Bonhams’ high-profile auctions usually throw up some surprises. But few are as big as this one. Most vintage motorcycles worth more than $100,000 are pretty well known, but have you ever heard of the German brand Windhoff? Me neither. Yet this restored 1928 example, fresh from a private museum, is expected to sell for between $145,000 and $190,000 — via Bike EXIF
If your system gets a malware infection, booting can be next to impossible — and even if you’ve followed all the best security precautions, sometimes hardware or software failures can render your system inaccessible. Make sure you’re prepared by setting up a recovery USB stick ahead of time — via Lifehacker Australia
Science-fiction/fantasy publishing company Tor Books dropped a big bomb on the e-book world today by announcing plans to abolish DRM on its entire collection of e-books in early July.
The shift will most likely appear seamless to consumers, as an official blog post on the Tor Web site mentions that DRM-free titles will sell at the same retailers that currently sell Tor’s books, and will additionally appear on DRM-free-only e-book stores. The Macmillan-owned company also publishes titles under Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This modern white ceramic bowl in an organic wavy shape is just the thing to wrap your tentacles around. This bowl has been hand painted with a curious octopus in varying shades of green and turquoise. You can use the bowl to enjoy your favourite foods, serve yummy creations, then place on a table top or shelf so you can admire your new green goblin of the sea — via Etsy
Two Utah men were arrested for planting deadly, medieval-style booby traps along a hiking trail popular with families and college students, police said.
Benjamin Steven Rutkowski, 19, and Kai Matthew Christensen, 21, set the traps inside a crude shelter along a trail in Provo Canyon last week, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said.
Both traps were rigged with trip wire, police said.
One was designed to swing a spiked ball at the head of whoever tripped the wire, while the other would have caused someone to fall onto sharpened spikes placed in the ground, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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The Aussie police are clearly not setting the right example when it comes to copyright infringement. In 2008 computers of the South Australian police force’s IT branch were found to contain hundreds of pirated movies.
There is, however, an even ongoing bigger case in which the New South Wales police are accused of massive software piracy involving its criminal intelligence database.
The software in question, ViewNow, is developed by the UK company Micro Focus. While the company licensed its software to the police in the past, it discovered nearly two years ago the police were using thousands of unauthorised copies.
Even worse, the police also shared the software with third parties such as the Ombudsman’s Office, the Department of Correctives Services and the Police Integrity Commission. All without permission from the software company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The nation’s fourth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, sometimes referred to as mad cow disease
, was found in a dairy cow in California, the US Department of Agriculturesaid Tuesday.
The animal has been euthanised and the carcass is being being held under state authority at a rendering facility in California and will be destroyed, officials said.
The carcass is at a Baker Commodities facility in Hanford, California, according to Dennis Lucky of the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A interesting place, although it’s slightly annoying that there are aren’t more interior shots of Millway Tower, which you’ll find in Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire.
There aren’t a lot of details to work with either, when it comes to this 14th century sawmill conversion, but enough to give you an idea. The structure actually dates back to 1307, when it was owned by the Monks of Maugersbury
, but has more recently been converted and extended into something both unique and habitable for a family.
Like I said, a shame there isn’t more to see inside, but there’s enough to whet the appetite. No price, that’s on application — which perhaps indicates that this countryside retreat isn’t on the cheap side — via WowHaus
Focus only on your emails and wipe out the noise added to your inbox by Gmail ads. Gmelius gives you the option to remove all the ads present in Gmail (top, right and bottom). To note that Gmelius does not deactivate the automatic Gmail filtering and scanning system which allows Google to parse for keywords in your emails and then match and serve targeted ads when you browse the Web
A Melbourne woman who killed her husband after years of domestic abuse has been sentenced to seven years’ jail.
Jemma Edwards, 45, from Highett pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to defensive homicide.
In January 2011, she called authorities claiming two men had stabbed her husband James Edwards at their home before fleeing.
Mr Edwards suffered a wound to the back inflicted by a spear gun and had been stabbed repeatedly. He suffered more than 30 injuries.
Later, his wife confessed that she had killed him, but said she had acted in self defence.
The court heard Edwards had been a victim of domestic abuse since 1999 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Menacing little Cthulhu charms lurking under tiny sparkling Swarovski vitrail crystals — via Etsy
Meet Lulu and Roscoe, the Milwaukee County Zoo’s newest Fennec Fox kits. Born 27 January, the cubs recently made their public début accompanied by mum, Daisy, and father, Duke. Fennec foxes’ oversized ears act like natural air conditioners, radiating heat away from their bodies and cooling their blood in the light desert breeze. Their ears also help detect tasty prey at night, including small insects scurrying nearly-silently atop the sand — via ZooBorns
So much for the speculation over what Microsoft would do with the 925 patents it just bought from AOL earlier this month. At least part of the mystery is solved. Redmond is reselling most of them to its ally Facebook.
Microsoft and Facebook on Monday announced a deal for the social networking giant to purchase some of Redmond’s recently acquired AOL patent portfolio for $550 million in cash. That leaves Microsoft with 275 of the patents — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As wind and water weather the surface of a site, rocky outcrops are often left behind, pushing upward to form rigid peaks. Instead of blasting away this natural feature, one home embraces the existing stone in stunning ways.
Designed by Gibson Architects at an altitude of 8500 feet in the Rocky Mountains, this house turns difficult granite boulders into building assets, showing off this inherent geology in organic ways. Marble-clad elements like pillars and fireplaces rise up from the rugged ground, tying it vertically into the structure’s aesthetic, while horizontal white and wood elements provide contrast to these dark natural features — via Dornob
This nautilus pin was handmade by me using coloured pencils on shrink plastic. It measures 1.5″ across. Wear it on your coat lapel or hat. It is super lightweight and truly a statement piece — via Etsy
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