12c4.com : May 2008

Weird News Room: Seashell House Is Unbelievably Awesome: This seashell inspired abode was built by designed by Senosiain Arquitectos for a couple in Mexico City. It's amazing. It has to be seen to be believed, so there's a bunch more pictures
100 Percent, Another Great Product from 3form: 100 Percent is a contertop product from 3form, which is made entirely of old milk and detergent bottles. Pretty neat. This means the product is made with 100% post-consumer waste, an impressive feat, even within the green product world.
Washing day - P365 Feb04 | Neil Creek - Photographer: An unusual perspective on the household chore.
Cookthink: What am I craving? That's the question we always ask ourselves when thinking about what to eat. So we got to thinking: wouldn't it be cool to have a tool that could listen to what we were craving and then suggest something good to cook?
hands down, the coolest skyscraper ever made | deputydog: ...it instantly rocketed to the top of my non-existent ‘favourite buildings’ list. there are so many reasons to love this beauty that it’s hard to know where to start.
10 Amazing Tree Houses from Around the World: Here are ten incredible tree house designs that range from functional to fanciful, sustainable to strange and affordable to incredibly expensive.
Interest Rate Cut Again – What does this mean for you?: When you combine the lower interest rates and the slump in the housing industry, buying a home is becoming more and more attractive.
Cleaning Naturally: Scrub for less without the risk. Clean with these four safe and natural cleaners.
The Amazing Staircase: London-based Levitate Architects came up with this ingenious solution to a book storage problem and created a loft-like bedroom nestled under the roof of the top-floor apartment.
Is the Right Side of the Bed the Wrong One?: Following a “hot debate” by a sleep scientist, a Feng Shui expert, and a motivational speaker, the final conclusion to the bedside conundrum was that left was right, and right was wrong.
Gadgets: An Apartment's Worth of Furniture In a Box: this design idea is fantastic and actually won the "Abraham & David Roentgen Award" last year for being so great. You actually get a desk, bed, shelves, dresser, and some other random boxes in the package.
CrunchGear » Archive » The $30 device to replace all my cookware: It’s a healthier way to cook! Did you read that part? Maybe I’ll go on an all hot dog, eggs, and popcorn diet and see how much weight I can drop by Memorial Day.

Posted by KenW at 2:34 PM
Categories: Home

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

History

Mysterious Ancient UFO Pictures: I'd like to show you some of the most outstanding "ancient UFO" pictures - images of UFOs that have been painted hundreds (or even thousands) of years ago...
Indian DNA Links to 6 'Founding Mothers': Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.
Termite hunters find 200-year-old mummy - Yahoo! News: Exterminators looking for termites in a monastery in Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo found a mummy and a skeleton believed to be at least 200 years old
What Life Was Like in 1500: The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
10 Simple Diet Tips for your Soul: The following simple tips will help you keep on track. They worked for me in the toughest of times.
German historian likens Cruise speech to Goebbels: Footage of actor 'recalls notorious speech' Critics say Scientology is anti-constitutional
Soviet icon surprises polar scientists: In the middle of no-where – literally the point on Antarctica furthest from the sea – an imposing bust of revolutionary Bolshevik Vladimir Lenin peers out onto the polar emptiness.
Ancient "Lost City" Discovered in Peru, Official Claims: Ruins recently discovered in southern Peru could be the ancient "lost city" of Paititi, according to claims that are drawing serious but cautious response from experts.
Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs?: "The largest of the land animals, the dinosaurs, would have been locked in a life-or-death struggle with [insects] for survival."
Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point: Topsy the elephant was electrocuted at Luna Park Zoo on Coney Island in 1903. Captured on film by Thomas Edison, the event was one of a string of animal electrocutions Edison staged to discredit a new form of electricity: alternating current.
The Johnson Treatment: How to get in your face LBJ style
Seven Offbeat Approaches to Mapping the World (Past,...: Representations of the planet have changed with the times as have the people who made them. These are just a few strange, innovative and/or humorous examples past, present and future.
The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Nothing: ...his instincts were proven right – the malfunctioning system had given him a false alarm, and the U.S. had not deployed any missiles. Thanks to Petrov's cool head, nuclear war had been narrowly averted, and millions of lives were saved.
Platypus swam with the dinosaurs: Fossil jaws from an ancient platypus found in Victoria have revealed the Australian mammal group is tens of millions of years older than previously thought.

Posted by KenW at 6:58 AM
Categories: History

Monday, May 12, 2008

Economy

10 Ways Recession Can Help the Environment: However, it’s not all doom and gloom – recession could do wonders for the environment. Here are 10 ways this could be helping provide a positive respite to the planet:
Ron Paul, Is America Really Going Bankrupt?: ...a misunderstanding of monetary policy could cost us all of our money some day soon
Housing Meltdown: "Smart" People Do The Stupidest Things: Here’s a random collection of notable quotes from people in suburbia I know, along with their educational provenance, and/or current profession
"Euros Accepted" signs pop up in New York City: In the latest example that the U.S. dollar just ain't what it used to be, some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise.
High Wheat Prices Raise Grocery Costs: The price of wheat has more than tripled during the past 10 months, making Americans' daily bread — and bagels and pizza and pasta — feel a little like luxury items. And baked goods aren't the only ones getting more expensive: Experts expect some 80 percent of grocery prices will spike, too, and could remain steep for years because wheat and other grains are used to feed cattle, poultry and dairy cows.
Cutback Cuisine - WSJ.com: With food costs soaring, restaurants are making changes. Steaks are out. Pastas and shrinking portions are in.
Homes in foreclosure rose 79% in '07: The number of U.S. homes that slipped into some stage of foreclosure in 2007 was 79% higher than in the previous year...
Food prices rising across the world - CNN.com: If you're seeing your grocery bill go up, you're not alone.
Are we in a recession?: It’s interesting to hear different people’s opinions at the World Economic Forum about what the economy is going to do this year.
Rate cuts: why the Fed is just making everything worse: Here’s the problem with the Fed’s approach. It’s now time for people and companies – banks, specifically - to rebuild their balance sheets. So by slashing interest rates and devaluing money, you actually make it harder for them to do that.
Consumer Spending Slowed in December: Consumers increased their spending at the weakest pace in six months while applications for unemployment benefits soared last week, two more signs the economy is weakening.

Posted by KenW at 5:28 AM
Categories: Economy

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Nature

Amazing nature: Deepest Lake in the World: Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve.
Psychology Today: Dreams: Night School: Dreaming is so basic to human existence, it's astonishing we don't understand it better. It consumes years of our lives, and no other single activity exerts such a powerful pull on our imaginations.
Winter Beaurt: Beautiful winter landscape photo with snow
Cool Birth vs Crazy Death Of Stars: 10 super-cool space pictures.
'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens in Arctic - washingtonpost.com: Norway opened a frozen "doomsday" vault Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain where millions of seeds will be stored to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out food crops around the globe.
Daisy and Grass Wallpaper « Wallpaper Pictures: This was my favorite desktop-wallpaper last summer. It shows a daisy. nature, photo, Photography, plants, wallpaper
Owl Captures Prey: Imprint in snow shows aftermath of owl capturing its prey
Fukuoka fruit salad literally grows on tree: A lemon tree that bears 11 different kinds of fruit ...including dekopon, hassaku orange, iyoyan, amanatsu, and banpeiyu, a variety of pummelo. (with picture)
Giant Marine Life Found in Antarctica: Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
Water drops in nature: On this photos you will see amazing water drops, in these water drops you will see DREAMS. Awesome photos of water drops taken in perfect time, on perfect place.
When God Paints: 11 pretty pictures of nature
Nature’s Best Photography: Nature’s Best Photograph - beautiful and amazing pictures of animals and nature
Amazing nature: Most amazing place in Norway - ...Pulpit Rock: Pulpit Rock or Preikestolen, Prekestolen in Norwegian, is one of the areas most profound turist attractions.
Amazing nature: Weird and strange clouds - Lenticular clouds: Strange Clouds known as Lenticular clouds(Lenticularis) but also known as "flying saucer clouds," "angelship clouds", "cloudships", "clouds of heaven".

Posted by KenW at 8:49 AM
Categories: Nature

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