He’s a little greyer than he used to be, but other than that, Bear, who disappeared six years ago, is the same old dog Frank and Jeanie Flores knew and loved. The Flores family has no idea where the dog, a brindle-coloured lab and chow mix, has been or what he’s been up to the past six years
A label that changes colour as fruit ripens is allowing shoppers to see whether pears are ready to eat without have to squeeze them. The system, developed at the Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand, uses a punnet that traps the volatile compounds fruit emit. As the fruit ripen, the colour of the label changes in response to changing concentrations of these compounds
Tapestry is a series of RSS feeds for online comics. They help you keep up to date from within your favourite news aggregator, especially if you happen to miss a few days. While more feeds are coming soon, the small selection does have some gems, including: Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, Non Sequitur and The 5th Wave
Human Pacman is a project of the Mixed Reality Lab of the National University of Singapore. Players don back pack computers, VR gloves, and ‘mixed reality’ goggles which overlay virtual cookies — shown as floating spheres — on a first person view of the real world. Aided by a helper who can view the entire game board, players realise their pacman fantasies as they physically move around in a wide-area setting, eating cookies and avoiding monsters
If you’re heading into a case modding project, the object is usually to improve on the original. In this case, a serious xBox nerd unintentionally turned his gaming machine into Orac
The controversial plan is set for the next session of Parliament, introducing the possibility of mandatory identity cards containing biometric information and tied to a central database
Hibernating bears have a unique ability to stop their bones from degenerating during long periods of inactivity, a finding that is stimulating the search for new treatments for osteoporosis
If you’re looking for a gift for someone with busy fingers and a sense of humour, try Subversive Cross Stitch
Amusing photos and commentary on repairing an injured Cthulhu. Which I’m sure will come in handy if my Cthulhu ever tangles with the dogs and meets the fate of the Big Bad Wolf.
The wolf puppet in question was damaged after a run in with a Malamute puppy. The manufacturer, while making excellent toys, was less than helpful in providing replacements for the custom made eyes and teeth that were damaged. He’s still in need of an eye surround, but I did find that you can make superior fangs yourself by felting wool into shape.
See Cthulhu and the Big Bad Wolf subjugate a Husky.
Note the nice set of fangs the Big Bad Wolf is sinking into the neck of the surprisingly patient and indifferent Husky.
Cthulhu reigns supreme after besting the mighty Husky in tentacular warfare.
Francisco and Sheila were ideal parents. They raised 25 babies, taught them good survival skills, and sent many of them off to live on their own. Francisco and Sheila were Mexican grey wolves, or lobos, pioneers in a US federal programme to restore the endangered Mexican grey wolf, the rarest and most genetically distinct subspecies of grey wolf in North America. Although captive themselves, Francisco and Sheila taught their pups such good wolf traits that many are thriving in the wild
Opte.org announced that they have successfully mapped the entire internet. They are currently compiling a LGL map for all to see. Currently they have a LGL map that has over 5 million edges and has an estimated 50 million hop count. And it only took them 252.68 hours to complete
Replacing a pipe organ is no small undertaking. These majestic instruments are costly and difficult to build, and demand months of tuning and tweaking to deliver a perfect sound. In Europe, birthplace of the organ and long the dominant producer of them, they are also intensely political. When Lausanne decided in 1999 to replace the cathedral’s aging Swiss organ with a new one from an organ maker in Gloucester, Massachusetts, it was viewed by many Swiss as an act of heresy. Never before had a European cathedral entrusted such a sacred task to an American firm
I’ve just had a client asking me for some source files from some mini flash quizzes I created some months back. I was silly and didn’t make it clear as to who owns the source files. I thought they just wanted the swf files, the final output for the web site, not the source files so they can just take my work and do whatever the hell they want with it, such as bastardise my stuff. The client doesn’t really know what a source file is or does. This took a bit of time explaining, but I think I got there.
This client asked for these about 4 months ago, and told me they only wanted them so they could change background colour. I said that will only take me an hour anyway. Client was fine with that and said they’d get back to me with the new colour and never did.
Any how, the client and I are not tearing strips off each other which is nice, and it should be all resolved in a couple of hours when they meet with the new company they are now taking their business over to. If they can recreate what I did for cheaper, then fine. If they want to use my source files, they pay.
I particularly found this article, When you’re asked for artwork files, quite useful in helping me sort my head out so that I could call back the client in a calm and coherent manner.
Yes, before I do any more freelance work I shall be looking at addressing this in the beginning like I should’ve.
Silly.
Moving onto something a little more cultured is a gallery of amazing three dimensional footpath chalk drawings by Kurt Wenner
Federal intervention has failed to stop the ACT passing landmark legislation creating the new offence of industrial manslaughter. Negligent employers face penalties of up to 25 years jail. The offence is designed to target negligent and reckless behaviour which results in the death of an employee. Individuals found guilty face lengthy prison terms, while corporations can be fined up to $5 million
Just half a litre of blood and a few hours could be all it takes to create a personalised body repair kit, if controversial claims prove true. TriStem, the small London-based company, says it can revert white blood cells into a stem-cell like state. This would make them capable of regenerating many body tissues and treating illnesses from heart disease to Parkinson’s. The company has now published some evidence, but many experts remain very sceptical
Just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day significantly reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics, a new study has found. The effect, which can be produced even by soaking a cinnamon stick your tea, could also benefit millions of non-diabetics who have blood sugar problem but are unaware of it
An 80-year-old woman used a ceremonial sword to successfully fight off two six-foot raiders who burst into her home. Angina sufferer Jean Freke grabbed the sword from the wall in her drawing-room after she was pushed to the ground. The widow wrestled with one of the burglars and brandished the weapon at the other — via Die Puny Humans
I have no idea if a Domo-kun phone is a real phone, a furry case, a case mod or an image manipulation, but all phones need little arms and teeth.
The Closet Beastie is a strange handmade toy that looks like a small buffalo. He has a pocket full of toys stolen from children’s closets.
You can never have too many amusing kitty images, so enjoy The Day Toonses Went Postal. More adorably cute kittens than you can poke a stick at, but this lot should come with a sacchyrine warning.
Also of note is the very pissed off LimeCat, the Cryptic Camouflage Final Exam and the scary Laibach marching kittens.
While it’s not a Yellow Bellied Sugar Glider, it certainly is a bad choice of head gear.
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