Sometimes it’s the relatively simple custom jobs that are the most effective. And this street tracker from London-based Spirit of The Seventies illustrates the point. Spirit III is based on a 1978 Yamaha XS650, and once again, SOTS have got the paintjob exactly right, with a high-impact retro look — via Yamaha XS650 Street Tracker
Situated on a cliff side overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Villa Sow in Dakar was completed in 2011, with SAOTA (Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects) as the Architects and ANTONI ASSOCIATES doing the Interior Decor. The house was designed for a Senegalese businessman and his young family — via ArchDaily
Aside from catchy contemporary curves and non-symmetrical shapes, these multi-functional pet dwelling-and-planter combinations are a nice space-saving way to grow plants inside while housing a petite best friend or two.
Jardin Chic specialises in the slightly-strange and eye-catching when it comes to indoor and outdoor furniture designs — via Dornob
Rock out with your octopus tentacles out! Show your weird love for octopus with these cute and geeky tentacle earrings! They measure approximately 3″ in length and can be made in any size between 2g – 1/2″ — via Etsy
I always love seeing shrink plastic used in dimensional ways, so I was all excited about this woven bracelet by Jenny at A Bird in the Hand Art. She cut the material into strips and loosely wove it before shrinking it. The effect, as she aptly describes it is like plastic wicker
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This project was part of an Iron Craft challenge – a weekly endeavour where crafters make things around a particular theme and share their results — via CRAFT
So I present for you here, with a completely open mind, the latest moto from Fred and Hugo’s workshop. It’s called Gentle Tracker
and it’s a thoroughly rebuilt Kawasaki W650 — via Bike EXIF
We thought we had a winner for most gutsy bar exam performance of July 2011. On Thursday, a woman taking the New Jersey bar exam passed out during the test — then picked herself up off the floor, and went right back to typing.
That’s impressive — but we may have spoken too soon. Here’s a labour-intensive story that tops it.
A friend of mine went into labour while taking the Illinois bar exam,
a tipster told us. She calmly finished, went to the hospital, and had her baby an hour or two later. Girl’s a real trooper
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The project [mimosa architekti] is a single-family house for a family of four in the outskirts of the small village Bohumilec in the Pardubice region. The volume solution of the house was inspired by the design of the rustic house with a saddle roof. Volume and material simplicity join the house with its natural and urban framework. The building seeks to be
an unobtrusive, yet an expressive resident
of the place — via ArchDaily
What’s the appeal of a motorcycle sidecar combination? Is it the added practicality of luggage carrying? The promise of companionship on a journey? Or the go-anywhere capability offered by 2WD outfits like the Ural? I’m not sure what the answer is, but I find sidecars irresistible. And this classy combination is one of the best I’ve seen for a while. It belongs to Tony Prust of Illinois-based Analog Motorcycles, and the powered half is a 1978 CB550 K — via Bike EXIF
China has ordered public spaces offering WiFi web access to install costly software to enable police to identify people using the service, state media said.
The software, which also gives police a list of all websites visited by an online user, costs between $2825 and $8500, the China Business News said.
As a result, many establishments such as bars, restaurants, cafes and bookstores have decided to stop providing wireless internet to their customers despite its popularity, to avoid paying the money, the report said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A big-hearted businessman has left Melbourne’s Lost Dogs Home $3 million — the largest bequest in its 100-year history.
Staff at the animal shelter described the donor, Frank Samways, as a man so empathetic for abandoned pets that he wouldn’t enter the animal shelter in Gracie Street, North Melbourne.
The home’s managing director, Graeme Smith, said Mr Samways, a charming, charismatic person
, used to attend donor functions in the home’s courtyard. But [he] never set foot inside the shelter because he thought it would be too disturbing for him. He didn’t want to see any dog or cat incarcerated
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you listen carefully just above this unassuming grate you can hear the ripple and splash of flowing water. This is the sound of the River Fleet, London’s largest subterranean river. Forced underground by the city’s burgeoning populace the river still flows from its source to its mouth where it joins London’s main waterway, the Thames. Yet what lies beneath?
Below the ground there is a remarkable network of tunnels and chambers, put in to place by Victorian engineers, the final step in a process which took centuries. For over a thousand years there had been a shipping dock at the mouth of the river – its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon fleot which means a tidal inlet. Yet it was not destined to persevere as a river in its own right — via Kuriositas
I believe, but am not certain, that this special edition IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar watch is the final version of the same watch that I first previewed in August 2010. Why IWC is now touting this watch despite its 2010
status is a bit odd — my only guess is that the watches are just now starting to be delivered. This watch is exclusively available at the IWC Boutiques in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Price is $28,000 — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
The 19-year-old Scotsman fingered Wednesday as a central figure of the LulzSec hacking crew is a fall guy who was framed to take the heat off the real culprit, according to unconfirmed claims from a rival group.
We believe MET Police got the wrong guy and it happens because of lot of disinformation floating on the web
, a Thursday post on the LulzSec Exposed blog said.
LulzSec and Anonymous members are Master trolls and they are good at this
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Korea has blamed Chinese hackers for stealing data from 35 million accounts on a popular social network.
The attacks were directed at the Cyworld website as well as the Nate web portal, both run by SK Telecom.
Hackers are believed to have stolen phone numbers, email addresses, names and encrypted information about the sites’ many millions of members.
It follows a series of recent cyber attacks directed at South Korea’s government and financial firm — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I’m totally blown away by Daniel Kornrumpf’s embroidered portraits. The thread adds amazing texture and color to the faces; this one reminds me a little bit of Van Gogh’s choppy strokes — via CRAFT
LiveJournal is weathering a massive web attack that has meant service disruptions for people who read and write the more than 16 million journals hosted on the community and blogging service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Starting in two weeks, Fox will no longer offer free access to its TV-shows the day after they air on television. For TV-fans the decision to limit the availability of these show is a step backward, and all the signs indicate that TV-show piracy will once again surge in the United States. But whether Fox will care much about this piracy increase remains to be seen — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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