Google Data Centres

A rare look behind the server aisle. Here hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the server racks into a cooling unit to be recirculated. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting from the front of our servers — via Google

FlyingPan / Thunderbike

Thunderbike are making big waves on the custom scene at the moment. Granted, some of their builds are at the fluoro chopper end of the scale: German Harley-Davidson specialists are not renowned for their moderation. But this 1951 Harley has style and craftsmanship in equal abundance. FlyingPan is a 1951 Harley-Davidson EL, which means it’s a Hydra-Glide with the high compression Panhead engine — via Bike EXIF

New York police officer arrested over plot to kidnap and eat women

A New York police officer was arrested on Wednesday after planning the kidnap, rape, torture and cannibalisation of a number of women, the FBI said.

Gilberto Valle, who has been an officer with the NYPD for six years, was detained after the FBI intercepted emails and instant messages showing that he conspired with others to abduct, cook and eat body parts of a number of women.

The criminal complaint cites numerous emails and instant messages that shed light on macabre planning of torture and cannibalism.

The FBI alleges that Valle, 28, met one of his potential victims for lunch, but did not follow through with the acts discussed in his electronic communications. The complaint shows that Valle was corresponding with two unnamed co-conspirators before his arrest — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Lion Cub / Zoo Antwerp

Patience has paid off for fans at Zoo Antwerp. The lion cub born there on 29 August made its public debut this week. The cub spent the first month of its life indoors with its mother, Maouli, but is now enjoying time in an outdoor pen where it can be seen by visitors — via ZooBorns

Austrian granny takes on armed bank robber

An 82-year-old grandmother took on a bank robber who was armed with a gun and a home-made bomb, according to an Austrian newspaper report.

Hertha Wallecker is said to have ripped the thief’s mask off and snatched a bag containing cash he had stolen out of his hand, shouting: The money belongs to the bank.

The robber fled the bank in the village of Sankt Egyden, in the country’s east, empty-handed and was arrested later in the day — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Key to face blindness uncovered

Two nerve clusters in the brain have been pinpointed as responsible for our ability to recognise faces, and which when damaged or impaired may be the cause of a condition known as face blindness or prosopagnosia.

The researchers, from Stanford University in California, identified the clusters in the fusiform gyrus — an area on the left side of the brain long associated with face recognition. To do so, they used a painless procedure carried out on a patient with epilepsy who had electrodes temporarily implanted in his brain.

“Our research shows that there is a causal role of specific sites on the fusiform gyrus in the perception of faces. This suggests that impairment to these brain regions may affects people’s ability to perceive faces,” said senior investigator Kalanit Grill-Spector, who co-authored the research paper, published in The Journal of Neuroscience — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Tiger Airways fined for spamming customers

Tiger Airways has been found guilty of spamming its customers by Australia’s communications watchdog.

The Singapore Airlines-backed carrier has been fined $110,000 by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for failing to unsubscribe customers from marketing emails.

The news comes in the same month that restrictions imposed on the airline were lifted more than a year after its entire fleet was grounded over safety concerns — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Connemara / Peter Legge Associates

Clients a retired professional couple with an existing holiday home adjoining the site acquired in the seventies. Pressure of children and grandchildren’s usage suggested the possibility of amalgamating and developing [Peter Legge Associates] two existing derelict cottages to create a separate retreat, accommodating living, kitchen, dining and relaxing spaces plus three bedrooms en suite — via ArchDaily

White Rhino / Burgers Zoo

Keepers at The Netherlands’ Burgers Zoo were surprised by the early birth of a baby White Rhino. 12-year-old female, Kwanzaa, and her new calf Vince are stable and healthy, according to zoo officials. Of the five rhino species in existence, White Rhinoceros are the most social. They are listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List — via ZooBorns

Leather Sewing Tips and Tricks / PINEAPPLE

Sewing leather is not the same as sewing fabrics. Skilled in sewing different kinds of fabrics, I realised that leather required me to take a bit different approach and practice some new skills. On the other hand, leather possesses unique qualities which enable new possibilities fabrics cannot — via PINEAPPLE

Jimmy Savile and the Price of Silence

Jimmy Savile, later Sir Jimmy Savile, was a radio DJ, television personality and tireless charity worker, raising many millions for causes like the storied children’s ward at Stoke Mandeville hospital. He was still best known for his TV show Jim’ll Fix It, where he made dreams come true for kids all over the country.

Jim’ll fuck it, said this person I was with. Jimmy Savile’s a nonce. If you had the misfortune to grow up outside God’s Own Country, nonce is a term for paedophile.

Bullshit, I said. Jimmy Savile’s been around forever. He would have gotten caught. Radio 1 Roadshows? Doing Top Of The Pops on TV since the dawn of fucking time?

What do you think the price of silence is?

What? How could he not get caught? He looks like a nutter. Dripping in gold chains, long silver hair, shiny tracksuits, gurning at cameras with his ‘now then, now then’ like he’s a fucking glam rock Yorkshire miner? Bollocks.

Well, of course he got caught. In a manner of speaking. Especially with the dead kids — via redwolf.newsvine.com