The Timex T2M454 Perpetual Calendar is a very solid and understated watch. The stainless steel case measures in a 41mm in diameter, while remaining a relatively slender 11mm thick. The matched stainless bracelet measures in at 21mm, and looks to be proportionately correct with the rest of the watch — via Wrist Watch Review
Digital Art — Ink, Tea And Watercolour — via Fine Art America
One of our favourite outside activities at our home is drawing with chalk on the driveway. You can play hopscotch, four-square, and of course draw and create silly stories. My daughters and I were talking one day as we played hopscotch about how to make chalk and I thought to myself, let’s try it! It ended up being quite a lot of fun — via oh my! handmade goodness
Shiro Nakajima, the CEO of leading Japanese custom workshop Ritmo Sereno, is a keen vintage racer. He’s been campaigning his Moto Guzzi Ambassador for a couple of years now, and felt it was time for a refresh. In its original incarnation—which we revealed just over two years ago—the Guzzi looked more like a road machine than a racer. Nakajima has now stripped the last vestiges of excess from his bike, and it’s looking better than ever — via Bike EXIF
Often times, for whatever reason, the Internet connection on my Mac will lock up. Only restarting the Airport or Ethernet interfaces seem to resolve the issue in a timely manner. (This is different from a router crash which requires a manual restart of the router — in my case an Airport Extreme.) I have developed some interconnected scripts that will automatically accomplish this task for me when attached to launchctl. This is important for me because I often have to access files over the internet and if the connection has locked up there is no way for me to access them without manual intervention — via Mac OSX Hints
The annual $27-billion boost to Australia’s productivity from internet innovation is at threat from policymakers who would rather restrict online access than embrace it, Google’s Australia boss has warned.
The head of Google Australia and New Zealand, Nick Leeder, said he was particularly troubled by restrictive policies from governments in China and Iran, but also by previous efforts from Australia’s Labor government to introduce internet filtering legislation.
His comments echo remarks by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who told the Guardian at the weekend that freedom of the internet was under attack from governments that tried to control access and communication by their citizens, attempts by the entertainment industry to thwart piracy, and the rise of walled gardens such as Facebook and Apple, which tightly control what software can be released on their platforms
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a Pentagon hallway hung an austere portrait of a Navy man lost at sea in 1908, with his brass buttons, blue-knit uniform and what looks like meticulously blow-dried hair.
Wait. Blow-dried hair?
The portrait of Ensign Chuck Hord
, framed in the heavy gilt typical of government offices, may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history. Chuck Hord
can’t be found in Navy records of the day. It isn’t even a real painting. The textured, 30-year-old photo is actually of Captain Eldridge Hord III, 53 years old, known to friends as Tuck
, a military retiree with a beer belly and greying hair who lives in Burke, Virginia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s a move that will make Australia’s bricks and mortar retailers shudder.
Amazon — the world’s largest online retailer — is in the market for a local warehouse in Australia as part of its massive global distribution network.
The global giant, which made its name as an online book seller, is now said to be turning its eyes to the Asia-Pacific region.
Agents say the group has been making it known in real estate circles that its expansion plans will include Australia, due to the supply of good-quality warehouses at attractive rentals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 100 schoolgirls in north-eastern Afghanistan are in hospital suffering from suspected poisoning.
The health director of Takhar province said the girls fell ill shortly after drinking water at their school.
An education official in Kabul said preliminary investigations suggested the water had been poisoned.
A local official in Takhar suggested that people opposed to education for girls were responsible — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Augmented reality glasses targeted at athletes and other sportsmen and women are being developed by Oakley
The business’s chief executive told Bloomberg that the firm had been working on the project for 15 years and had filed about 600 related patents.
Colin Baden said that the aim was to create a self-contained unit that could also communicate with smartphones.
The announcement comes a fortnight after Google released a concept video of its own heads-up display project — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An electronic paper watch designed by a Canadian entrepreneur to work alongside smartphones has raised more than $3m (£1.8m; 2.2m euros) in less than a week on net funding site Kickstarter.
It is a record for the site which crowdsources cash to fund start-ups.
Eric Migicovsky initially sought $10,000 over a five-week period but the total, six days in, now stands at $3.4m.
It is the fifth Kickstarter project to make more than $1m.
The Pebble watch reached the $1m mark in 28 hours. The firm behind the device, which has been designing smartwatches for three years, said that it was blown away
by the support — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The source code for the original Prince of Persia game has been released on github by its author, Jordan Mechner. This release comes three weeks after Jordan announced the find of a box containing old floppy disks that had been forgotten in the back of a closet for 20+ years. A digital archaeology
effort was launched to recover the contents of the floppy disks, with the help of Jason Scott from textfiles.com. Some photos from the ‘copy party’ have also been posted — via Slashdot
If you’ve got a furry little friend, check out this adorable DIY pocket pet fleece hammock. These pet rats look so cosy, and it’s a great way to use up scrap fleece — via CRAFT
Aermacchi was a fabricator of aircraft for Italy’s war machine during the Second World War. After the defeat of the Axis powers, the company turned its efforts to the production of motorcycles and bikes. In collaboration with Harley-Davidson, many Aermacchi motorcycles found their way to America in the 1960s to meet the growing demand for two-wheeled transport. And this is one of them, a 350cc Sprint now owned by Philadelphia-based Bill Becker.
Rebuilding motorcycles is Bill Becker’s passion. After retiring from a successful 40 year career in architectural design and construction, Becker now turns his energy to what he calls performance based design
— taking vintage motorcycles, fixing what worked well and improving what didn’t — via Bike EXIF
At the age of 65, Diane Pieknik decides to play ice hockey for the first time and joins a women’s 18 and over hockey league
The London 2012 opening ceremony is going to be called Isles of Wonder, but there can be no wonderment more wonderful than the fact that Olympics organisers wanted Keith Moon to perform.
Moon has been dead for 34 years.
The band’s manager, Bill Curbishley, told the Sunday Times he had been approached to see if Moon would be available
to play with the surviving members this summer.
I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the Who’s anthemic line ‘I hope I die before I get old’,
came the excellent reply.
If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
I thought I got into journalism to tell truths and right wrongs and occasionally get into parties I wouldn’t normally be cool enough to go to. Right now though, with a few exceptions, professional journalism is rarely seen as an exercise in holding power to account. Justly or unjustly, the media, especially but not exclusively the mainstream, corporate-controlled press, has come to be seen as the enemy of the voiceless rather than their champion. Justly or unjustly, few people believe what they read in the papers or watch on the news any more, because belief has long ceased to be quite as important as complicity when it comes to the Daily Mail, the Daily Post or News International. On the streets of Athens and Madrid as well as during the London riots of August 2011, journalists have been threatened and attacked by desperate young people making havoc in the streets. Why? Not because these young people don’t want to be seen, but because they don’t want to be seen through the half-closed eyes of privilege.
Journalists are losing any case we ever had for special pleading. For the younger generation of digital natives, there is no particular reason to be deferential towards anyone who happens to be at a protest with a phone that can get the internet and an audience of thousands: it’ll be you and a hundred others, and unless the police have given you special privileges to write precisely what they want and nothing else, your press pass is less and less likely to keep you safe from arrest. As more and more ordinary men, women and children without degrees in journalism acquire the skills and technology to broadcast text and video, the media has become another cultural territory which is gradually being re-occupied. Those on the ground do not have to wait for the BBC and MSNBC to turn up with cameras: they make the news and the reporters follow. They have grown up in a world of branding and they know how to create a craze and set the agenda. They occupy the media. And the media is starting to worry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian-based scientist is hoping a trip into space will help him unlock the secret to creating the next generation of glass fibre for transferring data at up to 1,000 times current rates.
Dr Martin Castillo, the technical director of phenomena and microgravity research at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), has been trying for years to transform the special form of glass into usable fibres.
But he says he has been frustrated at every turn — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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