I’m not usually in to perfection, but I am in to helpful sewing tips and this short tutorial on sewing perfect corners from Eerika of Rag Pets looks to be highly useful. You’ll also love reading about her elementary school textiles class, complete with a sewing machine driver’s license
. Awesome — via CRAFT
Drogo Michie wanted a bike for the streets of London, and chose a stock 1978 Yamaha XS650 as his starting point — via Bike EXIF
The Lizamoon website attack seems to have ensnared relatively few victims.
The massive attack managed to inject the name of several rogue domains into hundreds of thousands of websites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Angry ravens might kick and chase each other, but if they are close allies they make up afterwards.
Plenty of primates and other mammals reconcile after a conflict, but previously no birds were known to do so, says Orlaith Fraser of the University of Vienna in Austria — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Spanish architects A-cero have completed the Open Box House house in Madrid, Spain — via CONTEMPORIST
Five more genes which increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease have been identified, scientists say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When Paul Farrell filmed a man being forcibly restrained by RailCorp transit officers, laws that don’t even exist were invoked to try to stop him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cyber-shoppers are costing the federal government $1.3 million a day by buying tax-free imports over the internet, the Treasury has revealed.
Lost revenue from the GST — and the savings to consumers — are forecast to grow 10 per cent each year to hit $610m by 2013-14 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Essentially, the small house [Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten] for two people consists of one living floor between fair-faced concrete slabs, which cantilever far towards the west. Its immediate environment is characterised by agriculture; the view over orchards, pastures and copses up to the Plabutsch hills west of Graz scarcely indicates the proximity of a large town. The cantilevering volume rests on a basement which is partly carved into the hill. The ceiling of this storey is both entrance and parking area, sheltered with a porch roof that is planted with greenery — via ArchDaily
Within the urban plan of Nieuw Leyden, 24H > architecture design two ecological houses. The building block consists of 18 houses, designed by different architects. There are no regulations of the beauty commission, so the future owners are free to design their house, as long as it fits within the provided building envelope — via ArchDaily
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace — via RSA
The new expo pavilion has been built in a former industrial area previously occupied by a pasta factory. The building [MMAA], which features a coated iron structure and envelope made of titanium-zinc panels and vast glazed surfaces, takes the form of a long parallelepiped, folded over on itself, that soars up from the ground, jutting out sharply at the end to shelter the entrance facing the pre-existing multiplex. The shape of the building is based on the idea of creating an architectural promenade that unfurls from the highest point of the building, through an exhibition space, down to the bottom — via ArchDaily
Fresh doubts have been cast about how useful helmets are in preventing head injuries to cyclists.
An analysis by Norwegian researchers of existing studies has suggested previous scrutiny was biased towards helmets and relied too heavily on research into 1980s stack-hat
style hard-shell helmets. They argued that today’s soft-shell
helmets were less effective at reducing brain injuries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The bookmarks bar is a useful way to quickly access your favorite sites, but it takes up a lot of vertical space. Here's how to make Firefox hide it when you aren’t moused over it — via lifehacker
Spanish police say they have arrested a man who twice escaped from custody by having his wife send fake faxes ordering his release.
Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Carlos Serna was taken into custody at his home in San Lorenzo del Escorial, a suburb north of Madrid, on Friday (local time), while hiding in a hollowed-out sofa, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The creators of Zodiac Island
say they lost an entire season of their syndicated children’s television show after a former employee at their Internet service provider wiped out more than 300GB of video files.
WeR1 World Network, the show’s creator, is suing the ISP, CyberLynk of Franklin, Wisconsin, and its former employee, Michael Jewson, for damages, saying CyberLynk should have done a better job of protecting its data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A-cero Architects have completed a new house in Madrid, Spain — via CONTEMPORIST
Brazillian architect David Guerra has completed a remodel of a 1980’s house in Brazil — via CONTEMPORIST
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