New Toys for Melancholics is a solo show by Pop Surrealist sculptor and philosopher
Gabriels. The toys are made from polished hand-crafted bronze, life-like glass eyes, and scores of tiny internal intricate elements and organs
. It’s opening 6 May at the Toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles — via Boing Boing
Meet Wild Wasabi! Handmade from bright green polymer with black and white polymer clay detailing. Coated and sealed with a semi gloss glaze giving it a shiny finish. Each leg is jointed to the body with metal eye rings and jump rings. The hardware is reinforced with glue making it sturdy for versatile positioning. She is detailed with Swarovski crystals which are each individually glued to keep them in place — via Etsy
It is the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, and now whisky is to be used to create electricity for homes in a new bioenergy venture involving some of Scotland’s best-known distilleries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A prison guard dog has been fitted with titanium teeth in Australia after losing his real ones.
Axel, from Melbourne, is ready to sink his teeth into any would-be escapees after being fitted with the metal canine teeth.
They were fitted by veterinary dentist David Clarke after Axel shattered his teeth while biting into his bed board.
Dr Clarke said: “So much is spent on training working dogs that it ends up much cheaper to repair a dental problem than retire the dog — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Waterbear, a new Scratch-like
visual programming language, made its debut at a JavaScript conference this week. Basically you can put together a JavaScript program by putting blocks together and entering some parameters. The output is JavaScript that you can use in other web pages. The Waterbear system runs in a browser, it’s HTML5 based, and needs no installation. You can’t help but think that this is the way all programming will be done in the future.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a single tainted digital image may be worth thousands of dollars for computer crooks who are using weaknesses in Google’s Image Search to foist malicious software on unsuspecting surfers.
For several weeks, some readers have complained that clicking on Google Images search results directed them to Web pages that pushed rogue anti-virus scareware via misleading security alerts and warnings. On Wednesday, the SANS Internet Storm Center posted a blog entry saying they, too, were receiving reports of Google Image searches leading to fake anti-virus sites. According to SANS, the attackers have compromised an unknown number of sites with malicious scripts that create Web pages filled with the top search terms from Google Trends. The malicious scripts also fetch images from third-party sites and include them in the junk pages alongside the relevant search terms, so that the automatically generated Web page contains legitimate-looking content — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Steven and Roger Ham are raising 12 children, all adopted from foster care, in Arizona, one of the most unlikely places for two gay men to piece together a family.
In Arizona, two men can’t be married, nor adopt children together.
Steven and Roger Ham wanted a family. And each of their sons and daughters was desperate for one. But bringing together this family wasn’t easy.
We had to fight to get them,
Roger says.
We had to fight to get them all,
Steven says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Paul Keating has severed official involvement with the $6 billion Barangaroo development by spectacularly quitting as chairman of its design review panel after a row with the Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard, whom he accused of trying to muzzle
him.
The former prime minister informed Mr Hazzard of his resignation last night after receiving a stinging reprimand over his dismissal of opponents of Barangaroo as sandal-wearing, muesli-chewing, bike-riding pedestrians
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Diamond had to overcome fire, smoke and her breed’s reputation to become a hero.
The 15-month-old dog is a pit bull — the canine of choice in dogfights, the dog most often cited in the news about vicious attacks and the most abandoned and euthanised dog in the country.
But on Wednesday, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles presented Diamond with their 29th annual National Hero Dog award — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled Casualties of War
. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides — via We Are Dorothy
The Cut Chair provides a stable place to sit, but creates an optical illusion that tells you otherwise.
A plate concealed by a thick carpet allows a robust cantilevered seat. Three well placed leg stumps
and the chair looks as though it has just been magically sliced apart — via Peter Bristol
In a lab in Kansas, Aracely Lutes has created a new species of all-female lizard that reproduces by cloning itself. There wasn’t any genetic engineering involved; Lutes did it with just a single round of breeding — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Records about stolen artworks taken during World War II are to be placed on an international database so items can be traced.
It is hoped publishing the documents online will help families and historians find missing items seized by the Nazis — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Chimney House in Bosschenhoofd [Onix] has a simple main volume with a rectangular floor plan and a saddleback roof. The plan is based on the fact that the chimney is a disappearing feature in architecture of this century. This tempted us to create a house with several chimneys. The chimney has been used in different sizes and shapes and with different functions — via ArchDaily
A man who broke into a pizza shop in Adelaide answered the phone while in the premises — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An intriguing new hypothesis suggests some black holes could have formed before the formation of our universe — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian researchers say they are a step closer to a vaccine for HIV and hope to be able to offer a preventative jab within the decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In congressional testimony this morning, Dr Gene Spafford of Purdue University said that Sony was using outdated software on its servers — and knew about it months in advance of the recent security breaches that allowed hackers to get private information from over 100 million user accounts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
FAO Schwartz staffers play Bach’s Toccata & Fugue on a giant foot piano
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