Half-Floating Home: Semi-Submerged Two-Story Houseboat

Half-Floating Home: Semi-Submerged Two-Story Houseboat

On the surface, it is just another modest minimalist houseboat with a sleek modern profile, floor-to-ceiling windows and a simple box-like form. But that is only half of its story (or rather, the top of two stories). While the living, dining and kitchen areas hover above the waterline, the bedroom, bathroom and other more private spaces are submerged below — via Dornob

Happy Days actor Tom Bosley dies

Tom Bosley, one of the stars of the long-running 1970s television series Happy Days, has died of heart failure aged 83.

For 11 seasons, Bosley played long-suffering, gravel-voiced father Howard Cunningham.

He was the perfect foil for the show’s eternally cool Arthur The Fonz Fonzarelli, played by Henry Winkler, and Cunningham’s less hip son Richie, played by Ron Howard — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana

Hemp is the far bigger economic issue hiding behind legal marijuana.

If the upcoming pot legalization ballot in California were decided by hemp farmers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, it would be no contest. For purely economic reasons, if you told the Constitutional Convention in 1787 that the nation they were founding would someday make hemp illegal, they would have laughed you out of the room — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Implantable LEDs Can Really Get Under Your Skin

If you’re anything like me, your main problem with tattoos is probably the fact that you’ve never been able to play Pong on them. But those problems seem to be over now that an international team of researchers, led by John Rogers at the University of Illinois, has developed a new flexible array of LEDs that can be implanted under the skin — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Will Brisbane broadband get flushed?

The company charged with installing Brisbane’s broadband network has recently been forced to abandon its sewer delivery method in a smaller United Kingdom project.

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman last week announced i3 Asia Pacific would install a $600 million fibre optic broadband network through Brisbane’s wastewater network within the next four years.

However, this website can reveal a similar scheme in the southern English city of Bournemouth had to be abandoned after the relationship between i3 and the local water authority soured — via redwolf.newsvine.com

For sale: 1930s five-bedroom art deco house in Ilkley, West Yorkshire

For sale: 1930s five-bedroom art deco house in Ilkley, West Yorkshire

For some years, I presumed all the better art deco-styled houses were in the south of Great Britain. But of late, we’ve found some cracking properties up north, including this five-bedroom art deco house in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

It’s an incredibly imposing house. Built back in 1937, it nestles into woodland, overlooking the West Yorkshire countryside and its own grounds, with that 1930s exterior looking faithful to the original design — via Retro To Go

Wunderlich Curarê

Wunderlich Curarê

Wunderlich’s mechanical thinking is more sensible than its marketing though, and focuses on reducing weight and improving ergonomics rather than increasing the already stupendous power of the stock S 1000 RR — via Bike EXIF