リアル猫バス…! — via Wil Wheaton
Quora’s misogyny problem
is a tempest out of the teapot, and it’s a perfect example of why user based websites need to change the way they think about targeted users.
What women have been going through on Quora is harrowing: Harassment and threats, stalking on and off the site, and an atmosphere that enables ongoing targeting with moderators that don’t understand, or help.
That’s because Quora’s baseline of normal
behavior around gender is all screwed up — and it was made that way — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In an unusual partnership, The Washington Post, the New York Times and software developer Mozilla will team up to create digital tools that will make it easier for readers to post comments and photos on news sites and to interact with journalists and each other.
The two-year development project will be funded by a $3.89 million grant from the John S and James L Knight Foundation, the Miami-based philanthropic organization that specialises in media and the arts.
As described by its developers, the as-yet-unnamed system aims to standardize the many different community engagement
systems that Web sites now use to collect and publish outside contributions, especially reader comments and photos — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via Youtube
Eric Meyer is an expert on the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) system used to control the appearance of web documents. He’s the author of multiple books on CSS, and the chaperone
of the css-discuss mailing list. His daughter, Rebecca, passed away, and her family asked that those attending memorial services wear purple, her favourite color. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux requested that a purple be added to the CSS color list be named Becca Purple
in her memory. Eric suggested that it be named rebeccapurple because his daughter wanted everyone to call her Rebecca after she turned six, and she was six for almost twelve hours. Today, a co-chair of the CSS Working Group announced approval of the change. From now on, rebeccapurple means #663399 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Randy Bishop — via PLANET-PULP
Electrical engineer Bruce Campbell lives in a retired Boeing 727-200 that he has parked on his rural property in Hillsboro, Oregon. Campbell bought the plane back in 1999 for $100,000, and has spent the intervening years converting it to a modest living space. The plane-home features one working lavatory, a futon, a simple kitchen, and nine emergency exits. He estimates he has spent a total of $220,000 on the project — via Laughing Squid
Photo: John Brecher/MSNBC
Arthur Swissbank, Senior Protocols Advisor to FIFA
Originally aired on ABC TV: 19/06/2014 — via Youtube
Philadelphia Zoo’s female Black-footed Cat Aza gave birth to a litter of kittens on 8 April 2014: the first Black-footed Cats ever to be born at the Philadelphia Zoo! Their names are Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion. Drogon and Viserion are male and Rhaegal is female — via ZooBorns
Each squid is handmade with love from fleece, cotton, and felt, and stuffed with hypoallergenic 100% polyester filling. Two sizes are available: an 8-foot body pillow, and a 4-foot cuddle buddy or travel pillow — via Business of Flies
— via Meme Center
Law Journals and Law Journals, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
These Kraken were sculpted onto their vintage glassware, using a stone like material that is firmly attached to the glass. After the sculpting, the Kraken are hand-painted and gloss finished — via Etsy
— via Steve Niles Tumblr
— via NOTFUNNY
— via Youtube
A Cat Cushion in burnt orange by Robin & Mould. This hand-made cushion (complete with filler) has a dashing orange cat hand-printed on a natural linen woven in the UK. It is printed using only 100% solvent-free waterbased ink; has a warm grey linen/cotton back and is finished with a concealed zip — via Howkapow
Scientists have developed a new pain-free filling that allows cavities to be repaired without drilling or injections.
The tooth-rebuilding technique developed at King’s College London does away with fillings and instead encourages teeth to repair themselves.
Tooth decay is normally removed by drilling, after which the cavity is filled with a material such as amalgam or composite resin.
The new treatment, called Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralisation (EAER), accelerates the natural movement of calcium and phosphate minerals into the damaged tooth.
A two-step process first prepares the damaged area of enamel, then uses a tiny electric current to push minerals into the repair site. It could be available within three years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In February 2012, as leader of the Greens, I made a courtesy call on Tony Abbott. He had just pipped Malcolm Turnbull in a party room vote for the leadership of the opposition. He looked straight at me and said, I am an environmentalist!
I did not roll my eyes or argue. I had heard the like before. The CEO of Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission, after flooding Lake Pedder and at the height of the controversy over damming the Franklin River, maintained that he was an environmentalist. So have a string of other dam-builders, loggers and gougers of the Earth.
Quite a few embellish this absurdity by calling themselves the true or real environmentalists. Even the Japanese whale killers fire their grenade-tipped harpoons in the name of environmental science.
US president George Bush senior flew to the Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 claiming to be the environmental president. One US cartoonist had him being greeted there by three other male heads-of-state with I’m Little Red Riding Hood
, I’m Miss Muffet
and I’m Goldilocks!
.
John Howard went no further than to claim that he was greenish
, but Tony Abbott is staking his claim to be the environmental prime minister. In Washington last week he repeated his self-assessment — I am a conservationist
— to bewildered journalists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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