grave is just over a kilometre from the ancient Chimú capital of Chan Chan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Charlie Harper is one of my favourite artists. His animal lithographs are breath-taking, yet I can’t afford to wallpaper my walls in them as I would like. Apartment Therapy included the above in a round-up of rad cross-stitch patterns, and it’s the perfect way to include such a talented artist into your home’s decor. I love high design cross-stitch patterns! Be sure to check out the other four — via CRAFT
A parliamentary inquiry into forced adoptions has heard how unmarried mothers were tied to beds and sedated as they gave birth.
Christine Cole gave birth to a baby girl at Crown Street Women’s Hospital in Sydney in 1969.
She has studied forced adoptions for a PhD and believes many Australians are not aware of the practices the authorities used to carry out.
Mothers were being tied to beds or drugged or had pillows or sheets held in front of their face so they couldn’t see the baby at the birth — that was kept from the public,
she said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dog who was recently rescued from being a orphan has been doing some rescuing of his own.
When one of his neighbours fell, Thor the pooch sprang into action to let his owners know something was wrong – possibly saving the elderly woman’s life.
Barbara Simmons, 78, fell on the side of the road while checking her mail on a hot day earlier this month.
She said she yelled for help but no one came to her rescue for at least a half hour. Thor, a dog with a heroic name, noticed Simmons and went to check it out.
He was just so gentle and like, ‘are you okay, are you okay?’
explained Simmons. It was like somebody asking, ‘are you okay, are you okay?’
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a bid to give young viewers a leg up in math and science, the producers of Sesame Street this fall want to help the very young think like scientists. It’s a response to international rankings that show US kids slipping when it comes to basic math and science knowledge.
Research compiled by Georgetown University’s Early Learning Project found that Sesame Street helps kids’ school-readiness, and that much of the academic advantage lasts into high school.
In the show’s 42nd season, which debuts today, so-called STEM skills — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — are front-and-centre. Characters build bridges, launch rockets and think through problems that require trial and error, observation and data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Parents who think their tearaway hacking kiddies are seeing all sorts of things they shouldn’t online are buying into some of the top myths about children on the web, according to a new report.
EU Kids Online, a research project based at the London School of Economics and Political Science, talked to kids across Europe about their online habits and discovered that they are both more and less clued up than their parents reckon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The blue-ringed octopus is a tiny cephalopod that packs a lethal punch. It lives in the Pacific from Japan to Australia, usually between rocks in a tidepool, and can be as small as a quarter up to 6 inches in diameter. It only displays its rings when disturbed. That is also when it bites. The bites are generally painless, characterised by some paleness around the bite and possibly a blood blister. Once the neurotoxins set in, the victim experiences shortness of breath, muscle spasms, and occasionally vomiting. If treatment is not sought fast enough, the victim may eventually die of paralysis — via Sarabellum: Wet and Salty
Well, I don’t know much about baking bread or Rosh Hashanah, but this seems like a pretty sweet and timely tutorial for making Round Challah.
Here it is dear readers at long last, a tutorial on how to braid gorgeous round challah loaves, just in time for Rosh HaShana! We have the custom to eat round loaves on Rosh HaShana to symbolise the continuity of life, and on Rosh HaShana we dip the challah in honey (rather than salt) to symbolise our hopes for a sweet new year.
— via CRAFT
Fast-growing blogging platform Tumblr has closed an investment round that attracted new venture capitalists and brought in $85 million.
The investment round was led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners. The Chernin Group and Richard Branson also invested in the New York blogging company for the first time. Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia Capital also made new investments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A security firm revealed today that mysql.com, the central repository for widely-used Web database software, was hacked and booby-trapped to serve visitors with malicious software. The disclosure caught my eye because just a few days ago I saw evidence that administrative access to mysql.com was being sold in the hacker underground for just $3,000.
Web security firm Armorize stated in its blog that mysql.com was poisoned with a script that invisibly redirects visitors to a Web site that uses the BlackHole exploit pack, an automated exploit toolkit that probes visiting browsers for a variety of known security holes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Violin Memory on Tuesday introduced two new all-NAND flash arrays that double the capacity over their predecessors and offer up to 160TB of capacity in a rack with 10 million IOPS and an aggregate 40GBps performance — via redwolf.newsvine.com
GM subsidiary OnStar has reversed course on a planned change to its privacy policies that would have let it collect and share GPS tracking and other data from vehicles — even after their users stopped subscribing to OnStar service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google left Australia off its Asia-Pacific data centre build list, when it laid out plans this week to build three data centres in the region.
The search giant said it would build the new facilities and spend upwards of US$200 million in an effort to boost access speed and capacity for its online service offerings.
Google will build its first proprietary Asia-Pacific data centres in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, but has left Australia out of the loop.
The company expects the data centres to be operational within one to two years from the start of construction. It has already bought land for the centres and begun advertising for Asia-Pacific data centre project managers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The communications watchdog has told the business community to ensure customers can unsubscribe from their email lists or face spamming penalties.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today issued a Sydney-based computer supplier Apus Corporation with a formal warning after it found that its unsubscribe facility failed on 24 occasions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
David Jameson Architect designed the BlackWhite Residence in Bethesda, Maryland — via CONTEMPORIST
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