There’s something strangely compelling about 1980s superbikes. The French have a phrase for it: jolie laide, meaning both pretty and ugly at the same time. To my eyes, Honda’s CB1100R is a classic example of this. It’s a homologation special
, produced in small numbers so that the bike qualified for production-class racing in Europe, South Africa and Australia — via Bike EXIF
A leading Russian journalist has been left with a fractured skull, a shattered jaw and a broken leg after two men beat him close to death on the doorstep of his Moscow home.
Oleg Kashin, 30, a reporter with the influential daily newspaper, Kommersant, was rushed to hospital after the unknown assailants struck him repeatedly with a blunt instrument — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Check out this small dwelling located in the countryside of Switzerland. Designed by FOVEA Architects, the residence boasts a strong aesthetic with a sharply angled facade. The titled upper volume (it is inclined at 40 degrees) faces south, and its geometry balances the need for privacy and light. The lower level is a simple rectangular floor plan with a patio; an outdoor area that seems contained by the angled volume above. Large windows allow natural light to illuminate the interior, and also provide great views of the surroundings. The home was prefabricated and is clad in painted pine planks that allow it to blend in with the rural architecture of the area — via ArchDaily
This film is guaranteed to set your teeth On Edge. Stroppy businessman Peter Thurlow (Charley Boorman) goes to a dentist’s without an appointment and is forced to wait. Fed up of waiting, Thurlow wanders off, only to meet the enigmatic Doctor Matthews (Doug Bradley – Pinhead from Hellraiser). Thurlow gets much more than he bargained for in the dental surgery…Awarded Best Horror Short 1st Place at Dragon*Con USA 2009.”This guy is a great director – he knows how to do it guys!” (TOBE HOOPER, director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre) — via YouTube
An internet executive is suing the rock band INXS for $2.8 million, alleging the group stole his design for a lucrative INXS website aimed at connecting fans with big retail brands.
Robert Manning says he and a business partner, Stephen Allende, came up with the idea in 2003 and pitched it to the band and its long-term manager, David Edwards.
He says Mr Edwards and the band liked the concept and told them to keep working on the website that promoted big brands to fans and allowed them to download songs, ringtones and video music clips — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German spy photograph of a ruined house in Northamptonshire surrounded by oddly marked fields, has revealed a secret unguessed at by the Luftwaffe cameraman: such important evidence of a lost Tudor garden that the site has been awarded Grade I status by English Heritage, ranking it among the most important gardens in Europe.
The garden’s grass ring marks, shown clearly by the aerial, monochrome, photograph, are 120 metres across and almost certainly mark a Tudor labyrinth tracing in symbolic form the religious faith of its creator – a faith that finally cost the man his family fortune and his son’s life, after the latter was exposed as one of the Gunpowder plotters — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It pays to go to garage sales sometimes,
Fallbrook resident Bill Warren said.
He should know. Warren might turn a $5 buy into $70,000 after finding what appears to be the pelt of an extinct Tasmanian tiger at a garage sale — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yes, there’s nothing like a horrific elder god to snuggle with. That tentacled face and freakish wings at which humans have quailed since the dawn of time is perfect for scaring away monsters under the bed and cuddling up to during a horror movie. Those are tentacles of looooove, people. And we promise he shall not rend your entrails yea unto to the bowels of the earth — via squishable
Captain Nemo of the Nautilus has requested your company at the formal Captain’s Ball on Saturday night, you don’t want to disappoint so you graciously accept knowing you’ll have the chance to show off your fantastic new silver Octopus cufflinks — via Etsy
Figured an elder god deserves his own thread. Gunna make me some posters of this badboy — via Penny Arcade
The OZW health care and well-being training institute is a new landmark for the architectural landscape of the VU University. It embodies an innovative training concept that combines intermediate and higher level vocational training programmes and university programmes.The softly shaped brick walls that bring to mind the Amsterdam School are in keeping with the nature of the training programmes — via ArchDaily
A tiny jumping spider is attempting to eat a fly larger than he is
Huge expanses of glass in this house high above the harbor in Nelson, New Zealand by Dutch architect Stephan Meijer allow breathtaking ocean views to seep into the very fabric of the house — via Home Design Find
Earth House is a 465 sqm 4 bedroom residence. With integrated landscaped garden on a 97-acre property in coastal Victoria, this holistic architectural project blurs the line between architecture, interior, landscape and furniture design. Careful consideration is made to site and context to ensure the house contributes to the rural characteristics of the area from all exterior and interior vantage points. Sightlines from adjoining properties and roads were an influencing component to the master planning — via ArchDaily
Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users’ information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants.
Google will no longer let other services automatically import its users’ email contact data for their own purposes, unless the information flows both ways. It accused Facebook in particular of siphoning up Google contact data, without allowing for the automatic import and export of Facebook users’ information — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twelve people, including four children, have been found suffocated and stabbed to death in a suspected mass murder in a house in southern Russia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pip over at Meet Me At Mikes has a really fun tutorial up for making these cute crochet Christmas ornament cozies. They look like they will work up quickly, and it would be fun to have a whole tree decked out in them! — via CRAFT
Scientists are celebrating the unexpected emergence of an endangered orchid, saved from the blade of a bulldozer on the New South Wales central coast — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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