Habana Mike Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Solar Impulse Safely Lands In East China -- But The Hardest Leg Is Still To Come Yesterday, the solar-powered aeroplane Solar Impulse successfully touched down in Nanjing, China, completing the Asian leg of its global trip. Next, though, comes one of the toughest parts of the journey: crossing the Pacific Ocean. The round-the-world trip has been facing some delays since it started in March. In fact it was forced to wait further west in China for three weeks until there was decent enough weather to complete the trip. Cloud and crosswinds were out in force preventing safe flight and while alternative routes were considered none proved suitable. Now sat in Nanjing for about 10 days, the next flight will be the toughest of the journey so far. From China, the aeroplane will have to travel to Hawaii before it can next set it wheels on the ground. That crossing — never yet attempted by a zero-fuel aeroplane — will last five days and five nights, with pilot Bertrand Piccard facing massive swings in temperature as he flies the unpressurised craft. That thing must fly really slow. I find it's about 12 hours with a layover in a modern jet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Giant Killer Hornets May Be Buzzing To Great Britain What’s two inches long with a three inch wingspan, can decapitate 40 honeybees in a minute, has a quarter-inch stinger that can kill a human, is responsible for at least six deaths in France and could be crossing the Channel and heading to Great Britain? That sounds like the plot of a horror movie but it’s actually a real warning given to British citizens and beekeepers that giant Asian killer hornets could be on the islands soon. If that still doesn’t scare you, maybe its nickname will … yak killer! The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) is the world’s largest hornet and is native to the low mountains and forests of Eastern Asia. They smuggled themselves into France in 2004 in some Chinese pottery and have quickly spread across the country. The giant hornets have since invaded Spain in 2010 and Belgium in 2011. Their sting is painful and the venom can cause allergic reactions and even death, as six people in France fatally found out. But their real danger is to honeybees, which are still under severe stress from colony collapse disorder. The giant hornets kill the bees by tearing off their heads and wings and feeding the rest to their young. A nest of 500 hornets can kill a hive of 30,000 bees in just a few hours. Living up to their reputation, the killer hornets are known to defend their hive by sending out just one worker hornet to warn invaders of what might happen if they get any closer. While they’re not in Great Britain yet, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and its National Bee Unit are holding a seminar in May to prepare beekeepers for the inevitable. They will be advised to stay away from the hornets’ nests and instead call in special forces from the Animal Health Veterinary Laboratories Agency to kill them with chemicals and pesticides. The use of chemicals and pesticides isn’t exactly comforting to British beekeepers since they’re also the most likely causes of colony collapse disorder. Other ways they’re dealt with in Asia include beating the hornets to death with sticks or setting the hives on fire. So if you walk out of the pub to the sound of loud pounding and the smell of smoke and honey, you’ll know that the Asian killer hornets have arrived in Great Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 38 Years for a Murder He Didn't Commit Mike Hanline, 69, is now free a man after spending the longest time in jail for a wrongful conviction in California’s history. Thirty-eight years ago, before he went to jail for a murder he did not commit, Mike Hanline would ride his motorcycle on California freeways that were smooth as glass. “The showcase for the country,” he calls them. Now, it’s like “riding on a washboard.” The strangest thing, he says, is the speed at which everything now moves. “The traffic moves so fast,” says Hanline. “I feel like I am on the front of a missile going through space.” Moving too fast on a bumpy road is an apt way to describe Hanline’s experience with the California’s justice system, too. In 1978, Hanline was arrested for the murder of Ventura resident JT McGarry, a fellow biker Hanline knew from the local motorcycle swap meet scene. Two years later, Hanline was convicted based chiefly off the testimony of an ex-girlfriend and sentenced to life without parol. On Wednesday, Hanline’s conviction was officially dismissed by a Ventura County superior judge. At two days short of 38 years, Hanline, now 69, has become the longest-serving wrongfully convicted man in California history. He has now become either an unwilling symbol of a criminal justice system gone off the rails—or if you are feeling more charitable, one willing to correct errors of its past even if it takes a couple of generations to do so. “When I first got arrested, I figured it might take a year or two to get it all straightened out—not 36,” said Hanline, out in front of the sprawling Ventura County courthouse. It had been a “teeny” thing when he was first convicted. “I still wonder it every day. Why? I don’t know. I guess I was supposed to learn something or teach something to somebody, or something. Maybe I was just supposed to bring attention to the Innocence Project.” Founded in 1999, the California Innocence Project is a clinical and educational program at California Western School of Law designed to free innocent people from California’s overpopulated prison system and help change the flawed system that put them there in the first place. Hanline first contacted the group within weeks of them setting it up. Hanline is the 15th client the Innocence Project has helped to free. It is currently trying to overturn 18 convictions that it believes are unjustified. While the group receives on average a couple of thousand innocence claims yearly, “Mike’s case was one jumped out at us almost immediately as one that just didn't make sense,” his lawyer and CIP associate director Alex Simpson told The Daily Beast. Within a couple of years of CIP’s investigation into Hanline’s conviction, they began to find problems in his case. There found sealed police reports that implicated others in the crime and evidence that prosecution's star witness, Mary Bischoff, had changed her story. It was compelling enough that in 2010, after a nearly year-long procure, a federal magistrate released a 50-page ruling that Hanline should be released from prison and given a new trial, but a district judge ruled against implementing the report. It wasn't until some four years later—15 years after California Innocence Project first started working on the case—when the DA discovered as yet unspecified DNA evidence that showed another unidentified man was at the murder scene and there was no evidence that Hanline was, too—that they decided to set aside the conviction. The move, unprecedented in the Ventura County’s District Attorney’s history, sent Hanline home in October of 2014, albeit with an electronic ankle bracelet. While Hanline was freed of electronic monitoring with this week’s ruling, the procedure Wednesday stopped short of declaring his factual innocence. “This is a legal procedure where the District Attorney has to make a decision whether or not to re-prosecute, which is a separate question of whether or not he is innocent,” says the California Innocence Project director Justin Brooks. “I have a different take on that: he is 100% innocent. When you examine this case closely, you see that what he was convicted on was paper-thin evidence. There were all kinds of problems with this case when it was tried, and everywhere we looked at it and everywhere we investigated we found more and more problems. Testimony fell apart, witnesses fell apart, evidence fell apart.” While the district attorney’s office agreed that the evidence against Hanline was problematic, they wouldn't say that the man they were freeing was completely innocent. “This isn't a case where someone was walking down the street and was at the wrong place at the wrong time,” special assistant district attorney for Ventura county Michael Schwartz said Wednesday. “There was evidence of his guilt, but I think the facts that we have learned since then have cast doubt on it to the point that I felt that if we had to retry the case today we couldn't prove it.” For now, Hanline, who kept his ’70s biker beard long enough that it’s now back in style, is free of the courts and a prison system that has claimed more than half of his life. He’s begun the bizarre process of acclimating to a world where everyone walks around with little TV sets in their jeans. “It’s Buck Rodgers,” he says. In the six months since his release, he’s been fixing up the house, riding his bike, and doing a lot of fishing. He has had to get used to sharing a bed again with Sandee, the wife who married him prior to his conviction and has stuck by him ever since. “He’s worth waiting for,” she said outside the courthouse clutching Hanline with one arm and a padded envelope with “Important Court Documents” written in Sharpie in the other. “I missed him.” Indeed, considering that this was an event for which the Hanlines had waited nearly four decades to see, the mood Wednesday was low-key. Michael Hanline went so far as to call it “anti-climactic.” “If he didn't do it and he spent [38] years of his life in prison, then [this] is a sad day for him and a failure of our justice system,” says Schwartz. “If he did do it and he is being released and he is not on parole, that is not an ideal outcome either. [but] this is the right outcome based on the state of the evidence.” For the lawyers who helped free him, Hanline’s exoneration was more than just a standalone failure but an example of a justice system in desperate need of an overhaul. “When there is a plane crash, we take a look at what happened, we get the black box and try to figure out if it was a mechanical failure or something else,” says the California Innocence Project’s Simpson. “If we find out that there was a mechanical failure, we fix it for every plane. But we don’t do that for the criminal justice system. Wrongful conviction is always seen as an isolated incident. In fact, we see many of the same issues present in many other cases.” “This is a tremendous day for Mike,” Simpson added, “but what has happened to him is not unique.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 CALIFORNIA GUNPOWDER SPICE KICKS YOUR FOOD UP A NOTCH Growing up with an estate orchard, brothers Ben and Evan gained a lot of experience in small-scale agriculture and olive oil production. After post-college stints at some larger corporations, they switched gears completely to follow their shared passion for food. Other Brother was born. Their “go-to” spice, California Gunpowder, is made with California grown peppers, Gilroy garlic and a few top secret ingredients in order to make it the perfect compliment for soups, meats, salads, stir fry and eggs. In other words, you can put it on just about anything except ice cream that calls for a dry spice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornell Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 WOW!! Amazing thread bro!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Hilarious Star Wars Parody Featuring The Cast Of Downton Abbey Period drama Downton Abbey isn’t well known for its abundance of force-wielding characters. This small detail hasn’t stopped Thomas Barrow (Rob James Collier) from whipping out the red lightsabre to show John Cates (Brendan Coyle) how it’s done. This isn’t a rotoscoped fan creation, no friends, this is the real deal. Along with being a bit of fun, the six-minute clip, entitled “Downton Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Valet” is a promo piece to help garner funds for the Chilterns MS Centre in the UK. The target was £10,000, but at the time of writing it’s well over this goal at £13,293. The best part is James Collier promised a new episode if £10,000 was raised, so here’s hoping for next instalment, “Downton Wars: Episode 2 – The Evil Butler Strikes Back!”, arrives soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Expect Fines If You Use Your Smartwatch While Driving While it likely won’t get to the extreme point of having to remove one’s smartwatch to drive, state police plan to classify such devices as potential distractions, in the same league as your mobile phone or GPS, with all the associated fines and penalties. It can be argued glancing at one’s wrist is less complicated than holding (and concentrating) on a phone, but this won’t get you very far with police in NSW or Victoria, according to Ben Grubb over at the Sydney Morning Herald. In statements to the paper, the aforementioned enforcement organisations made it clear that while driving, using your watch in the same capacity as your mobile will almost certainly get you in trouble: “Driving is a complex task that requires full concentration and it’s essential that drivers minimise the risk of distraction in their vehicle,” Victoria Police said in a statement to Fairfax Media. “Anyone caught using mobile phones, GPS or other electronic devices while driving could face penalties.” The article goes on to say that Victorian drivers should be right to keep their watches on while at the wheel, though interestingly, NSW Police didn’t immediately answer the question, other than to say that “it is important that drivers are not distracted by any device”. Maybe if you just whack it around your neck instead? Or the gear-shift? I suppose that defeats the purpose. MIKA: What I don't get is how are mobile phones and now smart watches any different to people who drive while reading the paper or putting make-up on and driving? Why isn't this enforced also? I see way too many people driving each day putting make up on, even hitting cars in front of them down St Kilda Road most weeks? Why aren't the police fining these drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmac77 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 MIKA: What I don't get is how are mobile phones and now smart watches any different to people who drive while reading the paper or putting make-up on and driving? Why isn't this enforced also? I see way too many people driving each day putting make up on, even hitting cars in front of them down St Kilda Road most weeks? Why aren't the police fining these drivers? Distracted driving laws here in Ontario include any type of distracted driving. This includes putting make up on, eating, reading etc.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 This Life-Sized Iron Man Helmet Is Actually A Bluetooth Speaker We all want our own Iron Man suit, complete with flying capabilities and palm cannons. The reality is none of us are billionaire geniuses, so we’ll have to make do with what we’ve got. And that’s this to-scale helmet from Tony Stark’s famous costume that you don’t so much wear on your head as, uh, listen to. Yes, it’s a speaker. The “Iron Man Mark XLIII” speaker comes with Bluetooth and USB connectivity, as well as a 3.5mm jack if you just want to plug in your phone or MP3 player. It comes with a 15W, 82mm subwoofer and two 3W, 40mm speakers. It weight 1.6kg and is around 20cm square. Now, for the good and bad news. The good: the seller ships to Australia for a magically reasonable $US3. The bad: You’ll need $US449 to buy the thing, and that only gets you a preorder. All up, you’ll need about $577 Australian to make it yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Distracted driving laws here in Ontario include any type of distracted driving. This includes putting make up on, eating, reading etc.. Well on paper it's the same here but in over 20+ years of driving, I have NEVER seen anyone being pulled over for being distracted with make up or newspapers etc. I've seen this happen in peak hour traffic right next to police who don't even flinch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 This Tiny Shark Has Only Been Seen Once Before This very small (and adorable) shark is only the second of its kind ever discovered, and he’s showing scientists how much we still have to learn about life under the sea. The first pocket shark find was 36 years ago off the coast of Peru. This second specimen, a 13.97cm long juvenile, was discovered during a deep sea sperm whale expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration some 305km off the coast of Louisiana. While yes, it is small enough to fit in your pocket, the tiny tiny actually get its name from a distinct pocket-like slit located just above its pectoral fin, one whose purpose researchers are still trying to understand. Biologist Mark Grace found the rare shark in the lab after the 2010 NOAA expedition was over. Realising that this was no ordinary fish, he took it upon himself to study the specimen in detail. His new genetic analysis, which appears in the journal Zootaxa, shows that pocket sharks belong to the family Dalatiidae, and are close cousins of the kitefin and cookie cutter sharks. Members of Dalatiidae are best known for chewing an oval shaped plug of flesh from their prey — marine mammals, large fishes and squid. So, if you surface from a deep sea diving expedition with a suspicious hole in your leg, don’t feel too bad about it. You might have just encountered the third pocket shark ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Paratroopers Fill The Sky In Awesome Photo Here’s a really cool photo showing US Army and British paratroopers jumping out of C-130J Super Hercules aeroplanes in a line at Fort Bragg. It was the largest jump exercise in 20 years at Fort Bragg and there are so many paratroopers filling the sky that it looks like a floating human wall (ok, a fence?) has been created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Beautiful Short Film Uses Alchemy To Tell A Touching Story About Life The Alchemist’s Letter by Carlos Stevens is a beautifully animated short film about a father’s letter to his son. It’s imaginative and touching and worth the watch just for the visuals alone. The story progresses through a machine that turns memories into gold and you get to see wonderful little worlds pop up in the most creative ways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Google Deploys Person Finder Tool To Aid Victims Of Nepal Earthquake As reports of the devastation from yesterdays earthquake in Nepal continue to roll in, Google has launched Person Finder, a crowdsourced, missing persons database to help victims of the quake track down their loved ones. The web application, which is offering support in both English and Nepali, enables users to search for lost friends and family members by name, or share information if they have heard reports from someone in a disaster-affected area. Google first launched Person Finder in 2010, following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and has since deployed the application during several other major natural disasters, including earthquakes in India and Turkey. As of Saturday afternoon, roughly 1700 reports had been uploaded. Death tolls from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake — the worst to have hit the impoverished South Asian nation in over 80 years — have reached nearly 1400, and search and rescue efforts are ongoing. You can keep up with all the latest earthquake news on Twitter: #kathmandu #nepal #earthquake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Apocalyptic Yellowstone Supervolcano Now 5.5 Times Larger You know about the potentially world-ending supervolcano hiding under Yellowstone, right? Well, scientists just discovered a second magma chamber containing an additional 46,000 cubic kilometres of molten rock. Did we mention it’s “overdue” for eruption? Apparently not everyone is aware of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. That’s crazy because it a: has the potential to wipe out not only this country, but possibly human life on this planet and B: it’s super interesting. It’s also fun to write about, because you get to be all doom and gloomy. So, before we get into all the people dying and planes crashing and Ian Ziering fighting sharks with chainsaws stuff, let’s be very clear about one thing: this new discovery does not mean the apocalypse is nigh and does not increase the chances of an eruption. It just furthers our understanding of this fascinating, potentially cataclysmic thing. So no, you don’t have permission to start looting. Yet. Because the report announcing the discovery of the second magma chamber (more on that later) was just published yesterday, scientists haven’t yet had time to calculate its apocalyptic impacts. So, let’s look at what they thought it could do before. The first time this volcano erupted, 2.1 million years ago, it was 25,000 time larger than the 1980 eruption of Mt Saint Helen. In his book “Windows into the Earth”, geophysicist Bob Smith says, “Devastation would be complete and incomprehensible.” He goes on to explain that the eruption would be signalled by a swarm of earthquakes, followed by a massive blast that some estimates say would immediately kill 87,000 people. Large parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Utah would be wiped off the earth, while a 10-foot layer of ash would blanket everything within 1,000 miles. That ash would be launched 20 miles up, into the jet stream, spreading it around the world. The immediate effect of that would be a cessation of all air travel, globally, but the long term effects of the ash are what’s potentially the extinction-level event. Two-thirds of the US would be an ashen wasteland by this point, including pretty much all of our food production regions, but the Supervolcano’s ash also has the potential to create a “volcanic winter,” plummeting global temperatures by 21 degrees or more. The resulting crop failures and subsequent starvation is what would do humanity in. But hey, look at the bright side: global warming would be a thing of the past. The last time the Supervolcano erupted, 640,000 years ago, it spewed just 1,000 cubic kilometres of lava into the atmosphere; its tephra fell as far away as Louisiana. Now, we know the two magma chambers under Yellowstone have a total volume of 56,000 cubic kilometres. “You could have a much bigger volume erupt over a relatively short time scale,” says the report’s co-author, geophysicist Victor Tsai of the California Institute of Technology. This new, deeper chamber could “replenish” the shallower, upper chamber, “again and again.” The Supervolcano has erupted 2.1 million, 1.2 million and 640,000 years ago. Averaging the time between those eruptions results in the conclusion that we are “overdue” for an eruption. However, the odds of that happening during our lifetimes are pegged at one in 10,000. This illustration from the report shows the newly-discovered magma chamber in the lower crust. The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust” was published in Science Magazine yesterday. It reports the findings of scientists who studied seismic waves from earthquakes as they passed through the earth’s crust. These waves slow as they pass through liquid, allowing researchers to determine the size, shape and location of magma chambers, deep underground. Local earthquakes enable seismometers on the earths’s surface to track seismic waves through shallow portions of the crust, while distant quakes enable them to look deeper. This study is the first time the two types of data have been combined. Previously, scientists studying the Supervolcano knew of a plume that carried magma up from the mantle to a point 60 kilometres below the earth’s surface. And, a 10,000 cubic kilometre magma chamber 10 kilometres down. This new chamber is described as a “missing link,” connecting the two. It spans from 20 to 50 kilometres below the surface and contains melted basalt tot the shallower chamber’s melted rhyolite. That confirms a long-held theory of how volcanoes work, with a deeper chamber of denser material feeding an upper chamber of lighter substance. The findings will be a boon to scientists studying past eruptions of the Supervolcano, enabling them to more accurately model how magma moved during previous eruptions and increasing their understanding of all the apocalyptic stuff that may occur during the next. I, for one, look forward to learning how muchmore of the earth will be blanketed in ash or wiped out by the fiery explosion, should the Supervolcano ever again live up to its promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Awesome Video Shows Unmanned X-47B Drone Refuelling In The Air Earlier this week, the badass X-47B drone became the first ever unmanned aircraft to refuel while in the air. Think about how cool this is, the drone has to meet the KC-707 tanker plane in the air, position itself perfectly to ****** onto the fuel line and then gas itself up with no one on board. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 You'll Be Able To Watch Hi-Def, Live Feeds From The ISS Soon Who needs a bird’s eye view when you could go with an astronaut’s? One company’s partnering with NASA to give us just that. Vancouver-based UrtheCast installed two cameras aboard the International Space Station via a Soyuz rocket in 2013, in a mission to “democratise the Earth Observation industry”. From your computer, tablet, or smartphone, you can gawk at our blue marble in near-real time online. The cams’ coverage area is 51 to -51 degrees latitude, a belt from Chile to England that packs in 90 per cent of the population, the company says. Soon, UrtheCast will be streaming in ultra HD, providing 60-second videos at 30 frames a second. It says it’s the sole company that provides colour, 4K video of Earth from space. The service’s basic account is free, allowing users to subscribe to views of certain locations or big world events. This type of platform could obviously offer benefits, from climate change monitoring to planning disaster relief. But plain ol’, red-blooded, space-lovin’ civilians can enjoy too: Crack open a beer and look for your apartment complex as seen from 320km above. (Check the paranoia though — the 1.1m res video cam and 5.5m res still cam can capture stuff like cars and buildings, but can’t make out faces or licence plate numbers.) In a press release yesterday, UrtheCast CEO and co-founder Scott Larson said the high definition streaming would begin this summer. Watch this video from February that captured UrtheCast’s initial images from space, including footage of Jamaica, Rome and Dubai. Hubble has space porn covered, but is geography porn a thing? Geo porn? Dunno, but these views could end up being the coolest maps ever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Experience One Of The World's Deadliest Mountains In 360 Degrees The North Face of the Eiger — also known by its more charming moniker, the Wall of Death — is one of climbing’s most iconic faces. It was first climbed in 1936, and since then, has claimed the lives of dozens of alpinists. These 360-degree videos bring that sensation of pure, unbridled terror right into your living room. The videos were made by Swiss company Mammut, which has something of a history with the mountain. A team of climbers took 360-degree cameras, mounted to their backpacks, up the entire route of the two-day climb, ticking off iconic names as they went: Difficult Crack (one hell of an understatement), the Hinterstoisser Traverse; Death Bivouac. The videos give a real sense of perspective of a climb, the ups and downs that go with being safe one moment, and perilously close to death the next. The sequence in the Difficult Crack shows it well: look up, and the climber’s just meters away from the rest of the camera team, looking relaxed and chilled out. Look down, and it’s thousands of feet of sheer cliff, with one lonely piece of protection stuck in the wall. Once you’ve watched Mammut’s videos, and thoroughly terrified yourself, go look at this: Swiss climber Ueli Steck, doing the route — which takes fast, experience climbers at the top of their game two days — in two goddamn hours. Without ropes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Here's The Call Of Duty: Black Ops III Trailer It’s official: the next Call of Duty is out on November 6. Watch the debut trailer above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Surprise: Frank Miller Is Returning to the Dark Knight Saga Thirty years after his seminal miniseries/graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns—and nearly 15 years after his much less seminal sequel The Dark Knight Strikes Again—Frank Miller is coming back to Gotham. DC Entertainment has announced that Miller will be writing “the epic conclusion of the celebrated…saga.” An eight-issue miniseries beginning in late fall, The Dark Knight III: Master Race will be a joint writing venture between Miller and Brian Azzarello (who has also worked on Joker and other DC books). No artists have been announced, though a teaser image that DC released seems to point to the fact that Superman is going to be involved. Overall, this is great news—I think. The original Dark Knight was a watershed moment in both Batman’s development and the validation of sequential art as a literary platform, and Miller is responsible for some truly incredible work, from Ronin to Sin City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 CARROLL SHELBY GOES RACING WITH FORD Carroll Shelby Goes Racing With Ford is a 1965 film presented by Carroll Shelby and featuring the likes of Pete Brock, Ken Miles and Dan Gurney. It’s an interesting look into the very early days of the Ford GT40 – before it had won any significant races or appeared on the radar of Ferrari. What happened just a year after this film was made will live on forever in the annals of motor racing history. Shelby would take the GT40 to Le Mans and win four consecutive times from 1966 to 1969, defeating Enzo Ferrari at his own game in his own backyard. If you’d like to read more about the history of the GT40 you can visit The Selvedge Yard here or read the excellent Wikipedia entry here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 HARRIS TWEED WATCH ROLL BY WORN & WOUND Worn & Wound has been producing watch straps and accessories for a number of years now, all of their gear is made by hand in New York City from American leather, and high quality fabrics and components. This is the new Watch Roll by W&W, it’s made from genuine Harris Tweed with trim constructed of Horween Cognac Essex leather, the inner lining of the roll is ultra suede – specifically chosen for its softness. Worn & Wound will only be producing 50 of these, so if you need a stylish way to travel with your timepiece collection you’ll probably want to hit the big red button below. [Purchase] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Terrifying Footage of Everest Avalanche Watch the unbelievable footage of the Everest avalanche. One can only imagine the horror of being caught in an earthquake the magnitude of which struck Nepal on Saturday, leaving thousands dead and wounded and a swath of destruction that will continue to unfold for days. A new video has emerged showing the base camp at Everest at the very beginning of the quake, but the filmer’s bemusement quickly turns to horror as a wall of white ice barrels down upon the encampment, ultimately killing nearly 20 people and severely injuring dozens more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 SODASTREAM MIX Sodastream has had a pretty good lock on the home soda-making kit business over the past few years, so it only makes sense that the company is ready to expand its reach to some more adult beverages. Behold the Sodastream Mix, your new way to carbonate anything. From a crisp Mojito to a fizzy Gimlet, the ability to bubble up your drinks now comes with the press of a button. A built-in touchscreen lets you choose from a wide array of mixed drink recipes, and it then recommends the exact amount of carbonation needed based on the ingredients. The device itself features a premium finish, sturdy metal base, machine washable parts, and Bluetooth connectivity so you can control all the action from your phone. [Purchase] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 SIDE PROJECT JERKY An engineer with a food blog who goes by Fidel Gastro. Quality cuts of top round. Meticulously crafted marinades. All of these things come together in Side Project Jerky. It's made in small batches, comes in 2 oz. packages, and is available in several flavors: Pho, Mongolian, Southwestern, and Cheesesteak, the latter an homage to the city the founders call home. And in a nod to their real-life jobs, the packaging is made from architectural and engineering drawings, giving you something interesting to look at as you chomp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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