British designers Ian Spencer and Cairn Young have created the Corsica chair — via CONTEMPORIST
Daniel Marshall Architects have designed the Korora house on Waiheke Island in New Zealand — via CONTEMPORIST
At 82 Frank Gehry shows no sign of slowing down. Working on 20 projects at any given time, the Pritzker Prize winning architect’s latest completed work New York by Gehry had its formal opening just last month. In this interview Gehry shares how he was inspired by ice hokey, that Gian Lorenzo Bernini is one of his greatest influences, and what he has always wanted to design — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A semi-stylised, realistic looking glass nautilus. The mysterious Nautilus live in the deep ocean and are related to cuttlefish, squid and octopi. Their shell consists of many air filled chambers used for buoyancy; they can have over 90 tentacles and reach sizes of about 10 inches — via Etsy
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 (+$3.99 shipping) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Righthaven LLC, a company that enforces licensing of content created by their clients, has in the past taken possession of domain names owned by alleged infringers. Recently a judge dismissed one of their claims on a defendant’s domain name.
Now it appears that GoDaddy, the domain registrar for the domain Righthaven.com, has taken down their domain for an invalid whois — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group in NSW’s southwest ignored a man who’d fallen off the back of their ute but they stopped to pick up alcohol that also fell out of the vehicle, police say.
The 31-year-old man, from Rochester in Victoria, died after striking his head on the road when he fell from the vehicle as it turned from Maude Road into Nap Nap Road at the town of Maude, in the early hours of this morning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A controlled diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate can repair kidney damage in diabetic mice, according to US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Redwood City man who tried to pick up blackmail money from his immigrant relatives while dressed in a clown suit has been sentenced to three years in prison for passing himself off as a federal immigration agent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an LA County sheriff’s investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest addition to the octopus accessory list! These glass hairsticks have a fantastic little octopus perched on top with their tentacles clinging tight — via Etsy
California Two-spot Octopus, Chula Vista Nature Center — via Fernando Ramirez
Pocket Krakens are very handy symbiotic genetically spliced creatures. Carrying one provides the user with a pocket watchdog
. If anyone but the owner slips a hand into a pocket the wee Kraken will deliver a sound bite with her parrot like beak alerting all to the potential pickpocket. Wear one near your chest as a pendant and the Kraken will nip any mashers or other unpleasant types who attempt to get too near your person without permission — via missmonster
The Hourglass from Ikepod on Vimeo.
Marc Newson’s latest creation for Ikepod sees the Australian designer interpret the most iconic timepiece of all: The Hourglass. Director Philip Andelman traveled to Basel, Switzerland, to document the designer’s modern take of the classic hourglass inside the Glaskeller factory. Each hand made hourglass comprises highly durable borosilicate glass and millions of stainless steel nanoballs, and is available in a 10 or 60 minute timer.
For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones for a near-guarantee that it won’t suffer from downtime.
By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location,
Amazon says in pitching its Elastic Compute Cloud service.
Customers who build applications in just one availability zone are more likely to suffer outages. But what happens when multiple availability zones go dark at the same time? We found out today when an outage forced websites such as Foursquare, Reddit, Quora and Hootsuite offline — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There’s been a lot of discussion of the discovery that there’s a database file called consolidated.db
on your iPhone, full of latitude and longitude coordinates. Most of it has been completely hysterical, and not based on an actual look at the data involved.
I downloaded Peter Warden’s iPhoneTracker program, as well as the source code for it, and played around with it a good bit yesterday. I’m not done—I haven’t done a raw dump of the locations in the file yet—but I’ve been able to determine several things, the most important of which is that the iPhone is not tracking your every move
, by any stretch of the imagination — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While microblogging site Twitter is quick when it comes to breaking news, the opposite is true for its ability to implement new features.
The company is testing a new feature that would hide excessive messages from users who send lots of messages in a short amount of time — an ability that has been standard in Facebook for ages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Most of the new works [Lahznimmo Architects] are concentrated at the rear of the house, where a dark glazed brick clad living cube creates a grand room with a high timber veneer ceiling and generous opening to the garden. The cube creates a secondary, contemporary form that is clearly distinct from, yet connected to, the front of the house and is subservient to the main pyramidal roof of the original house. The parapets of the cube formally terminate the extended eaves line of the original house — via ArchDaily
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