Archives for the Date May 6th, 2010

Roy Lichtenstein’s estate claims copyright over the images he appropriated

OK, this is stupid. Ryan sez, "My band is about to release a new record, and we decided to use a friend's painting for the cover. One day before our label was set to send away for CD & LP pressing we received an email from Shelley Lee, the Manager of Intellectual Property for the [...]

Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family

Your tax dollars at work breaking up American families and killing family pets! Radly Balko of Reason posted this video of a SWAT raid on a family in Missouri. The officers found a small amount of cannabis, and so they arrested the parents on a charge of child endangerment, naturally. It’s horrifying, but I’d urge [...]

Sustainable Architecture of Shipping Container House by One Cool Habitat

Another sustainable design of a residence building from shipping container has been done by One Cool Habitat. It is surely mobile, made from 20 ft long container, and it is surely customizable. Just like Studio Shed we posted before, you can use this type of design for extending your room, but we think the design [...]

Six container cabin design by InterModal Design – part 3

Final part, finally. But this is not the last post about container cabin design. You can see more container cabin design on another post on this web. In this post, we will inform you the last 2 models of InterModal’s container cabin design. 0024 unit : Modificated from 0022 unit, this model use two 40 [...]

World’s First Vertical Cube Garden Planted In Spain

We love us some urban gardening and this new plant cube in Getafe, Spain has us giddy with leafy excitement. It is a four sided vertical garden installed on top of a shopping center to muffle and cool their refrigeration unit. What a green solution for a widespread, unattractive problem! Installed by Paisajismo Urbano — [...]

Whatever happened to “first, do no harm”?

The American Academy of Pediatrics has come up with a compromise on female genital mutilation. International human rights organization Equality Now is stunned by a new policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which essentially promotes female genital mutilation (FGM) and advocates for “federal and state laws [to] enable pediatricians to reach [...]

Bigodes Tipograficos

via http://www.tiagobenevides.com/blog/2010/05/03/bigodes-tipograficos/ This article was shared by me in Google Reader. I don’t want to take complete credit for the original article I just want to aggregate it and comment on it.

Kids Having Kids, So Sad…

This article was shared by me in Google Reader. I don’t want to take complete credit for the original article I just want to aggregate it and comment on it.

Chinese WiFinders with built-in password-crackers

NetworkWorld reports on a hot-selling Chinese gadget: a WiFi network-locator with a built-in password cracker. These things show you which networks are available in your area and which password to use to get online with them. Alas, they’re not stand-alone USB keys with a little LCD display, just WiFi cards with some specialized software. I [...]