A sought after address due to the convenience of being located on the Uxbridge Road and a family inspired design are the hallmarks of this cleverly planned and extended four bedroom semi-detached home — via Right Move
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The Simpsons are transformed into musical instruments in MusicVille — via Youtube
The first book printed in what is today the USA has sold for more than $15 million at auction in New York, becoming the world’s most expensive printed book.
A translation of Biblical psalms, The Bay Psalm Book was printed by Puritan settlers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1640.
One of only 11 surviving copies from the original 1,700, it was sold at a one-lot auction in just minutes by Sotheby’s.
Bidding opened at $US6 million and closed swiftly at a hammer price of $US12.5 million, rising to $US14.165 million (around $15.5 million) once the buyer’s premium was incorporated.
The book, with its browning pages and gilt edges, was displayed in a glass case behind the auctioneer to the small crowd who attended the auction.
The bidding lasted less than five minutes, and was won buy David Rubenstein, a billionaire American financier and philanthropist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Polymer gel, heal thyself: Engineering team proposes new composites that can regenerate when damaged
When a chair leg breaks or a cell phone shatters, either must be repaired or replaced. But what if these materials could be programmed to regenerate — themselves, replenishing the damaged or missing components, and thereby extend their lifetime and reduce the need for costly repairs?
That potential is now possible according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, who have developed computational models to design a new polymer gel that would enable complex materials to regenerate themselves — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A true sucker for twinkling accessories, this charming creature offers eight curled tentacles that clutch each specimen, a pair of dimpled eyes for inspecting every detail, and a chrome-like finish that complements your glittering collection — via ModCloth
Muppets Most Wanted takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, including stops in Berlin, Madrid, Dublin and London. But mayhem follows them overseas as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine, the World’s Number One Criminal, and dead-ringer for Kermit — via Youtube
We’re GoldieBlox, a toy company out to show the world that girls deserve more choices than dolls and princesses. We believe that femininity is strong and girls will build the future — literally.
Our founder, Debbie Sterling, is a Stanford engineer who decided last year that girls need more choices than the pink aisle has to offer. She developed GoldieBlox, an interactive book series + construction set starring Goldie, the kid inventor who loves to build.
This year, we wondered what we could do to showcase the amazing inventive power that girls have. So… we might have recruited three young girls and that guy who made OK Go’s famous Rube Goldberg machine to turn an average home into a massive, magical contraption — via Youtube
John J Hill‘s They Live poster — via Steve Niles
Written and performed by Mark Grist, directed by Guy Larsen, produced by Or Something Similar — via Youtube
A trio of Cougar cubs quietly moved in behind the scenes at the Oregon Zoo’s veterinary medical centre. The three cubs were found orphaned in southwest Oregon in late October and stayed at the zoo temporarily while they awaited flights out of town to new, permanent homes in New York and Kansas — via ZooBorns
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The Australian Vaccination Network has again been ordered to change its name, after losing an appeal against a ruling that its current name is misleading.
The New South Wales Administrative Decisions Tribunal has upheld a ruling by the state’s Fair Trading department that the anti-vaccination group’s current name could mislead the public.
The AVN can elect to make a further appeal against the ruling, but Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts has warned the organisation risks a hefty legal bill because the department will seek legal costs.
The AVN must change its name now,
Mr Roberts said.
We’re awaiting advice from the AVN as to what they consider an appropriate name would be.
We reserve the right to reject any names we consider inappropriate, but again my clear message to the Australian Vaccination Network is be open and up-front about what you stand for.
The Australian Medical Association was among those that complained to Fair Trading about the AVN’s name — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new Haller’s Round Stingray arrived at the Tennessee Aquarium with a surprise of her own to share: she gave birth to a litter of five on 21 October, soon after her arrival. Each baby now measures about 8 cm, minus the tail, and could grow to be slightly larger than 30 cm in disk size as adults. Stingrays give birth to live young, which absorb nutrients from a yolk sac and then a special uterine milk
before birth. Born fully developed, the babies are immediately able to swim and feed, requiring no parental care — via ZooBorns
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A US federal jury has ordered two media companies to pay $US1.2 million ($1.3m) to a freelance photojournalist for their unauthorised use of photographs he posted to Twitter.
The jury found Agence France-Presse and Getty Images wilfully violated the Copyright Act when they used photos Daniel Morel took in his native Haiti after the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people, Mr Morel’s lawyer, Joseph Baio, said.
The case is one of the first to address how images that individuals make available to the public through social media can be used by third parties for commercial purposes.
We believe that this is the first time these defendants, or any other major digital licensor of photography, have been found liable for wilful violations of the Copyright Act,
Mr Baio said in an email.
Lawyers for AFP and Getty did not immediately respond to requests for comment — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The fake trailer shown before the movie Machete Kills — via Youtube
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Bogart read comics — via Steve Niles
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