I mean this literally: this tart is loaded with butter and eggs, so if your cholesterol is already high, beware! As an occasion indulgence it is well worth it. The crust is quick and easy to make, and it is crumbly but still holds its shape. The filling has a strong, smooth, and invigorating citrus flavor, with great texture. Active preparation time is only about 1 hour, and it can be made ahead of time with no last minute preparations, which makes it ideal for dinner parties — via Instructables
This is a really great time of year to buy oranges, navals go on sale for really awesome prices around this time of year. You can do more with them than just peel and eat them. Here’s an old recipe I found in Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery
By Marion Harland. This book was originally published in 1871, so it’s in the public domain now. In fact, here’s the recipe, viewable on Google Books — via Instructables
Soft drink cans are easily recyclable as scrap metal, but I fancied trying something a little more direct – a simplified form of tinwork — via Atomic Shrimp
Refusing to vaccinate a child is dangerous not just for that child but for entire communities. It’s precisely this point a colleague of mine was considering when he had the idea that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids should pay substantially higher health insurance premiums.
It makes sense. Insurance, after all, is just a pool of money into which we all pay. In determining how much we or our employers pay, risk is taken into account — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In September, a privately held and highly secretive US biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for a proprietary organism
– a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (US) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, fossil fuels on demand
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
There’s a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88 km/h average speed over one kilometre in a lightweight car that uses about the same power as a toaster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After yesterday’s news that DC Comics was dropping the Comics Code, leaving Archie the last surviving member of the Comics Code Authority… comes word that Archie has also dropped the Code, starting with books on sale in February. The move will have no effect on content — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The independent MP Nick Xenophon will push for a Senate inquiry into the flood insurance market as the Coalition backed calls for insurers to broaden access to policies and develop a standard flood definition — via redwolf.newsvine.com
[I’m not a designer but the attorney hired by a designer. I’m informing the client over the phone that he’s being sued for not paying the amount specified.]Me: “Good afternoon, my name is [xxx], representing [designer] and [company]. We’re calling about payment that has not yet been…
— via templesmith
The main idea of this house, built about 20 km from Moscow – a deliberately rigid symmetry, but not as a synonym for boring regularity, as well as a symbol of agility and courage — via ArchDaily
Mr Landis — often under his own name, though more recently as Father Scott or as a collector named Steven Gardiner — has indeed done a lot of traveling over the past two decades, but not for the church. He has been one of the most prolific forgers American museums have encountered in years, writing, calling and presenting himself at their doors, where he tells well-concocted stories about his family’s collection and donates small, expertly faked works, sometimes in honor of nonexistent relatives.
Unlike most forgers, he does not seem to be in it for the money, but for a kind of satisfaction at seeing his works accepted as authentic. He takes nothing more in return for them than an occasional lunch or a few tchotchkes from the gift shop. He turns down tax write-off forms, and it’s unclear whether he has broken any laws. But his activities have nonetheless cost museums, which have had to pay for analysis of the works, for research to figure out if more of his fakes are hiding in their collections and for legal advice. (The Hilliard said it discovered the forgery within hours, using a microscope to find a printed template beneath the paint) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the hollow of a maple tree not far from the road, Ron Venden has made a cozy dwelling for the 7-month-old cat he swears has never left its tree home.
It was a little feisty at first,
said Venden, 66, a retired carpenter, of the cat, which a neighbor has named Almond. (But) now it’s a pretty big cat and it’s just loving to see me.
How is Venden certain the cat never leaves? Mostly because there are never any paw prints around the tree when it snows, Venden explains — something a State Journal reporter confirmed Wednesday. Relatives corroborate the story, saying they’ve never seen it anywhere other than in the tree — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Duane R Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but from poolside at his home near San Diego, he still runs a network of spies.
Over the past two years, he has fielded operatives in the mountains of Pakistan and the desert badlands of Afghanistan. Since the United States military cut off his funding in May, he has relied on like-minded private donors to pay his agents to continue gathering information about militant fighters, Taliban leaders and the secrets of Kabul’s ruling class — via supersaiyan.newsvine.com
This $18 million, 9,000 square foot, luxury mansion designed by European designer Marc Canadell epitomizes the glamour of the movies — via Home Design Find
The Museum for African Art, New York, and Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies, Committee on Global Thought, and Center for African Education have announced the creation of Sightlines: New Perspectives on African Architecture and Urbanism, a lecture series devoted to Africa’s rapidly changing urban environments.
Sightlines will comprise talks by distinguished practitioners of architecture, urban planning, and architectural theory, each of whom will apply his or her particular area of expertise to the exploration of contemporary African cities as unique built environments. The lectures, which will be open to the public free of charge (see schedule below), will examine the architectural, social, physical, and emotional contours of the cities, while also addressing the global relevance and applicability of this emerging field of discourse. Sightlines additionally includes a lecture by Senegalese artist Viye? Diba, whose work is tied to urbanization– via ArchDaily
Rammed earth structures make great use of local and sustainable construction materials, but pressing and curing each layer can be tough to do for small-scale contractors or do-it-yourself types.
Hence, this ingenious portable hydraulic press from MecoConcept, which can pump out finished blocks in thirty seconds right on site. Set on wheels, the brick-making machine can be moved along as needed, requiring only one person to work it at a time.
Styled after LEGOs, each pressed-mud building block is shaped with bumps and grooves on each surface for easy stacking and side-by-side placement. Seismic-resident, stackable up to two stories, these simple bricks pack a lot into a small unit — via Dornob
The original builder of Park Avenue South was also the house’s first resident, who made the most of his triangular plot by allowing the side of the building to fan out to meet the line of the adjacent public footpath. On the ground floor this resulted in an additional fillet of space splitting the living and dining rooms. It was the divisional nature of this space (used as a utility room) that the client wanted to resolve. Further to improving the organisation of the plan, the Client was keen to enhance the relationship between the house and garden; the existing views were restricted in both orientation and size — via ArchDaily
Most café racers are built by stripping down a stock bike and adding lightness
. This one, however, was built from the ground up and designed around an Aprilia RSV motor. It’s from Taimoshan Cycle Works, a Welsh company run by John Pellew — via Bike EXIF
One of Australia’s biggest banks has raised the prospect that people who have lost everything from flooding in Queensland and Victoria may not need to repay their home loans — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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