Eric Meyer is an expert on the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) system used to control the appearance of web documents. He’s the author of multiple books on CSS, and the chaperone
of the css-discuss mailing list. His daughter, Rebecca, passed away, and her family asked that those attending memorial services wear purple, her favourite color. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux requested that a purple be added to the CSS color list be named Becca Purple
in her memory. Eric suggested that it be named rebeccapurple because his daughter wanted everyone to call her Rebecca after she turned six, and she was six for almost twelve hours. Today, a co-chair of the CSS Working Group announced approval of the change. From now on, rebeccapurple means #663399 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Randy Bishop — via PLANET-PULP
Electrical engineer Bruce Campbell lives in a retired Boeing 727-200 that he has parked on his rural property in Hillsboro, Oregon. Campbell bought the plane back in 1999 for $100,000, and has spent the intervening years converting it to a modest living space. The plane-home features one working lavatory, a futon, a simple kitchen, and nine emergency exits. He estimates he has spent a total of $220,000 on the project — via Laughing Squid
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Arthur Swissbank, Senior Protocols Advisor to FIFA
Originally aired on ABC TV: 19/06/2014 — via Youtube
Philadelphia Zoo’s female Black-footed Cat Aza gave birth to a litter of kittens on 8 April 2014: the first Black-footed Cats ever to be born at the Philadelphia Zoo! Their names are Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion. Drogon and Viserion are male and Rhaegal is female — via ZooBorns
Each squid is handmade with love from fleece, cotton, and felt, and stuffed with hypoallergenic 100% polyester filling. Two sizes are available: an 8-foot body pillow, and a 4-foot cuddle buddy or travel pillow — via Business of Flies
— via Meme Center
Law Journals and Law Journals, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
These Kraken were sculpted onto their vintage glassware, using a stone like material that is firmly attached to the glass. After the sculpting, the Kraken are hand-painted and gloss finished — via Etsy
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A Cat Cushion in burnt orange by Robin & Mould. This hand-made cushion (complete with filler) has a dashing orange cat hand-printed on a natural linen woven in the UK. It is printed using only 100% solvent-free waterbased ink; has a warm grey linen/cotton back and is finished with a concealed zip — via Howkapow
Scientists have developed a new pain-free filling that allows cavities to be repaired without drilling or injections.
The tooth-rebuilding technique developed at King’s College London does away with fillings and instead encourages teeth to repair themselves.
Tooth decay is normally removed by drilling, after which the cavity is filled with a material such as amalgam or composite resin.
The new treatment, called Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralisation (EAER), accelerates the natural movement of calcium and phosphate minerals into the damaged tooth.
A two-step process first prepares the damaged area of enamel, then uses a tiny electric current to push minerals into the repair site. It could be available within three years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In February 2012, as leader of the Greens, I made a courtesy call on Tony Abbott. He had just pipped Malcolm Turnbull in a party room vote for the leadership of the opposition. He looked straight at me and said, I am an environmentalist!
I did not roll my eyes or argue. I had heard the like before. The CEO of Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission, after flooding Lake Pedder and at the height of the controversy over damming the Franklin River, maintained that he was an environmentalist. So have a string of other dam-builders, loggers and gougers of the Earth.
Quite a few embellish this absurdity by calling themselves the true or real environmentalists. Even the Japanese whale killers fire their grenade-tipped harpoons in the name of environmental science.
US president George Bush senior flew to the Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 claiming to be the environmental president. One US cartoonist had him being greeted there by three other male heads-of-state with I’m Little Red Riding Hood
, I’m Miss Muffet
and I’m Goldilocks!
.
John Howard went no further than to claim that he was greenish
, but Tony Abbott is staking his claim to be the environmental prime minister. In Washington last week he repeated his self-assessment — I am a conservationist
— to bewildered journalists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Phil Mexpert. Cinema Reviewer
Originally aired on ABC TV: 12/06/2014 — via Youtube
Denver Zoo’s three clouded leopard cubs, Pi, Rhu and Saya, are getting to know each other during supervised introductions. Saya, a female born on 10 April 2014, arrived on 17 May from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI). Zookeepers let the three of them play together behind the scenes two or three times a day to socialize to make sure they engage with each other — via Youtube
Small wind turbines scaled to the right size for residential and urban areas have so far lived in the shadows of their larger wind-farm-sized counterparts. The power output has been too low for a reasonable return on investment through energy savings and the noise they produce is louder than most homeowners can deal with.
A Dutch renewable energy start-up called The Archimedes is working to solve both of those problems in a new class of small-scale wind turbine — one that is almost silent and is far more efficient at converting wind into energy. The company states that the Liam F1 turbine could generate 1,500 kWh of energy per year at wind speeds of 5m/s, enough to cover half of an average household’s energy use.
When used in combination with rooftop solar panels, a house could run off grid. When there is wind you use the energy produced by the wind turbine; when the sun is shining you use the solar cells to produce the energy,
The Archimedes CEO Richard Ruijtenbeek said.
The Liam’s blades are shaped like a Nautilus shell. The design allows it to point into the wind to capture the most amount of energy, while also producing very little sound. The inventor of the turbine Marinus Mieremet says that the power output is 80 percent of the theoretical maximum energy that could be harnessed from the wind — via treehugger
When I went to a recent Steampunk Ball I didn’t think my outfit looked very intricate, so I decided to spruce it up with a funky wig. In the end I used one of Arda’s Candy Stripers (Dryad) and made a hairpiece to sit atop it (using pumpkin wefts). Turned out pretty good! — via deviantART
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