The Triton is the stereotypical café racer — especially when painted in the iconic silver and black colors. So it’s getting harder to find one that impresses. This lovely machine fits the bill, though. It hails from France, and is owned by photographer Vincent Michel — via Bike EXIF
SOTA Toys introduces the latest addition to the SOTA Nightmares
product line, HP Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep. This 12-inch tall statue features incredible detail in its horrific presentation of the messenger of the Great Old Ones, Nyarlathotep. Made of high quality resin and special flex-resin
in key parts, this limited edition collectible will be a prized addition to any collection highlighting HP Lovecraft, monsters, and, as Lovecraft stated, gigantic, tenebrous, ultimate gods
— via State of the Art Toys
These giant knits by Bauke Knottnerus are currently on display in the UNRAVEL Knitwear in Fashion exhibition at the Mode Museum in Antwerp. According to his site:
PHAT KNITS is a series of giant threads used to create, knitted or not, interior products.
They look pretty comfy too — via CRAFT
Hundreds of thousands of babies’ lives could be saved each year if pregnant women were screened for syphilis, researchers say.
Syphilis causes 500,000 stillbirths and newborn deaths globally, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
A study of 41,000 women, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, showed that testing and antibiotics could more than halve the number of deaths.
UK experts said screening was cheap and cost-effective — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Here’s an interesting old ‘un coming up for auction in a few days in England. It’s not an original DKW, but a replica of the pre-1930 racers, assembled from period parts and rebuilt four years ago. It might be a mongrel, but its pedigree is pretty good: DKW were the early masters of two-stroke technology — via Bike EXIF
A new group is hoping to energise Jewish support for same-sex marriage following a statement supporting marriage equality by Progressive rabbis.
We, the members of the Moetzah, the Rabbinic Council of Progressive Rabbis of Australia, Asia and New Zealand, support marriage equality under Australian law,
the Council wrote in May, writing that Progressive Judaism believes all people are created in God’s image and are therefore entitled to full equality — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man in the US, who was blinded in one eye 55 years ago, has had his sight restored, according to the Journal of Medical Case Reports.
The patient was eight when his retina was detached after he was hit in the right eye with a tone.
When the retina is detached for a long time it be permanently damaged, so re-attaching it might not restore vision.
Doctors said restoring sight after this length of time was a medical first. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Doppler shift of sound or light waves from a moving source is familiar to physicists and non-physicists alike. Now, researchers in China and Australia have seen the more exotic inverse Doppler effect in light passing through a material made from tiny silicon rods. They say the result could enhance the use of the Doppler effect in all sorts of applications, from astronomy to medicine — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I met burlesque superstar Missy Malone a few weeks ago at an event in Cheltenham, and here is what came out of it — via ben newman art
A new study tries to sharpen our understanding of the highly verbal parasites known as trolls. Trolls – call them internet trolls, if you like – are in some ways quite similar to Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite that causes malaria in large numbers of human beings. Both kinds of parasite are maddeningly difficult to suppress. They manage, again and again, to return after we thought we’d seen the last of them. Each can, if left untreated, cause agony or worse.
These trolls infect any place where people gather electronically to converse by writing comments to each other. Trolls creep into and crop up anywhere they can, wheedling for attention in chat rooms, Twitter streams, blogs, and, as you may have noticed, in the comments section of online news articles
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
I don’t really have much to say about this quilt, except that it’s stunning and I want it!
Some info from the creator, Katrin Rodegast, an artist in Berlin, Germany:
It is coated with a pattern of 270 illustrations observing the social reality. With my quilt I connect traditional quilt art and modern computer technology.
— via CRAFT
The announcement from the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) says that it will utilise web robot
software to search the internet and find targeted information about specified people and companies. HMRC also says that by using the software it can more accurately pinpoint people who have failed to pay the right tax.
But it seems that the government software will also be used to locate people who are trading without informing HMRC — via redwolf.newsvine.com
She was an aristocrat, a secret agent and, frankly, the subject of many a schoolboy crush in the late sixties and seventies.
Now an original Lady Penelope puppet from the Thunderbirds television programmes is to be sold at auction and is expected to fetch up to £10,000 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists have been discovering how Romans lived 2,000 years ago, by studying what they left behind in their sewers.
A team of experts has been sifting through hundreds of sacks of human excrement.
They found a variety of details about their diet and their illnesses — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On its journey to the stars, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has hit an unexpected, knife’s-edge region at the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.
In short, Voyager 1 is in a spot where the sun’s winds have, in effect, stopped blowing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The 860 series is one of the most maligned of all Ducatis. Styled by auto designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, it was ahead of its time and sales were poor. But it’s also one of those bikes that has aged gracefully, and 35 years later, this lightly tweaked custom is an absolute traffic-stopper — via Bike EXIF
Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000 captchas.
Those are the going rates of cybercrime, the amounts criminals pay other criminals for the technical services necessary to launch attacks. It’s the kind of IT outsourcing no legitimate company would ever conduct, but it’s a profitable business if done effectively.
This criminal underground was detailed Wednesday in a highly entertaining talk given by researcher Stefan Savage at the annual Usenix technical conference in Portland, Ore. Outrageous examples of outsourced cybercrime drew laughter from the audience, but Savage also presented an empirical approach to researching computer crime and devising the most effective – meaning the most financially feasible – methods of stopping it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For the first time, a telemarketer has received a hefty civil penalty for making calls to people listed on the Do Not Call Register.
Queensland-based FHT Travel and the company’s director Yvonne Earnshaw have been ordered to pay a fine of $120,000 for making 12,000 marketing calls to people who have opted out of unsolicited telemarketing calls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new printing method makes it possible to produce large sheets of metamaterials, a new class of materials designed to interact with light in ways no natural materials can. For several years, researchers working on these materials have promised invisibility cloaks, ultrahigh-resolution “superlenses,” and other exotic optical devices straight from the pages of science fiction. But the materials were confined to small lab demonstrations because there was no way to make them in large enough quantities to demonstrate a practical device — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For five years Sean Murphy was driven to distraction by a painful blemish that no amount of creams, ointments or doctors’ appointments could cure.
So he came up with his own radical and permanent procedure to remove the stubborn wart forever – he blasted it with a 12-bore shotgun.
But not only did the blast take off almost his entire finger, it also left him facing 15 years in jail for the illegal possession of a firearm — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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