Ready to be overcome by cuteness? Check out this amigurumi crocheted hedgehog pattern from Nickie Engle that I spotted on Ravelry! I mean, how could you say no to that face?
Fair warning: If you don’t already have a Ravelry account, you may need to sign up for one to download the pattern — via CRAFT
As much as I love these they’re not my favourite porthole around here. That honour is reserved for my $11 used-to-be-a-flimsy-brass-mirror porthole that I sunk into the floor and now serves as my laundry chute.
My laundry chute porthole was featured in the Los Angeles Times twice last year alone. When I get completely frustrated writing, painting, making films, curating AWMoK.com and everything else I fill my time with I always think I could go into the business of selling porthole laundry chutes — via Allee Willis Blog
Sure, we’re all familiar with borders. Is there anything new that could possibly be introduced? Well, I bet there’s quite a few things in this article that you never knew about!
Not only can CSS3 be used to create rounded corners, but plain-ole’ CSS can also be wrestled into displaying custom shapes. That’s right; in the past, before these techniques were discovered, we might have resorted to using absolutely positioned background images to display circles or arrows. Thankfully – as we gleefully take one more step away from Photoshop — this is no longer the case — via Nettuts+
Trauma surgeon Dr Dennis Filips saw lots of blood in operating rooms during three tours of Afghanistan.
But only after he retired from the Canadian Navy in 2008 and worked under contract to teach army medics in field operations at Suffield Base near Medicine Hat did the light bulb
come on about how hard it was to stop bleeding — the single largest cause of preventable trauma death.
Inspired by a simple hair clip, Filips used his surgical knowledge to design a device which stops bleeding from wounds within seconds.
Filips said the $65 device could save thousands of lives and represents a global “billion-dollar opportunity” for his fledgling company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Richard Bell, an Australian Film Maker, on a fellowship in New York, produced and directed approximately 18 hours of raw footage for a film with the help of an assistant called Tanya Steele and paid her for these services. Ms Steele, through her American lawyers, sent letters to Mr Bell and his agent claiming that she owned the copyright in the footage and demanding that the trailer be removed from the Internet. She also caused the Vimeo website to remove the trailer. In response, Bell went to the (Australian) courts, which declared him the owner of the copyright in the film, and deemed Steele’s threats unjustifiable
. Bell then asked for damages. These were granted in the latest judgment because Bell had lost the opportunity to sell some of his works, which typically cost tens of thousands of dollars, as a result of Steels’ threats. The Australian judge awarded over $150,000 in damages plus another $23,000 costs against her — via Slashdot
Twitter has filed a lawsuit against five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers
in a federal court in San Francisco, opening a new front in its battle against spam, it said Thursday.
With this suit, we’re going straight to the source,
Twitter said in a blog post. It hopes the civil suit will act as a deterrent to spammers. By shutting down tool providers, it expects to prevent other spammers from having the services at their disposal, the company said.
Twitter is the latest among Internet companies to use legal action against alleged spammers. In January, Facebook and the Washington state attorney general announced dual lawsuits against the co-owners of Adscend Media, an ad network that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam, including through so-called clickjacking
. Adscend denied the allegations, and instead said it would investigate for the malpractices the affiliates it hires to drive traffic to advertisers’ sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vietnamese designers Vo Trong Nghia combined natural materials like bamboo with contemporary design practices to create the wNw Bar in Thu Dau Mot Town, Binh Duong, Vietnam — via CONTEMPORIST
Another fun experiment with colour and graphic brush strokes. Relative of Blue Crab, Rainbow Pig, and Painted Shark. This time I painted the colours as a solid block, and put the grey over the top. Way easier than painting a bunch of tiny coloured stripes — via CrashOctopus Blog
Selected in an open design competition, the scheme by Denton Corker Marshall for a new library for a university of international standing deftly bridges the past and the present. Located in a highly visible and central site on the side of the campus lake, its circular form responds to the strong circular buildings and roadways that distinguish the campus pattern. Conceived as earth architecture, it cleverly integrates building and landscape to become an occupied tropical landform — via ArchDaily
Though unlikely to pass any First Amendment test. Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer has a bill on her desk that would in essence make trolling
illegal. The law states It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.
This did indeed manage to pass through both houses of legislature and only needs a signature to become law — via Slashdot
A team of Australian researchers developing a bionic eye that could help restore sight to the blind will test a full prototype later this month.
The Monash Vision Group, a team of 50 scientists, believes it is on track to be the first in the world to implant a microchip into the brain of blind patients.
A patient will wear glasses with a tiny camera, which will act like an eye’s retina. A pocket processor will then convert these images into electronic signals to be sent to a microchip implant in the brain.
The procedure will insert 650 hair-thin electrodes into the visual cortex. When fully operationally, the patient will see low resolution black and white images — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Queensland researchers say a new study has found people get a better night’s sleep with pets in their bed rather than a partner.
Researchers at Central Queensland University did an online study into sleep patterns with more than 13,000 people earlier this year.
Professor Drew Dawson says about 70 per cent of respondents were regularly woken at night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I am a Chambered Nautilus, one of the world’s living fossils!
I am 15 inches long, from the tips of my tentacles to the back of my shell. I am plush and very huggable! I would prefer that you not put me in a washing machine, I will get very sick.
This nautilus has a silver skull print on it’s shell — via Etsy
All footage taken from the original Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The order of events is pretty much as seen in the movie.
more info: Rear Window Loop (2010)
Three children whose mother was stabbed to death by their abusive father in front of hundreds of people at the Adelaide Convention Centre have spoken of their shattered lives.
Zioalloh Abrahimzadeh is awaiting sentencing for the murder of his estranged wife Zahra in March 2010.
He stabbed her repeatedly in front of about 300 people at a Persian new year festival because he felt she had dishonoured him by fleeing his abuse.
The family’s three children testified against their father at trial, before he changed his plea to guilty.
Now they have read tearful statements to the South Australian Supreme Court — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Amazon.co.uk, Britain’s biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country last year but paid no corporation tax on any of the profits from that income — and is under investigation by the UK tax authorities.
Regulatory filings by parent company Amazon.com with the US securities and exchange commission (SEC) show the tax inquiry into the UK operation, which sells nearly one in four books sold in Britain, focuses on a period when ownership of the British business was transferred to a Luxembourg company.
The SEC filings, highlighted by Bookseller magazine, show that in the past three years, Amazon has generated sales of more than £7.6bn in the UK without attracting any corporation tax on the profits from those sales — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Where is my baby?
Luisa Torres wondered after waking up from general anaesthesia on 31 March 1982.
Your baby is dead,
Sister Maria Gómez Valbuena told her as she lay in bed at the Santa Cristina Maternity Hospital in Madrid. “You gave birth to nothing, the nun said.
It was a lie, with consequences that would span almost three decades.
Torres alleges that her daughter was stolen at birth by a mafia of nuns, doctors and other officials who sold children for profit.
Thousands of Spanish mothers recount similar stories. Enrique Vila, a Barcelona lawyer who specialises in adoptions, estimates there might be as many as 300,000 cases, about 15 percent of total adoptions that took place in Spain between 1960 and 1989.
Since GlobalPost first wrote about the spate of stolen babies last year, the number of cases being handled by Spanish prosecutors has jumped from 900 to 1,500 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
News from the UK’s Longleat Safari & Adventure Park: A pair of tiny hand-reared baby Burrowing Owls have taken to using teacups to roost in during the day. The owlets, nicknamed Linford and Christie (as they were hatched in the year of the London Olympics), are being cared for by keeper Jimmy Robinson — via ZooBorns
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