Casey Key Guest House / TOTeMS Architecture

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3 July 2011
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The owner requested a house in the trees. A small program [TOTeMS Architecture]: one bedroom, bath, living area with kitchenette, and a loft, is organized to provide privacy between a neighbouring property to the north, while offering broad views of the oak hammock, and Intercoastal Waterway. Glulam beams were selected for their ability to enfold the structure around the space. The laminated pine beams, which curve over the entire space, blur the distinction between wall and roof. The result is an open structure to the east and west, yet solid and private to the north — via ArchDaily

A history of marriage in Australia

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2 July 2011
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On 13 August 2004, in a debate punctuated by rage and tears, the Senate passed a Howard government amendment to the Marriage Act banning same-sex marriages.

Exactly 45 years earlier, on 13 August 1959, in the midst of debating Australia’s first national Marriage Act — the one Howard later amended — the House of Representatives erupted at the news an Aboriginal woman had been denied permission to marry — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

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2 July 2011
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Two professors from the University of Illinois; one specializing in materials science, the other in electrical engineering, have combined their talents to take the idea of printing circuits onto non-standard materials one step further by developing a conductive ink that can be used in a traditional rollerball ink pen to draw circuits by hand onto paper and other porous materials. In their paper published in Advanced Materials, team leads Jennifer Lewis, Jennifer Bernhard and colleagues describe how they were able to make a type of ink from silver nanoparticles that would remain a liquid while in the pen, but would dry like regular ink once applied. The pen could was then used to draw a functioning LCD display and an antenna — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Local nonprofit a guiding light for people who are blind

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2 July 2011
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To call this guy a business genius would be an understatement. In just the past few years, he’s opened a Spokane campus and grown it from three employees to 45. At the same time, Adams has led an effort to bid for and land very competitive contracts from private enterprise. In other words, his employees who are blind, Deaf-Blind and blind with other disabilities are competing with other companies who have far fewer (or no) employees who are blind. And they’re winning on quality and price – a remarkable and admirable feat — via tyler.newsvine.com

Yamaha YZR500 OW23

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1 July 2011
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This exquisite piece of rolling sculpture is Yamaha’s 1975 YZR500. It’s the OW23 variant, the machine that took Giacomo Agostini to the last of his incredible 15 World Championships — via Bike EXIF

As the Internet evolves, is there a place for spam?

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1 July 2011
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In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made $20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the most successful spammers on the planet. But if he were starting out today, he’d find some other line of work.

In 2011, spamming just won’t pay the bills. It’s not something financially feasible for anyone to even consider, said Soloway, who was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon a few months ago, after serving almost four in prison for spamming — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Planes changing weather patterns: study

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1 July 2011
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Researchers say planes might be changing local weather patterns around airports.

A study released in the American journal Science has found aeroplanes flying through clouds can lead to increased snowfall around airports.

The researchers say the effect is similar to the practice of cloud seeding, where aircraft are used to disperse chemicals to bring about rain or snow — via redwolf.newsvine.com

IBM Announces Paradigm Shift Memory Breakthrough

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1 July 2011
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In a potentially game-changing development, IBM researchers have announced a new memory technology that could soon replace flash-based memory in everything from consumer devices to cruise missiles. Non-volatile phase-change memory (PCM) can store multiple data bits per cell over extended periods in a form that is cheaper, faster and more durable.

IBM is calling the technology a paradigm shift for enterprise and storage systems within the next five years — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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