This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photograph with a young boy in his mailbag. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples — via Neatorama
Ennis House by Frank Lloyd Wright, originally uploaded by Scott Beale.
A landmark house, designed in the style of a Mayan temple, by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright has been bought for $4.5m (£2.79m).
Ennis House was originally put on the market in 2009 for $15m but the sale price was later lowered. The building needs substantial restoration work.
It was bought by supermarket tycoon Ron Burkle who will continue renovating it, the building’s sellers announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Round by name, round by nature, that’s this Arthur AJ Marshman-designed Horton Rounds house in Horton, Northamptonshire.
Arthur AJ Marshman designed the house in 1966 on the grounds of the old tennis courts to Horton House. Why he decided on circular is anyone’s guess, but we’re glad he did, as he’s left us a stunning period gem set out over three floors, with an annexe wing and some good outside space.
Want it? Offers of around £799,950 will probably be accepted. Find out more at the Michael Graham web site — via Retro To Go
This beautifully finished CB500 with a fifties vibe is owned by Mike McFadden of Kentucky, and he’s just finished building it himself in his garage — via Bike EXIF
An Ohio man accused of killing 11 women and storing their decomposing bodies for two years told police he suffered blackouts and heard voices in his head.
Anthony Sowell, 51, has been little heard from during three weeks of gruesome testimony including the jury’s tour of the house of horrors in Cleveland, Ohio, where he allegedly raped, killed and buried his victims — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Passwords are a perennial problem in computer security. We all know that we’re meant to pick secure
passwords and never reuse them, but few of us actually bother. One consequence this can cause is losing access to our accounts; some bad guy figures out the password to our World of Warcraft, Steam, or e-mail account, and then proceeds to trash it. To try to ensure that Hotmail accounts don’t fall prey to such attacks, Microsoft will soon be changing its password policy, to forbid the use of particularly common passwords — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Innovative beehive fences have helped a community in Kenya to successfully protect crops from elephants, according to research.
Scientists found the hives to be a very effective barrier; elephants turned away from them in 97% of their attempted raids.
Conservationists suggest that elephants’ natural fear of bees could settle ongoing conflicts.
The hives’ honey also produced additional profits for farmers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
No possible jail time for Julie Bass after planting a front yard vegetable garden. The City of Oak Park has dropped the misdemeanour charges against her.
Bass was facing a possible 93-days in jail for planting and not removing her front yard vegetable garden after she received a ticket for a misdemeanor violation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Here’s a house with gardens on all three levels designed by Singaporean studio Guz Architects on Santosa Island, Singapore — via Architecture Blog
The Aquarium of the Pacific has welcomed two male six-week-old Arctic Fox pups that are now on view in the Aquarium’s Molina Animal Care Centre. The two brothers are part of the Aquarium of the Pacific’s new Arctic & Antarctic: Our Polar Regions in Peril exhibition, which gives the public the opportunity to see polar animals up close while learning about what can be done to protect their habitats — via ZooBorns
Scientists have proposed an intriguing new way to fight malaria: turning people into human time bombs for mosquitoes.
A cheap deworming pill used in Africa for 25 years against river blindness was recently shown to have a power that scientists had long suspected but never before demonstrated in the field: When mosquitoes bite people who have recently swallowed the drug — called ivermectin or Mectizan — they die — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, has resigned, the company has confirmed.
Her departure follows days of growing pressure to step down as the phone hacking crisis grew.
In a statement, she said she felt a deep responsibility for the people we have hurt
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Trade Union CFMEU has joined the carbon tax debate with a campaign celebrating great moments of denial in history.
The ad -– created by former Chaser Charles Firth -– include Roman soldiers insisting nothing more would be heard of Jesus, priests refusing to accept the world is flat and aborigines convinced that the First Fleet will be passing through. These positions are then contrasted with Liberal leader Tony Abbott expressing doubt about climate change science — via Mumbrella
This house on the island of St Croix was inspired by the client’s love of sailing. Perched on land at the edge of the sea, Pride’s Rest looks as if a strong gust of wind could billow up what looks like its sail and it would just sail off, into the bright blue yonder of the US Virgin Islands. Lindsay Brown Studio was the perfect choice for the house. Their other work – in particular, the revitalization project for the San Diego waterfront – shares the billowing curves of this radial plan — via Home Design Find
The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has joined Loree Rudd, the sister of former PM Kevin Rudd, in accusing supporters of marriage equality of using Nazi tactics in campaigning for equal rights.
The ACL came to the defence of Rudd after she accused same-sex marriage advocates of being a Gestapo
— the Nazis’ secret police — in an interview with The Australian newspaper last week.
Rudd claimed there was a worldwide gay network that fed propaganda
for marriage equality to politicians.
I call them the global gay Gestapo — it is the lobbying movement that is brainwashing people, particularly the young in the community that this [homosexuality] is an optional extra in life,
she said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone has signalled its support for the new voluntary internet filtering scheme being implemented by rivals Telstra and Optus, but has refused to clarify whether it will definitely implement the scheme or not — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google is facing a wave of complaints from users around the globe after it launched yet another service that is only available to those who live in the United States.
On one of its in-house blogs this week, Google revealed it had launched a new marketplace for its Android mobile platform, which dramatically expands the platform’s functionality, allowing users to rent movies and purchase books. The Android Market has also been overhauled in general to make it easier for users to find applications.
However, the book and movie purchasing functionality is limited to customers in the US only, a fact that has drawn the ire of customers located in other regions. In the US
, wrote one user in response to Google’s blog. Also in the US, along with Google Music and Google Voice, both available in the US. Here’s to the centre of the universe
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a memory device that is soft and functions well in wet environments — opening the door to a new generation of biocompatible electronic devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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