Adams Hill Art Deco House / Nottingham

This is a period property, although this 1930s Adams Hill art deco house in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire does actually show evidence of numerous other periods within.

Outside are gardens, remote controlled wrought iron gates, a long driveway and a double garage. All of which is on the market for £1,375,000 — via WowHaus

Is GoDaddy Blocking Domain Transfers After the SOPA Boycott?

A few days ago thousands of customers turned against domain registrar GoDaddy for their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Transfer requests for thousands of domains were started, and even big players such as Wikipedia threatened to move.

In a response, GoDaddy was quick to drop their support for SOPA (but not really), and the company kindly asked customers to come back.

Many customers were nevertheless determined to move to other registrar, but that presented a new problem.

It turns out that GoDaddy is delaying a significant number of the domain transfers for reasons unknown. GoDaddy competitor Namecheap suggests that the transfers are blocked on purpose — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Krampus Amigurumi / Shove Mink

Since the 21st century is filled with some of the most nasty, spoiled, and utterly disobedient children in history, I figured what better way for me to celebrate 2011 Winter solstice than to revive this delightful demon with a loving crocheted tribute — via Croshame

Sugar Glider / Taronga Zoo

This young Sugar Glider joey was found on a road about an hour drive from Sydney’s Taronga Zoo being attacked by birds. Taronga vets discovered a small wound on her leg and Wildlife Nurse Annabelle took her home for round-the-clock-care. She’s now doing really well and has just moved into the Zoo’s Nocturnal House at Wild Australia — via ZooBorns

Nautilus House / Arquitectura Organica

This amazing house was build in 2006 by Arquitectura Orgánica. A young couple with two children from Mexico City who after living in a conventional home wanted to change to one integrated to nature. The goal of this project was to make it feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a mollusc moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister — via Beautiful Life

Octopus Baby Blanket / AllThingsGranny

This blanket was lovingly crocheted in a stitch pattern that I call the thermal stitch, because the finished product looks similar to a thermal blanket.

The newest addition to our line of Baby Blanket is our Octopus Motif. He measures 8″ x 8″, and is securely sewn down to the blanket in one corner — via Etsy

Superior Alternatives to Crappy OS X Software

Macs come bundled with a lot of software out of the box and while most of it is at least passable, much of it lacks the feature set power users need. That’s the catch with a lot of default Mac software, it’s easy, but the second you want to do something more with it, you’re out of luck. We’ve compiled a list of our favourite replacements for the usually workable, but generally boring OS X default software — via Lifehacker

WhatFont Tool

What is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage? Firebug or Webkit Inspector? No, that’s too complicated. It should be just a click away.

Hence I wrote WhatFont, with which you can easily get font information about the text you are hovering on.

To embrace the new web font era, WhatFont also detects services used for serving the font. Now supports Typekit and Google Font API

Octopus Vulgaris / Jude Landry

This poster was created to raise awareness and funds for the cleanup of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. While drilling in the gulf creates jobs and helps serve our current energy needs, the damage done by this spill will cripple the fragile gulf coast for many years — via Jude Landry

1974 Norton Commando / Colorado Norton Works

By most accounts, owning a vintage Norton Commando can be a quixotic experience. For many, it’s the romantic ideal of a classic motorcycle — but you’re likely to need good spanner skills to keep the bike going. The alternative is to locate a Commando that has been subtly upgraded as well as restored, by someone such as Matt Rambow of Colorado Norton Works. Almost 100 bikes have rolled out of his workshop to date, and his mission is to re-build the finest Norton Commando motorcycles on the planet, to match the taste and riding styles of our individual customers — via Bike EXIF

BN0032 / Braun

Braun has been making watches since the early ’70s, with the range still very much inspired by the Dieter Rams less is more philosophy. Not only that, designs like the Braun BN0032 watch range are reasonably priced too — via Retro To Go

Church group steps in to save Muslim food pantries in the Bronx

A pair of Bronx food pantries in jeopardy of closing have gotten a reprieve in the form of a large donation.

The Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development has been operating food pantries in Highbridge and Parkchester since 1997, but without $50,000, the organisation would have had to shutter the pantries at the end of the month.

But Monday evening, executive director Nurah Ama’tulla received a check for $100,000. She says she is grateful and relieved that thousands of families in the Bronx won’t have to go elsewhere for assistance.

The lifeline came from the Collegiate Church Corporation — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Hialeah woman, 80, said she went after gunman after he mugged her daughter

Maternal instincts don’t fade away, even at age 80.

Hialeah grandmother Josefa Lopez said she felt no fear earlier this week when she used the wrath of an angry mother and her aluminum cane to fight off a gunman who beat and robbed her 61-year-old daughter.

At one point, the man fired a shot but missed the enraged octogenarian, who turns 81 on Thursday. Speaking in Spanish from the porch of her home Wednesday, yards from the scene of the incident, Lopez said she blindly charged against the gunman after seeing her daughter lying on the circular driveway, bleeding from her face.

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I thought she was dead, Lopez said. I yelled at [the gunman], ‘I am going to kill you, [son of a b—-]!’ I wasn’t myself. To me, she was dead. — via redwolf.newsvine.com

What They Won’t Tell You About Pepper Spray

Pepper spray is a safe, non-lethal weapon for police to use against criminals, rioters and the occasional sporting event streaker, right? Maybe not. It seems this non-deadly weapon has caused its share of deaths since 1990, and according to info gathered by OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com, it is classified as a chemical weapon worldwide and is banned from being used in war. The US Army has also been quoted as saying pepper spray can cause possible human fatalities — via Discovery Channel