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“…Mini Scooter E PHOTOS: Mini’s Mod Two-Wheeler Unveiled…”
“…Mini has taken the wraps off of three designs for zippy electric scooters … the first two-wheel concept in the carmaker’s history. The zero-emission scooters come in three flavors: there is a two-seater model, a sportier, single-seat version, and a … Continue reading
“…Dog’s lick saved my life, says woman…”
“… The kiss of life has new meaning for a Southland woman who credits her dog as her saviour. Shirley Mulvihill was alone and asleep in her house on Waituna Lagoon Rd, near Kapuka on Wednesday when her eight-month-old Staffordshire … Continue reading
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“…CEOs sleeping rough for homeless cafe…”…(and a (well-deserved) dollop of praise for the ‘urgent’ courier-company…eh..?..)
“…A group of Auckland chief executives will doss down in an inner-city car park next month to raise money for a new cafe for the city’s homeless. The 17 men and nine women who have signed up for the “big … Continue reading
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“…Cat Adopts Baby Squirrel … Teaches It To Purr…” (VIDEO)
“…Rocky the squirrel fell out of a tree in the yard of the former owner’s home, WLBT reports. When unable to get back up the tree, the owner took a bold move, and put Rocky right in with the litter … Continue reading
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“…YouTube Time Machine Serves Up Videos From The Good Old Days…”
“…Justin Johnson has whipped up a highly addictive web video channel called YouTube Time Machine. Select a year and YTTM will randomly select a video from that year for your viewing pleasure; … … hit ‘refresh’ and you’ll get a … Continue reading
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‘gentle world’…a new zealand/hawaii-based vegan community….has a cool new website..
check it out..! go to source/story>>>Gentle World
“…George Bernard Shaw photographs to go online…”
“…Thousands of photographs from George Bernard Shaw’s collection are to be made available online. Shaw was a keen cameraman and most of the photographs were taken by him. Others show him in a relaxed mood…” (there is one of him … Continue reading
“…Revolutionary toothbrush may signal end of toothpaste…”
“…Japanese scientists are collaborating with an oral health company on a revolutionary toothbrush that uses electricity to make teeth pearly white … … and does away with the need for toothpaste. First dreamed up 15 years ago by Dr. Kunio … Continue reading
“…Old Gumball Machines Retrofitted as Seedbomb Dispensaries…”
“…Guerrilla warfare just got a little bit easier. Guerrilla war, that is, against empty fields and urban blight. Thanks to Greenaid, a landscape beautification project started by the Commonstudio design firm … … you can now purchase seedbombs from vintage … Continue reading
“…Arcade Fire and Google Team Up to Create Personalized Music Videos in a Chrome Experiment…”
“…On the website The Wilderness Downtown the über-indie band Arcade Fire offers fans personalized music videos, labeling them a “Chrome Experiment†that are “[m]ade with some friends from Google.†(Chrome is Google’s web browser and the site recommends that you … Continue reading
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“…World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers Of 2011: See The 31 Most Innovative Start-Ups…”
“…Much has been made of the Vanity Fair 100, a list of “the 100 most influential people of the Information Age.” But this list looks backward, highlighting well-known names like Zuckerberg, Jobs, Page, and Brin. Another just-released ranking is all … Continue reading
“…Kiwi bach goes to Washington…” (very cool…!…)
a kiwi-bach is entered into a green-buildings competition… and it is so simple….and so cool… go to source/story>>>http://blog.greens.org.nz/2010/09/01/kiwi-bach-goes-to-washington/#comment-148608Kiwi bach goes to Washington | frogblog
“…Tuvalu disaster relief exercise shows a shift in New Zealand’s aid strategy…” (new zealand ‘does good’…)
“…Operation Tropic Twilight tests improved co-ordination between government and development agencies in the Pacific. He likened it to the landing of the Americans during the second world war when suddenly, as if the sea had changed colour … … the … Continue reading
“…Genome breakthrough heralds new dawn for agriculture…”
“…In a scientific tour-de-force that has been hailed as the most significant breakthrough in wheat production since the cereal crop was cultivated by the first farmers more than 10,000 years ago … … scientists have decoded the genome of the … Continue reading
“…Twenty ideas that will battle to be the prize invention of the future…”(photos..)
(the dyson-award contenders)… go to source/story>>>A vest for more effective resuscitation
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“…Travel gadget: Hand Crank Shaver…” (this is cool…!…)
“…A wind-up shaver. Sounds absolutely perfect for someone like me who has always shaved with an electric razor – unfortunately the safety razors used to give me a terrible skin rash – and often goes to places where there isn’t … Continue reading
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“…How You Can Have a Free House…”
“… The author had a big house and a big mortgage. Then the financial crisis hit, and he wondered just how small, and how cheap, a house could be. In 2008, as the value of my big house was evaporating … Continue reading
13 Record-Breaking Animals (PHOTOS)
“…We here at HuffPost Green love animals…. ..For proof, check out our Animals big news page. Naturally, our curiosity led us to look into thirteen of the world’s record breaking animals. To find out the world’s strongest, most venomous, loudest … Continue reading
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“…The Flower…”
“…What happens when a bland, grey society discovers a plant – a flower in this case – – that turns their life into a perfect Utopian society … … where the populace is happy, productive and energetic? Why, the government … Continue reading
“…Saved whales head out to sea…” (the vid of this is very very cool…and shows new zealand at its’ best…’let’s just put them on the truck..eh..?’)
“…At least seven of the surviving 11 whales yesterday trucked a kilometre from one Northland beach to another were last night heading back out to sea, shadowed by Department of Conservation boats. The 11 were the surviving members of a … Continue reading
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i am on twitter…
being somewhat opinionated on a regular basis…i have succumbed to the lure of twitter… my twitter-name is vegandogs50
“…Kiwi device to make broadband 50X faster…”
“… A small Palmerston North company has created a device that will make broadband internet more than 50 times faster without having to pay hundreds of dollars installing fibre-optic cables. The system looks like a modem, and connects with homes’ … Continue reading
“…An Electric Car That Makes The Tesla Roadster Looks Slow…” (VIDEO)
“…Electric cars don’t need to be dowdy and slow … if Ian Wright is to be believed. Wright, founder and CEO of Wrightspeed, who was one of the original founders of Tesla Motors, talked with the folks at GigaOm for … Continue reading
“…It Dosen’t Suck: James Dyson Award Winners Announced…”
“…The first stage in judging the James Dyson Award 2010 has been completed … and the national shortlists from 18 countries have been posted. From these, 20 projects will be chosen to go onto the next stage later this month. … Continue reading
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“…Porcupine Acts Like A Puppy…” (VIDEO)
“…The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center has an interesting occupant — a porcupine who thinks it’s a puppy! “Stinkers” — formerly “Snickers”, but renamed to suit his pungent odor — is a 5 year-old porcupine that was someone’s pet before finding … Continue reading
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“…Caravans just got cooler…(The trend for boutique caravanning is spreading)…”
“…The kettle had just gone on the gas stove for morning tea when Dave, the owner of the cycle hire company (also a local copper on a career break), turned up to drop our bikes off at the end of … Continue reading
“…The Best Website Design Ideas (PICTURES): The COOLEST Black And White Websites Ever…”
“…These gorgeous, black-and-white websites are proof that sometimes, less is more. Although short on color, they’re chock full of imagination, interactivity, playfulness, and hidden surprises: … … scrolling over a word makes it morph into a string of terms … … Continue reading
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“…Living ‘off the grid’…”
“… Robert Long, 54, was living “off the grid” decades before the expression was coined, and the author of A Life on Gorge River: New Zealand’s Remotest Family… … has remained that way for 30 years. He and his family … Continue reading
“…Dad moves to NZ after shock find…”…(you can file this one under..’that’s pretty cool..!’…eh..?..)
“… When Spaniard Fernando Carnerero found his Kiwi ex-girlfriend on Facebook this year he was unsure what to expect. He certainly could not have imagined he would be told he had a son in New Zealand. Carnerero, 33, who is … Continue reading
“…Pirate-themed idyll wins Shed of the Year 2010…(It comes complete with a Koi Carp pond and parrot)…”
“…Reg Miller from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, has won Shed of the Year 2010 … after beating off competition from 1,250 shed-lovers. The pirate-themed shed, ‘The Lady Sarah out of Worthing,’ named for Miller’s partner, was judged best shed in the competition … Continue reading
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“…This Motorized Vehicle Runs on… Air?…”
“…Is a machine alive if it lives on compressed air? No, but a breathing motorcycle could significantly reduce emissions in developing nations like India. The concept is simple: A tank introduces compressed air into a turbine, where the air expands … Continue reading
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“…North Korean Girl Guitar Player Is Virtuoso…”
“…When your government won’t let you watch MTV, you have to make your own music. This video of a little girl from North Korea playing a guitar larger than she is with virtuosic skill was posted on CollegeHumor yesterday … … Continue reading
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Stevie Wonder: “…The vision of a genius…”
“… There are only two artists in the history of pop upon whom the epithet “genius” has been bestowed … … and it is a peculiar quirk of coincidence that both have been blind black soulmen who played piano. Or … Continue reading
“…The 10 most memorable Glastonbury performances…”
“…It started the day after Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, with a mere 1,500 attendees and costing just £1 to enter – including free milk from the farm. Forty years on and the festival is going stronger than ever … … Continue reading
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this is one very cool hot-rod….(and..a masterton/small-town success-story..)
“… It was a business that began as a young man’s hobby … but now Masterton’s Magoo’s Street Rods has muscled its way into the international market. For more than three decades, company founder and owner Lloyd Wilson has been … Continue reading
“…New Scientist TV – Best of the web…”
“…Video can capture science in action like nothing else – – and New Scientist has scoured the web to bring you the 10 best clips posted this month…” go to source/story>>>New Scientist TV – Best of the web – 21 … Continue reading
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“…Tricked-out cargo bikes give SUVs a run for their money…”
“…It’s been a hard few months for us fossil-fuel-addicted societies: calamity in the Gulf of Mexico; coal mining disasters in China, West Virginia, and Russia; … still-frustrated attempts to win climate and clean-energy policies in Salem, Ore., Olympia, Wash., and … Continue reading
“…Billionaires join disease battle…”
“…The world’s two richest men are teaming up with Spain to fight malnutrition, dengue, malaria and other health problems in Mexico and Central America. Foundations run by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim will each donate … Continue reading
“…A Greenhouse Built from Reclaimed Windshields…”
“…I’ll confess to being something of a greenhouse nerd, but, really, how could anyone not dig the reclaimed/repurposed windshield greenhouse spotlighted in the latest issue of Green Futures? The “design mimics rooftop tiles, overlapping the [shields] to make the structure … Continue reading
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“…14 Amazing Images From $5800 Atlas…”
“…Would you shell out $5800 for a book? It may be worth it in the case of a new collector’s edition atlas called “Earth.” The book weighs 63 pounds, stands 2 feet high, and includes some incredible photography from all … Continue reading
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