The young German watch brand will soon start selling its new Bombfrog BT25 Tactic diving watch illuminated by long-lasting tritium tubes — via World Watch Review
Describing himself as having spanned the entire gamut
of relationships, Lung is now the executive director of Liberty League, a controversial Singapore support group which says it aims to help people who want to overcome same-sex attractions
We think that it is something that can be managed, it can be something that can be overcome, and there are people who have successfully come out of it,
said Lung, who considered sex-change surgery when he was younger.
Set up in 2004, Liberty League is staffed by 10 volunteers and financed by grants from the government and private donors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The residence in Küsnacht near Zurich is a late work of the Swiss architect Theodor Laubi, built in 1956 on a plot of land with an ample garden and flanked by a forest. After several changes of owners and their corresponding conversions and extensions the house had lost its original modernistic character.
In 2005 the residence was fortunately taken over by new owners (a young couple – a gallery owner and an artist) who recognised the potential of the house. The opening of a gallery for contemporary art in the ground floor not only revitalised the house but also transformed it into a partial, semi-public building that profited the whole surrounding residential area — via ArchDaily
— via Pharyngula
In the holiday spirit of not taking things too seriously, here’s a curve ball to throw into the Bike EXIF mix. A lot of strange contraptions come my way, but this Rotax-engined number is one of the most extreme motorcycles I’ve seen for a while. It’s built by Jim Davis of MotoMorphic—based in San Rafael, California—and costs $100,000 or more, according to specification — via Bike EXIF
Located at one of the principal gateways to the Australian National University’s campus this new building brings together three previously separate schools specialising in international relations and comparative politics into a new purpose designed facility — via ArchDaily
In terms of an architectural proposition, the BR House located in the countryside could not be more intriguing: situated within the dense and impressive Rain Forest, circumscribing and penetrating the area, dominates all senses. The circumstances, from the inception, forces fundamental questions for architecture: how can architecture present itself and, if making itself present, how can it deliberately show itself as construction? A chalet or any other mimicry of puristic architecture, comfortably absorbed by the landscape, is a banal dissembling response; a denial of the confrontation which would deprive the traces of the radicalness and vigor arising from this contrast — via ArchDaily
The Swiss watchmaker has recently presented a new member of the Classic 1931 collection — the Louis Erard 1931 Chronometer chronograph watch (Ref. 79 220 OR 22) in rose gold.
Presented in an elegant round case, which is crafted of 18-carat rose gold, the watch is powered by the ubiquitous ETA Valjoux 7750 automatic chronograph — via World Watch Review
Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a discriminatory and disproportionate
European law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cthullu Christmas by Oliver Wetter, aka Fantasio — via John Freeman
Territorians are being urged to vaccinate their dogs to protect them against an outbreak of the deadly canine parvovirus — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Teaching young, violent criminals the first aid techniques that could save the lives of fellow gang members might seem a dangerous move but a new project doing exactly that is gaining the attention of youth offending teams across the country.
The brainchild of a group of medical students at Liverpool University, the course specialises in teaching teenagers already involved in knife and gun crime the skills to give pre-hospital care immediately after a penetrating injury.
The two-week Basics course is now a core part of Liverpool’s Young Offenders Team’s restorative justice programme. Youth offending experts in Nottinghamshire and medics in London have also expressed interest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A California sea lion found shot in the head at a Sausalito beach earlier this month will not be returning to the wild after an examination at the Marine Mammal Center on Monday found that he is completely blind.
The discovery that Silent Knight cannot see means that a new home must be found for him in the next several months or he might have to be euthanized, said Jeff Boehm, the center’s executive director — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary released a video Wednesday that shows two youths or young men trying to use an unusual weapon — a musket — in an unsuccessful robbery attempt at a St John’s motel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Her face became the symbol of women’s empowerment, and her death is the end of an era.
Geraldine Hoff Doyle of Lansing, the woman behind an iconic image of a bandana-clad, muscle-flexing Rosie the Riveter during WWII, has died, according to her family — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Bobby Farrell, front man of the 1970s disco group Boney M, has died at the age of 61, his agent has announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There aren’t many fairy stories that start at 6pm on a Tuesday evening in Sydney. Even fewer have no mention of dragons, pumpkins or enchanted apples. But this is a new fable, a truly modern tale for the Twitter and social media non-believers. A fairytale 2.0 if you will — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The world’s largest daily deals website, Groupon, which Google tried to buy this month for $US6 billion, has confirmed it is entering the Australian market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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