September 7, 2010
The SD Association has announced that it has increased the speed of its latest edition of SD memory cards, by creating a new, dual-row pin memory card design.
The new system is fully backwards compatible with readers, in that it doesn't alter the shape or size of the cards and it has been designed for use with both full-size and micro versions of SD.
No new system is complete without a...
photo: Greenpeace
The saga of the two Greenpeace activists arrested over two years ago for stealing whale meat from a shipping depot, in an effort to expose...
Photos: Jasmine Van Hevel, Mauro Brigham and Olivier Papegnies via archdaily
A landmark water tower in the Belgian village of Steenokkerzeel has demonstrated again that...
Didn’t see 15,000 cinema fans in Bedouin attire surround camels and 1930s British Army officers in North London on Saturday? You probably weren’t at Secret Cinema.
Following an encapsulating and extravagant screening of Blade Runner back in June, the unconventional Secret Cinema project turned its attention to David Lean’s 1962 epic, Lawrence of...
Image credit: spratmackerel
A long time ago, George Monbiot argued that the "only ethical response" to the sharp rise in meat eating around the world was to go vegan. He clearly changed his mind a while back though, instead making the case that we should...
Freeview's managing director Ilse Howling has questioned the need for lots of HD channels, insisting that the planned five HD channels already contained the programmes most people watched.
At the Westminster eForum to discuss the future of digital terrestrial television, the problem of Freeview's limited bandwidth as data-hungry HD channels proliferated was an issue that arose...
A map of the planet's oldest living things, via Rachel Sussman
What are the oldest living things on the planet? If you're thinking 200-year-old tortoises, well, those are just whippersnappers compared to the organisms that give Methuselah a run for his money. Rachel Sussman has traveled the planet...
Living Steel commissioned an interesting article on the history of steel and iron prefabs. Professor Miles Lewis explains how Britain shipped wrought iron and corrugated steel houses to California and Australia during the gold rushes of the 1850s, when housing was in short...
(all photos NewMerino)
For well over 100 years Australia's prosperity was inextricably lined to the export of wool, and in particular, Merino wool. We even had phrase for it: "Riding on the Sheep's Back." But in the '60s wool's economic dominance was displaced by the likes of coal and iron ore. Years of drought have also taken their toll. But possible one of...