Happy Anzac Day to my fellow Australians.
You might want to bake some Anzac biscuits today — via WhipUp.net
Problems on the Vodafone network yesterday left users Australia-wide unable to send or receive text messages on their mobile phones — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Russian police on Sunday freed the son of software tycoon Eugene Kaspersky after a five-day kidnap ordeal, ending one of the highest-profile abduction dramas in the country in recent years. Police officers, agents from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the special OMON police squad freed Ivan Kaspersky, 20, in the Moscow region, Moscow police spokesman Viktor Birukov told Russian news agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The project [CVDB arquitectos] is located between in an urban area with a residential neighbourhood mainly with social housing for low income families uphill and an area with various public buildings at the lower part of the valley. The elderly day centre is in between these rather different social, programmatic and physical realities, thus celebrating both its private and public character. The building presents itself as a counterpoint to the architectural character of the existing housing neighbourhood and therefore it tries to establish s strong sense of architectural identity for the existing communities, through its particular coloured and textured materials. The 60 dwellings are set out in two rows facing east-west on four interconnected floor — via ArchDaily
The project was born out of this difficult terrain which, rather than proving problematic, helped guide the architect’s [Teo Hidalgo Nácher] work. Following the edges of the plot’s perimeter, the two houses are joined together as one.
The layout aims to make the most of the available space and complies with building regulations dictating minimum space distances from the edges of the plot – three metres from the eastern edge and five from the western — via ArchDaily
British designers Ian Spencer and Cairn Young have created the Corsica chair — via CONTEMPORIST
Daniel Marshall Architects have designed the Korora house on Waiheke Island in New Zealand — via CONTEMPORIST
At 82 Frank Gehry shows no sign of slowing down. Working on 20 projects at any given time, the Pritzker Prize winning architect’s latest completed work New York by Gehry had its formal opening just last month. In this interview Gehry shares how he was inspired by ice hokey, that Gian Lorenzo Bernini is one of his greatest influences, and what he has always wanted to design — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A semi-stylised, realistic looking glass nautilus. The mysterious Nautilus live in the deep ocean and are related to cuttlefish, squid and octopi. Their shell consists of many air filled chambers used for buoyancy; they can have over 90 tentacles and reach sizes of about 10 inches — via Etsy
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 (+$3.99 shipping) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Righthaven LLC, a company that enforces licensing of content created by their clients, has in the past taken possession of domain names owned by alleged infringers. Recently a judge dismissed one of their claims on a defendant’s domain name.
Now it appears that GoDaddy, the domain registrar for the domain Righthaven.com, has taken down their domain for an invalid whois — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group in NSW’s southwest ignored a man who’d fallen off the back of their ute but they stopped to pick up alcohol that also fell out of the vehicle, police say.
The 31-year-old man, from Rochester in Victoria, died after striking his head on the road when he fell from the vehicle as it turned from Maude Road into Nap Nap Road at the town of Maude, in the early hours of this morning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A controlled diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate can repair kidney damage in diabetic mice, according to US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Redwood City man who tried to pick up blackmail money from his immigrant relatives while dressed in a clown suit has been sentenced to three years in prison for passing himself off as a federal immigration agent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an LA County sheriff’s investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest addition to the octopus accessory list! These glass hairsticks have a fantastic little octopus perched on top with their tentacles clinging tight — via Etsy
California Two-spot Octopus, Chula Vista Nature Center — via Fernando Ramirez
Pocket Krakens are very handy symbiotic genetically spliced creatures. Carrying one provides the user with a pocket watchdog
. If anyone but the owner slips a hand into a pocket the wee Kraken will deliver a sound bite with her parrot like beak alerting all to the potential pickpocket. Wear one near your chest as a pendant and the Kraken will nip any mashers or other unpleasant types who attempt to get too near your person without permission — via missmonster
The Hourglass from Ikepod on Vimeo.
Marc Newson’s latest creation for Ikepod sees the Australian designer interpret the most iconic timepiece of all: The Hourglass. Director Philip Andelman traveled to Basel, Switzerland, to document the designer’s modern take of the classic hourglass inside the Glaskeller factory. Each hand made hourglass comprises highly durable borosilicate glass and millions of stainless steel nanoballs, and is available in a 10 or 60 minute timer.
For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones for a near-guarantee that it won’t suffer from downtime.
By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location,
Amazon says in pitching its Elastic Compute Cloud service.
Customers who build applications in just one availability zone are more likely to suffer outages. But what happens when multiple availability zones go dark at the same time? We found out today when an outage forced websites such as Foursquare, Reddit, Quora and Hootsuite offline — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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