A Pablo Picasso print has sold for 1.3 million pounds ($2.1 million), a record for a single print sold at auction, Sotheby’s said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The dial of the Omega watch has been created in black or silver. It is decorated with a signature “Geneva Waves” pattern. The chronograph counters are framed by three applied rings. You will notice that the silver dial has blackened sub-dial rings, while the black dial has silver rings, creating a fine contrast. The counters feature a one-of-a-kind “beehive” surface that distinguishes the Speedmaster Broad Arrow Co-Axial from other members of the collection. The date window is found at 4:30. — via Infoniac
Guy Consolmagno, who is one of the pope’s astronomers, said he would be “delighted” if intelligent life was found among the stars — via solidarity-nite.newsvine.com
A woman who was eating pig’s feet in bed accidentally cut her friend in the arm — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Textile Blog has an interesting post on Owen Jones’ 1867 book on Chinese ornament, Examples of Chinese Ornament.
These examples of Chinese decorative work show the real beauty of composition, colour tone and balance that was the result of centuries of constant experimentation and innovation by generations of Chinese artists and designers. Certainly a long way from the overly fussy and often trite European version that was Chinoiserie.
— via CRAFT
It’s a collaboration between Tony Scott of T3 Racing and Mark Wilsmore of the Ace Café, and it’s marketed with Stonebridge Motor Co. branding. Triumph’s familiar air-cooled parallel twin motor has been heavily reworked, with a 904 big bore kit, high-lift cams and revised throttle bodies. This boosts power by 35% and reportedly delivers 80bhp at the back wheel — via Bike EXIF
Investigators Geri Sullivan, Gavi Levy Haskell and Susan Levy Haskell have knitted a gallery full of bacteria, a few varieties of which are shown here. The undertook the project partly in honor of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, where the theme is BACTERIA and where everyone will be covered, one way or another, with bacteria — via Improbable Research
A psychiatric patient who killed his flatmate in a frenzied
axe attack is to be detained indefinitely — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in the UK have developed a new treatment, similar to a paint, that could almost double the life of a transplanted organ — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pieces of an ancient Egyptian necropolis that was pillaged in 1999 have been found in Spain by an expert in Middle Eastern antiquities who spotted them in a shop — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Five South African doctors have been charged with performing illegal kidney transplants for rich Israelis using organs bought from poor Brazilians and Romanians — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A mother’s fear that her 12-year-old daughter was being stalked by a paedophile on Facebook sparked an in-depth, almost month-long investigation involving the Australian Federal Police.
But police have been left dumbfounded by the discovery that the person who harassed and sent pornographic images to the girl via the site was another 12-year-old girl — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Magento is a stunningly powerful e-commerce platform. In this miniseries, we’ll learn how to get started with the platform, get to know the terminologies, set up a store and all related aspects of it and finally learn how to customize it to make it our very own — via Nettuts+
The Pontos Decentrique Phases de Lune watch demonstrates a one-of-a-kind time display. At 10 o’clock, you will notice an off-centre dial with a unique single hand keeping track of the minutes and the dragging hours displayed with help of a disk. At 4 o’clock, the main dial features two superposed disks displaying the phases of the moon and indicating day and night. Yet, the true zest of the dial is presented at 6 o’clock – the dial clearly displays the date in a metalized sapphire crystal window on a disk based on the patented return system conceived exclusively in-house — via Infoniac
High fructose corn syrup — an ingredient in everything from soda to ketchup to pickles — has such a bad reputation that the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) wants to change the name of the popular sweetener to corn sugar
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Four more former leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime have been indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The release of Internet Explorer 9 beta garnered a lot of attention and positive reviews. Cribbing from Chrome’s UI and significantly boosting speed over previous iterations of the browser, IE9 looks like a real winner — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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