Independent schools are using private companies to monitor what their students say and do online on sites such as Facebook — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is the sweater you were looking for. Erica Schoenberger of EricaKnit on Etsy offers up this rad custom knit R2D2 sweater, and can even whip up a matching R2 beanie. Love it — via CRAFT
Suddenly, I’m curious. Back in the days when newspaper classifieds ruled the Earth (and charged by the line), did wacky parodies like this one from Vancouver Craigslist also exist? Or is this sort of humor dependent on the Internet and the existence of a free public billboard?
This offer is not for everyone…
Do you own more than one property? Do you have so many rental homes with no mortgage payments, yet you still feel unfulfilled? Tired of your illegal tenants whining that there are rats in the walls? Have you always wanted your own dinosaur? Now is your chance my friend.
In exchange for one of your properties, I will be your personal dinosaur for one year. I will be at your beck and call, 24 hours a day, wearing a dinosaur costume. The type of dinosaur is negotiable. I can babysit your children (references upon request), scare the mailman, wash dishes, entertain and impress your guests, and much more. (No sex stuff though, sorry.) I will make realistic dinosaur sounds, eat what the particular dinosaur eats and maybe even sit on a fake dinosaur egg, if you are so inclined. I am well educated, fluent in English and French (as well as dinosaur), can play several musical instruments and have no criminal record or outstanding warrants.
All this and more. This is the only way you will ever have your pet dinosaur, and the only way I will ever be able to acquire a house in Vancouver. Serious offers only please.
— via Boing Boing
People look at a 1990s Volkswagen Beetle named Vochol
during an exhibition on Huichol culture at the Museum of Puebla, near Mexico City August 10, 2011. The name Vochol
, was conceived from a combination of Vocho
, a popular term for Volkswagen Beetles in Mexico, and Huichol
, a Mexican indigenous group. The car was decorated by indigenous craftmen from the Huichol community living in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, using traditional beads and fabric. According to local media, the work will be auctioned after its exhibition in Paris and Berlin next year, with funds and proceeds going to the Huichols — via Boing Boing
Whether you have a full-time craft business or some part-time projects you run alongside your day job, you might want to check out Weave, Intuit’s new app for iPhone and iPod. It’s designed to track your projects, tasks, income, and expenses.
Weave is in its early stages and is actively looking for input from small craft business owners. How can this kind of tool help you better? You can download Weave for free from the iTunes App Store — via CRAFT
Mejiro Studio designed the SMG apartment building in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan — via CONTEMPORIST
Hanna Wendt, a tissue engineer in the Department of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery at Medical School Hannover in Germany, along with her colleagues, recently published a study that suggests spider silk may hold the key to creating artificial skin for burn victims and other patients requiring skin grafts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The math is impressive. In the last 25 years, the population of Singapore has nearly doubled, to more than five million. Over the same period, its green cover — planted areas that appear green on satellite photos, from parks to rooftops — has increased from a little more than a third of the city-state’s area to nearly half.
But it is not enough. In Singapore’s next green road map
, its 10-year development plan, the country aims to go from being a garden city
to a city in a garden
. The difference might sound very small,
says Poon Hong Yuen, the chief executive of the country’s National Parks Board, but it’’s a bit like saying my house has a garden and my house is in the middle of a garden. What it means is having pervasive greenery, as well as biodiversity, including wildlife, all around you
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Once a patient has left hospital, how can doctors track his or her physical condition? Conventional technology is too bulky or obtrusive, but rub-on electronics that stick to the skin like a temporary tattoo could revolutionise medical monitoring — via redwolf.newsvine.com
So you think your smartphone’s your lifeline, that you couldn’t do without it?
Try talking to David Dorey.
From the minute he wakes up until the second he closes his eyes at night, his hand-held device is at his side; he doesn’t know where he’d be without it. Literally.
I wouldn’t know where to go or what to do. It would feel like I was …
the Markham resident pauses, searching for the right word, floating.
That’s because Mr Dorey has amnesia. Seven years ago, he had a brain aneurysm and can remember some things, but can’t retrieve new memories — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you’re a member of LinkedIn — the social network with a business bent — you might want to review some changes made in the service’s privacy policy — if you can find it.
You see, about two months ago, LinkedIn made some under-the-radar amendments to the policy that allows it to use its members’ names and photos in third-party advertising that appears on the social network — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Philippines has deployed the army to try to quell an outbreak of violence between two different factions of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tony Owen, namesake of Tony Owen Architects has shared with us his firm’s latest project, a pair of townhouses in the in the Sydney suburb of Newtown — via ArchDaily
An experimental aircraft that could fly from Sydney to London in less than an hour at blistering speeds of 20,921km/h is due to be tested this week.
The unmanned, arrowhead-shaped aircraft, dubbed Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, will test new technology that would provide the US Pentagon a lightning-fast vehicle capable of delivering a military strike anywhere in the world in under an hour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Walmart is pulling the plug on its MP3 downloads store, but it will continue to support DRMed tracks that it sold before the store went DRM-free. The news comes via a leaked memo to Digital Music News — later confirmed by a Walmart representative — which told music licensing partners that the store would close on 28 August 2011 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I glanced in the rearview mirror just in time to realize a distracted driver in a pickup truck was barrelling down the hill behind me. I braced for impact.
The dramatic sounds of metal twisting and glass shattering shook me, but I was more stunned than hurt. My dog, Bailey, and I had been on our way to the park, to practice the commands he had recently mastered in beginning obedience class: sit
, stay
, and heel
.
It took me a few minutes to realize that Bailey, who had been riding in the back of my station wagon, had jumped through the broken back window and run off into the woods, trailing his leash — via redwolf.newsvine.com
All 90 people wanted information deleted from the Web.
Among them was a victim of domestic violence who discovered that her address could easily be found through Google. Another, well into middle age now, thought it was unfair that a few computer key strokes could unearth an account of her arrest in her college days.
They might not have received much of a hearing in the United States, where Google is based. But here, as elsewhere in Europe, an idea has taken hold — individuals should have a right to be forgotten
on the Web.
Spain’s government is now championing this cause. It has ordered Google to stop indexing information about 90 citizens who filed formal complaints with its Data Protection Agency. The case is now in court and being watched closely across Europe for how it might affect the control citizens will have over information they posted, or which was posted about them, on the Web — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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