Intruder enters Ohio home, decorates for Christmas

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17 November 2011
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at one home in a Dayton, Ohio suburb — thanks to a man who police say broke in and started hanging up yuletide decorations.

They also say the burglar who was already in the holiday spirit was high on bath salts, reports CBS affiliate WOIO.

Terry Trent, 44, was arrested and charged with burglary last week in Vandalia, according to the station when an 11-year-old boy found the man sitting on the couch after he had done some Christmas decorating around the house — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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Ty-Hedfan / Featherstone Young

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17 November 2011
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Ty-Hedfan [Featherstone Young] is a new house perched above a river in a small village at the top of a valley, five miles from Brecon and the beautiful Brecon Beacons National Park. The site is quite unique, sloping down to the confluence of two rivers, Ysgir Fach and Ysgir Fawr, that run across the length of the property. Ty-Hedfan, meaning hovering house takes full advantage of this river side location — via ArchDaily

1951 Triumph Thunderbird / Bobby Sirkegian

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16 November 2011
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As a kid, Bobby Sirkegian had better What I Did On My Summer Vacation stories than the rest of his school chums. Already making a name for himself in early Southern California drag racing, running and winning against full grown men, 13-year-old Bobby travelled with his bike-dealer father to Wendover, Utah in 1953 to take part in the fifth annual Bonneville Speed Week. Because Bonneville officials knew of the youngster’s prowess on a drag bike, he was given special permission to run on the salt flats. He lined up for passes in the 650cc class on this stripped-down 1951 Triumph Thunderbird, just treated to a full restoration by Sirkegian, now 72. It’s one of the bikes on offer at Bonhams’ 12 November auctionat the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles — via Bike EXIF

Alien rats take on prey’s role

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16 November 2011
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Invasive rats are compensating for the loss of native pollinators in New Zealand, scientists report.

The rats, which are responsible for devastating the native pollinator populations, are attracted to the flowers for their nectar.

The results could mean that the decline of pollinating animals worldwide does not spell the end for all native plants. The results are published in a Royal Society journal — via redwolf.newsvine.com

ThinkUp Archives and Analyses Your Social Media Life

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16 November 2011
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The conversations you have online are worth capturing, keeping, and referring back to over time. In fact, the things you share and the conversations you have about them gain weight, perspective, and importance over time, not just the moment you post them. Think about the time you announced you were getting married, or posted a photo of your newborn, or launched a project that changed your life on a social network and the conversations that ensued. That’s content you want to keep.

I’ve spent the last six years publishing observations, inquiries, and just bits and pieces of my life on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, and now Google+, and having conversations with my friends and readers about them. That’s why I built ThinkUp — via Smarterware

Seattle City Council passes resolution in support of Occupy movement

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16 November 2011
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Seattle City Council today adopted Resolution 31337in support of the Occupy movement.

The resolution recognises and supports the peaceful and lawful exercise of the First Amendment as a cherished and fundamental right in the effort to seek solutions for economically distressed Americans at the federal and local levels.

The Council also committed to a number of actions in response to the Occupy movement dealing with fair lending and taxation.

The resolution was introduced by Councilmember Nick Licata and co-sponsored by Mike O’Brien. It passed unanimously — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Carnivorous plant inspires super-slippery material

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16 November 2011
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Water, oil, blood and insects alike slide swiftly off a new super-slippery material inspired by a carnivorous plant.

Scientists searching for clever materials sometimes borrow ideas from nature. Lotus leaves, for example, are famously water repellent, thanks to their textured surfaces which trap a cushion of air for water to slide down.

The leaves have inspired a range of so-called superhydrophobic materials. But these materials have trouble repelling oils and more complex liquids, which have lower surface tensions than water and can seep into the surface at the slightest pressure — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Salman Rushdie hissy-fit forces Facebook name U-turn

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16 November 2011
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Facebook has upset Salman Rushdie after the company initially refused to let the controversial author use his common name rather than his first name when signing up to the network.

The writer, who is a newcomer to the Web2.0 game, explained on Twitter that his full name is Ahmed Salman Rushdie.

Amazing. 2 days ago FB deactivated my page saying they didn’t believe I was me. I had to send a photo of my passport page. THEN… he tweeted, they said yes, I was me, but insisted I use the name Ahmed which appears before Salman on my passport and which I have never used.

NOW… They have reactivated my FB page as ‘Ahmed Rushdie,’ in spite of the world knowing me as Salman. Morons. @MarkZuckerbergF? Are you listening? — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Costa d’en Blanes House / SCT Estudio de Arquitectura

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16 November 2011
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On a long, narrow plot of land with a more or less pronounced slope, SCT Estudio de Arquitectura were commissioned by the owners to demolish the house they lived in and build a new one.

The first decision consists of inverting the situation level of the day and night areas, positioning the night zone on the ground floor and the day zone on the upper floor, where the views are better and there is more privacy with regard to the adjoining plots and allowing for use of the pool and solarium on the level where the daytime activity is generated — via ArchDaily

Sun-drop diamond in Swiss auction

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15 November 2011
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A 110-carat diamond is expected to fetch up to $15m (£9m) at auction in Geneva next week, Sotheby’s says. The so-called Sun-Drop Diamond is described as fancy vivid yellow, the highest colour grading, and is the largest known diamond of its kind, at 110.3 carats — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Email spam ‘Block 25’ crackdown readied in South Korea

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15 November 2011
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South Korea is lobbying its internet service providers to sign up to a national plan to tackle spam.

The plan requires ISPs to restrict email to official computer gateways by blocking another common route that messages travel over.

It is hoped this will thwart spammers who hijack home PCs and use them to send junk mail.

Critics say the block could do more harm than good to businesses and hit home workers — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Foreign Office reveals weird requests to consulates

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15 November 2011
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The British consulate offers welcome assistance to travellers who are in trouble abroad, but the Foreign Office is warning there are some things it just cannot help with.

In the last six months staff have been asked for a telephone number for Phil Collins and Prince Charles’s shoe size.

Another request was from a man stranded at the airport by his dominatrix.

The Foreign Office says it is important people understand their priority is to help those in real difficulty — via redwolf.newsvine.com

1929 Twin Pulse Jet Engine Harley-Davidson / Robert Maddox

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14 November 2011
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The world’s first and only twin-pulse-jet-engine motorcycle is officially up for auction. The machine was originally constructed by Robert Maddox for a customer who wanted to try his hand at slipping into the 200-mph club. It’s not clear whether the owner had a brief flash of sanity or if he simply found an easier way get his jollies, but the bike is now up for sale with a buy-it-now price of just $25,000.

That’s plenty cheap in our eyes. If we had money bleeding out of our ears, we’d snap up the wild machine, which is supposedly based on a 1929 Harley-Davidson flat-track racer (we imagine that might just mean modelled after…), and park it in our living room. The seller says the bike rides straight and, not surprisingly, is plenty quick. Head over to eBay Motors to check out the auction for yourself — via autoblog

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