An instant conversation starter, this unique retro gaming inspired couch will be the highlight of any room. Designed and manufactured in Los Angeles, California; to insure the highest build quality. It features and all fine leather pixelated retro design, a low profile, and memory foam cushions — via Igor Chak
To-do apps are notorious for being difficult to navigate and more time-consuming to use and manage than the tasks you may be trying to track. FolderBoy takes a different approach to helping you organise your projects, using folders to organise categories or projects and tasks that can live in multiple categories.
A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial alkaline hydrolysis
unit at a Florida funeral home.
The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water.
The facility has been installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St Petersburg, and will be used for the first time in the coming weeks. It is hoped other units will follow in the US, Canada and Europe — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It isn’t like Apple cuts corners when it comes to design. But that’s never kept us from setting our own desktop backgrounds or installing skins for our favourite apps. Customising the Dock might not be quite as simple, but that shouldn’t stop you from giving a personal touch to one of the best aspects of the OS X interface — via Mac|Life
Reconnecting severed blood vessels is mostly done the same way today — with sutures — as it was 100 years ago, when the French surgeon Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for advancing the technique. Now, a team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a sutureless method that appears to be a faster, safer and easier alternative.
In animal studies, a team led by Stanford microsurgeon Geoffrey Gurtner, MD, used a poloxamer gel and bioadhesive rather than a needle and thread to join together blood vessels, a procedure called vascular anastomosis. Results of the research were published online 28 August in Nature Medicine. Lead authors of the study were postdoctoral scholar Edward Chang, MD, and surgery resident Michael Galvez, MD — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A pouncing pair of Snow Leopard cubs recently appeared on the scene in their main enclosure at the Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire, England. And they’ve just gotten a check up by the vets! Born in June, they are yet to be named.
Parents Suou and Irma arrived at Twycross in May 2010 as part of the international breeding program. The birth of the cubs is a significant contribution to the conservation of Snow Leopards which are currently listed as endangered — via ZooBorns
The Pentagon has spent more than $720 million since 2001 on fees for shipping containers that it fails to return on time, according to data and contracts obtained by USA TODAY.
Since 2001, the Pentagon has spent more than $720 million in late fees for shipping containers.
The containers –— large metal boxes stowed on ships and moved from port on trucks — are familiar sights on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan where troops use them for storage, shelter and building material. Yet each 20-foot container returned late can rack up more than $2,200 in late fees. Shipping companies charge the government daily container detention fees
after the grace period ends for the box to be returned.
The $720 million represents a thin slice of the Pentagon’s $553 billion budget. Yet military spending is under intense scrutiny as the Defence Department has been ordered to trim $350 billion in spending over the next 10 years and could face steeper reductions from budget cutters — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A protection area is being expanded in upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia for giant cuttlefish.
Critically low numbers had been found this season.
In the past there had been more than 250,000 cuttlefish but this year’s count was just 25,000.
Scientists are trying to find a reason — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jason Wonder‘s Rev-2 was one of my favorite Harley customs last year. It was also a big hit with Chris Ronan of design company RD2, so Chris commissioned Jason to build a sequel. And here it is, but this time based on an XR1200 rather than a V-Rod. It’s also 120 lbs lighter than a stock XR1200 — via Bike EXIF
Jenni of I Spy DIY spent the hurricane weekend making these rad old school wrapped plastic bracelets. They remind me of summer camp crafts from the 80s, and I love the bright colours. Were you crafting during the hurricane? — via CRAFT
Scientists have got it wrong — Earth really is the centre of the universe, according to a group of staunch Catholics who refuse to believe otherwise — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia is facing the possibility of a ferocious bushfire season because of vast areas of grass which have grown across the country in the wake of recent rains — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via chainsawsuit
The Nautica NCT 800 is designed as a handsome dress watch and is powered by a Miyota Japanese quartz movement with tachymeter functionality and water resistance up to 100 metres — via Watchuseek Watch Blog
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