TSS Nato G10 straps are of the highest quality and finish available – period ! All TSS Nato G10 watch straps are fitted with superior quality stainless steel hardware and not the inferior zinc plated brass fittings commonly supplied with the vast majority of cheaply produced G10 straps found elsewhere. If you are anything less than 100% impressed by the quality and finish of these straps – Watchworx TSS will without question or quibble refund your money should you wish to return any design purchased — via The Strap Shop
We set out to recreate the nylon watch strap worn by Sean Connery on his Rolex Submariner in the classic James Bond films Goldfinger and Thunderball. For years, watch enthusiasts have been buying “Bond NATO” nylon straps that bear very little resemblance to the strap used in the film. Now, with Blue Ray and HD televisions, we finally know the real pattern used in the watch strap worn by Commander Bond. After meticulous research, the Corvus Watch Company can now offer the REAL BOND NATO watchstrap — via Corvus Watch
One of the adjustments those new to the Mac need to make is to familiarize themselves with the Command key. Although I switch hit and use Windows at work and a Mac when I’m not working, I’ve always preferred it over Control. Its proximity next to the space bar allows me to use my thumb, as opposed to my pinky finger with the Control key, for keyboard shortcuts. I find it particularly faster for copying and pasting. The clover-looking key (it’s actually an infinite loop), which had always been accompanied by an Apple logo until recently, sometimes behaves in ways similar to the Control key in the Windows world. At other times, however, it doesn’t. Whether you’re a recent Mac switcher or a seasoned Mac user, here are some shortcuts using the Command key to help you speed your way through tasks — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A visual representation of colours in different cultures — via Information is Beautiful
The Ben Rose Home — site of the famous movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Cantilevered over the ravine, these two steel and glass buildings — which can never be duplicated — have incredible vistas of the surrounding woods. This is a unique property designed by A James Speyer and David Haid, both notable architects of the 20th Century
I ran across Brian Dereu’s hollow spy coins via boingboing and was fascinated
Had a chat to Brian and asked if he only made them up according to historical spy coins or could do requests. I’m quite fond of Buffalo nickels and Brian was happy to make me up a Buffalo nickel spy coin. It arrived this week and is seriously geeky cool
A once-secret 1940s tunnel complex under the centre of London that housed military intelligence and linked the Cold War hotline phone between Washington and Moscow has been put up for sale
A new visual search engine could help photographers keep track of their photographs whenever, and wherever, they appear on the internet. The TinEye search engine, developed by Canadian company Idee, allows users to search by uploading a picture rather than typing in a keyword. It then conducts a pixel by pixel search across the internet, flagging up all instances of that image even if it’s been cropped, merged or digitally altered in some way
In an effort to combat air pollution, a Dutch town has paved some of its streets with air-purifying concrete. It contains a titanium dioxide-based additive that utilises sunlight to turn car exhaust into harmless nitrates. It was shown to do this in a lab and now the scientists are interested in just how much this will affect the air quality around the road. They will sample the air quality by a normal road and by this newly paved one — via Slashdot
A Filipino scientist says he has created a new composite building board made of chicken feathers that could be a major breakthrough for the construction industry in Asia
A team of clockmakers broke into the Pantheon in Paris in September 2005 and spent a year fixing the historic and neglected clock, which had been abandoned by the authorities. They were prosecuted for breaking in, but have just been cleared of the charges in court. The group, Untergunther
have a catalogue of subterranean lo-jinks to their name
Got US$1.5 million lying around? You can buy a Titan Missile Silo [eBay listing] and wait out the apocalypse. Not sure where the silo is, but the real estate agent (who wants a US$10,000 earnest money
escrow before he’ll show it to you) has an Orange County 949 area code — via boingboing
Haruo Suekichi has made thousands of watches, each with an individual name. And to think it all started with a one-armed man at a flea market in Japan — via William Gibson
Steve McQueen’s 1963 Ferrari is expected to fetch US$800,000 to US$1.2m at auction in August. Christie’s auctioneers unveiled the metallic-brown Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso on Friday. McQueen bought the car, with beige leather interior, in 1963 and used it as his everyday runaround for 10 years. It’s probably the best example of a Ferrari Lusso that’s out there on the marketplace,
said Christie’s Christopher Sanger. The car will be sold at auction on 16 August at Monterey Jet Centre in California
The first deliveries of Clocky, which runs away from drowsy owners who don’t get up in time, were made just in time for Christmas, and one early user says the clock, which was an Internet sensation when it was first announced, is appropriately aggravating
Google Earth, the satellite imaging site that brought us hovering cars, is now the source of a mysterious new find — this time an unusual man-made landscape in a remote part of China. The Chinese site based in the very remote Huangyangtan region, appears to be a small-scale model of a piece of territory complete with snow-topped mountains, streams and valleys via Warren Ellis
While the underseat storage is somewhat lacking on the Honda Lead 100, I did find out that I can stick a pide box into one of those green bags from Coles and attach it to the vindaloo hook in the footwell.
The handle length isn’t too long, so wild swinging is avoided in transit and the bag sits comfortably between my feet without becoming an annoyance.
The vindaloo hook is a good thing. It brings me delicious pide goodness.
Saw this Cityrail anagram map in one of boingboing’s recent spate of anagram map postings, and thought it would be amusing to fellow Sydneysiders. It appears that making English anagrams from aboriginal place names is quite difficult.
The station pictured is Bexley North, a.k.a. Xylene Throb.
Like most creatives who prefer working on Apples, I’ve been hanging out for some sort of concrete evidnece that the Adobe CS2 suite will run well/much better on the new Intel-based Macs under the Rosetta emulator, or that Adobe will release a Universal Binary update. Well I need a new mac within the next week, and decided to just go ahead and place an order for a 17-inch PowerBook any ways. I’ve also managed to find a two-tone purple laptop bag over at the Crumpler site named, The Dreadful Embarrassment.
However, it’d still be nice to know when Adobe are going to make that Universal move. I have no concrete evidence, but the guys over at Photoshop TV have this for us to mull over: No Intel-based OS X version of CS until CS3?
And on another tangent, you can now get a diploma in advanced studies in character animation over at Animation Mentor.com.
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