Rental housing with built-in garage for bike enthusiasts. Site is a narrow alley-like grounds of the only flagpole site frontage facing the road. In urban centres due to low rental housing has been developed safe bicycle parking, theft, arson and damage has occurred often on-street parking. That the user needs by bike is a particularly high quality, providing a built-in garage for bikes of all dwelling units were required — via Architects Akiyoshi Takagi | NE apartment
Here is my flagship piece finally listed in 14K Yellow Gold! This ring is made from a real Octopus tentacle which has been cast in solid 14K Gold! Each work of art is handmade or order and hand cast. I’ve sculpted in details and textures in each piece by hand to make each one different and special. This piece in gold is very sexy and luxurious! If you are looking for unique wedding band or engagement ring, this would be an awesome piece — via Etsy
If you like Invader Zim, then you’ll immediately recognize the adorable Gir above. Even if you have no idea what that is though, you should still be able appreciate how sweet it was for Dorothy’s boyfriend to build a replica of her favorite robot in order to propose in style — via Neatorama
A Tennessee woman says she was just praising the Lord, although at high volume, when she received a citation accusing her of violating the city’s noise ordinance. She later was arrested by police on a disorderly conduct charge.
Fifty-four-year-old Betty Jones tells WCYB-TV that her routine every Sunday includes five hours of praising and dancing, while she listens to music by Johnny Cash, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson and The Judds.
But neighbours in Bristol complained about loud music, so police showed up on 27 May, a Sunday. A police report says officers helped her lower her stereo’s bass and warned her. But officers say they came back less than two hours later being called again.
This, time they cited her under the city’s noise ordinance, and Jones tells the station she gave the officers a message too — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Do not attempt capture because you’ll totally screw with the space/time continuum bro — via Society6
Scientists say they have identified a possible genetic link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
It has been known for some time that people with diabetes have a much higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but not why this is so.
Now US researchers writing in Genetics say a study of worms has indicated a known Alzheimer’s gene also plays a role in the way insulin is processed.
Dementia experts said more work in humans was now needed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Concepto Watch Factory, a Swiss manufactory that develops and manufacturers top level watch movements and complex mechanisms in-house, has set up a new company called Optimo Assortments which hopes to become a serious alternative to Swatch Group-manufactured parts. As Reuters recently reported, Swatch Group is the industry’s parts supermarket
, with its ETA unit providing as much as 80 percent of Swiss movements and its Nivarox arm dominating the market for escapement and oscillating parts, which make up the heart of a watch’s mechanism. However for many years Swatch Group has been in the process of reducing its watch supply to rival watchmakers, setting off a scramble in the industry to source alternative parts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian consumer electronics upstart Kogan Technologies has deployed a special tax
on its popular website which will charge online shoppers an extra 6.8 percent on top of their purchases if they persist in using what the company described as Microsoft’s antique
Internet Explorer web browser.
The way we’ve been able to keep our prices so low is by using technology to make our business efficient and streamlined,
Kogan wrote on its company blog yesterday. One of the things stopping that is our web team having to spend a lot of time making our new website look normal on IE7. This is an extremely old browser, so from today, anyone buying from the site who uses IE7 will be lumped with a 6.8% surcharge — that’s 0.1% for each month IE7 has been on the market.
It’s not only costing us a huge amount, it’s affecting any business with an online presence, and costing the Internet economy millions,
the company claimed. Customers who enter our site using Internet Explorer 7 can avoid the impost by simply downloading an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera or even a more recent version of Internet Explorer.
Kogan wrote that all Internet citizens
had a responsibility to make the Internet a better place.
By taking these measures, we are doing our bit,
the company added. This will help us increase our efficiency, help keep prices for all smart shoppers down, and hopefully help eradicate the world of the pain in the rear that is IE7! So, what are you waiting for? Time to upgrade your browser!
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and AOL have joined an alliance that has been set up to counter bad ads
, including those that deliver malware, direct users to scams, or try to sell counterfeit goods, said StopBadware, the promoters of the alliance.
The Ads Integrity Alliance was launched Thursday and has Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in New York also as a charter member.
No individual business or law enforcement agency can single-handedly eliminate these bad actors from the entire web,
Eric Davis, Google’s global public policy manager said in a blog post on Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When it comes to tackling San Francisco’s entrenched panhandling problem, City Hall has tried just about everything: laws banning aggressive panhandling and sitting on sidewalks, teams of service providers who attempt to get beggars off the streets, and an employment program to get them hired at nearby businesses.
But it’s never tried puppies — until now.
Starting 1 August, the city — in a program believed to be the first of its kind in the country — will attempt to lure panhandlers to give up their cardboard signs and metal cups in exchange for a small stipend to foster problematic puppies at the city’s Animal Care and Control, making them ready for adoption — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The cornerstone of fair government and ordered liberty is due process of law
: the state must define legal obligations in advance and apply them even-handedly. That principle is under assault today from an unusual source: the federal courts. An obscure change to a procedural rule in 1938 delegated to any private person the absolute right to commandeer the power of the state to issue an official court order (a “summons”) to any other person to stop whatever they are doing and report to court to spend time and money defending against any charges, no matter how bogus, regardless of whether they have any basis in either law or fact.
Today anyone may sue anyone over anything: the fleeing felon who breaks in, takes hostages, and then sues his victims for allegedly violating their oral contract to hide him from the police; the convict who sues the makers of baking soda for failing to warn it is illegal to use their product to make crack cocaine; the D.C. administrative law judge who sues his dry cleaners for $54 million for losing his pants (and thereby imposes over $100,000 in legal expenses on the store’s Korean-born owners).
Some examples may be amusing, but the problem is not. Millions of dollars a year are spent defending against lawsuits that never should have been brought. For example, when several states enacted a requirement that a doctor has to sign a paper saying that someone is actually sick, asbestos lawsuits dropped by an average of 90 percent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Another octopus/skull combination — via deviantART
This is one of the first creations from Maria Motorcycles of Lisbon, Portugal, and it’s a great start. Maria’s philosophy is to get to the essence of a bike and keep it simple
, and that’s what they’ve done with this super-clean custom based on a 2010 Triumph Thruxton. The owner was tired of the crouched riding position, and wanted a bike with a more open cockpit — via Bike EXIF
Nautilus pendant — via Etsy
Nine out of 10 execs think Big Data — the hoarding of information from server logs to social networking posts — is the fourth most important input to a business. The execs questioned in a survey published yesterday described data sets as the fourth factor of production after land, labour and capital.
The research by the Economist Intelligence Unit and funded by Capgemini examines the role of Big Data in influencing management decisions. Of the 600+ senior execs questioned, 65 per cent of them asserted that more and more management decisions are based on hard analytic information
, as opposed to just having a hunch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dutch artist Bart Jansen is under attack after images of his flying helicopter cat went viral on the Internet this week.
Jansen created the bizarre cat helicopter after his pet Orville was killed by a car.
According to media reports, Jansen kept Orville’s body in a freezer for about six months, before taking him to a taxidermist and attaching a plastic propeller to each of his four paws. Then he put a remote control engine inside the stomach of the cat, and after a few false starts, the Orvillecopter
achieved lift-off — via LA Times
Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching has a new short series of how-to embroidery videos through Kin Community on YouTube. You can watch Embroidery 101, Five Basic Embroidery Stitches and Three Ways to Transfer Embroidery Patterns. The videos are really lovely and nicely done, and it’s a great quick look at embroidery basics. Stay tuned, because Jenny says there are five more video tutorials on their way — via CRAFT
Richard Pollock is having good problems. Demand for his Mule street-trackers is running ahead of supply, so much so that customers are now buying his personal motorcycles out from underneath him. Actually, even Pollock’s own bikes are work-related. This 2007 Triumph Bonneville T100 that he was keeping for himself also served as testbed for products being developed by Streetmaster, the small Southern California speed house Pollock does work for — via Bike EXIF
The pesky cane toad, which has played havoc with native species, could soon be facing death by its own poison.
Native tadpoles are repelled by the cane toads’ poison, but cane toads themselves are attracted to it.
Now, the University of Sydney’s Professor Rick Shine says work is underway to manufacture a poison pill to target the rogue tadpoles.
We’re hoping that we can come up with a relatively non-toxic pure form of the chemical that’ll last for a long time,
Professor Shine said.
It’ll be safe to use [and] it’ll make it a lot easier to go and catch those cane toad tadpoles from that pond down the road
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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