Instead of usual gear trains, the Monaco V4 uses a set of transmission belts to transfer rotational energy from component to another. Although extremely thin, the belts are reinforced with real steel cords to increase their mileage
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To make the watch even more efficient, TAG Heuer substituted traditional synthetic rubies with tiny ball bearings, thus significantly reducing friction
— via World Watch Review
I was a huge Monkees fan when I was a kid, thanks mostly to MTV running weekend-long Monkee marathons back in the early 80s. (which, by the way, I recorded every episode on Betamax tapes) A few weeks ago, I needed a Monkees fix, so I downloaded a best-of album and enjoyed jamming out to their music while I worked. I also thought it would be fun to find a pattern for a Mike Nesmith-style knit green hat, but didn’t have any luck turning something up. Just yesterday, Lisa of Polka Dot Cottage posted a pattern she used to make a few Mike Nesmith-style hats for some friends. Last year, she created the hat for her son. She tweaked her choice of yarn just a bit and shares how she’s updated the project. Now if only I could knit… — via CRAFT
Elegant and refined, the Archimede Arcadia is clearly influenced by the gorgeous IWC Portuguese automatic chronographs.
As a matter of fact, the influence is so evident that some may even call the Arcadia a rip-off
— via World Watch Review
One of the men responsible for the grotesque defacing of Facebook tribute pages, including that of dead Melbourne teen Cameron Lowe, is a high-ranking Ku Klux Klan member who served two years in jail for viciously beating a 16-year-old Latino boy.
Jarred Hensley, 28, from Cincinnati, Ohio, outed himself to a pair of Australian vigilantes on a website chat room used by his group to organise and gloat about desecrating scores of Facebook tribute pages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I spent a chunk of my 20s living elsewhere. London, Berlin and Glasgow – genuinely hard, complex and sometimes troubled cities. They had their fair share of blokes out looking for trouble, but like most big cities you always felt safe, despite the edgy undercurrent.
You’d go out at night and there would be drunks and arguments, but the overwhelming impression was of people enjoying themselves.
Like most expats, I read emails, articles and third-hand accounts of my home city of Melbourne, which apparently had gone to the dogs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Royal pardon for Harry Breaker
Morant has been refused in a modern-day appeal that is as mysterious as the century-old case that saw the Australian soldier executed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
People being treated for severe acne should have their mental health closely monitored, a study reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A pioneering research effort could shrink a supercomputer to the size of a sugar cube, IBM scientists say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has updated and re-released open-source software for cleaning, analyzing and transforming data sets, now called Google Refine.
The software, originally called Freebase Gridworks, came with Metaweb, a company Google purchased in July — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A nuclear cooperation agreement which will see Australia sell uranium to Russia has been ratified by the countries’ two leaders at the G20 summit in South Korea — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Located on a hillside property overlooking Hayden Lake, the Henry Point project is a 830 sqf loft addition and intensive reprogramming of an existing lake cabin in northern Idaho. The project connects visitors of family and friends to the surrounding landscape through a series of decks and operable facades that create large indoor/outdoor gathering spaces as well as two independent living areas — via ArchDaily
The RSPCA has described a sentence given to a man who beat, kicked and threw a puppy as inadequate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A city man who said he was wounded in a daylight shooting ate his lunch before asking his father for a ride to the hospital — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The home has two Medium cabins from the company’s SML Series and a site-built bridge connecting each wing. One side features a kitchen, living room, laundry, and half-bathroom, while the other side features two bedrooms and a full bathroom — via Jetson Green
Remember the old saying about being innocent until proven guilty
? Well, the latest version of New Zealand’s Copyright Amendment Bill has a farcical reversal of this, which has created rightful outrage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The amount of unpaid overtime Australians work is again in the spotlight, with a new survey revealing four in five overtime workers want to work fewer hours — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Roman Catholic monks in Switzerland have placed job advertisements in newspapers as part of a recruitment drive — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Florida teen was arrested for burglary after he left himself logged into his MySpace account at the scene of the crime — via redwolf.newsvine.com
UK police forces are steeling themselves for an audit of body parts. The grim task will enable forces to take stock of the parts collected as evidence over the years and release to relatives those parts no longer needed for legal purposes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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