Melodie and her friend, Brenton, designed this gorgeous piece of edible architecture using Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater as a model. It took over 12 hours to design and 40 hours to build and decorate and used 12 square feet of gingerbread dough to make the walls, floors and roof. This iconic home has never looked sweeter — via Neatorama
WikiLeaks isn’t the only site struggling to stay up these days because service providers are pulling their support. It appears that at least one person who wants to provide mirror access to Wikileaks documents is having the same trouble.
Recently we heard from a user who mirrored the Cablegate documents on his website. His hosting provider SiteGround suspended his account, claiming that he severely
violated the SiteGround Terms of Use and Acceptable Use Policy. SiteGround explained that it had gotten a complaint from an upstream provider, SoftLayer, and had taken action in order to prevent any further issues caused by the illegal activity
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
If it’s been a few years since your last school field trip to the local fire station, brace yourself for disappointment — because you’ll be hard-pressed to find the signature apparatus you remember: the fire pole — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dozens of innocent men and women in a north Wales town were branded paedophiles and had their photographs posted on the internet, a court heard.
Rory Fyfe Smith, 31, of Llanrwst, Conwy, targeted an ambulance service first responder, school employees and students, magistrates were told.
Smith admitted seven sample charges of posting grossly offensive material on the internet and 27 similar offences were considered.
He was bailed for a psychiatric report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The site is a residential section in the suburb. The distance between houses is expansive and the site is surrounded the rice fields, It is relative rural area.
The clients are a husband and wife of four children. They hope a house like a one-room apartment to do parenting naturally and live in friendship — via ArchDaily
Large mug with decorative, tentacled handle in deep marine blue with shiny, mellow yellow interior — via Etsy
There are so many, many, ways to build a green home. This one, a clear glass cube is a studio for a photographer. It sits atop his boathouse on a Canadian lake — via Home Design Find
The Pentagonal House designed by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio is conceived as a house that maximizes site usage and the space within the structure, while keeping true to the characteristics of the Japanese traditional construction of the neighborhood — via ArchDaily
The motor is basically stock with electronic ignition and a performance coil. It ran well to begin with, so DP just cleaned it up and replaced all the seals. The rims and handlebars are powdercoated, while the rest of the bike is painted. Anything that started out polished was worked over with abrasives to tone it down and give the bobber a raw, vintage feel — via Bike EXIF
Designed by David Jameson Architect, the Tea House is nestled within a leafy backyard of a suburban home. Constructed of bronze and glass, the new structure references the form of a Japanese lantern and functions as a tea house, meditation space, and stage for the family’s musical recitals. This project recently received a 2010 Washington DC AIA Award of Merit — via ArchDaily
The Nian’s Residence is located in a residential area in Taichung’s west district, an area integrated with arts and culture such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Taichung Municipal Cultural Center, the Art Walk. The home rises four floors with an interior courtyard type space allowing the family members to gather within this dense metropolis environment. The interior levels shift in response to the courtyard spaces utilizing the transition of negative spaces to create surprises at each turn — via ArchDaily
Anyhow, here is a new watch from Marcello C called the Hydrox. Yes, it does have (a lot) of IWC Aquatimer influence, as well as a few other popular dive watches, but it really is a nice looking re-hash timepiece. The Hydrox will be in steel and 43mm wide. There will be a polished version and a PVD black version. Marcello C does dive watches really nicely, so I am expecting good things out of this one — via A Blog to Read
In a skyline that has developed New York as a destination for architects and city lovers alike, the Chrysler Building by William Van Alen is identifiable from any distance for its distinguishable style and profile against its surroundings. With the initial intention to be the world’s tallest building, it remained so for only eleven months until it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931. The Chrysler Building is a classic example of the Art Deco style, from the street to its terraced crown. Interior and exterior alike, it is admired for its distinctive ornamentation based on features that were also found on Chrysler automobiles at the time — via Arch Daily
Walk into psychiatrist Drew Ramsey’s office in Manhattan and you’ll likely be greeted by Gus, a four-year-old shih tzu. After escorting you through the waiting room, he may hop onto the ottoman and go to sleep or sit beside you on the couch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The WikiLeaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I’m surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it’s going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of Edgar Allen Poe melancholia.
But it sure does.
Part of this dull, icy feeling, I think, must be the agonizing slowness with which this has happened. At last — at long last — the homemade nitroglycerin in the old cypherpunks blast shack has gone off. Those cypherpunks
, of all people — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There’s help available for people like you! — via Comic Sans Criminal
An anonymous thief sent an envelope of cash to a family-owned supply store in western Pennsylvania to pay for a hammer stolen decades ago, one of the store owners said on Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man who had a pearl lodged in his ear for 41 years has finally had it removed – after visiting a hospital suffering from a lung condition — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named Man of the Year
by France’s Le Monde newspaper, one of the five publications to cooperate with the whistleblowing website on its its latest release of leaked documents — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Drug-sniffing dogs are not just for police anymore. A non-profit organization in Maryland called Dogs Finding Drugs will now rent a drug dog and handler, for $200, to parents or bosses concerned about drugs in the home or workplace — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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