Moriah Chapel / Dolwyddelan

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5 June 2012
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From the outside, a fairly unassuming old Welsh chap, but look inside and you’ll notice that the eight-bedroom Moriah Chapel in Dolwyddelan, Gwynedd, North Wales is quite the modern home.

In fact, that’s an understatement. This grade-II listed Calvinistic Methodist chapel, which sits within the Snowdonia National Park, is something of a luxurious hangout, using the original design for some stylish open plan living. Oh yes, you’ve got some really special scenery on your doorstep too.

So plenty of space, but for plenty of money. The guide price is £1,100,000 — via WowHaus

Google Is Buying Meebo

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Google has acquired one-time mobile chat king and current internet uglifier Meebo. Details are sparse right now, but the purchase would make sense if Google’s after Meebo as an ad platform.

Another possibility? Meebo’s bottom bar would be a logical social and traffic information gatherer to pair with Google+. As for the sticker price, All Things D had it at $US100 million last month. We’ll let you know more as more information is available — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Two New Elements Named on Periodic Table

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You can now greet by name two new residents of the period table of elements: Flerovium and Livermorium.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially approved names for the elements — which sit at slot 114 and 116, respectively — on 31 May. They have until now gone by the temporary monikers ununquadium and ununhexium.

Both elements are man-made, having first been synthesised at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, in 1998 and 2000.  The discoveries were confirmed with further work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Suggested names for the two elements have been pending since they were submitted to the IUPAC last year.

The elements were created by smashing calcium ions (with 20 protons) into curium targets (which have 96 protons), combining to form element 116, Livermorium. This element decayed almost immediately into Flerovium, with 114 protons — via redwolf.newsvine.com

‘Truman Show’ Delusion Becoming More Common

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Nicholas Marzano believes he’s the subject of a secret reality show, and everyone in his town of Hillside, Illinois is in on it. He’s suing HBO in federal court for, in his words, filming and broadcasting a hidden camera reality show depicting the day-to-day activities of plaintiff without his consent. His suit, filed in April, alleges that HBO has hidden cameras throughout his home, installed controlling devices in his car, enlisted the help of local police, and recruited actors to portray attorneys, government and law enforcement officials, physicians, employers, prospective employers, family, friends, neighbours, and co-workers, all so that their show about his life can continue. Marzano also says HBO is keeping him from getting a job or paying his bills, so that he will be forced to remain on the show.

He appears to be a perfect example of what psychiatrist brothers Joel and Ian Gold describe, in a paper published this week in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, as Truman Show delusion — sufferers believe they are the ‘star’ of a reality television show secretly broadcasting their daily life, much like the main character in Peter Weir’s film The Truman Show. Between the movie’s 1998 release and 2006, they saw five patients with the delusion, and news reports from around the world since then have turned up even more disturbing cases. With the increasing popularity of YouTube and reality TV, the Golds think the disorder is on the rise. Truman Show delusion may be the early 21st century’s paranoia du jour — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Photographer Threatened with Lawsuit After Protecting His Copyright

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After discovering that multiple websites had used one of his photos without permission, photographer Jay Lee began sending out DMCA takedown notifications to web hosts in an attempt to protect his copyright. One of the websites was owned by a woman named Candice Schwager, who had 14 of her sites temporarily taken offline as a result of the takedown request. Turns out Schwager is involved in both helping represent special needs children and helping a man named Louis Guthrie get elected as County Sheriff. This is where the story gets weird.

Lee and Schwager engage in an email exchange that grows increasingly bizarre, and both parties subsequently write blog posts presenting their cases. Lee published emails from Schwager (here’s a cached copy of the page) that appear to show her accusing him of conspiring against her charitable business and campaign. Schwager also published a lengthy piece titled Chronicle’s Jay Lee’s Cheap shots at Atty4kids Nonprofit ~ Garcia Style on one of her websites, and then emailed Lee stating that she intended to sue him for libel, defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and seek punitive damages as well as actual, court costs, attorney fees, and interest — via redwolf.newsvine.com

1973 Norton Commando / Southsiders MC

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4 June 2012
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this 1973 Norton Commando is owned by Florent Graglia of Toulouse, but it used to belong to his father, who rode it from 1975 to 1982. When my brother was born, Graglia recalls, this bike was parked in a garage near Nice. The bike slept there for about 28 years. At Christmas 2010, I said to myself, that legendary bike is there, and it’s my legacy! I have to do something,

With the help of his brother, Graglia resurrected the Norton and transported it from Nice to Toulouse. But the bike was not in good condition, and needed sympathetic hands to restore it. So Graglia contacted Vincent Prat from the Southsiders MC, and the restoration began — via Bike EXIF

Learn to Code by Watching Others Write It

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4 June 2012
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Five years ago the hotness in web development was showing what you could create without resorting to Flash. Now it seems the same is true of JavaScript. While we’ve nothing against JavaScript, the increasingly powerful tools in CSS 3 mean that JavaScript is no longer a necessity for building cool stuff on the web.

The latest JavaScript-free demo we’ve run across is this very cool stopwatch demo made using only CSS 3, no images or JavaScript necessary. Now before you dive into the code and get all Karl Van Hœt on us, yes, there is a script used to handle CSS prefixing, but the actual stopwatch doesn’t require it to work — via Webmonkey

Learn to Code With Mozilla’s ‘Thimble’ Editor

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Mozilla Thimble is a new web-based code editor, part of the company’s recently unveiled Webmakers project. Thimble is designed to give novice webmakers an easy-to-use online tool to quickly build and share webpages.

You can check out Thimble over at the new Mozilla Thimble website. Keep in mind that Mozilla hasn’t formally launched Thimble; the company is still testing, fixing bugs and iterating the app — via Webmonkey

‘Cleaning fairy’ breaks into houses, leaves cleaning bill

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Police have identified a real life cleaning fairy — who may be flapping her wings into a jail cell.

The woman broke into a Westlake home, did some light cleaning, then left a bill.

The family thought a cleaning service sent someone to the wrong house, but the cleaning fairy told them it was no mistake, and they better pay up.

Sherry Bush has re-told the story more times than she can remember, and every neighbour wants to know about the cleaning woman who took the sign on her front door a bit too literally — via redwolf.newsvine.com

2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award Recipient / Gehry Residence

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The Twenty-Five Year Award is conferred on a building that has stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years as an embodiment of architectural excellence. The Gehry Residence — a seemingly ad hoc collection of raw, workmanlike materials wrapped around an unassuming two-story clapboard bungalow — found a literal, but unexpected, answer to the question of neighborhood context, and used it to forever re-shape the formal and material boundaries of architecture

Cuban names: Please call me… Canned Meat

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In many Latin American countries, traditional names like Jose or Isabel remain popular, but in Cuba anything goes. Parents just love to experiment.

As a journalist in Cuba, posing certain questions can be tricky, but I never thought asking a person’s name would be one of them. My problem is, I hardly ever understand the response. And it is not just because I am English. My Cuban colleagues are often just as baffled.

It turns out it is rare to encounter a simple Maria or a Miguel these days — instead, parents choosing a baby’s name like to let their imagination run wild — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Obituary: Richard Dawson

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4 June 2012
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Richard Dawson, the English-born actor and TV host who found fame in the US at the helm of game show Family Feud and in sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, has died.

A former husband of actress Diana Dors, Dawson was 79.

Born in Gosport, Hampshire, he played Corporal Peter Newkirk in World War II comedy Hogan’s Heroes for six years.

He became a panelist on TV show Match Game before hosting Family Feud for 10 years. Family Feud was copied in the UK under the name Family Fortunes.

His son Gary wrote on Facebook on Saturday: It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my father passed away this evening from complications due to oesophageal cancer.

He was surrounded by his family. He was an amazing talent, a loving husband, a great dad, and a doting grandfather. He will be missed but always remembered — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Anti-Gay Group Responds to JCPenney’s Father’s Day Ad

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4 June 2012
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Just a few months after anti-gay group One Million Moms launched a campaign to remove Ellen DeGeneres as JCPenney’s spokesperson because of her sexual orientation, the group is boycotting the department storeover a new ad featuring a same-sex couple. The Father’s Day ad shows real-life dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith playing with their children, Claire and Mason — via Time NewsFeed

Why We Make / Adam Savage

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3 June 2012
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Adam Savage’s talk at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. Adam tells a great story about his Indiana Jones hat, how he got started building his obsessions, and why makers should embrace the things that they have no choice but to make

Cheetahs / National Zoo

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3 June 2012
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Three weeks after their unconventional and rocky entrance into the world, two 3-week-old Cheetahs were transported 18 May to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in good health, thanks to the hard work and swift actions of animal care staff at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. The cubs are being hand-raised at the Zoo and will require around-the-clock care until they are ready to make their public debut late this summer — via ZooBorns

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