Steve McQueen’s 1970 Husqvarna 400 Cross is going under the hammer at Bonhams’ annual Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction in January — via Steve McQueen motorcycle
MARC Architects have designed the Villa S2 in the IJburg area of Amsterdam, The Netherlands — via CONTEMPORIST
Girard-Perregaux will soon release a new version of the iconic Sea Hawk dive watch — via Perpetuelle
Billings Jackson Design together with Piercy & Company designed the conversion of a defence tower in Suffolk, England, built in 1808, into a 21st Century private residence — via CONTEMPORIST
Thick, handsome moustaches have long been prized by men throughout the Middle East as symbols of masculine virility, wisdom and maturity.
But not all moustaches are created equal, and in recent years, increasing numbers of Middle Eastern men have been going under the knife to attain the perfect specimen.
Turkish plastic surgeon Selahattin Tulunay says the number of moustache implants he performs has boomed in the last few years. He now performs 50-60 of the procedures a month, on patients who hail mostly from the Middle East and travel to Turkey as medical tourists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Fishing Cat kittens at the Smithsonian National Zoo are growing up purrfectly, spending their days romping around their yard and catching fish! And yes, Fishing Cats do like to get into the water. They use their flattened tail like a rudder to steer them when they paddle around. But sometimes all that activity wears them out and they need to take a kitten nap — via ZooBorns
Take a fun break from your holiday making with this amigurumi crocheted gnome pattern from Else at Else’s Bellas Artes. Crochet him up, then add your own custom details — via MAKE
Google has acquired Canadian startup Bufferbox for an undisclosed sum.
The self-serve parcel pick-up station outfit, which started life at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, announced it had been scooped up by the advertising giant on Friday.
As online shopping becomes a bigger part of how you buy products, we look forward to playing a part in bringing that experience to the next level. We are happy to share that it will be business as usual for our users and we are looking forward to continuing to build out the service,
Bufferbox said in a blog post on its website.
It claims to make rage-inspiring missed deliveries a thing of the past
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
For more than a year now, EFF has encouraged mainstream press publications like the New York Times to aggressively defend WikiLeaks’ First Amendment right to publish classified information in the public interest and denounce the ongoing grand jury investigating WikiLeaks as a threat to press freedom.
Well, we are now seeing why that is so important: at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on July 11th, some members of Congress made it clear they also want New York Times journalists charged under the Espionage Act for their recent stories on President Obama’s Kill List
and secret US cyberattacks against Iran. During the hearing, House Republicans “pressed legal experts Wednesday on whether it was possible to prosecute reporters for publishing classified information,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
In addition, the Washingtonian‘s Shane Harris reported a month ago that a senior
Justice Department official made it clear that reporters who talked to sources about classified information were putting themselves at risk of prosecution
.
Leaks big and small have been happening for decades — even centuries — and the most recent are comparable to several others. No journalist has ever been prosecuted under the Espionage Act and it has generally been accepted, even by Congress’s own research arm, that the publication of government secrets by the press is protected speech under the First Amendment. Yet the government is actively investigating WikiLeaks and now threatening others for just that.
The mainstream media may see little in common with Assange’s digital publication methods or his general demeanour, but what he is accused of is virtually indistinguishable from what other reporters and newspapers do every day: poke, prod, and cajole sources within the government to give up classified information that newspapers then publish to inform the public of the government’s activities — via EFF
My birthday catering company sucks. Do NOT hire these guys — via Daniel Stewart
Just round the corner from the Wrenchmonkees’ workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of Europe’s top independent Harley builders. James Roper-Caldbeck builds sweet, clean vintage bikes under the Customs From Jamesville banner, and this Sportster-based machine is his latest creation — via Bike EXIF
WordPress is a wonderful blogging platform and CMS but creating a theme isn’t easy if you don’t know the ropes. Bones simplifies the process by providing you with starting code that’s already optimised, functions across browser types and versions (especially mobile), and is easy to understand.
We’ve walked you through creating a WordPress theme before, but ours isn’t optimised for mobile browsers and doesn’t offer the added features and simplicity of Bones. While either will work, Bones is built on some great existing platforms and is geared to making the process easy for you. You don’t have to just dive into the code, either. There’s already a great tutorial to help you get started. If you’re looking to build a WordPress blog with your own custom theme, be sure to check it out — via Lifehacker
Australia’s copyright law and the alleged draft text from the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement limit the ability of internet service providers (ISPs) to cache content locally, according to iiNet.
iiNet’s comments came in a submission (PDF) to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) review of the Copyright Act.
The company estimated that 70 percent of the traffic it delivers to its customers comes from overseas, and, as such, in order to reduce the cost of transmission from the US and other countries to Australia, caching content locally is a vital necessity. iiNet estimated that caching can reduce transmission overheads to 1 percent of what they would otherwise be.
Despite its necessity, iiNet said that caching is not currently allowed under Australian law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The new luxury timepiece from Sekonda is fitted with a 19-jewel hand-wound movement with a tourbillon complication, the calibre HS 2233, and has a retail price of £1,295. The watch is accurate to -10 / + 30 seconds per day, has a 40-hour power reserve and has a frequency of 28,800 vph — via Watchuseek
Adelaide is set to become Australia’s first capital to offer free Wi-Fi outdoors in the city centre.
The South Australian government and Adelaide City Council plan to provide free internet coverage in public areas such as Rundle Mall, Victoria Square, and the Riverbank precinct by the end of next year.
The city service would help workers, shoppers, students, restaurant goers, tourists, and everyone who needs information on the go, Premier Jay Weatherill said on Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Leijh Kappelhoff Seckel van den Dobbelsteen architecten have transformed the former Dutch Reformed Evangelism Building in Haarlo into a unique loft — via ArchDaily
Baumraum have designed a new Tree House in forests of Hechtel-Eksel in Belgium — via CONTEMPORIST
An electromechanical clock featuring wood gears, an odometer display,an eight-bell striker, and and a novel maintaining power self-winder
— via Steve Niles
Police have smashed a Romanian organised crime gang that allegedly hacked into the computer systems of small businesses, with credit card details of 30,000 Australians used in $30 million worth of illegal transactions around the world.
An Australian Federal Police and Romanian National Police investigation led to the arrest of 16 gang members this week, and seven people in Romania have been charged.
It is said to be the biggest data theft investigation in Australia’s history — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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