The bookmarks bar is a useful way to quickly access your favorite sites, but it takes up a lot of vertical space. Here's how to make Firefox hide it when you aren’t moused over it — via lifehacker
Spanish police say they have arrested a man who twice escaped from custody by having his wife send fake faxes ordering his release.
Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Carlos Serna was taken into custody at his home in San Lorenzo del Escorial, a suburb north of Madrid, on Friday (local time), while hiding in a hollowed-out sofa, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The creators of Zodiac Island
say they lost an entire season of their syndicated children’s television show after a former employee at their Internet service provider wiped out more than 300GB of video files.
WeR1 World Network, the show’s creator, is suing the ISP, CyberLynk of Franklin, Wisconsin, and its former employee, Michael Jewson, for damages, saying CyberLynk should have done a better job of protecting its data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A-cero Architects have completed a new house in Madrid, Spain — via CONTEMPORIST
Brazillian architect David Guerra has completed a remodel of a 1980’s house in Brazil — via CONTEMPORIST
The house [dRN Arquitectos] lies as a strange element in the shore, an unfamiliar object resting on the site, as if it was ready to take off with a strong wind. Its undefined geometry is not attached to the ground, the connections to its terrain are defined by its interior views to the outside. On the first floor a rhythmic repetition of wood columns carries the structure to the perimeter, liberating part of the floor plan. This over structured density of columns fragments the views of the surroundings, while its moving shadows change the interiors throughout the day — via ArchDaily
Can a job really be worse than unemployment? Idle hands do the devil’s work
, says the old saying.
The implication is obvious: when we’re unemployed, all our energies are channelled into destructive or wasteful pursuits, rather than useful ones. This is one of the reasons for the stigma of unemployment: the jobless are often caricatured as restless, dangerous folks, without proper outlets for their impulses. Unemployment is expected to be uncomfortable, riddled with ennui or self-loathing.
But recent research gives grounds for caution. According to new study by ANU’s Centre for Mental Health, a bad job can be worse than being on the dole. Having analysed data from more than 7000 respondents, over seven years, researchers discovered that those in the worst employment conditions were more prone to mental health problems than those looking for work — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two new species of freshwater stingray have been discovered in the Amazon rain forest.
They both look like pancakes with noses, as images of the species show. The two “pancake” species belong to the first new stingray genus found in the Amazon region in more than two decades, according to Nathan Lovejoy, a biologist at the University of Toronto in Scarborough, and Marcelo Rodrigues de Carvalho of the University of São Paolo in Brazil. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Electric wands could allow future firefighters to extinguish flames with a wave of the hand, recent experiments suggest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Takeshi Hosaka Architects have designed the Inside Out house in Tokyo, Japan — via CONTEMPORIST
The BBC has the first detailed accounts of how Ugandan women ended up in domestic slavery in Iraq, and the extraordinary story of their rescue — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Writers, said the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, fall into two groups: Those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Jacqueline Howett falls into the former category. Her now-infamous online outburst against a two-star review of her self-published novel The Greek Seaman on Big Al’s Books and Pals, a website devoted to reviewing the output of the independent presses, is less bleeding visibly
, more an out-and-out gorefest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Consider this sentence your obligatory reminder of how unbelievably brilliant and hilarious Invader Zim was and that its cancellation by a cowardly Nickelodeon is among the greatest crimes upon art ever perpetrated by man — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pregnant mares are likely to lose their foals if they are kept close to stallions, researchers have discovered.
Horse breeders, including thoroughbred breeders in the UK, often send mares to stables to be mated with stallions.
But a study reveals that, when they return, the pregnant mares engage in “promiscuous sex” with males in their home stables, in an attempt to disguise the paternity of the foal.
When this is not possible, the mares often abort the pregnancy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
You may notice that when you mouse over a link in Firefox, the URL preview in the status bar is trimmed down to save space. If you’d rather see the whole URL, you can do so with a simple CSS tweak — via lifehacker
Researchers are going bananas in the quest to build cleaner, greener cars.
Brazilian scientists have developed a way of using fibers from bananas, pineapples and other plants to create plastic that is stronger and lighter than the petroleum-based stuff. So-called nanocellulose fibers rival Kevlar in strength but are renewable, and the researchers believe they could be widely used within a couple of years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Christie’s is going to conduct its annual Green Auction. The Swiss watchmaker Girard-Perregaux donates for the noble cause its special edition Girard-Perregaux ww.tc World Wide Time Control Chronograph for Green Auction automatic watch.
The watch, which is limited to only one piece, differs from the normal ww.tc with the color scheme of its dial (it is done in white with the night time zone on its 24-hour scale painted green, not black) and a set of new hands: while those on the original model were baton-shaped, these one are leaf-shaped.
Also, the central chronograph hand is arrow-tipped and has a counter-weight on its rear part.
Its transparent case back is covered with a sapphire crystal and sports a green auction
hand engraving — via World Watch Review
Make your own voluptuous No. 4: an octopus with powerful, undulating legs!
Using worsted weight yarn and a G hook, the finished product will be about 3″ tall, with legs that can engulf prey up to 9″ in diameter — via Etsy
The new Armand Nicolet L10 is powered by a modified historic movement that was manufactured 50 years ago by an almost forgotten Swiss ebauche maker Fabrique d’Horlogerie de Fontainemelon.
The movement in question is the FHF 72 from 1960s. Before installation, the hand-wound movement was equipped with Incabloc shock absorber, finished with perlage, decorated with Surface Vagues and gold engravings and renamed as AN710A.
Built on 17 rubies and comprising 98 parts, this is a relatively slow-beating movement with its balance wheel making 21,600 semi-oscillations per hour.
The case is installed in a rather compact stainless steel case 40 mm in diameter and only 8 mm in height (there will also be a two-toned version of the same dimensions with its winding crown and bezel made of 18-carat rose gold) — via World Watch Review
Carrie Fritsche knit this awesome 9-foot by 6-foot TARDIS blanket as a birthday gift for her sister — via CRAFT
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