A student prank led to British Army and intelligence units being mobilised for fear that aliens were mounting an invasion of England, documents released today show — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hi! I am a handmade squid doll! I want to share the secrets of the universe with you! Please don’t put me in the washing machine, I get motion sickness! May the many tentacles of happiness embrace you!
I am about 19 inches long from the very tip of my funnel to the end of my long tentacle — via Etsy
Kyle Bean made a sculpture of a chicken out of eggshells. It’s called Which Came First? Although, at first, I thought that this was a digital image, the last photo in the set at the link shows Bean assembling the sculpture — via Neatorama
The First Amendment protects hateful protests at military funerals, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in an 8-1 decision.
Speech is powerful,
Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr wrote for the majority. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and — as it did here — inflict great pain.
But under the First Amendment, he went on, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker
. Instead, the national commitment to free speech, he said, requires protection of even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Serving as Official Timekeeper of the Tour Auto for the sixth year running, Audemars Piguet is again launching a limited edition watch to commemorate the event. This year: a 150-piece limited, numbered Audemars Piguet Millenary Chronograph. With its distinctly retro touch, the 2011 Audemars Piguet Millenary Tour Auto Chronograph masterfully captures the vintage spirit of the Tour Auto race — via Perpetuelle.com Blog
The task was to develop stable amenities for Frisona horses, including cleaning, saddle, sickbay rooms and offices.
In order to allow an easy growth of the horses farm, the design was based in a repeatable module frame which allows to hold structure for the walls and roofs of the stable — via ArchDaily
A Brisbane schoolboy’s elaborate frauds were only discovered when $2 million accidentally lobbed into one of his fake bank accounts, a court has been told.
Philip Heggie, 19, pleaded guilty to more than 100 charges in the Brisbane District Court on Tuesday.
From December 2008 to December 2009, the then Year 12 student at St Laurence’s College used 119 Suncorp bank accounts in different names to defraud users of the auction website eBay — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We are in love with this extremely detailed hand-crafted necklace! It features a tiny silver tentacle that’s hand-cast using parts of a REAL octopus that the artist’s grandmother found and saved.
This necklace was handmade using recycled Sterling Silver and hangs from a gorgeous Sterling Silver Chain — via Shanalogic
HSBC Bank has joined the growing list of large financial institutions investing in new data centre capacity in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
People who are born blind may use the part of the brain associated with vision to process language, say US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This project, designed by Safdie Rabines Architects, is a studio for two artists wishing to create a new work space while minimizing the impact of any new construction on the natural landscape of their property. The studio is located to the rear of the house, connecting the home to a beautiful portion of the site which, prior to the addition, had not been accessible — via ArchDaily
Yesterday was the finale of the London International Custom Bike Show, the UK round of the AMD World Championship. So here’s a first look at the most interesting bike, the XLST3
from Shaw Speed & Custom. SS&C is the custom workshop of an East Sussex Harley dealer, and the south coast boys were the big winner on the night—with XLST3 and a second entry (‘Nascafe Racer’) coming first and second in the Modified Harley-Davidson class — via Bike EXIF
Font_ID is a new Twitter account created by Stephen Coles of the website Typographica.org and, until recently, a key member of the FontShop team. The concept behind @Font_ID is simple: Send Stephen an image of a typeface, and he will reply with the font name and a relevant URL. He’ll even suggest alternatives faces — via creativePro
This AIA National Housing Award recipient was designed by Randy Brown Architects for Hidden Creek—their eco-friendly development. Crabapple is an eco-friendly home that offers incredible views of the adjoining wildlife preserve. It also features a home movie theatre and access to walking trails — via ArchDaily
Hi! I am a handmade squid doll! I want to share the secrets of the universe with you! Please don’t put me in the washing machine, I get motion sickness! May the many tentacles of happiness embrace you!
I am about 19 inches long from the very tip of my funnel to the end of my long tentacle — via Etsy
This may be the biggest invention since that long-standing, still-universal staple of the construction industry: the red clay brick. A single identical unit, multiplied by four, forms a rigid structural element – stack these and set them side by side, and you have nothing short of a material revolution. Watch the videos to fully see how these function!
Created by Dror Benshetrit after years of toying with related geometries and building methods, this super-simple, gravity-driven block system has as many applications as one can imagine. It could be used for short-term emergency shelters, on the one hand, or to hold up bridges for the long haul on the other — via Dornob
As he drove along the F3, Troy Vella was troubled by a banging noise from beneath his car.
When he arrived at work at Mascot, he got out to inspect what he thought would be a tree branch.
Instead, he was confronted by a 2m red-bellied black snake – which bit him on the leg — via redwolf.newsvine.com
“Sexier than Ms Pacman. Tougher than Donkey Kong”. That’s how Arcade Tables summarize the look and feel of their retro arcade games. Cocktail-style tables that offer up to sixty different games, LCD screens, high-quality joysticks and sound systems. Designed in Australia, they interprate the old classic clean lines with a cool twist, quality workmanship and rugged construction. Models available in Classic, Custom Classic and modern Stealth styles — via RJ TimeouT
Before blasting the first human into space in 1961, the Soviet Union fired off one last test flight of the tiny capsule that would carry Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on his historic mission.
The test capsule, Vostok 3KA-2, still scorched from re-entry, will be sold at Sotheby’s in New York on April 12, the 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s flight.
Sotheby’s, which is displaying the capsule at its New York headquarters ahead of the sale, estimates it will fetch between $2 million to $10 million. The owner, who wished to remain anonymous, bought it privately from Russia several years ago — via redwolf.newsvine.com
And you thought cigarettes were expensive.
An Upper East Side man has agreed to fork over $2,000 to his next-door neighbors any time he smokes a cigar inside his apartment — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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