The Bridle Road House in Cape Town, South Africa by Chilean architect Antonio Zaninovic won an American Society of Landscape Architects Honour Award, for both the house and the landscaping. It is comfortably sited in big sky country at the base of Table Mountain.
Both suburban and sophisticated, the South African house rests easily at the intersection between the tamed and the wild — via Home Design Find
Montreal police announced an arrest has been made in the so-called Mabus
case of a man making death threats online.
The police have been inundated with complaints from around the world regarding the man, and made a public plea last week for people to stop sending complaints because an investigation is underway.
The threats often come from someone using the pseudonym David Mabus
, but he is widely believed to be Dennis Markuze, 36, a St-Laurent man. He also uses the screen name Hebert Marxuxe.
Police did not announce who they arrested and said no further details would be provided as the investigation is ongoing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA and Animals Australia have released new footage they say shows the horrendous slaughter
of cattle in Turkey.
The latest video, screened at a press conference in Canberra this morning, came as two separate bids to end the live animal export trade failed to win the support of a single government or opposition MP — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A lawsuit filed against the Republic School District alleges school officials failed to protect a middle school girl from a male classmate who harassed her, sexually assaulted her and raped her.
In its written response, the school district denies all allegations in the suit and calls the claims frivolous.
The suit, filed 5 July, alleges when the girl — a special education student — told officials about the harassment, assault and rape that occurred during the 2008-09 school year, they told her they did not believe her. She recanted.
The suit also alleges that, without seeking her mother’s permission, school officials forced the girl to write a letter of apology to the boy and personally deliver it to him. She was then expelled for the rest of the 2008-2009 school year and referred to juvenile authorities for filing a false report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Search dominates how we shop on the Web, Google dominates search, big names dominate Google results, and most people don’t bother looking beyond the first page of search results.
Those are the key, and remarkably unsurprising, results of a paper called What you don’t know can hurt you, researched and published by the Australia Institute, and sponsored by the Microsoft-led Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The first litter of cheetah cubs to ever be born at Chester Zoo have stepped outside for the first time. Born five weeks ago, in late June, the four rare Northern cheetah cubs ventured into the great outdoors — via ZooBorns
Yesterday I posted about this lovely paint-by-number mural painted in a child’s nursery. Ohdeedoh has a great interview with another paint-by-number mural artist, Curtis Robertson. He covered most of a room with an intricate paint-by-number design for his niece’s son’s bedroom. The in-progress pictures show just how much detail work goes in to a project like this. The results are more than worth it, don’t you think? — via CRAFT
In 1948, when London happened to host its first Olympic Games, the Swiss watchmaker has also presented its very first Omega Seamaster hand-wound timekeeper. Now, 63 years later, as the British capital is making the final preparations to host the 2012 Olympic Games, Omega reintroduces the model as the Omega Seamaster 1948 Co-Axial London 2012
Limited Edition automatic watch.
Predictably limited to only 1948 individually numbered pieces, the new Omega Seamaster 1948 Co-Axial London 2012
follows the path paved by the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 44 London automatic chronograph watch that was officially introduced just three months ago, in May, 2011 — via World Watch Review
There’s a story behind most bikes, but there’s more of a story behind Team Badger than most. At heart, it’s a sturdy 2007-model Royal Enfield Bullet. In the bigger picture, it’s an experiment in collaboration, social media and bike industry commentary. The man behind this raw and curiously appealing machine is Leon Stanley of Cycle Icons in Trenton, NJ. It’s a vintage-oriented shop, dedicated to preserving the spirit and sport of vintage and classically styled motorcycling
. Cycle Icons used to be a Royal Enfield dealer, and the brand is still a big part of what they do — via Bike EXIF
Muir Mendes were their own clients in this case, working weekends outside of firm hours to complete their urban dream home. As enclosed and uninviting as it looks from the front, it is open to daylight and an outdoor deck to the rear.
Inside, too, the residence is lit from above via a second-story-ceiling skylight, open all the way to the first floor via a continuous, house-long, double-height corridor — via Dornob
A tiny kitten is recovering nicely after it was nabbed by a red-tailed hawk and dropped from the sky into a Vancouver Island landfill.
The feral black-and-white cat was found in the Nanaimo dump on Monday and taken to an SPCA shelter, where staff named it Hawk — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Giving animals legal ownership of their habitat and affording them standing before the courts may hold the key to protecting biodiversity, an Australian researcher says.
Australia is one of only 17 countries recognised as being mega-diverse, but it also has one of the highest extinction rates, with around 126 species of plants and animals sent to extinction in the past 200 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me to speak at USENIX Security.
Unlike you, I am not a security professional. However, we probably share a common human trait, namely that none of us enjoy looking like a fool in front of a large audience. I therefore chose the title of my talk to minimise the risk of ridicule: if we should meet up in 2061, much less in the 26th century, you’re welcome to rib me about this talk. Because I’ll be happy to still be alive to rib.
So what follows should be seen as a farrago of speculation by a guy who earns his living telling entertaining lies for money — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new type of eel that inhabits an undersea cave in the Pacific Ocean has been dubbed a living fossil
because of its primitive features.
It is so distinct, scientists created a new taxonomic family to describe its relationship to other eels.
The US-Palauan-Japanese team say the eel’s features suggest it has a long and independent evolutionary history stretching back 200m years.
Details appear in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have discovered a molecule in the blood that could help doctors spot the very earliest signs of ovarian cancer and prevent thousands of women from dying — via redwolf.newsvine.com
IWC Schaffhausen have just launched a new rattrapante chronograph, the Ingenieur Double Chronograph Titanium — a split-seconds chronograph which enables the wearer to simultaneously measure two timed events.
The case of the new Ingenieur is made of titanium which is light, durable, has ultra low conductivity and will not cause any skin allergies. The case measures 45 mm in diameter and is 16 mm thick. Black DLC coated screws secure the bezel to the case while the pushers and crown are coated in vulcanised black rubber — via Watchuseek Watch Blog
Two of George RR Martin’s scripts have been stolen, according to a report from Reuters. The two scripts, for the last two episodes of the first season of the HBO show Game of Thrones
entitled Baelor
and Fire and Blood
, have disappeared after being mailed from Northern Ireland, where the second season of the show is filming.
The scripts are signed by the series creator and episode directors, and were to be auctioned off at WorldCon later this week, with the money (which would have been significant) going to charity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The amateur videographer with the colourful vocabulary who memorialised the alleged 2009 police beating of Melvin Jones III during a traffic stop may be charged with illegal wiretapping.
One of four police officers disciplined for the incident on 27 November 2009, Michael Sedergren, has filed an application for a criminal complaint against videographer Tyrisha Greene. Sedergren, who was suspended for 45 days, claims it was illegal for Greene to videotape him without his consent– via redwolf.newsvine.com
Penguin I
Typewriter parts
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2011
— via Jeremy Mayer
Bill Keller called him
elusive, manipulative and volatilein his recent cover story for the magazine. Now we can addcat haterto Julian Assange’s biography. More negative news about Assange comes from the new bookInside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website, written by the former WikiLeaks spokesman, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. In an excerpt published by Vanity Fair in February, one of the many accusations Domscheit-Berg makes against Assange is cruelty to cats.
All of which has been refuted by Renata Avila who points out that Domscheit-Berg appears to be on a campaign to smear Assange to promote his own Wikileaks alternative:
I can confidently say that, while visiting Mr Domscheit-Berg in Wiesbaden, I was able to meet and observe his cat. This was immediately after Mr Assange had been staying with him. I myself have a cat and from my observations it was a perfectly normal and healthy cat that, like all cats, enjoyed attention. Mr Domscheit-Berg was too busy to pay him much attention, as he was often on the telephone or on the computer, so I spent quite a bit of time playing with the cat. Mr Domscheit-Berg watched and replied, laughing fondly, that the way I was playing with the cat was “exactly the same way” as Mr Assange had played with the cat the week before. There was absolutely no mention from Mr Domscheit-Berg that the cat had been abused or mistreated in any way by Mr Assange. Therefore, it is very unlikely that a healthy animal, behaving normally and playing with strangers, had any disorder provoked by Mr Assange’s behavior, as suggested by Mr Domscheit-Berg.
I was alarmed by all the private details Domscheit-Berg was disclosing to journalists, irrelevant details that only yellow press or groups hostile to WikiLeaks or Mr Assange would care about. Useful details for someone willing to divert the attention from all the important information disclosed by WikiLeaks’ sources.
Bad journalism, NYT, no cookie for you — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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