A serious heart problem inspired UK engineer Tal Golesworthy to develop a device that offers hope not just for himself but for thousands of other patients with the same condition — via redwolf.newsvine.com
HTML is a standard dictated by browser vendors — not an independent body.
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Technically anyone can participate in the HTML standardization process, via WHATWG’s mailing list. But those who do so are known as contributors
, and their role is much like that of concerned citizens at a city council meeting. Actual membership in the WHATWG is an elite affair, however, and is by invitation only. Currently the total membership consists of three representatives from the Mozilla Foundation, two from Opera Software, two from Apple, one from Google, and one independent developer.
In effect, that’s who’s deciding the future of the Web: four of the leading Web browser vendors, all of whom have incentive to pile ever more features into their products to compete with alternative RIA (rich Internet application) platforms such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. (If you’re wondering where Internet Explorer fits into all this, notice that Microsoft is not a WHATWG member.) What’s more, Apple and Google are both prominent providers of Web content. But hey — surely they all have our best interests at heart, right? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone Group has shut down cell phone service in Egypt after being ordered to do so by the government, which is under siege by protesters — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facebook’s security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network.
A post on Facebook’s Security page announced that this week a federal court has awarded the firm a whopping $360,500,000 in statutory damages and issued a permanent injunction against spammer Philip Porembski — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The bombing that killed 35 people at an airport in Moscow, Russia, on Monday shocked the world.
But another mass tragedy was averted on New Year’s Eve, thanks to a spam message sent to a female terrorist who reportedly intended to detonate a suicide belt in a packed Red Square — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Awful Library Books is a blog where Michigan public librarians Mary and Holly discuss outdated books that are getting pulled from the library shelves. One of their picks is Macrame Accessories, from 1977.
I’m not sure the belt for shy hot pants wearer would really work as advertised — via CRAFT
Canadian authorities have launched an animal cruelty investigation after a dog was found encased inside a block of ice on the lawn of a British Columbia man — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Our friends over at Chronicle Books are sharing an excerpt from Joanne Chang’s book, Flour. She’s created a recipe for making your own, homemade Oreos — via CRAFT
More and more European Union member states are delegating online policing to private companies and Internet service providers, according to a report released Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Friend of the site David Edwards sends us these images of his Kawasaki H1 cafe racer, just dripping with 1970s swagger. He says he purchased the bike, a retired proddie-class roadracer, with the intent of going vintage racing — via Bike EXIF
Research In Motion is reportedly pondering a scheme where BlackBerry and PlayBook devices would run Android apps — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 2008 JLC presented two faithful interpretations of historical diver’s watches, the Memovox Tribute to Polaris 1965 and the Memovox Tribute to Polaris 1968, both of which proved very popular. For 2011, JLC introduces a re-edition of the 1959 Memovox Deep Sea, logically named Memovox Tribute to Deep Sea — via WatchTime
Located in Herington, Kansas the new office for Hodgdon Powder Company, designed by el dorado inc, utilizes a Quonset hut system of construction that allows an extremely functional yet dynamic space for the company’s employees. The design plays to the strengths of the pre-engineered system by focusing the major modifications to the end wall assemblies, allowing the dual-corrugated, structural panels to remain largely intact — via ArchDaily
Fancy starting up your own secure ISP in a bomb-proof nuclear bunker, like the ones that hosted The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks? Then we might just have found the premises for you — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The French luxury jeweler keeps introducing skeletonized timepieces. The latest in the series is the new Cartier Santos Dumont Carbon Skeleton Titanium (Ref. W2020052) hand-wound watch that was officially presented last week at SIHH 2011 trade fair.
The manufacture-made caliber is so extensively skeletonized, that the gear train, as well as the mainspring barrel seem to float in thin air: a difficult task to accomplish when you have to make the watch look cool while preserving its structural rigidity– via World Watch Review
Microcredit lifted 10 million Bangladeshis out of poverty between 1990 and 2008, according to a report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A team of five amateur divers have discovered the wreckage of a UC-42 submarine which sank while laying mines during the First World War off the Cork coast — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Shophouse was the most common building typology of Bangkok during the process of urbanization of the city in the past century. However they are getting obsoleted nowadays because of city’s the transformation. Bangkok urban fabric is, nowadays, full of not-properly-utilized shophouses in most of the prime areas.
The project, designed by allzone, is an attempt to experiment with shophouse typology’s transformation. The existing condition were two not-in-use units of shophouse in one of crowded area of Bangkok. Every floor is transformed into a working-living unit, a new typology for a small business or live-in studio, that is quite rare type in Bangkok. While the ground level is completely open for parking and plants. (The 4th and the 5th floors are finally occupied by the architects). The addition parts are the new facades on both front and back made out of the prefabricated concrete blocks – the most common and cheapest construction materials found in the market – which is also acting as a sun shading, a curtain for privacy as well as thief protection device. The facades also create ‘a breathing space’, the space between the big windows and concrete blocks, for smoking, relaxing in the outdoor, plantings as well as air condensing units and service — via ArchDaily
Global software giant CA Technologies yesterday revealed it had acquired a Sydney start-up, Torokina Networks, which specialises in providing fault, several level and performance management technologies and services to support the implementation of next-generation mobile networks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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