The house is sited on a high, thin peninsula, affording 270 degree views from South through West to North. The long axis of the house is perpendicular to the axis of the peninsula, aligning it with sunrise and sunset. The main space is open from North to South, with bedrooms behind a wall that angles away toward the South-East, making the space wider at the West end of the house. The effect is akin to a lens opening up to the view across a bay and other islands beyond — via Architecture Blog
Being essentially a set of tritium-filled tubes that are installed on hour markers (1st-11th are green and the 12th is orange) and hour and minute hands, the LLT tubes are very bright significantly increasing watch’s legibility in twilight and tend to serve for as a long as 25 years.
The watch is powered by an inexpensive Ronda 517 Swiss quartz movement, which is built on one jewel, is 26.20 mm in diameter and 3.0 mm thick. Sporting a standard three-hands layout and capable of displaying current day and date, the movement can run for about 45 months before changing the battery and is accurate within -10/ +20 seconds per month — via World Watch Review
Jason Wonder will build you a bike only if you promise you’re really going to ride it. And owner Ricky Powell enjoys his Wonder Customs Rev-2 to the max. It’s a lithe concoction wrapped around a beefy V-Rod motor, and an excellent showcase for Wonder’s fabrication skills — via Bike EXIF
The design is based on the Danish atrium house typology from the 60s and 70s and has an outer brick wall and an inner façade which is mostly glazed. The northern wing contains sleeping quarters and bathrooms; the eastern wing is the living area. The house is penetrated by several lightwells, and lines-of-sight play with the eye as you move through the rooms — via ArchDaily
This project is a spatial dialog between traditional Persian Architecture and aspects of modern architecture. It creates an architectural space through the incorporation of modern architecture tenets with traditional Persian architecture — via ArchDaily
Hacked and malicious sites designed to steal data from unsuspecting users via malware and phishing are a dime a dozen, often located in the United States, and are a key target for takedown by ISPs and security researchers. But when online miscreants seek stability in their Web projects, they often turn to so-called bulletproof hosting
providers, mini-ISPs that specialize in offering services that are largely immune from takedown requests and pressure from Western law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mozilla have released the latest Beta of their Firefox 4 browser for Windows. Beta 7 is being billed as pretty much what will be released as version 4 in the first part of 2011, although it does seem that they are planning a beta 8 and 9 in the next few months. However, word out of Mozilla is that nothing fundamentally new will be added to the release version, and nothing present in this Beta will be removed — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
Growing up in Idaho Falls, Idaho was strange enough but I always wondered what was up with this collection of futuristic hippy homes in my neighborhood above Idaho Falls (called Rimrock Estates, in Ammon, ID). The place is overrun with starter castles today, yet these architectural anomalies built sometime in the early 80’s, presumably by the same developer continue to amaze — via New City Movement
It seems that the Hublot King Power Ayrton Senna Limited Edition watch is very close to the line where it will become a very expensive clone of the iconic Casio G-Shock family of watches.
Sporting the same design as the rest of the King Power family, the new watch overcompensates for the lack of fresh ideas with exotic materials, such as Nomex (flame resistant meta-aramid material that is widely used in making circuit boards and firefighting equipment) for a strap, as well as forged carbon fiber and perforated ceramics for the case and bezel respectively — via World Watch Review
Instead of usual gear trains, the Monaco V4 uses a set of transmission belts to transfer rotational energy from component to another. Although extremely thin, the belts are reinforced with real steel cords to increase their mileage
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To make the watch even more efficient, TAG Heuer substituted traditional synthetic rubies with tiny ball bearings, thus significantly reducing friction
— via World Watch Review
I was a huge Monkees fan when I was a kid, thanks mostly to MTV running weekend-long Monkee marathons back in the early 80s. (which, by the way, I recorded every episode on Betamax tapes) A few weeks ago, I needed a Monkees fix, so I downloaded a best-of album and enjoyed jamming out to their music while I worked. I also thought it would be fun to find a pattern for a Mike Nesmith-style knit green hat, but didn’t have any luck turning something up. Just yesterday, Lisa of Polka Dot Cottage posted a pattern she used to make a few Mike Nesmith-style hats for some friends. Last year, she created the hat for her son. She tweaked her choice of yarn just a bit and shares how she’s updated the project. Now if only I could knit… — via CRAFT
Elegant and refined, the Archimede Arcadia is clearly influenced by the gorgeous IWC Portuguese automatic chronographs.
As a matter of fact, the influence is so evident that some may even call the Arcadia a rip-off
— via World Watch Review
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