While most major watchmaking brands usually offer their timepieces in a pretty limited choice of dials, straps and color combinations, the Chronomat B01 is one of those rare breeds that you can configure to just about any taste — via World Watch Review
Victorinox has been making increasingly nice mechanical watches of late. The Dive Master 500 is an ETA 2892-based diver that has a lot of fans, and the Airboss Mach 6 Chrono, ref. 241447, is quite eye-catching. Based on the ETA/Valjoux 7750, it’s a 3-register, 12-hour chronograph with date, which is a challenge to keep legible. VSA did a good job here, with well-sized sword hands and upright Arabic numerals — via A Blog to Read
So you learned the base id, class, and descendant selectors – and then called it a day? If so, you’re missing out on an enormous level of flexibility. While many of the selectors mentioned in this article are part of the CSS3 spec, and are, consequently, only available in modern browsers, you owe it to yourself to commit these to memory — via Nettuts+
Tiny changes to an alarm
protein which responds to infections may explain why some with HIV can control their condition without drugs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Remember the story about the 11-year-old girl who said someone tried to abduct her this morning? About that…
We just spoke with Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal and it turns out the girl made the whole thing up — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 12-year-old boy from Bristol has escaped with minor injuries after he swallowed a pair of scissors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks.
The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT), the main conduit for Internet traffic in and out of the authoritarian nation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Writer Monica Gaudio was surprised to see an old article of hers appear in Cooks Source, a publication for food lovers in Western New England
. So she wrote the magazine’s editor to ask how they got it. The reply: insanity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone Hutchison has announced it is planning a major new mobile network in the same 850MHz band occupied by Telstra’s Next G service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you.
I have gone back and forth on whether I wanted to post something more in-depth about my sweet boy and his choice of Halloween costume. Or more specifically, the reactions to it. I figure if I’m still irked by it a few days later, I may as well go ahead and post my thoughts — via littlemuscle.newsvine.com
Popular art site DeviantART has removed the third gender option and now requires all members to chose either male or female, even those who don’t identify as either.
My first question: Why does gender matter to DeviantART? — via canuckjacq.newsvine.com
As part of its ongoing punishment of any institute or company that defends copyright, Anonymous has now taken down the website of The United States Copyright Office. The group managed to take copyright.gov offline for half an hour. After that the website started to respond again slowly, with occasional outages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Running two antivirus products on the same computer can degrade performance and cause system instability. It is important that any previously installed antivirus software is uninstalled from your system before installing your ESET security product. Typical uninstallation using the Windows removal tool (Add/Remove Programs) is often insufficient.
We’re not concerned about piracy,
said George Scotti, Springer Verlag’s director of channel marketing, when asked about the Springer e-book program, which allows institutional customers to lend Springer e-books without DRM protection. Seventy percent of Springer’s business comes from big academic and research libraries, Scotti said, and they are adamant that they don’t want DRM or other such restrictions on the e-books they buy from Springer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In an annual survey of wildlife spotted around rivers and canals for British Waterways, the number of kingfishers seen by members of the public between March and September has risen 217% to 596, despite fears many of the birds might not survive last winter’s icy spell — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Differences in the brain structure of people carrying an autism gene
may offer clues to how the condition develops, say US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A record 3,706 organ transplants took place in the UK last year, an increase of 5% on the previous 12 months.
But NHS Blood and Transplant said there was still a long waiting list, with three people a day dying because of a lack of a suitable organ.
The refusal of relatives to allow donation often remains a key obstacle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Wounding yourself can be bad enough, but having to regularly remove the dressing to check for infection can be painful and can also compound things by exposing the wound and giving germs the chance to enter. Now researchers have developed a new material for dressings and plaster that changes color if an infection arises, making it possible to check wounds without changing the dressing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For the first time, scientists have discovered a boa constrictor that reproduces by virgin birth.
Intriguingly, these giant female serpents only gave birth in this fatherless manner in years when males were present, researchers added — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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