— via Youtube
Add a splash of daring excitement to your simple, black coffee with the help of this octopus mug by One Hundred 80 Degrees. Scalloped, intricately sculpted tentacles serve as the handle on this hot pink mug, making your morning energy boost a fabulously quirky sight to sea
. With this ceramic ocean creature as your morning companion, you’ll be boldly prepared for any adventure the day may bring — via ModCloth
Woodworking For Mere Mortals. Easy woodworking projects every Friday. About this video: I used pine wood and boiled it in water for about ten minutes each time — via Youtube
Zoo keepers have stepped in to raise the Maryland Zoo’s first-ever Lion cubs after their mother died a few days after their birth. The cubs, born on 3 October, appear healthy and are receiving around-the-clock care in an off-exhibit area — via ZooBorns
1.5” square metal glow-in-the-dark pin Black and White Cuddle-fish Design — via Etsy
A story centred on two vampires who have been in love for centuries — via Youtube
Be reminded of warm tropical seas with these translucent pale blue-green tentacle earrings. A great gift for the cephalopod obsessed, science fans, and sea lovers — via Etsy
A man wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Fleeing the scene, he breaks into a nearby house and is met at gunpoint by a group of terrified strangers, all suffering from memory loss. Suspicion gives way to violence as the group starts to piece together clues about their identities, but when they uncover a threat that’s more vicious — and hungry — than each other, they are forced to figure out what brought them all together — before it’s too late — via Youtube
The service is less design your own and more have a cushion made up in an existing pattern, but the range of designs available still makes this an attractive option. There are 31 different London Transport moquettes to pick from, including Enid Marx’s 1938 Chevron design and the leopard print pattern used by Midland Red buses in late 1950s. Each cushion is covered in the particular wool and polyester blend used to create this hard-wearing material. A cushion will set you back £45 — via Retro To Go
11 month old orphaned female polar bear cub arrived at the International Polar Bear Conservation Centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. It didn’t take long for her to make herself comfortable in her new home — via Youtube
Tako, 2008 — via CREATURES III
On 27 July, a Spotted Hyena named Malindi gave birth to a healthy male cub at Berlin Zoo. The cub, named Toki, was born with a beautiful black coat, which will start to lighten over the next few weeks to resemble his parent’s speckled fur — via ZooBorns
Master pinstriper Glen Weisgerber demonstrates the roundhand lettering technique. Weisgerber teaches pinstriping and lettering at the Airbrush Getaway Workshops — via Youtube
Hana was a student before she was a mother. She was bright and pretty, and her future held endless possibilities. Then she met a man, who turned out to be a wolf, and together they built a family. Hana loved her mate fiercely, but fate took him from her, leaving her alone with two unusual kids she didn’t know how to raise. Frightened of being discovered, Hana and her wolf children fled to the countryside to build a new life. Raising her little wild things was an adventure. It left Hana bruised, scratched, exhausted, and joyously overwhelmed as her pups grew stronger and wandered further every day. This is a mother’s journey. Teach your children to chase their dreams — and smile through the tears as they disappear into the world in search of who they will become. Hana wasn’t always a mother, but it was always what she was meant to be — via Youtube
On 23 October, carnivore keepers at Edinburgh Zoo announced the birth of an African Hunting Dog — a first for the zoo. The announcement coincides with the reopening of the hunting dog walkway, which keepers had closed to visitors in August as they suspected Jet, the pack’s non-dominant female, was pregnant — via ZooBorns
Three years ago, security consultant Dragos Ruiu was in his lab when he noticed something highly unusual: his MacBook Air, on which he had just installed a fresh copy of OS X, spontaneously updated the firmware that helps it boot. Stranger still, when Ruiu then tried to boot the machine off a CD ROM, it refused. He also found that the machine could delete data and undo configuration changes with no prompting. He didn’t know it then, but that odd firmware update would become a high-stakes malware mystery that would consume most of his waking hours.
In the following months, Ruiu observed more odd phenomena that seemed straight out of a science-fiction thriller. A computer running the Open BSD operating system also began to modify its settings and delete its data without explanation or prompting. His network transmitted data specific to the Internet’s next-generation IPv6 networking protocol, even from computers that were supposed to have IPv6 completely disabled. Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed. Further investigation soon showed that the list of affected operating systems also included multiple variants of Windows and Linux.
We were like, ‘Okay, we’re totally owned,’
Ruiu told Ars. ‘We have to erase all our systems and start from scratch,’ which we did. It was a very painful exercise. I’ve been suspicious of stuff around here ever since.
In the intervening three years, Ruiu said, the infections have persisted, almost like a strain of bacteria that’s able to survive extreme antibiotic therapies. Within hours or weeks of wiping an infected computer clean, the odd behaviour would return. The most visible sign of contamination is a machine’s inability to boot off a CD, but other, more subtle behaviours can be observed when using tools such as Process Monitor, which is designed for troubleshooting and forensic investigations.
Another intriguing characteristic: in addition to jumping airgaps
designed to isolate infected or sensitive machines from all other networked computers, the malware seems to have self-healing capabilities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The story of Detroit is a familiar one for anyone living in the so-called rust belt of the USA, where the once-mighty automotive manufacturing industries have left many towns and cities shadows of their former selves. Now bankrupt, Detroit’s population has halved over the last fifty years. No one actually knows just how many buildings are abandoned, but it is estimated at over 1/3 of all structures. In the midst of this urban decay, farming has started to fill the hole left by industry.
Local businessman John Hantz just bought 600,000 square meters of land from the city of Detroit with an option to buy an additional 700,000, promising to demolish all the existing (abandoned) buildings, clean up the land, and plant hardwood trees. The Bank of America announced plans to demolish 100 homes and donate the land to urban agriculture. They’re not alone, as other small-scale urban farmers are adapting what’s left of the city to meet their needs. Detractors are quick to point out that urban farming will never be a large-scale, mass-produced operation that could compete with big agriculture, but urban farmers have a different goal in mind. Greg Willerer of Detroit says that he isn’t trying to save the world, just to save his city — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the middle of the night on 9 October, Kidogo the Southern White Rhinoceros gave birth to a healthy male calf at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, the third birth of this species in the zoo’s history. Now just a few weeks old, the calf, which has been named Khari
(K-har-E), an African name meaning king like
, is already romping in the Rhino yard’s mud puddles — via ZooBorns
Hoping to take slow TV
to a new level, Norway’s public broadcaster will air 12 hours of knitting from Friday night, complete with needle tips and a how-to on knitting a cover for a Harley Davidson motorbike.
Broadcaster NRK, a veteran in quirky programming, will also feature an attempt to break a world sheep-shearing record currently held by an Australian shearing group.
We’ll dive deep into the world of knitting, then from midnight, we’ll turn down the pace, if that’s even possible,
Rune Moeklebust, a producer for public television NRK, said.
We’ll watch the arm of a sweater get longer and longer; it will be fascinating… but pretty strange TV
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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