What a wedding cake. This was amazing to work on so many thanks (and congratulations) to the bride and groom for letting me make it. Based on the Evil Dead movies for their Halloween wedding. Rainbow cake on the inside too — via deviantART
Gail of Hungry at Midnight created this adorable Santa-inspired teddy bear. She’s even posted the pattern for it, too — via blog.makezine.com
Not long ago, PCs compromised by malware were put to a limited number of fraudulent uses, including spam, click fraud and denial-of-service attacks. These days, computer crooks are extracting and selling a much broader array of data stolen from hacked systems, including passwords and associated email credentials tied to a variety of online retailers.
At the forefront of this trend are the botnet creation kits like Citadel, ZeuS and SpyEye, which make it simple for miscreants to assemble collections of compromised machines. By default, most bot malware will extract any passwords stored in the victim PC.s browser, and will intercept and record any credentials submitted in Web forms, such as when a user enters his credit card number, address, etc at an online retail shop.
Some of the most valuable data extracted from hacked PCs is bank login information. But non-financial logins also have value, particularly for shady online shops that collect and resell this information — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gerry Anderson, the creator of hit TV shows including Thunderbirds, Stingray and Joe 90, has died at the age of 83.
He also created Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and his puppet superheroes fired the imaginations of millions of young viewers in the 1960s and ’70s.
Thunderbirds, a science-fiction fantasy about a daring rescue squad, ran from 1965 and was his most famous show.
Anderson had suffered from Alzheimer’s since 2010 and the disease had worsened in recent months, his son Jamie said.
Jamie Anderson announced the news on his website, saying his father died peacefully in his sleep at noon on Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
John Stewart makes detailed scale replicas of famous fictional settings including the Bates Motel, the home of the Munsters and the home of the Addams Family. This one is a cutaway model of the Jupiter 2, the ship featured on the classic science fiction show Lost in Space — via Neatorama
Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning
.
The wires have been tested, and demonstrated in the video below, to work perfectly well as headphone wires. Sound continues to reach the headphones even as the wires are stretched.
The wires themselves don’t stretch, but instead use a liquid alloy of gallium and indium housed in a very plastic polymer the researchers say, in the paper Ultrastretchable Fibres with Metallic Conductivity Using a Liquid Metal Alloy Core, is hollow fibre composed of a triblock copolymer, poly[styrene-b-(ethylene-co-butylene)-b-styrene] (SEBS) resin
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The American actor Charles Durning, who has died aged 89, first grabbed audience attention as the crooked Lieutenant Snyder in The Sting (1973). He makes an explosive appearance, tearing down an alley after the slick grifter played by Robert Redford, and repeatedly lurches out of the shadows throughout the rest of the film. Durning had only a handful of scenes, and over the next 40 years would seldom be granted more screen time in 200-odd film and TV roles. Nevertheless, his jowly face, with its boxer’s nose and sly eyes, grew increasingly familiar, and his name in the opening titles usually promised good things ahead. His heavyset frame meant he was often cast as tough guys, but he later assumed more jovial roles, portraying Father Christmas several times.
His first Oscar nomination came for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), an ebullient musical about the southern hospitality offered at a brothel called the Chicken Ranch. Durning plays the slippery Texan governor who must decide whether to close down the establishment. His evasive nature is captured in a magical song-and-dance routine: I love to dance a little sidestep,
he sings. Now they see me, now they don’t…
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Photo Credit: Amanda Ista, Milwaukee County Zoo
The Milwaukee County Zoo announced the birth of two Jaguar cubs. The two babies were born on 13 November to first time mother Stella, and to father, Pat. Zookeepers continue to monitor Stella and her cubs in an area not visible to the public, mainly via video feed, and report the cubs are nursing, sleeping, and even hissing and scratching. They will nurse until about 5 to 6 months of age, and begin to sample meat once they are about 5 weeks old — via ZooBorns
This cute Tentacle Knot is made from a real Cast Octopus tentacle. It has been cast in sterling silver and finished with a dark oxidation with a bright finish on the suckers. You can see the cool details of the suckers on the piece. It’s a solid piece so you can see the suckers on the tentacle on the front and back of the pendant. It hangs on a 1.7mm black leather cord with slip knots tied on each side so you can adjust it easily for shorter or longer lengths — via Etsy
when i moved to l.a a couple of years ago i moved into a strange and wonderful old (by l.a standards) house from 1927, but in moving to l.a i also inherited a john lautner guest house from 1962 — via moby los angeles architecture
Amy L Rawson makes a special Christmas Cthulhu art project every year. This one is a collaboration with artist Brian East, and is actually the project they started last year before Brian suffered a broken hand. Santa Chtulhu is for sale through Etsy — via Neatorama
In the past twelve months, The Middleman had gotten used to the feeling of utter, unadulterated and — frankly — de-goshdarn-lightful pride at the progress of his young apprentice. Without fail, the art student who had come under his tutelage a snarky, vinegar-veined quipper had turned into a reliable — if sometimes idiosyncratic – Middleman-to-be. Today was no exception — even if its events were causing him to suck air in a mad canter toward The Middlemobile, where — at the beck and call of a signal from his Middlewatch — the trunk would soon pop open to grant him access to the seldom-used-but-always-at-the-ready Middlejetpack.
The Middleman disliked the Middlejetpack: an archaic contraption harkening back to the days when former Middleman Guy Goddard — his sexual promiscuity as overt as his appetite for vehicular carnage in exotic locales — rode the thing in a green smoking jacket with a Beretta in one hand and a highball of Fleming’s Commander Jamaica Rum in the other…but desperate times called for desperate measures, and flingety-flangety-foom, this time was more desperate than a Portland vegan at a Texas barbecue.
— via themiddleblog
UK tax inspectors are investigating Goal.com, which bills itself as the world’s largest football website
, over its widespread use of unpaid interns, the Guardian can reveal.
The site has confirmed it uses a roster of 30 unpaid interns across seven days a week to file match reports and write other content for its UK edition.
Its parent company, Perform, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, says Goal.com attracts an average 24 million unique users a month and last year generated £4m in advertising and sponsorship revenue. Perform, which bought Goal.com for £18m in February last year, posted total revenues of £103m for 2011.
A copy of a Goal.com staff schedule seen by the Guardian appears to show between five and seven interns a day being used between 7am and midnight to file news and match reports. Perform told the Guardian it had 22 full-time staff, plus paid freelancers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google slashed the cumulative view counts on YouTube channels belonging to Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG, and RCA Records by more than 2 billion views Tuesday, a drastic winter cleanup that may be aimed at shutting down black hat view count-building techniques employed by a community of rogue view count manipulators on the video-sharing site.
Universal’s channel is the one that took the biggest hit. According to figures compiled by the YouTube statistics analysts at SocialBlade, the record company’s YouTube channel lost more than 1 billion views from its pre-existing tally of 7 billion views Tuesday.
Sony/BMG was the second largest sufferer, dropping more than 850 million views in one day, bringing its total number of views to a mere 2.3 million. RCA, which got off scot free by comparison, dipped 159 million views. Its tally now sits more modestly at 120 million views — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Photo Credit: Perth Zoo
This is an original, one-of-a-kind needle-felted octopus. He likes axes very much even he lives under the sea — via Esty
George Takei reads from Fifty Shades of Grey. Oh Myyy, indeed. Share the joy and spread him like a virus. Then pick up a copy of his new book; Oh Myyy! (There Goes The Internet)
i was in san francisco for a few days, and while there i went to muir woods. which, not to indulge in hyperbole, might possibly be the most beautiful place i’ve ever seen.
and, buildings:
san francisco is a beautiful city with lots of beautiful buildings. but i decided to take pictures of this oddball fairytale building because it was cute and made no sense to me, much in the fantastic way most of l.a’s buildings make no sense to me.
maybe it’s a hogwarts recruitment office. maybe it’s where hobbits fix shoes. i have no idea.
but it’s cute. and weird — via mobylosangelesarchitecture
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