Bookworm, or booksquid?. So many interesting things are waiting to be read. Careful with those stacks of books! I wonder if anyone has suggested an e-reader to him yet?
This 5×7 inch print is a reproduction of an original gouache and watercolour painting. It is professionally printed on Kodak Endura Metallic paper, a unique dimensional surface that results in sharp details and beautifully saturated colours — via Etsy
— via Jake’s Rolex World
FengShui is an old Chinese topography, which believes that man, building, and nature should live harmoniously in a positive synergy.
Based by that belief, the owner of this house believes that applying FengShui into his house will increase the living quality for the whole household, since the applications can be seen real in daily life routines [Edha Architects] — via ArchDaily
The 350 Scrambler was an air-cooled, four-stroke single that appeared in 1968—as far as I can figure out. (It’s a descendant of the 250 Scrambler produced at the behest of the US Ducati importer in 1961.) This particular machine lives near Toulouse in France; it belongs to the wife of Vincent Prat, of the accomplished French motorcycle photography duo Guerry & Prat. For 15 years, the bike was stored under a pile of blankets in a garage, until Vincent had a change of heart — via Bike EXIF
After a devastating fire in 1981 that crippled the Vitra design campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Vitra began an extensive mission to rebuild the campus as well as redesign the masterplan, which was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw. Almost a decade after the devastating fire in 1981, the company sought an architect to build a fire station for the Vitra campus to thwart any future reoccurrences and commissioned Zaha Hadid. Completed in 1993, the Vitra fire station would be Hadid’s first realized project of her career, which would eventually launch her name and style to an international audience — via ArchDaily
Available in black or silver dial, the Arceau Grande Lune watch is a complete calendar watch featuring day and month apertures. The dial stamped with a herringbone motif identical to that found on saddle rugs.
43mm steel case, automatic mechanical movement with Dubois-Dépraz 9313 moon phase module, comes on a matt black alligator strap — via Perpetuelle.com Blog
More than anything else, the Razel Residence
is the house of its residents; The colorful house with the spectacular appearance reflects its owners character in the most precise way – open and vivid, modest and true to its way, inspired by art and music.
The house was built on a tight budget, allowing limited use of design materials. As architects [SaaB Architects], we understood that the design concept must be implemented through the basic building elements — via ArchDaily
Borders stores were huge — much bigger than their competitors and apparently unassailable — and now they’re shutting down. But from the beginning they were set on a course for disaster – via redwolf.newsvine.com
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has criticized a recent report, commissioned by the pro-copyright group AFACT, which shows that the Aussie economy is suffering badly from movie piracy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The eBay and PayPal developer programs will be merged in order to establish a common platform that will allow external programmers to create applications with both e-commerce and payment capabilities for a broad variety of devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tip for politicians on Facebook: Even when provoked, you should almost never unfriend
a constituent, which can prove the most damaging thing a candidate can do
on social media sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A one-time biomedical technician with a penchant for gambling, Mr Montgomery is at the center of a tale that features terrorism scares, secret White House briefings, backing from prominent Republicans, backdoor deal-making and fantastic-sounding computer technology.
Interviews with more than two dozen current and former officials and business associates and a review of documents show that Mr Montgomery and his associates received more than $20 million in government contracts by claiming that software he had developed could help stop Al Qaeda’s next attack on the United States. But the technology appears to have been a hoax, and a series of government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Air Force, repeatedly missed the warning signs, the records and interviews show — via candidpatriot.newsvine.com
West Australian Newspaper Holdings is in a trading halt after offering $4.1 billion to buy the Seven Media Group — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Top Ryde Shopping Centre has fallen victim to weak consumer spending just six months after the Prime Minister opened the massive complex.
A syndicate of four banks foreclosed on the newly renovated centre on Wednesday after the retail development tycoon John Beville was unable to meet the repayments on hefty loans used to give the centre a facelift — via redwolf.newsvine.com
With a drunken Mickey Mouse looming over Sunset Boulevard and a urinating dog in Beverly Hills, Banksy, the British graffiti artist, has hit Los Angeles in the runup to the Oscars on 27 February, in which his film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, is nominated in the best documentary category — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Learning a second language and speaking it regularly can improve your cognitive skills and delay the onset of dementia, according to researchers who compared bilingual individuals with people who spoke only one archers who compared bilingual individuals with people who spoke only one language.
Their study suggests that bilingual speakers hold Alzheimer’s disease at bay for an extra four years on average compared with monoglots. School-level language skills that you use on holiday may even improve brain function to some extent.
In addition, bilingual children who use their second language regularly are better at prioritising tasks and multitasking compared with monolingual children, said Ellen Bialystok, a psychologist at York University in Toronto — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two pregnancies have left Lucilla Paull in a wheelchair. While she has no regrets at all about having her children, she does want to warn other women about SPD, a relatively common condition that is too often overlooked — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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