This crocheted octopus is 5″ tall, made of Nylon yarn. It is very cute — via Etsy
I always love following along with the interesting techniques in dollhouse furniture making are shared over on 1 inch minis. This time, she’s sharing how to use a special jig to bend tiny metal tubing to create kitchen chairs. The details are just amazing, and the tricks she uses to shape the chair seats and put everything together are brilliant — via CRAFT
Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, David Johansen and Joey Ramone — via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
This photo series of Juliana Sunmi Park and Benjamin Jinsuk Lee is hereby declared the greatest engagement photoshoot of all time. Unfortunately, the site has now been password protected, but the bulk of them have been posted elsewhere — via Neatorama
A feisty 90-year-old German woman chased away three would-be burglars from her rural farmhouse with her cane, police said on Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Last month we reported on a threat made by AFACT to Australian ISP’s — talk to us on a graduated response
, OR ELSE. Since no-one apparently took the offer up, the or else
has appeared, in the form of the Australian Attorney General.
The Australian has confirmed that Attorney-General Robert McClelland will be holding a meeting with copyright advocacy groups next month and has invited some ISPs to take part. The meeting will reportedly be to negotiate more copyright protection
laws.
A letter, obtained by The Australian, has stated that the meeting will allow stakeholder (read: Copyright Industry) views to be pitched to the government, as advice
. While ISP’s have been invited, no invitations have apparently been sent to groups looking out for the public interest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Matt Richardson has come up with a device that he cheekily calls the Enough Already
project.
Essentially this gizmo links a mute button to the closed caption feed that is streaming to your box, and when it spies the words on your own personal hate list, it zaps the sound. Hey, presto! — via TV Tonight
Part of a series called Predictive Dreams by Japanese ceramicist Katsuyo Aoki — via MAKE
Talkback host Alan Jones fired up a crowd of protesters to turn on a Herald reporter today after she asked if he had been paid to appear at the rally in Canberra.
Journalist Jacqueline Maley said Jones looked outraged when she asked him if he had accepted a fee to be at the rally, made up of protesters who converged on Canberra in trucks, caravans and cars.
She said he had angrily asked her what kind of a question was that and who did she think she was — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Grande Arche is a celebrated monument which marks the bicentennial of the French Revolution and is a distinctive piece reminiscent of 20th century architecture. The competition for a modernised Arche de Triomphe
was won by Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, whose concept was more or less a hollowed, symmetrical cube. Situated just outside of Paris in the business district of la Défense, the Grande Arche completes the Historical Axis — extending from the Louvre along the Champs-Elysees to the Arche de Triomphe — and guides Paris to the future — via ArchDaily
Metcash’s pursuit of a critic raises question about corporations using courts in an attempt to stifle dissent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
North Bondi — crap place. Great location and view
Ludicrously overpriced, with carpet stained like an infant’s undies and a truly appealing paint job… no, I meant a peeling paint job…… this 2 bedroom top floor North Bondi flat is perfect for the blind and/or less discriminating flatmate. Your potential bedroom is unfurnished although it does have the requisite four walls and ceiling so that’s a plus.
The bathroom has a bath which manages to retain water so it’s fulfilled its destiny. The kitchen has all the essentials but not a bit more and the place is furnished and decorated in a style best described as
junkie minimalism.So why move in? I’m glad you asked. The view and location is about as good as you’ll get as you’ll see from the photos. That is the view from the room. Impressive huh? And there’s a small balcony too. Plus, the hovel is within easy walking distance to shops and right at the start of the 333 bus route so getting in to the city is a piece of p1ss! You get a seat every time and you can laugh at the losers having to stand (it’s the small, petty things that keep me happy). And it’s got internet, washing machine and all the essential stuff.
If you have a designer’s eye and wish to play down the trailer trash aesthetic, please feel free to make the changes. I have absolutely zero attachment to the current furnishings and would welcome someone with the ability and desire to polish this turd.
As for me, I work (as little as humanly possible) in media/marketing ergo, I’m a complete tosser. On a positive note, I am house broken and have no criminal record. The rest — 33 years old, male (as if you couldn’t tell), likes boy stuff such as televised sport, the consumption of take away food and I’ve recently discovered the joys of adding fabric softener to my washing. What a day that was!
I don’t mind who I live with but I would prefer not to live with a couple. Nothing personal against the loved up but you people make me sick. To live with that is.
If you happen to be a girl, believe it or not, my past two flatmates were girls and I dare say that we got along quite well. Hell, I’ll even put you in touch with them if ya wanna check my bonafides.
Standing up for truth in real estate ads, I humbly hand it over to you
— via mUmBRELLA
This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked.
Twenty years ago, Brazil’s inflation rate hit 80 percent per month. At that rate, if eggs cost $1 one day, they’ll cost $2 a month later. If it keeps up for a year, they’ll cost $1,000.
In practice, this meant stores had to change their prices every day. The guy in the grocery store would walk the aisles putting new price stickers on the food. Shoppers would run ahead of him, so they could buy their food at the previous day’s price — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The hack of a commercially available insulin pump that diabetics can control wirelessly has attracted the attention of US lawmakers who oversee the safety of the nation’s airwaves.
In a letter drafted earlier this week, US Representatives Anna Eshoo and Edward Markey asked members of the Government Accountability Office to ensure that wireless-enabled medical devices will not cause harmful interference to other equipment
and are safe, reliable, and secure
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two men are fighting for their lives after a backyard chemical explosion at Cannons Creek, south-east of Melbourne.
Police say the men were making a rocket for friends and family when the mixture of chemicals exploded last night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Three heads have been found in a plastic bag on a busy street leading into Acapulco, in the latest violence to hit the Mexican resort town plagued by drug cartels — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jenn Hall, a pastry artist in Philadelphia, figured that if she could make a R2D2 cake, she could make a R2D2 helmet. She was so pleased with the results of her efforts that she wore it to bed after finishing — via Neatorama
This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don’t know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don’t use it at all.
90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands,
Russell said. I do these field studies and I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve sat in somebody’s house as they’ve read through a long document trying to find the result they’re looking for. At the end I’ll say to them, ‘Let me show one little trick here,’ and very often people will say, ‘I can’t believe I’ve been wasting my life!’
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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