The CEO of Australia’s textile, clothing and footwear body has slammed the state of the today’s fashion industry, saying she is ashamed at some of the practices taking place — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Surgeons in Shanghai have operated on a 50-year-old Chinese man to remove a chopstick that he swallowed 28 years ago, state media reported — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the fundamental rules of architecture as taught in beginning design courses is the importance of pushing the system. An idea should be so wholly thought out and executed that the design rules and logic are obvious to anyone, even if it is at the most elementary level. Paul Rudolph, 1918-1997, understood without a doubt how to successfully design a building that could be read for what it was conceived to be, as is the case with the Milam Residence of Jacksonville, Florida — via ArchDaily
This coastal house was designed as a literal interpretation of the client’s initial brief. They requested a very private retreat, anti-social, even unfriendly to the street, as a counterpoint to their sociable city lives.
The only 2 windows to the street frontage are deep set and high, allowing no interior views, and the main 1st floor entry is reached via a 6 metre bridge. It is only once beyond this uninviting threshold, that the house gradually begins to open up to the surrounding ti tree covered dunes, with carefully selected views. This comes to a dramatic conclusion with the 6.5 metre tall window at the far end of the central spine of the house — via ArchDaily
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that can make the biggest differences in your wardrobe. If you find a pair of jeans that fit almost perfectly, with the exception of being just a smidge too short, it can ruin them. Suzannah of Adventures in Dressmaking shows you how to take those jeans and give them just enough length to perfect them — via CRAFT
In an effort to reduce illicit file-sharing, draft legislation was passed in Finland last week which will require Internet service providers to send letters to customers suspected of unauthorized sharing. The warnings will be initiated by copyright owners, but at no stage will Internet subscribers’ identities be compromised. A three strikes-style regime is not on the agenda — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A video showing them stumbling around the floor before keeling over in apparent paralysis has already notched up almost a million viewings — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US actress Laura Dern and her parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, have become the first family to be honoured together on Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Sewing Machine War was the first instance of what is today called a patent thicket
. The disputes prevented Singer from selling his invention, and tensions ran high in and out of court: When Howe personally called on Singer, Singer threatened to throw him down a flight of stairs.
But there’s a happy ending to the story, as your machine-stitched clothes evince. The Sewing Machine War ended with a just and lasting peace in 1856, when Orlando B Potter–a lawyer representing one of the plaintiffs — suggested a solution that Mossoff calls groundbreaking but also breathtakingly simple
: The patent-holders would combine their patents in a patent pool
and share the profits from selling the machines. The patent pool participants lived happily and wealthily ever after — or at least until 1877, when the last patent expired — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Ethiopian Caterpillar is an exquisite automaton from 1820 going to auction at Sotheby’s November sale in Geneva. The automaton is attributed to Henri Maillardet — creator of the famous drawing automaton now at the Franklin Institute — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The authorities in Kenya say game rangers have shot dead three suspected elephant poachers in two separate incidents over the past week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Luminous cells from jellyfish can be used to diagnose cancers deep inside the body, scientists have said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The New South Wales wheatbelt town of Trundle is offering to rent out vacant houses for $1 a week to help keep the town alive
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
When watchmaker Jan Silva got his first glimpse of the innards of the A Lange & Söhne Grande Complication 42500 pocketwatch, made in 1902, his heart sank. He saw that restoring them to anything resembling a working movement would be a Herculean labor.
The year was 2001. The watch had been brought to A Lange & Söhne’s headquarters in Glashütte, Germany by a married couple at the request of the watch’s owner, an elderly ex-housekeeper who had received the watch more than 50 years earlier as a gift from her employer. The owner wanted to know if it were worth repairing: time had turned it into a gunked-up, rusted mess — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Alpina makes sporty but classic watches. What does that mean?
you say? Well allow me to explain. The design of Alpina watches has always aroused my curiosity. While they hold themselves as makers of wild, extreme,… Xtreme!
watches, they actually take much more influence from more simple classic timepieces. Which is an interesting concept when people are trying to push the envelope with design — via A Blog to Read
The UK governments Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has ominously proposed that broadband ISPs could introduce a new Mediation Service that would allow them the freedom to censor third party content on the internet, without court intervention, in response to little more than a public complaint — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internet Explorer 8 suffered an unexpected loss of market share in October – for the first since the browser became generally available as a beta in March of 2008. The reason is not so much the launch of the IE9 Beta, but a strong adoption rate of Google Chrome, which is now set to break the 10% mark by the end of the year. In Europe, Firefox is ready to take the lead from Microsoft. At this time, IE9 cannot stop IE’s bleeding of browser market share — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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