Tony Abbott travelled to Afghanistan on the weekend and found the cure for his jet lag problem. It’s a mega-dose of political aggression — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Italian Motor Magazine is carving a name for itself as a chronicler of very classy vintage and custom machinery. This Moto Guzzi is the star of issue #2, which has just been released — via Bike EXIF
The crew of the Ocean Hunter III baited these with chicken, and then brought them up from the abyss (> 200 m) to diveable depths. The nautili clearly wanted to descend again, and we had a few minutes with each of them to take photographs.
Nautilus are ancient cephalopods, primitive relatives of squid and octopi.
day 221, tentacle porn, originally uploaded by massdistraction.
A remarkable shedlike structure from Richard Kroeker Design, a shed built from unwanted phone books with help from students at the Dalhousie University Department of Architecture — via Shedworking
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics went to the discoverers of the one-atom-thick sheets of carbon known as graphene. Andre Geim of the University of Manchester, UK, who shared the award with his colleague Konstantin Novoselov, tells Nature why graphene deserves the prize, and why he hasn’t patented it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Newspapers always publish their readers’ letters with the writer’s name and address appended there for everyone to read (Or at least they do secure in the knowledge that those vital facts have been supplied).
Newspaper websites are rather different, though. Here you may find the odd contributed comment deleted by the anonymous hand of the moderator, but mostly the vitriol flows free. There is “uncivil behaviour” by the bucketload; screens heaving with what Reuters calls “repetition, [issues of] taste, legal risk or political bias”.
No longer on Reuters.com, however, where new rules now rule out all of the above. Perhaps not much longer on major sites in the United States, either, where the swing against anonymity grows stronger by the month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees?
Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered colony collapse
. Suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food.
Now, a unique partnership – of military scientists and entomologists – appears to have achieved a major breakthrough: identifying a new suspect, or two — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US aviation officials are warning air carriers that new research shows lithium batteries are sensitive to heat and can ignite in-flight if transported in cargo compartments that get too hot — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Senate report has found evidence that many Afghan security personnel paid with US taxpayers’ money to guard American bases are hand in glove with the Taliban insurgents hell-bent on killing coalition troops.
One disturbing case uncovered by the Armed Services Committee in the western Afghan province of Herat illustrates the deadly double game played by some of these hired guns.
Two Afghan warlords involved were nicknamed by their British employers as Mr White and Mr Pink, after gangsters in the gory Hollywood movie Reservoir Dogs.
The two contractors were appointed in June 2007 by the defence contractor ArmorGroup to provide security at Shindand airbase — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
Safety Graphic Fun Mug, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Husky posing with his shiny object from Safety Graphic Fun
Maker Faire NY crew member Nick Normal spotted this window of Singer sewing machines somewhere in Boston. What a cool idea for a display! — via CRAFT
I admit to being one of those people who think that very nearly everything could be improved with a modest pleat or ruffle to spice things up, so I was intrigued by this tutorial for drafting a double back pleat by Lauriana at Petit Main Sauvage. My relationship to her blog is usually much more aspirational as I’m a middling sewer at best and she’s constantly dashing off her own intricate patterns, but this seems pretty straightforward. If you can draft your own pattern, so much the better, but for a learning sewer like myself, she explains how to add it to an existing skirt pattern (or even an existing skirt, I suppose). I think it’s time for an wool autumn skirt with a pleat in a contrasting color… — via CRAFT
Time is displayed in an orderly way, since the dial is divided into several segments. An imposing window at 12 o’clock indicates the retrograde hours for a half-day (12 one-hour zones). The minutes are indicated on a disc positioned at 6 o’clock. Anchored to the central axis, a blued steel seconds hand sweeps around the whole dial, while the days hand maintains its daily rhythm — via Watch Luxus
Britons find being older than 52 is nothing to laugh about because that’s the age when they start becoming grumpy, according to a survey — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A hospital has reassured patients after being forced to apologise to two pregnant women who were wrongly told their unborn babies were dead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FBI has seized a set of John Lennon’s fingerprints from a Manhattan memorabilia shop — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not even the sweet release of death can liberate you from New York’s relentless parking ticket blitz. Early Tuesday morning a traffic cop came across Nicholas Rappold, 21, of Flushing, who was slumped across the front seat of his Jeep Cherokee on 165th Street near 35th Avenue. Rappold was dead, but just because you’ve gone to your eternal resting place doesn’t mean you can park it wherever you want. Dying drivers should really know this by now — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The fishing community on the English tidal island of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, has found a wonderful channel of employment for their once seaworthy vessels. By simply turning them upside down and adding doors they are upcycled into sheds! So cool I wish they were converted into little studios instead. Photo by Kevin Wakelam — via CRAFT
When it comes to genomes, size matters — and British scientists say a rare and striking plant native to Japan is in a perilous position.
Researchers at Britain’s Kew Botanical Gardens say the plant, Paris japonica, has the largest genome yet recorded, putting it at high risk of extinction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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