I’m with Jamie of Prudent Baby: I’ll take a sweet and spicy coffee cake over chocolate any day of the week. In the great cake-or-pie-in-a-mug tradition, she’s sharing how to make a simple coffee cake serving in a mug. You can have a mug of coffee in one hand, and a mug of coffee cake in the other — via CRAFT
a lovely CB550 café racer belonging to Victor Sultana of Grand Rapids in Michigan. It’s one of those bikes that’s just right
, and it put a smile on my dial as soon as I saw it. It’s a 1975 model, fully restored, and with no engine mods other than the 4-into-1 blacked out exhaust. The restoration and paint was done by a small workshop called Classic Snowmobile Repair in Fennville, Michigan. The solo seat is a custom fabricated fiberglass item by CB specialist Benjie’s Cafe Racers, complete with integrated tail light. And the rearsets, mirrors, linkages and turn signals are from Dime City Cycles — via Bike EXIF
Do not feed after midnight!, originally uploaded by Chelsea Bloxsom.
Fans of the 80s classic dark comedy horror film, Gremlins, will recognise this bit of advice immediately. A Mogwai is all cute and cuddly … until you get tricked in to feeding it after midnight. Flickr user, loveandasandwhich, created this awesome Gremlins applique piece, and includes a couple of in-progress shots of the fun fur making the transformation in to a Mogwai. Ahhhh … feels like 4th grade all over again — via CRAFT
A child that is born neither male or female is a rare occurrence but babies born with some form of Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) happens in one in every 1,500 births, according to the support group Accord Alliance.
For some born with a DSD it can mean growing up in a world of shame and secrecy, but many people are working to foster openness about it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Sonic said it fought the government’s order and lost, and was forced to turn over information. Challenging the order was rather expensive, but we felt it was the right thing to do,
said Sonic’s chief executive, Dane Jasper. The government’s request included the email addresses of people Mr Appelbaum corresponded with the past two years, but not the full emails.
Both Google and Sonic pressed for the right to inform Mr Appelbaum of the secret court orders, according to people familiar with the investigation. Google declined to comment. Mr Appelbaum, 28 years old, hasn’t been charged with wrongdoing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 50-foot-long bridge in western Pennsylvania has been stolen, and its owners say they’re baffled by the crime and have no idea who took it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The largest European hacker club, Chaos Computer Club
(CCC), has reverse engineered and analysed a lawful interception
malware program used by German police forces. It has been found in the wild and submitted to the CCC anonymously. The malware can not only siphon away intimate data but also offers a remote control or backdoor functionality for uploading and executing arbitrary other programs. Significant design and implementation flaws make all of the functionality available to anyone on the internet.
Even before the German constitutional court (Bundesverfassungsgericht
) on 27 February 2008 forbade the use of malware to manipulate German citizen’s PCs, the German government introduced a less conspicuous newspeak variant of the term spy software: Quellen-TKÜ
(the term means source wiretapping
or lawful interception at the source). This Quellen-TKÜ can by definition only be used for wiretapping internet telephony. The court also said that this has to be enforced through technical and legal means.
The CCC now published the extracted binary files [0] of the government malware that was used for Quellen-TKÜ
, together with a report about the functionality found and our conclusions about these findings. During this analysis, the CCC wrote its own remote control software for the trojan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Best Bone Ever, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
The idea behind the Herzberg development [AllesWirdGut Architektur + feld72] is to create a built structure which combines a variety of residential offerings into one neighbourhood that facilitates different ways of living. This objective was pursued on both an urban-planning and on an architectural level — via ArchDaily
A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, was sold at a Hershey, Pennsylvania auction late Friday for $4.6 million.
The auction company, RM Auctions, had estimated that the car would sell for about half that much. It represents the highest price ever paid for an early automobile at auction. The price includes a 10% <>buyer’s premium which goes to the auction company.
The name of the buyer has not been made public — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google today launched an early preview
of Dart, a programming language the company hopes will help web application programmers overcome shortcomings of JavaScript that Google itself feels acutely.
Programmer and project leader Lars Bak detailed the project in a talk today at the Goto conference in Denmark and in a blog post. Dart is geared for everything from small, unstructured projects to large, complicated efforts — Gmail and Google Docs, for example.
If we want to focus on making the web better over time, we have to innovate
, including with new programming languages, Bak said in an interview.
Google also unveiled a Dart language site that includes open-source tools for writing Dart programs, code samples and tutorials; libraries of supporting software; the Dart language specification; and forums for discussion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
German watch designer Manfred Brassler — his watch brand is Meistersinger — brings us this 1950’s inspired timekeeper, the Meistersinger NEO. True to its origins, NEO has all the vintage design features of the 50s, particularly the slim case with a classically simple dial. The NEO comes in a single-handed model, as well as a two-handed-version with date indicator — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
Laika the dog is seriously styling in this AT-AT costume, created by Katie Mello — via Boing Boing
I’ve been wondering why Apple chose to make the iPhone 4’s screen 3.5-inches when other comparable phones with Android and Windows Phone 7 have larger, more inviting screens. When you first see a phone with a 4-inch or larger screen, it seems like a much better experience. I thought it was a technical decision, and it could be, but since switching to an Android phone — a Samsung Galaxy S II, the best Android phone you can buy, anywhere
— 15 days ago, I have realized another huge downside of larger screens: when holding the phone with one hand, I can’t reach the other side of the screen with my thumb.
Touching the upper right corner of the screen on the Galaxy S II using one hand, with its 4.27-inch screen, while you’re walking down the street looking at Google Maps, is extremely difficult and frustrating. I pulled out my iPhone 4 to do a quick test, and it turns out that when you hold the iPhone in your left hand and articulate your thumb, you can reach almost exactly to the other side of the screen. This means it’s easy to touch any area of the screen while holding the phone in one hand, with your thumb. It is almost impossible to do this on the Galaxy S II — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This year marks the centenary of the illustrious Italian marque Benelli—and according to my calculations, that makes it the oldest European motorcycle manufacturer in (more or less) continuous operation. Today the Chinese motor group Qianjiang owns Benelli, but the Pesaro factory still produces a handful of bikes each year—the Century, Café, Tornado and Tre models.
Benelli’s finest moment, however, came with the launch of the Sei in 1972. Sold first as a 750 and later as a 900, it was a worthy competitor to the Japanese superbikes of the day and a flagship of the Italian industry.
This particular motorcycle started life as a 1981 900 Sei, and has been meticulously rebuilt as a classic racerby Dutchman Joop Berghorst. The race bodywork emulates the style of the day, and the exhaust system mimics the exotic 750 Sei configuration rather than the conventional 6-into-2 system of the road-going 900 — via Bike EXIF
A north Queensland mining company has discovered one of the world’s largest deposits of the rare earth, scandium.
Scandium is used to make solid oxide fuel cells, which are used generating electricity from natural gas and renewable fuels.
This discovery has been made at a former nickel mine at Greenvale, just out of Townsville — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Factories, farms and hotels could be forcing hundreds of people across Wales to work against their will.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) is conducting several investigations into forced labour across Wales, the BBC understands.
These businesses could be breaking new anti-slavery laws and employers may end up in prison — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Anastasia Architects designed the Vila Castela Residence in Nova Lima, Brazil — via CONTEMPORIST
The Benarus Watch company offers their Moray model in bronze as well. Unfortunately, they only made twenty of this particular model, and they are completely sold out. The most striking feature is, of course, that gorgeous bronze case, made from the bronze alloy UNI5275 — via Wrist Watch Review
Legal brothels in NSW and Victoria are operating unchecked despite police investigations implicating them in human trafficking, sex slavery and organised crime.
Two federal police investigations, Operations Elixation and Raspberry, have identified at least two Sydney brothels and three Melbourne ones linked to an international human trafficking and sex slavery ring. The syndicate allegedly convinces Asian women to come to Australia to study. They are then forced to work as sex slaves in brothels.
But the state and local authorities responsible for approving legal brothels have taken no action, despite court documents in August detailing federal police allegations of the brothels’ — or their managers’ — involvement in organised crime — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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