Friday, May 25, 2012

DARPA Funds Interstellar Starship

DARPA Funds Interstellar Starship

DARPA Funds Interstellar Starship - Enterprise NX01That US behemoth, DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aka the Department of Everything – has teamed up with that other US giant, the fiscally challenged NASA to create a program that would see interstellar travel within the next 100 years.
DARPA has awarded $US500,00 in seed funding to the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence to form the aptly named 100 Year Starship - 100YSS – program.
The initiative will call on expert opinion from a wide range of disciplines, engineers, scientists and artists will contribute to a single shared vision, to develop the capability for mankind to achieve interstellar flight within the next 100 years.
A public symposium will be held this year, in Houston, Texas from September 14 to 16, in what will become an annual event. Has the real world finally caught up with the strangely accurate transfictontrek world of Gene Roddenberry?  :: Read the full article »»»»
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X-STEAM! The Future of Sustainable Rail

X-STEAM! The Future of Sustainable Rail

X-STEAM! The Future of RailOff the cuff a 75 year old steam locomotive and green, sustainable transport seem to have less than naught in common. Not according to the Coalition for Sustainable Rail – CSR – who reckon they can reinvigorate Locomotive 3463, circa 1937, bringing her back to life as the world’s first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive.
CSR is a superneat collaboration between the University of Minnisota and Sustainable Rail International – SRI – a not for profit research group dedicated to the research and development of modern steam trains.
“This is a pretty Radical idea, but there’s a lot of science behind it,” Davidson Ward, SRI president said “looking to technologies of the past to inspire solutions for today’s sustainability challenges.”
SRI acquired the large test bed steam locomotive - Locomotive 3463 – via donation from the Great Overland Station Museum in Topeka, Kansas. This locomotive, built in 1937 for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, will be reconfigured by SRI’s locomotive modernization experts, then tested as part of CSR Project 130 :: Read the full article »»»»

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Woodford Design :: FridgePad

Woodford Design :: FridgePad

The Ultimate Fridge Magnet - Woodford Designs FridgePadThere is little question that the Apple iPad has taken over the galaxy, the ultimate in mobile computing. The experts – PC World – say that there are a heap of reasons to rely soley on the iPad as your primary mobile computing device. Apple’s iPad has a more functional interface than a netbook, it’s lighter and has a longer battery life.
Technology is only any good if it fulfils a human need, the iPad seems to cope rather well with fulfilment. Surfing, communicating, imagery, sound and motion, the iPad was designed as an interface to all the human bits that make us smile day to day.
A bunch of clever boffins at Woodford Design have now replaced the humble, often tacky fridge magnet with what they bill as the Ultimate Fridge Magnet, meet FridgePad :: Read the full article »»»»

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

MUST HAVE! Jeni Oye - Kenda Kwick Roller Sport Bike Tyre Bracelet

MUST HAVE! Jeni Oye - Kenda Kwick Roller Sport Bike Tyre Bracelet


Jeni Oye - Kenda Kwick Roller Sport Bike Tyre Bracelet
Kenda Kwick Roller Sport Bike Tyre Bracelet by Jeni OyeKenda Kwick Roller Sport Bike Tyre Bracelet by Jeni OyeKenda Kwick Roller Sport Bike Tyre Bracelet by Jeni Oye
We love clever, adore even more clever design, Jeni Oye has a super-neat range of jewellery atoyemodern.com. She describes this range as being for the passionate and discerning carbon-neutral cyclist.
It’s not just transport, it’s an obsession. And now they can have the perfect biking accessory. Handmade with an aluminium base - just like a bike rim – this one-of-a-kind cuff features a recycled Kenda Kwick Roller Sport tire imprinted with the memories of roads once travelled. By Jeni OyeMore Jewellery for Cyclists.
Priced at $AU125

Monday, May 14, 2012

Picture of the Week

Picture of the Week

PICTURE OF THE WEEK
via VICE
Let’s be honest. All any woman under 30 has to do to make any man throw away his wife, his kids, his job and his AA promises is open her mouth.

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Australian Doctors Weigh Into Same-sex Marriage Debate

Australian Doctors Weigh Into Same-sex Marriage Debate

Australian Doctors Weigh Into Same-sex Marriage Debate - Rodolfo BuhrerAround 150 medical practitioners from the groupDoctors For The Family have signed a submission to the Senate inquiry into marriage equality opposingsame-sex marriage. The group says it believes heterosexual marriage is healthier for children.
Doctors for the Family’s Lachlan Dunjey told ABC News Radio that the organisation is concerned about the health consequences for children of same-sex marriages.
“It’s well proven that children who grow up with a mother and a father in a biological mother and father family do better than children who don’t have the opportunity to grow up in that kind of family,” Dunjey said.
The organisations website is blunt about it’s beliefs, stating: There are many organisations in Australia and internationally that support marriage – the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others – as the basis for family and a healthy society.
Doctors for the Family is a supporting medical organisation to highlight the health aspects of marriage and family and ensure a healthy future for our children.
Its purpose is to be a source of information and at times make representation to parliament or appropriate organisations to ensure policies that enhance and preserve the health and future of our nation :: Read the full article »»»»

Thursday, May 3, 2012

UPDATE :: Dali's "Printemps Necrophilique" SOLD $US16.3M

UPDATE :: Dali's "Printemps Necrophilique" SOLD $US16.3M

Dali's Printemps Necrophilique Expected to Fetch $US15 Million Plus
UPDATE :: Lot 26 is a 1936 oil on canvas by Salvador Dali (1904-1989) that is entitled “Printemps Necrophilique.” According to Simon Shaw, head of Sotherby’s Impressionist & Modern Art, said this is one of the finest Dalis to appear on the market in years. Only Dali could decide to leave nothing in the center, he added.It has an estimate of $8,000,000 to $12,000,000. It sold for $16,322,500.
PREVIOUS POST :: Printemps Necrophilique, is a 1936 work by the Spanish master, the piece depicts a seated male and a standing female in an eerily realistic landscape, has a presale estimate as high as $US15 million when it’s offered at the Sotherby’s May 2 sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York. the piece was last on the market 15 years ago :: Read the full article »»»» 
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