Desktop administrators rejoice! In the very near future you may be able to stop deploying Adobe Reader to users with basic PDF needs, and quite possibly, Adobe Flash as well.
Stepping to fill the gap is Chrome’s built-in PDF viewing feature, which is available presently in Chrome’s developer and beta channels as well as the integrated Flash player which has been out for a number of months now — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 1990 Reykjavík Geothermal Heating Authority launched an open competition for a housing design for the hot water wells. PK Arkitektrar’s provided the winning design out of over 80 entries. This is the first of these buildings with others scheduled accordingly. These structures will stand as a symbol of the city of Reykjavík’s commitment to the utilization of the natural resource — via ArchDaily
Introducing a very simple and quick crochet scarflette design – the Ellipse scarflette!
You can wear this cute never-ending elliptical scarflette in a number of way – wrapped twice around your neck to keep out the chill. Looped loosely as a cute accessory, or worn casually over the shoulders — via whip up
Initially intending to design a housing structure as a set of prefabricated units hoisted onto a structural frame, the ideas and visual intricacies of Paul Rudolph‘s Colonnade Condominiums were developments of the previously designed but unbuilt Graphic Arts Center of Manhattan — via ArchDaily
Jam Home Made has released its second watch. Again it features Mickey Mouse on the dial. The Secret Mickey Watch Type 2 is based on the popular classic military design. The watch is all black (PVD I believe). The unique aspect of the watch is the eyes of Mickey which changes on a weekly cycle — via Horology Crazy
Apparently CoolHunting.com is on a limited edition kick, and will offer a few such items. One of them is going to be this highly limited Marvin Malton 160 Cushion Toujours Plus
watch that will only have 8 pieces. The watches will be available for sale, but one of them will be auctioned off to benefit the New York City Animal Rescue.
Technically the watch is identical to the current Marvin Malton 160 Cushion three-hand automatic. The difference is in the colors as well as the dial and some text on the watch. The 42mm wide steel case is PVD black with a black and green textured dial. Toujours Plus
is the French translation of CoolHunting’s motto always more
— via A Blog to Read
As the US middle class teeters on the brink after the housing collapse, some people are looking at an alternative. Instead of moving into a giant McMansion with 30 years of debt attached, some Americans are open to seeing just how little you can get by with, and seeing what can be build for practically nothing — via Home Design Find
Is this the most beautiful production motorcycle you can buy today? At the EICMA exhibition in Milan, the MV Agusta F3 has just won the poll to find The Most Beautiful Bike of the Show
. More than 12,000 votes were cast, and the F3 captured 39%—nearly twice that of the next entrant — via Bike EXIF
Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.
Their conclusion, while not definitive, begins to clear some of the fog around the Stuxnet worm, a malicious program detected earlier this year on computers, primarily in Iran but also India, Indonesia and other countries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the US government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed. Earlier Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 19-0 to approve the bill and send it to the full Senate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rovio Mobile, developers of the addictive Angry Birds game, has run into the oft-denied Android platform fragmentation issue. The company said in a blog post that it is now working on a separate, lighter version of its Android game version, after users reported performance problems with several older Android devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A friend of mine sent me this about his TSA experience. He, unlike most of us, was coming back into the country from Afghanistan on a military charter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two stolen statues have been returned to Rome, thanks partly to an Italian policeman who spotted one of them on sale in the US — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Located south of Mexico City, with a lakeside subsurface inheritance of the legendary Aztec lake, it develops this 480m² duplex in a slim residual plot.
Given the extensive program that customers requested, the 2 houses are resolved intertwined and interspersed within the maximum permissible restrictions, generating a large cube that blends with its dense urban environment kitsch-ecléctico-chilango
developed in the 70’s and 80’s — via ArchDaily
The local farmers call it a flood; an inundation that happens every 50 years.
Others believe it to be an act of God, an inevitability.
It isn’t water flooding the precious farmland in north-eastern India, but rats.
A once in a generation, gigantic plague of rats, that ruins crops and leaves people starving.
A rat army so big, so mythical, that until now some scientists did not believe it was real. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s important for an attorney to have a niche. Attorney Cowboy Bob Clark
knows this as well as anyone:
Cowboy Bob”
Clark is representing a Mobile, Alabama man who stands accused of having sexual relations with a miniature horse, which could also be called animal rape. The man, Eric Easley, is charged with cruelty to animals and for killing or disabling livestock after allegedly tying up the horse and sexually assaulting it in the horse’s pen, according to the horse’s owner. His bond was set at $4,000, which he posted and was released. Easley contends that he didn’t have sex with the horse — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tokyo-based artist Katsumi Hayakawa makes intricate 3D paper sculptures. You can see photographs from an exhibition of her work at the Gallery MoMo Roppongi in Tokyo — via Neatorama
What were to happen if your recipe card was just one illustrated diagram? Katie Shelly is trying it out with Picture Cook, a project to inspire experimentation, improvisation, and play in the kitchen
. Her whimsical drawings give a new perspective on cooking — via CRAFT
Jimmy McBride makes these completely incredible intergalactic quilts. He writes:
they say in space,
no one can hear you scream. well, they can’t hear the low drone of the internal power generators kick on again when you’re half way to nowhere. i can. i work for a shipping company calledintergalactic transport. i travel back and forth from rock to rock carrying those two all important gems- salt and vinegar. there’s a lot of time to kill up here so i downloaded a grandma program and she’s been teaching me how to quilt. there’s no “log cabins” or “poinsettias” around so i just stare out the window until something catches my eye.
— via CRAFT
This awesome crochet amigurumi Exorcist playset from Ravelry user, Croshame, is tagged for Halloween, but I think this film icon carries the pop culture street cred to be whipped up no matter the holiday — via CRAFT
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