Want to decorate your home or office with an octopus but find they are too slimy and large to fit anywhere? Well, trouble yourself no more! Check out this adorable red hand-made smiling octopus — via Shana Logic
Sydney Hospital, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Sydney Hospital, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Sydney Hospital, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
After a year and a half of pregnancy, Tanda, the Tel Aviv Zoological Centre‘s White Rhino gave birth to a beautiful, healthy male calf on 15 June. Keepers were waiting for the birth to happen, as they had observed Tanda pushing a way her 4.5 year old son Tibor. When Tanda secluded herself from the rest of the rhinos on Friday morning they knew the moment they were waiting for was about to arrive — via ZooBorns
This birdhouse features the look of those little Airstream trailers everyone loves. Crafted using the highest quality materials — so they will last as long as the real ones
— via Etsy
Here’s the latest machine from the Australian headquarters of Deus. Called Gicleur
, it’s one of the most stylish Kawasaki W650 customs we’ve ever seen. Gicleur is French for jet
, and it’s a critical part of an espresso machine: the nozzle that governs the water that flows through the coffee — via Bie EXIF
Octopus Rainbow! You’ll just love carrying around this super cute little pouch! It features an adorable rainbow of little octopi on black. Each pouch is fully-lined and has an extra zippered pocket inside – bonus — via Shana Logic
This is quite possibly my favourite yarn bombing of all time. Sarah Rudder created a knitted R2D2 cover for a concrete street post in Bellingham, Washington — via CRAFT
On 2 June Monarto Zoo welcomed its first Cheetah cub in several years. Keepers were surprised by the birth because recent pregnancy tests on mother Nakula came up negative. Anna Bennet, Team Leader of Carnivores, said the cub stayed with Mum until keepers decided it was best to hand raise her — via ZooBorns
It’s hard to improve on the Norton Commando. But Bill Becker, creator of the lovely Aermacchi Sprintwe featured a little while ago, has taken the iconic British motorcycle to a new level.
Bill bought the Commando on eBay as a project bike with a rebuilt motor and powder coated frame. Everything else was in a state of disassembly and arrived in three boxes — via Bike EXIF
Tractor beams, a staple of science fiction, may be moving closer to science fact. In a paper published earlier this spring, physicists have proposed a structure that may enable light to pull objects.
Normally, light pushes on objects, albeit weakly. In the field of optical manipulation optical tweezers employ this pushing force to move microscopic objects from atoms to bacteria. The ability to pull as well would increase the precision and scope of optical manipulation. For spaceflight, engineers have proposed sails to capture the force exerted by light.
Rather than towing space vessels, the newly proposed tractor beam might be more useful in biology or medicine. If you want to pull something towards you, you just reduce the pressure,
says Mordechai Segev, a physicist at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, who describes his team’s idea in an April Optics Express paper. You make a little bit of vacuum,
he adds. The problem is that in sensitive medical applications, such as lung surgery, it is important not to change the pressure or introduce any new gases. Here, the light will be the suction device,
he says, so the pressure would not change at all. It is just the light
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating took a swipe at German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday and warned Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy were likely to leave the EU common currency in the years ahead.
Speaking at the inaugural Eureka Congress in Melbourne, Mr Keating said the four countries which have been struggling with higher bond yields in recent weeks would leave the union rather than ceding control to EU headquarters in Brussells.
Mr Keating targeted the German Chancellor for particular criticism suggesting: A lack of political will to change is the biggest problem. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is intellectually limited and she is taking the whole world down.
In a vintage performance, Mr Keating aimed a line of invective at the leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott, dubbing him an pre-copernican obscurantist
.
If the public takes him they will get a large kick in the bum and they will deserve it,
Mr Keating said.
However, the famously sharp-tongued politician was almost as hard on the current minority Labor government suggesting: They just don’t have a convincing and persuasive narrative— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is joining with attorney Venkat Balasubramani of the law firm Focal PLLC to represent The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman in a bizarre lawsuit targeting the online comic strip’s fundraising campaign in support of the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation.
I have a right to express my opinion, whether Mr Carreon likes it or not,
said Inman. While the lawsuit may be silly, the harm it can do is very real — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Drobo today announced a new form factor for its backup storage array and for the first time you can carry this one around. It also announced the Drobo 5D array, with up to 20TB capacity and six times the performance of its predecessor.
Along with two new data backup devices, the company announced support on its products for the Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 external device interconnect specifications.
Drobo’s first portable array, the Drobo Mini, holds up to four 2-in. to 5-in. drives and weighs only about 2.5 pounds. It can store up to 3TB of data. The Mini will retail for about $599 without drives and support both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the raccoons I took care of last year has decided to share her babies with me
Are you in need of some new, glitzy jewels? Check out No.2 Pencil for a Mod Podge-fuelled jewellery tutorial from Melissa — via CRAFT
Google has launched a new website in a bid to save endangered languages from disappearing forever.
Called ‘The Endangered Languages Project’, the search giants hopes by using technology to encourage collaboration between people familiar with the languages at risk and providing a comprehensive database, it will help preserve these historical words.
Today we’re introducing something we hope will help [preserve languages on the brink of disappearing]: the Endangered Languages Project, a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about endangered languages,
wrote Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman, project managers of Google’s Endangers Languages Project, on the company blog — via The Telegraph
Global cloud computing player and retailer Amazon today confirmed that it had added an edge
location in Sydney to speed up the delivery of content to Australians, confirming a deployment model which was the subject of speculation some 12 months ago.
The company has long been suspected of rolling out data centre infrastructure in Australia to support its Amazon Web Services business, which is one of the largest global cloud computing infrastructure players. Many within the industry have believed the first step in such an investment could be the deployment of a so-called edge
node which would allow the company to speed up the deployment of content to local users, ahead of a potential larger data centre roll-out down the track — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama), photographed by renowned underwater filmmaker Howard Hall, gather off of Whyalla, South Australia to spawn. Males display mating colors and compete aggressively to mate with females
Mother goats can remember their kids’ voices more than a year after they have been separated, a study has found.
Researchers recorded calls made by five-week-old pygmy goats and played them back to their mothers.
The mother goats were able to recognise their individual kids’ calls after as long as 12 to 18 months.
Study leader Dr Elodie Briefer, from Queen Mary, University of London, said: Because of the difficulties involved in following the same individuals over years, long-term recognition has been studied in only a few species.
Our study shows that animals remember socially important partners.
The research is reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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