I think this is my favourite way to organize a hose using a bucket. By mounting on a wall, you can loop your hose around just as you would with these metal hook hose holders you can get. Although you can’t lug it all around any more, it’s now a perfect little bucket shelf — via Five Gallon Ideas
A cow has fallen through the roof of a house in Brazil, killing a man and narrowly missing his wife.
The cow was grazing on a hill behind the house in the town of Caratinga when it stepped onto the asbestos roof which collapsed under its weight.
A 45-year-old man was lying in bed when the animal fell on him.
He was taken to hospital but died a day later — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Linde Werdelin Double Date Titanium Red features bold red detailing on the titanium-coloured dial, with an equally bold matching red rubber strap. It joins the growing Oktopus II family as the third such Okto II to be executed in titanium — via Perpetuelle
When Kahindi Charo gathered 30 of his friends to replant mangroves in the 32 square kilometre (12 square mile) Mida Creek area, people in his village of Dabaso in Kilifi County dismissed them as crazy idlers.
Charo recalls that back then, in 2000, the creek had suffered badly from unregulated harvesting that had left the area bare, with rotting stumps and patches of old mangrove trees.
Today, Mida Creek, about 60 km (38 miles) north of Mombasa, flourishes with dense mangrove plantations that provide a habitat for birds, fish, and crabs. There is also a boardwalk leading to a 12-seat eco-restaurant perched beside the Indian Ocean — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sweetie Belle is usually an energetic little filly, but even she has her down days with nothing else to do but mope. Only, even when dragging herself across the floor she can still maintain her composure in being undeniably adorable — via Youtube
Bluebird amigurumi, originally uploaded by mohu mohu.
Ireland.s parliament has passed a landmark law that will allow limited abortion in the Catholic country for the first time.
Lawmakers in the Dáil, Ireland’s parliament, voted in the early morning hours Friday to legalise abortions in cases when one could save a woman’s life.
After long and contentious debate that saw bishops threatening to ex-communicate lawmakers who voted in favour of the law, Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s coalition government pushed the bill through by a vote of 127 to 31, according to RTE News — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Have you always wanted to be one of those cool people with an octopus on your head? Now you can! This hat has 8 jumbo-sized 2 foot long tentacles, and the suckers on them glow-in-the-dark — via Anime Noms
— via Steve Niles Tumblr
Using nanostructured glass, scientists at the University of Southampton have, for the first time, experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional digital data by femtosecond laser writing. The storage allows unprecedented parameters including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1000°C and practically unlimited lifetime.
Coined as the Superman memory crystal
, as the glass memory has been compared to the memory crystals
used in the Superman films, the data is recorded via self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz, which is able to store vast quantities of data for over a million years. The information encoding is realised in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It is quite likely this is the coolest desk in the world! The Pipe Organ Desk has been in the works for more than 3 years. It is entirely made from solid wood down to the last screw. It features an octave of functional wooden organ pipes. Should you play the correct sequence of notes or tune, a secret compartment opens up — via Kagen Schaefer
Google’s PR machine has this week been trumpeting its wind and sun energy ventures.
But you’ll have to go elsewhere to hear about its support for Senator James Inhofe, described by a San Francisco Chronicle columnist as the delusional or dishonest Oklahoma Republican
who has called global warming the greatest hoax
.
The “Green” giant is helping to raise lots of green for his re-election by hosting a lunch at its Washington office on July 11, costing as much as $2,500 per plate.
James Temple, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, called it a shameful act of corporate hypocrisy
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An elderly South American Coati unexpectedly gave birth to two healthy pups at Zoo Budapest. In the wild, Coatis rarely live longer than seven to eight years, but they have been known to live up to 17 years in captivity. The mother of these two pups, Juliet, is 15 years old. The Zoo’s press release notes that it is almost a matter of biological peculiarity
that she has successfully given birth to two healthy pups at her advanced age. At four years old, the pups’ sire has only been sexually mature for about half a year, making the parents quite the unlikely pair — via ZooBorns
To summarise, Thor’s hammer represents heroism, nobility, self-reliance, and honour. It’s a symbol with a history that extends back a thousand years to pre-Christian Europe. And adherents of Odinism, the religion that Thor’s hammer represents, tend to make natural soldiers. Oh, and it also shares a pretty strong cultural heritage with a superhero who is, in his own weird, Technicolor, space viking way, as American as apple pie. How strange would it be, then, if the US Department of Veterans Affairs — the organisation that oversees cemeteries dedicated to US veterans and ultimately says which symbols can be used therein to represent your religious faith — had a problem with Thor’s hammer?
But for decades, the VA did have a problem with Thor’s hammer. Not so much for what Mjölnir stood for but because it was a pagan symbol, and pagan symbols were verboten.
If you look at all the symbols the Department of Veterans Affairs have approved for use on headstones over the years, pagan symbols were really the final frontier,
Pitzl-Waters says. Hinduism, Humanists, Atheists, all these other symbols had been approved. But there wasn’t a single pagan symbol on the approved list
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The onset of summer for the Animal Care staff at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, means patiently awaiting endangered-animal births, hand raising youngsters, and saying farewell to cubs that are ready to be matched with mates. All of the species—which range in International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List status from near threatened to endangered—are significant and represent great conservation successes.
One of the new births of these important animals were two male Maned Wolf pups, born on 14 April to 2-year-old female Vitani and 8-year-old male, Paul. The pups received a clean bill of health at their first veterinary exam, appearing robust and healthy. Keepers have nicknamed the pups Bold
and Shy
for their distinctive personalities — via ZooBorns)
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