Hongtao Zhou, a sculpture professor at the University of Wisconsin, made a bench out of a thousand leather belts. One end is shaped like a belt buckle and serves as a table and the other is shaped like a bull’s head — via Design Boom
A German father was so angry his teenage daughter was dating a man 40 years older than her that he castrated the boyfriend with a bread knife, police say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An HIV-positive man who received a stem cell transplant for leukemia has been cured of HIV infection, doctors announced recently.
While the case was first reported at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, doctors have now published an updated report in the journal Blood, which affirms extensive testing — via luckydog.newsvine.com
Situated away from the village, this house included an adjacent barn and had a too vast volume to be renewed in its totally. Only elements which can easily be reused were preserved, cellars and floors of the pre-existent house. The rest was demolished — via ArchDaily
I’m digging these woven computer icons by Micah Schippa, cast under the title tools at hand
on her site — via MAKE
It would be easy to mistake this large private residence for a most public branch library. Stacked shelving and packed bookcases (featuring thousands of volumes) reach up three floors in the main open-plan interior volume, sandwiched between giant panels of heavily-reinforced pre-cast concrete — via Dornob
I thought I’d take a brief break from my obsession with holiday cheer in honor of someone else’s obsession–namely Andrew Chase, who makes incredibly detailed, accurate, and articulated metal sculptures — via CRAFT
A new species of lemur has been discovered in Madagascar — via jameszaworski.newsvine.com
We settled down at a table and I started out by showing Susan Eunny’s video. Then I demonstrated the process on the swatches I made—working the seam with the contrasting color makes the process really easy to see.
I had Susan practice on the swatches until she had the process down. She couldn’t believe how easy it was! — via Knitting Daily
Some of Australia’s most senior media professionals, including bosses of major newspapers, television networks and websites, have written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard to express their support for WikiLeaks.
The letter was initiated by the board of the Walkley Foundation, Australia’s professional journalism organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Legendary ABC TV newsreader James Dibble has died from cancer aged 87 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Amazon says that the outage which made its UK, Italian, German and Spanish sites unavailable for about half an hour on Sunday night was due to a hardware failure, and not an attack by online activists angry at its stance on WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Historic Scotland has issued a list of the most important battle sites located around the country.
The first phase of the Inventory of Historic Battlefields contains a total of 17 different ocations.
It includes sites in the Borders, Aberdeenshire, the Highlands, North Lanarkshire, Stirling and East Lothian — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The new Glycine Incursore II will be offered with two versions of its matte-black dial: one with classic layout featuring large Arabic numerals, and one with a California-style Lux dial that combines Roman and Arabic numerals — via World Watch Review
Youtube user correx37 made this homemade knitting machine using old printer parts, two servos and a Picaxe-18x microcontroller. I love the simplicity and re-use of components. That slow, deliberate action could easily lull me in to a deep sleep… and when I woke up, I’d have a freshly-made scarf — via MAKE
Researchers have identified two genetic variants that increase the risk of women developing endometriosis — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twas 1975, and the Claus family needed a workshop designed. Enter Don Reeves, an Emeritus member of AIA San Diego, who may have been almost 40 at the time but, deep down, he was a kid at heart with a twinkle in his eye. Don figured that the best kind of client is jolly, generous, and also has an appreciation for good design and craftsmanship. Someone like, well, Santa Claus!
The kind of person who absolutely loves the Christmas season and spirit, Don said to his staff, Rather than send out some nice architectural drawing for our holiday greeting to business friends and family, let’s do a working drawing of Santa’s workshop! Take the next 45 minutes or so, and have at it!
Well, four days later, a sticker board was prominently featured in the office, and it became very clear that they’d done it – designed a terrific workshop for Mr and Mrs S Claus. With an Elves Bunkroom, Reindeer Port, and Mail Room (for processing letters to Santa), the workshop is truly functional [PDF] — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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