A sweet little octopus cuddling his patchwork squid plushie — via deviantART
Médecins sans Frontières says two of its employees in Mogadishu — a Belgian and an Indonesian — have been killed in gunfire that occurred in one of its offices.
The aid group said the exact circumstances of the gunfire on Thursday in Somalia’s capital were not immediately clear. However, a security guard, Ahmed Ali, said a disgruntled former employee of MSF, a Somali dismissed the day before, had returned and opened fire.
The aid group identified the victims as Philippe Havet, 53, of Belgium, and Andrias Karel Keiluhu, 44, an Indonesian doctor known as Kace — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hublot unveiled a sneak preview of the King Power Unico GMT watch, set to debut in January 2012. This watch not only features one of Hublot’s new in-house movements (its Unico
series), but it also an interesting, though somewhat confusing, manner of showing 24 timezones on the dial — via Perpetuelle
A glorious routine by novelist James Ellroy. And I think he was reining himself in, too — via Warren Ellis
The SNDA65 has the same movement inside of it that the SNDC47 contains. You drop the bezel, and pick up the Flieger-style arrowhead at the twelve o’clock position. You also get a bump in case size (to 42mm wide and 12mm thick), which also appears to have a black coating of some sort applied. Thankfully, that beautiful hardlex crystal made the migration to this model, as did the 100 meter water resistance rating — via Wrist Watch Review
As children, these two had constant feuds after Calvin literally stepped into Christopher’s neck of the woods. That’s when the Battle began, the test of their imagination. Calvin would talk about his friend
and his abilities and Christopher would counter and say but can he…
it went back and forth between the two of them. As they grew older they grew in different directions. Calvin met new people and made friends — although his best and imaginary friend Hobbes
stayed with him all the way into adulthood. Christopher on the other hand became more introverted but made the characters he invented as a kid more apart of his character as he got older — via deviantART
Thought I’d show ol’ Cal and Hobbes in action — via deviantART
A would-be mugger made off with something more malodorous than money Thursday morning, police said.
An unknown man approached a 62-year-old woman as she was walking her dog just before 10.00am on the 100 block of Dakota. The man demanded the woman she give him everything she had, and he said that if she didn’t, he would kick her dog.
The woman handed him a bag and the suspect fled. Unbeknownst to the suspect, the bag she gave him contained her dog’s feces — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whodunit? A final mystery surrounding the work of film legend Alfred Hitchcock — what triggered the crazed bird flocks that helped inspire his 1963 thriller The Birds — appears solved by scientists.
Dying and disoriented seabirds rammed themselves into homes across California’s Monterey Bay in the summer of 1961, sparking a long-standing mystery about the cause among marine biologists. The avian incidents sparked local visitor Hitchcock’s interest, along with a story about spooky bird behaviour by British writer Daphne du Maurier — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Even as the holiday season comes to a close, it seems that there are no limitations on what sort of epic douchebaggery still lurks on the internet. Originally reported by Destructoid along with a posting on Reddit, today may live to be one of the worst days in PR history as Penny Arcade published an email thread that transpired between one of its readers and third party peripheral marketer, Ocean Marketing. Dave, the customer in question, preordered a pair of PlayStation 3 controllers that were supposed to be available prior to the Christmas weekend. Following over a month of zero communication, he emailed Paul Christoforo in regards to his order.
With a reply from Christoforo of simply, December 17
, there’s little to argue in the ambiguity therein, let alone the simple lack of customer service — especially when said buyer is still expected to pay full price for the preordered merchandise. Upon following up, Dave was told that his controllers had yet to ship from China and that any hope of delivery prior to Christmas could no longer be guaranteed. Setting a new precedence for lacking professionalism, Christoforo told his customer to put on [his] big boy hat and wait it out like everyone else
. Christoforo goes on to sound even more contrived by stating, feel free to cancel we need the units were back ordered 11,000 units so your 2 will be gone fast. Maybe I’ll put them on eBay for 150.00 myself
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A giant saltwater crocodile named Elvis charged at an Australian reptile park worker before stealing his lawn mower.
Tim Faulkner, operations manager at the Australian Reptile Park, north of Sydney, was one of three workers tending to the lawn in Elvis’s enclosure on Wednesday when he heard the crocodile’s keeper, Billy Collett, let out a yelp. Faulkner looked up to see the 5m-long,500kg crocodile lunging out of its lagoon at Collett, who warded the creature off with his mower.
Before we knew it, the croc had the mower above his head,
Faulkner said. He got his jaws around the top of the mower and picked it up and took it underwater with him.
The workers quickly left the enclosure. Elvis, meanwhile, showed no signs of relinquishing his new toy and sat guarding it closely all morning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Round Tower is a Grade II Listed folly, which had been reduced to ruin by years of neglect and fire. Located on the crest of a hill overlooking Siddington Village, the exposed site is visually integral to the setting of this listed structure. As such the design approach maintains the open relationship with the surrounding agricultural landscape by developing a discreet and substantial underground extension to the tower. This underground extension [De Matos Ryan] provides the main open plan living spaces and is lit by both a central open sunken courtyard and a lateral landscape scoop
concealing the new swimming pool and associated sun terraces from public view — via ArchDaily
Vespa GTS 300 Super, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
A second, rare, white Kiwi hatched on the morning of 18 December at Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre. Like it’s sibling, Manukura, this little one has received a special and meaningful name — Mauriora, meaning sustained life
. It hatched in the Wildlife Centre’s nursery, where Manukura — the world’s first white kiwi hatched in captivity — came along in May — via ZooBorns
Red Stinkhorn, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
I worked on it for about 1.5 years (it took so long because I never wanted to to attach the last half of the squares together.) Bulbasaur is about 33 squares tall by 36 squares wide. Each square is 2 inches, because anything bigger would’ve been ridiculous — via Craftster
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira shows absolutely no respect to art galleries’ walls! It’s as if he has the supernatural ability to control trees, making them burst through the walls at his own whim — via My Modern Metropolis
Nicola Martini describes his workshop as a laboratory of ideas
. And right now, the Verona-based builder is pushing the visual envelope harder than almost anyone else on the custom scene. This is his latest bike, Flash Back
— a fearless reworking of the Ducati 1098R — via Bike EXIF
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