This lovely Moto Guzzi 1000 SP custom is the latest creation from prolific Italian custom shop Officine RossoPuro. It’s called the TTre—a reference to Guzzi’s classic T3 nomenclature and the Isle of Man TT. As an SP, this is one of the last Guzzis to use the desirable Tonti frame: it also sported a large windshield and a rather awkward lower fairing, with cutouts for the huge V-twin cylinders. Today, this makes the SP less desirable and therefore cheaper than most classic Guzzis. That’s good news for builders like Filippo Barbacane, who appreciate the underlying aesthetics of the bike — via Bike EXIF
FyF is located in the outskirts of Rosario [the second largest city in Argentina], approximately 300 km north of Buenos Aires. The small house of approximately 200 m2 is built in a new residential development adjacent to a traditional neighborhood. FyF can be described as a spatial and physical attempt to challenge the planar stability and flat homogeneity of the Pampas landscape in a domestic setting. The project was conceived as a monolithic solid, a monochromatic form punctuated only by subtle inflections that establish a complex physical relationship among the different spaces while maintaining a sense of identity and privacy between them — via ArchDaily
This is a watch that I really never thought was going to be made. It started out as a concept watch called the Galibier
based upon a concept car from Bugatti with the same name. Fabien Cacheux designed it to have a perlage decorated drum case
, Bugatti logo, and an interesting strap system. Less than a year later, a more practical version of the piece is being made – but in very limited quantities and it will be called the Cacheux Elephant Automatic
— via A Blog to Read
A new entrant into the mobile phone market is hoping to lure customers from the big three operators with the launch of no-frills plans — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The inspiring imagination of Antoni Gaudí undoubtedly reveals itself in one of his most poetic and artistic designs for a building, Casa Batlló. His synthesis of animal shapes, vine-like curves, hints of bone and skeleton, and his use of lustrous colored bits of glazed ceramic and glass create a masterpiece that will forever astonish its observers — via ArchDaily
This unique gift item is a book filled with 20 pages of fun, (mostly white) pages that provide for some imaginative activities. The book includes 5 Crayons (snowball white, polar white, frost white, igloo white and the popular Arctic white) — via Toronto Zoo
With more people working remotely, and entrepreneurs needing that extra room that the house just did not come with, the OfficePOD is a great solution. You would have the convenience of being at home while really being in a corner of your own backyard. Now that is a commute I could live with and gets me out of the house. Built from recycled, recyclable and sustainable materials have been chosen wherever possible, desk and books shelves are built in. The power is provided via a discrete and protected connection to the house or garage; IT and phone connectivity is generally wireless but can be similarly cabled. The POD is provided with a secure locking system of the highest quality — via 2Modern Blog
— via Science Punk
Wikileaks has revealed plans to publish a new tranche of secrets, this one seven times larger than last month’s massive 400,000 military reports about the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Army ants have a reputation for annihilating everything in their path as they march through the jungle.
But the most complete study of its kind has found that army ants are creators of whole worlds, not destroyers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Kryptos, the sculpture nestled in a courtyard of the CIA’s Virginia headquarters since 1990, is a work of art with a secret code embedded in the letters that are punched into its four panels of curving copper. It is perhaps one of the CIA’s most mischievous secrets — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A rare Chinese calligraphy scroll has fetched 308m yuan (£29m; $46m) – the second-highest amount paid for an artwork at auction in China, the state-run Xinhua news agency says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one of several threats” to the future of the world wide web, its founder, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The coalition appears to have shelved plans to introduce new protections for public sector workers who blow the whistle on dangerous, corrupt or incompetent practices, the Guardian has learned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Germany is to suspend conscription in July 2011 and switch to a volunteer military service, defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com






























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