— via PLANET-PULP
When I think of a custom Heritage Softail, I think of a bike that has lost its way. You know the type: big bars, pointy grips and flames on the tank. But Steve Willis sees what he calls the beauty trapped within
. Willis runs the spectacularly successful UK workshop Shaw Speed & Custom, and this is their latest build—called Flatliner. It started as a rather tired
2006 fuel-injected 1450cc Heritage Softail — via Bike EXIF
This rainbow granny square parasol from babukatorium is out-of-control cute. It would be such a cheery way to provide some shade on a sunny walk in the park — via CRAFT
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage — a jar of Vegemite.
Mr Rudd was heading to New York from Mexico City when he attracted the authorities’ attention.
He explained that the dark brown paste was his breakfast and, with help from local diplomats, was allowed through — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fancy a move to Cornwall? We suspect the availability of this two bedroom art deco-styled property in Newlyn, West Cornwall might make the decision a little easier — as long as your family isn’t too big.
It’s a stylish property in a stunning location, Art Deco in style, even if it’s not an original Art Deco design (at least, we don’t believe it is).
Offers in the region of £425,000 if you want it. More images and details at Rightmove — via WowHaus
The unseemly squabble between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott over offshore processing of asylum seekers ignores an unspoken but inescapable reality: one in four refugee claims are currently decided onshore, with asylum seekers residing in the community. Families are monitored and unaccompanied children closely supervised, but unlike those held behind razor wire in remote detention facilities, they are free to come and go.
Despite all the bluster and tough talk about stopping the boats and breaking the people smuggling business model, Australia has been quietly doing what most Western countries (including the United States and Britain) do: processing asylum seekers in the community with minimal social discord.
And there is capacity in the system to process far more in this way, perhaps 50 per cent of current claims. Both the Red Cross and the Immigration Department, who oversee the bipartisan policy of community detention for families and children, believe about 2000 of the 4110-plus asylum seeker claims could be handled this way — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Before the show even began, controversy broke out at the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
. Alec Baldwin, who had been scheduled to appear in the pretaped opening skit, asked producers to dump him partly because a phone-hacking scandal joke didn’t make it into the final version of the vignette.
Baldwin, who did not attend the awards ceremony Sunday night, confirmed by Twitter an earlier report in Deadline that said his News Corp. gag was cut. Fox did kill my News Corp. hacking joke,
he wrote. Which sucks bc I think it would have made them look better. A little
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In southwest Miami, a small subdivision is being called ground zero
of an invasion by a destructive, non-native species.
It’s us against the snails,
Richard Gaskalla, head of plant industry for Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
That’s the Giant African Land Snail, to be precise. They can grow to be 10 inches long. They leave a slimy trail of excrement wherever they go. They harbor the microscopic rat-lung worm, which can transmit meningitis to humans. And they will literally eat your house — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Slimy and often sluggish they may be, but some molluscs deserve credit for their brains — which, it now appears, they managed to evolve independently, four times.
The mollusc family includes the most intelligent invertebrates on the planet: octopuses, squid and cuttlefish. Now, the latest and most sophisticated genetic analysis of their evolutionary history overturns our previous understanding of how they got so brainy.
The new findings expand a growing body of evidence that in very different groups of animals — molluscs and mammals, for instance — central nervous systems evolved not once, but several times, in parallel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We always love seeing new ways to reuse bicycle tubes, and this door mat is a great example of how versatile and durable of a material they really are — via CRAFT
Fans of Star Wars are not happy. Someone has been tampering with their movie history, altering elements of those intergalactic classics, which some feel is akin to an act of vandalism.
The fact that the perpetrator is George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, only seems to make matters worse — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mr Cahan grew up speaking Yiddish in Antwerp, Belgium. Although Yiddish — a mix of German dialects, Hebrew, and other influences written in the Hebrew alphabet — was once the lingua franca of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, the Holocaust nearly eradicated their communities and their common tongue. The founders of Israel preferred to speak Hebrew — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police say well-organised gangs of shoplifters are travelling across Tasmania to satisfy a lucrative black market that supplies a highly sought after product — meat.
Five shoplifters, who have allegedly stolen more than $1,000 worth of meat each, have been arrested over the past fortnight.
Police say the high cost of living has triggered the unexpected crime wave and say thousands of dollars worth of meat is being stolen from Tasmanian supermarkets each week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Harley-Davidson has a strange affectation for Italian motorcycle companies. It bought MV Agusta in 2008, and offloaded it just over a year later to the late Claudio Castiglioni. But way before that, in 1960, Harley bought a half share in Aermacchi, and started selling a rebadged version of the Italian company’s 250 cc single. It was called the Harley-Davidson Sprint, and that’s what we’re looking at here. Except this one has been customised and returned to its original Aermacchi branding by Idaho-based Union Motorcycle Classics — via Bike EXIF
This is all that remains of the swarm of bees that took over one of the neighbouring street trees after the apiarists took it away — originally uploaded by Red Wolf
I guess we would call this a period house with potential — although the price of this six-bedroom 1930s Art Deco house in Blackheath, South East London doesn’t really make it a renovation project for the majority of us.
Outside, you’ll find gardens, a garage and additional parking on the gravel drive for several cars. All of that is perhaps the reason why the agent is asking for offers around £1,650,000. With some work, who knows what it will be worth — via WowHaus
It’s awesome when a bike just comes together, when every part of your project seems like it was made to fall into place as if by some grand, cosmic plan. This is not one of those bikes.
No, The Punisher
(named after the Marvel Comics anti-hero) earned its title by brutalising the man who commissioned it, Bruce Baxter, and all those involved in the making of this big-block beast. Mule Motorcycles’ Richard Pollock — the builder who somehow brought together and massaged all the special parts into the stunning package you see here — wholeheartedly agrees that this XR1660 street-tracker lived up to its namesake — via Bike EXIF
This truly serene bath tops the tropical house that Ong&Ong have just created for an active family in Singapore.
As much as possible, natural materials with thermal sink properties were chosen. Marble, stone, wood and glass are as timeless as they are energy-efficient, cooling humid Singapore nights with cross breezes.
Spaces were designed with expansive peacefulness in mind. This sublimely simple outdoor room is an example. The enclosed courtyard with forest is another — via Home Design Find
If there were a way, any way, of capturing the energy spent looking at cats on the internet and turning that energy into petrol, I’ll tell you what, there’d be at least 20p off a litre of unleaded. Watching cat videos is the yin to the massive wobbling yang of porn and as such is something to be encouraged. Here’s the question though: what do the cats get out of it?
The truth is that nobody knows, and those who might – the women who dedicate their lives to studying feline habits by letting dozens of them live in their house — usually turn up dead in a pile of furballs and unopened newspapers before anyone can question them. But the issue of quite who cats are and what they want will not go away. It was brought into focus once again this week when a pet, who had disappeared mysteriously five years ago, reappeared equally mysteriously in a completely different part of the US. You know that bit in Seven where Kevin Spacey just appears in that cop shop? Well it was like that. But with fleas.
The cat, known to humans as Willow, disappeared in Boulder, Colorado in 2006 and reappeared on the streets of Manhattan two days ago. Delivered by a passerby to a cat shelter, Willow has now been returned to its owners thanks to a microchip found in its neck. Clearly overcome with emotion, one of the owners, a Jamie Squires, said: If I could, I would microchip my children.
That’s the spirit. Anyway, Willow disappeared for five years and nobody knows what happened. Not only that, they’ll never know, because the cat would never tell. If it were just an isolated example, this may not even have been a matter for concern. But isolated it is not — via redwolf.newsvine.com
During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British decide where to add armour to their bombers. After analysing the records, he recommended adding more armour to the places where there was no damage!
This seems backward at first, but Wald realised his data came from bombers that survived. That is, the British were only able to analyse the bombers that returned to England; those that were shot down over enemy territory were not part of their sample. These bombers’ wounds showed where they could afford to be hit. Said another way, the undamaged areas on the survivors showed where the lost planes must have been hit because the planes hit in those areas did not return from their missions.
Wald assumed that the bullets were fired randomly, that no one could accurately aim for a particular part of the bomber. Instead they aimed in the general direction of the plane and sometimes got lucky. So, for example, if Wald saw that more bombers in his sample had bullet holes in the middle of the wings, he did not conclude that Nazis liked to aim for the middle of wings. He assumed that there must have been about as many bombers with bullet holes in every other part of the plane but that those with holes elsewhere were not part of his sample because they had been shot down — via The Endeavour
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