Behold the Austrian-built Johammer 11 – the first electric motorcycle capable of travelling 200km on a single charge.
It’s no beaut, but it goes far.
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Donal Thornton writes.
“Hey, we are launching a FREE iphone app called Eggify that lets people time their boiled egg to music from their phone… I’m not sure how humanity has survived thus far without it but it’s here now so we’re saved. Thought it might be a timely post with Easter Sunday looming…”
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Hollywood SFX supremo Steve Johnson talks to Matt Winston of Stan Winston’s School Of Character Arts about the first iteration of the original Predator monster – an unwieldy, dog-headed, insectoid clustermorph grudgingly manned by budding action hero Jean Claude Van Damme until he was replaced by the more physically imposing Kevin Peter Hall.
Full webcast here
These days the Internet of Things is getting closer all the time. Practically everything is wired and managing them all is somewhat a pain.
Liam Mac Namee writes:
As you know it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of what our children are accessing on-line and thus potentially leading to cyber bullying and exposure to content that is inappropriate for their age groups.
Our new product Skydog (we are exclusive Irish distributors) seeks to solve that problem by assisting parents to monitor their children’s on-line activity, prevent them from accessing undesirable websites and restrict the amount of time spent on-line on all of their devices.
Of course, there’s always the risk your kids will drug you to have more internet time.
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An ‘in-house’ animation by London based DBLG creative agency combining traditional stop-motion with 3D printing.
Fifty tiny sculptures printed and photographed one by one – four weeks to create a total of two charming seconds of animation.
For teh Winnie.
Clinch is a new Irish recruitment jobs site.
Damien Glancy, their CTO says:
Born from the notion that “hiring shouldn’t suck,” Clinch offers a hiring experience that is more engaging, more honest, and basically more human – for both jobseeker and employer alike. Our in-house photographers and copywriters work alongside companies to create a profile on Clinch that provides unique insight into their workplace and culture. For the job seekers themselves,
Clinch provides a sort of “window on the workplace,” allowing them to get a real feel for the company and the people who work there. The more informed people are, the better choices they can make when it comes to submitting job applications.
Their robots.txt though shows their true feelings stripped of the marketing:
# # ____ _ _ _ _ # / ___| (_)_ __ ___| |__ (_) ___ # | | | | | '_ \ / __| '_ \ | |/ _ \ # | |___| | | | | | (__| | | |_| | (_) | # \____|_|_|_| |_|\___|_| |_(_)_|\___/ # # # # -___________- # (/ _ \) # /_____(O)_____\ # // / / | \ \ \\ # ================= # // / | | | | \ \\ "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! ALL RECRUITERS!" # =================== / # //// || || || || \\\\ # |||| || || || || |||| # /---___-----------,---\ # | / \ -o- | # / \___/ ' \ # +---------------------+ # /_ __ ___ __ _\ # (__) (__) (___) (__) (__) # |_ __ ___ __ _| # (__) (__) (___) (__) (__) # /_ ___ ___ ___ _\ # (__) (___) (___) (___) (__) # |_ ___ ___ ___ _| # (__) (___) (___) (___) (__) # /_______________________________\ # #
They’re even running a competition for employers to use the service for free.
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Dan Druff writes:
You’ve been posting a bit about 2048 lately it you should know that it’s a ripoff of Threes, the far superior and much more challenging game. Why support the ripoff so much and trample on the hard working, original devs? I hope you’ll give them some support since you’ve handed out more than enough to its ripoffs.
Oh.
We want to celebrate iteration on our ideas and ideas in general. It’s great. 2048 is a simpler, easier form of Threes that is worth investigation, but piling on top of us right when the majority of Threes players haven’t had time to understand all we’ve done with our game’s system and why we took 14 months to make it, well… that makes us sad.
It’s complicated and hard to express these conflicting feelings but hopefully this is a start. We are so happy with Threes and how it has done and all the response. Seriously. And even writing this feels like we’re whining about some sour grapes that we have no business feeling sour about. Like it’s not ok to feel the way we do some of the time. But we do.
‘Threes’ developers Asher and Greg
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Tapis Magiques (2014) by French artist Miguel Chevalier is an interactive light display projected on the floor of the former Sacré Coeur church in Casablanca, Morocco, set to the underwater music of Michel Redolfi.
As viewers move around the ever changing pixelated display, the projection patterns (based on biological forms, Islamic art and Moroccan carpet designs) curve around them.
You can’t have missed the coverage of the Heartbleed exploit which potentially effects 17% of the internet.
Bruce Schneier describes the impact as:
“Catastrophic” is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.
Randall Munroe of XKCD does a fantastic job explaining in layman’s terms what the bug actually is – something that the security community (as usual) has struggled with.
You can use Filippo Valsorda’s handy tool to see if a site is potentially vulnerable (Broadsheet’s server uses a version of OpenSSL that is not vulnerable to this particular attack).
Threat from Heartbleed grows as flaw found in some routers (Irish Times)