One of the oldest customs of book lovers and libraries — lending out favorite titles to friends and patrons — is finally getting recognized in the electronic age, at least in one electronic book reader: Amazon has announced that it plans to allow users of its Kindle book reader to lend
electronic books to other Kindle users, based on the publisher’s discretion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The discovery of taste receptors
in the lungs rather than on the tongue could point the way to new medicines for asthma, it is suggested — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The legalisation of gay marriage is an inevitability and should be supported by Labor, according to a meeting of the party’s national Left yesterday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On this wretched day, Little Red Riding Hood should have just stayed inside grandma’s house. Even though she seemed to be getting along with the wolf in the photo, below, it looks like it was all set up by the furry beast. By the looks of the black and white shots, the wolf premeditated the whole ordeal…
Even though it’s obvious that these photos were digitally enhanced by Israeli Shlomi Nissim, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell that if the scenes weren’t so outrageous. The quality of the shots is very high — via My Modern Met
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Evidence has been found of a massive asteroid impact near the Queensland-South Australia border more than 300 million years ago.
The asteroid, which produced a shock zone at least 80km wide, could be the second-largest asteroid ever found in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran’s hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Aside from warning you not to do the Hokey Pokey, it is nice that they warn you to be on the look out for bogans.
Big thanks to Bob Luedeka for flagging up the sale of arguably the most famous space age house ever built – Charles Deaton’s Sculptured House.
You probably know it better as the house in Woody Allen’s futuristic 1973 movie Sleeper, but the property pre-dates that year, designed and built in 1963, just outside Denver, Colorado and covering 7,500 sq. ft. over three floors. It was last sold in 1999 by software millionaire John Huggins for $1.3 million, a native of the area who picked up the place in a state of serious neglect – and went about restoring it back to its former glory — via Retro To Go
TAG Heuer have worked closely with Mercedes-Benz to create the exclusive Tag Heuer 300 SLR Calibre 1887 Chronograph, a timepiece honouring the legendary car Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR.
TAG Heuer 300 SLR’s looks transport you back to the 1950s, to a time of elegance, and groundbreaking design. The brown face, with its vintage Heuer logo, is a powerful statement of refined retro style — via Watch Luxus
The house consists of three separate sets: the amenities (lobby, office, laundry room, basement, garage), parts of collective life (living room, dining room, kitchen, which shall secure the room with parents want to close), and finally children’s bedrooms, arranged around a multipurpose space. The methods and time of occupation are distinct, the different expectations: for the first feature, group life and reception for the second, privacy for the third — via ArchDaily
If you’re thinking about raising chickens, there are a few ways to go about it. You could build a retro Modern Coop or Quonset Coop. Or, you could build a boxy coop with a green roof, like this one pictured here and featured in Dwell. It’s framed with two-by-fours, insulated, sheathed with oriented strand board, covered in reclaimed cedar, ventilated with two upper windows, and topped with native landscaping, according to Miyoko Ohtake. — via Jetson Green
Scientists say they have uncovered more evidence that sleep apnoea is causing brain damage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A literally buoyant beach house on the coast of Peru aptly suggests the joy of getting away from it all with a structure that seems to be so unburdened with the cares of the daily grind – that it actually levitates off the ground — via Home Design Find
What better way to show your children how hard you work by bringing her to work. In this mom’s case, that job is breaking into homes. A 2-year-old girl was forced to tag along with her mom to rob a home in Muskegon Township in West Michigan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As far back as Aristotle, naturalists have wondered why the females of a strange group of octopuses sport a thin, papery shell when plenty of their tentacled cousins are essentially naked, letting all their slime hang out.
Now, observations indicate the so-called Argonaut octopus uses the outer shell to trap an air bubble, allowing her to control her buoyancy in open water and move along with ease — via Our Amazing Planet
It hasn’t been seen in Strangford Lough for 30 years — and it could be another 30 before it’s spotted again.
Scientists probing the shores of the lough found a tiny cuttlefish not seen since the 1980s, so they decided to hand it to the aquarium at Exploris in Portaferry.
But the intrepid cephalopod made a daring Great Escape, squeezing its way down the drain of the tank where it was being held — and vanished without trace once more into the waters of Strangford Lough — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This octopus blanched almost entirely white as it scooted from one coral head to another.
While intarsia is fairly simple to execute, getting the fabric to have that smooth, finished feel that we all love about knitting can be a little tricky. The first few rows of my jacket are a little iffy—gaps in the fabric and stitches that look uneven. But then I remembered something: Intarsia works best if you twist the yarns before you begin knitting with a new color — via Knitting Daily
Ben Cuevas knitted a skeleton for his installation Transcending the Material at the Wassaic Project in NY. More pics on CRAFT and Ben’s site — via MAKE
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