Senator Clive Palmer
Originally aired on ABC TV: 24/04/2014 — via Youtube
Pewter Octopus Shelf Decor — via Cyan Design
It’s undeniably ridiculous but it’s hard not to be charmed by the Disk36 by E1+E4, a cabinet inspired by the classic game Connect Four.
Designed by Luca Valota, it’s deliberately intended to imitate the game — first sold in 1974 — from its blue grid to the yellow and red tokens. However, this cabinet is made from lacquered polished MDF rather than plastic and stands at a slightly more imposing two metres. And within the grid you get nine different cupboards, meaning it’s vaguely practical too. But it doesn’t just look like Connect Four, you can actually play the game using the cabinet as each counter twists free and can be moved around, or taken out entirely as you can see on the image below.
It’s priced at 7200 euros or just under £6000 pounds (shipping from Italy, however, is free worldwide) so it looks like it’ll be a while before these are as common as the game in people’s homes. Even more so, as it’s limited to an edition of 70 — via Retro To Go
Call upon the dark lord Cthulhu for the end times. This sweater is made of 100% acrylic. Black, red, olive green and medium green in colour. It is decorated with Cthulhu on the front, and the two different elder signs — via Middle of Beyond
French designer Philippe Starck and car company Peugeot have unveiled a prototype bicycle crossed with a scooter, designed for a free cycle scheme in Bordeaux, France.
As part of efforts to integrate bicycles into its public transport system, the city of Bordeaux asked locals to submit design suggestions for an urban bike. Philippe Starck took their ideas and worked with Peugeot to develop a scooter and bicycle hybrid called Pibal, which means baby eel
— via Dezeen
Tigar Playing, Tigar in Sunlight and Caught It!, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Neat bar signage. Road trip to Seattle, WA, originally uploaded by Megan Asche
Plenty of tradition and handcraft—combined with high-tech, where it outperforms handcraft: That is NOMOS Glashütte. All our movements are built in-house and by ourselves in Glashütte. This also applies to our watches — Tangente, Orion, Zürich and all the other models — many of which are already considered classics. You can find out how we do this by visiting us in Glashütte and taking a tour. In the meantime, this short film can give you a first impression of what we do — via Youtube
People charged with the murders of almost 100 people can be linked to a single far-right website, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The White Nationalist web forum Stormfront.org says it promotes values of the embattled white minority
, and its users include Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a 2011 massacre in Norway, and Wade Michael Page, who shot and killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012.
After a two-year investigation, the SPLC said (pdf) that since Stormfront became one of the first hate sites on the internet in 1995, its registered users have been disproportionately responsible for major killings. The report was released a month early after white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, was accused of killing three people at a Jewish center in Kansas City on Sunday.
We know that the people who are going to commit the kinds of crimes, like the kinds of crimes Miller committed last weekend, this is where they live,
said Heidi Beirich, report author and a director at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project. The report, released on Thursday, calls Stormfront the largest hate site in the world
and
a magnet and breeding ground for the deadly and deranged
.
Of the site’s more than 286,000 users, only a small sliver are highly active, the report found, with fewer than 1,800 people logging in each day. While the SPLC only identified 10 murderers out of this large user base, researchers think the murderers’ connection to the site is important because it shows how the website offers a community for people who commit these crimes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via Mike Davies
— via Dark Legacy Comics
Secret World Wildlife Rescue, a wildlife rehabilitation centre in South West England, is busy taking care of spring’s first badger cubs. The four rescued cubs were all found orphaned or abandoned, but they’re in good hands now. The first cub was named Hovis, after a UK brand of flour and bread, because the six-week old cub was about the size of a loaf of bread. Since they usually go with a theme for naming badger cubs, the following rescues have been named Pannini, Warby, 50/50 and Nimble — via ZooBorns
— via Cute Baby Animals
New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell says he will resign owing to a massive memory fail
when giving evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) yesterday.
Mr O’Farrell made the announcement after a handwritten note was produced today in which he thanks an executive from a water company for the gift of a $3000 bottle of Grange wine.
The note was addressed to Australian Water Holdings (AWH) executive Nick Di Girolamo and tendered as evidence at ICAC this morning.
Mr O’Farrell, who was recalled to ICAC this afternoon, told the inquiry that he could not recall receiving the bottle, even after reading his handwritten note.
In evidence yesterday, Mr O’Farrell denied receiving the wine at all, telling the inquiry: I’m not a wine connoisseur — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Tulsa Zoo is proud to announce the birth of a Jaguar cub, marking the third Jaguar birth at the zoo. This new addition was born on 26 March to mum, Ixchel, and dad, Bebeto. This is the second successful birth for the Jaguar pair, and another important contribution to Jaguar populations — via ZooBorns
Bacardi Leaving from Luke White on Vimeo.
The first campaign I [Luke White] created for Bacardi with Martyn Smith was an attempt to bring Bacardi up to date and make it more relevant and masculine. The campaign featured DJ Ray (played by Jeff Kober) a cool Bacardi drinking expat who ran Reef Radio, a small island radio station somewhere in the Latin Caribbean. The first two ads were shot in Bahia in Brazil by Gerard de Thame and involved taking over a whole town for two weeks, which was very cool. The third as Leaving
was shot by Andy Morahan in Mexico and again was an amazing experience. The campaign ran for 3 years in the UK and English speaking markets around the world and helped pave the way for the Latin Quarter campaign — via Behance
Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) was an industrial designer who focused on aerodynamics. His designs extended to unrealised futuristic concepts: a teardrop-shaped automobile, and an Art Deco House of Tomorrow. By popularising streamlining when only a few engineers were considering its functional use, he made possible the design style of the thirties
— via Retronaut
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