— via HackCollege
This whimsical store appeared in downtown Pittsburgh on 18 November. The sign on the door says the owners are on vacation, but that just covers the fact that this is an art installation by Toby Atticus Fraley — via Neatorama
Anti drink-driving advertising campaign from NZTA featuring ghost chips
— via NZTransportAgency
Some 15 years ago, Kawasaki’s Zephyr range kickstarted the trend for retro naked motorcycles in Europe. The styling was loosely based on the original Z1, and although the Zephyrs were criticized for lacking the fearsome character of the Z1, they sold well. This Zephyr, however, is much closer to the spirit of the original super bike. It’s a resto-mod from Sanctuary in Japan, and as usual, the work is immaculate — via Bike EXIF
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live
— via Martin Golding
River Murray Turtle embryos can adjust their developmental rate so that all the eggs in a clutch can hatch around the same time, a new study has found.
Young turtles face many challenges when they hatch and venture into the world. Synchronous hatching increases their survival chances, as predators are swamped by high numbers of prey. As a large group, hatchlings can also work together to dig their way out of the nest more easily.
Scientists investigated incubation and group hatching in the River Murray Turtle, which is a species restricted to the Murray-Darling River system in southeastern Australia. Although the temperature of the nest affects the developmental rate of eggs, researchers discovered another factor that influences their growth rate — embryo to embryo communication.
Turtle embryos are somehow communicating their developmental rates to each other so that they can emerge as a group,
said Ricky-John Spencer, zoologist from the University of Western Sydney, and co-author of the study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society toda — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dunja Weber has designed the Megaweave outdoor seat made of intertwined wrought iron bars — via CONTEMPORIST
Western and Chinese high-tech companies are competing aggressively to sell, install and manage intrusive and dangerous internet surveillance and communications control equipment for the world’s most brutal regimes, a six-month investigation has found.
During 2011, investigators from Privacy International, a London-based NGO, infiltrated a circuit of closed international surveillance equipment marketing conferences, obtaining private briefings and technical product specifications from contract-hungry sales executives. The group will publish its data and document haul on the net today, in conjunction with other campaigners.
The scale and audacity of the proposals in many of the companies’ documents and hand-out DVDs is breathtaking. They describe and offer for unrestricted sale technologies which were in existence a decade ago, but which were held in utmost secrecy by major intelligence agencies such as the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s GCHQ — via redwolf.newsvine.com
GCHQ has launched a code-breaker challenge as part of its attempts to unearth fresh talent from unconventional sources.
The signals intelligence agency’s canyoucrackit
challenge invites would-be codebreakers to crack a visual code at canyoucrackit.co.uk The campaign will be supported in social media channels, including blogs and forums.
GCHQ traditionally recruits graduates but it is also keen to employ talented self-taught codebreakers and those with an interest in ethical hacking too, an audience traditional recruitment schemes and advertising campaigns might miss. The agency has no interest in recruiting anyone who has even dabbled in criminal hacking — via redwolf.newsvine.com
paperclip bike rack, originally uploaded by Ardent Eye.
If you want a thoroughly modern Ducati with retro good looks, there’s an alternative to the Sport Classic range. It’s the Baines Imola, and this is the first one ever built. It’s the work of John Baines, the Silverstone-based Ducati racer and tuner. This bike is running a 1993 900 Supersport motor, and it’s also fitted with an original bevel Ducati fairing, seat and Conti-type pipes. The Baines Imola was produced for just four years, stopping when the Sport Classic hit the showrooms in 2005. Just 38 were made — via Bike EXIF
Elena Babich, a deputy of St Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly and a supporter of the city’s proposed anti-gay propaganda law, has suggested that rainbow flags and homosexuality will lead to national extinction. Now, the St Petersburg Times reports that Babich is linking the so-called gay problem
to the Jewish problem
, a term that is typically associated with Germany’s Third Reich — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Octopus Table is a beautiful (predominantly) bronze sculpture designed and sculpted by artist Isaac Krauss. He collaborated with Alex Friend who contributed wax and welding work to the piece. Together they put in 1500 hours of time to create this amazing 8-armed table — via Laughing Squid
Using fungi to kill coca and other illegal drug crops would be a risky tactic, as there is not enough data about how to control these killer moulds and what effect they could have on people and the environment, according to a US study released Wednesday.
The US Congress asked scientists to look into whether some types of fungi, called mycoherbicides, could stem the flow of illicit drugs into the United States by killing the plants used to make cocaine, marijuana and opium.
But scientists from the National Research Council, one of the national academies of science that advises US policymakers, said evidence about the fungi was sketchy and incomplete — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Millions of Hewlett Packard Co.’s LaserJet printers contain a security weakness that could allow attackers to take control of the systems, steal data from them and issue commands that could cause the devices to overheat and catch fire, according to two researchers from Columbia University.
Printers from other vendors likely have the same issue, leaving users of those devices exposed to similar threats, the researchers said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 3D printer is being used to create bone-like
material which researchers claim can be used to repair injuries.
The engineers say the substance can be added to damaged natural bone where it acts as a scaffold for new cells to grow.
It ultimately dissolves with no apparent ill-effects
, the team adds.
The researchers say doctors should be able to use the process to custom-order replacement bone tissue in a few years time
It’s nearly Christmas, which means a screening of the Great Escape. You can try it for real with the Triumph Bonneville T100 Steve McQueen Special Edition — although we would strongly recommend against it.
Yes, this is a Steve McQueen bike. Not the original Triumph T6, but a new version of the vintage-style Triumph Bonneville T100, inspired by that iconic movie motorcycle. New tech meets classic looks — via Retro To Go
Japanese component maker Rohm said it has developed an experimental chip that can send and receive signals at terahertz-range frequencies, which can carry data at speeds of up to 30Gbps and penetrate clothing and paper.
The company aims to bring the device to market in the next three or four years at an initial price of less than ¥1,000 (US$13), a spokeswoman said Tuesday. That would allow for its use in home electronics and other consumer devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The debate over whether to use liquid or fixed layouts on the web is one of those perennial and not-very-interesting debates like Mac vs Windows or Emacs vs Vim. What if, however, there were a simple way to offer up both a fixed width and liquid layout on the same page? Peace on the web? Well, not exactly, but it’s a pretty clever trick nonetheless.
CSS guru Daniel Glazman (co-chairman of the CSS Working Group) shows you how to use just one pseudo class on a single HTML document and still create two different layouts, one liquid, one fixed — via Webmonkey
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