Handmade Dexter amigurumi. The body is based on June Gilbanks boy
pattern, customised to look like the dark defender
🙂 He is about 9 inches tall. His arms are posable, and i can make his garbage bag attached to his hand, or loose, it’s up to you — via Etsy
A Darwin hockey player has died after a snake bit him on the finger during an on-field training session.
Paramedics were called to the hockey complex in the suburb of Marrara on Tuesday night following reports that a player had fallen over and lost consciousness.
It is believed 26-year-old Karl Berry had picked up a snake off the playing surface of the field and thrown it into nearby bushes.
He did not notice he had been bitten and continued training — via redwolf.newsvine.com
From July to December of 2012, Google received a record number of content removal requests, both from the United States government and countries such as Russia and Brazil.
In a transparency report issued today, Google’s legal director, Susan Infantino, noted that 2,285 government requests were issued in the second half of last year, up steeply from 1,811 requests in the six months prior. This is the seventh transparency report released by Google, Infantino added.
As we’ve gathered and released more data over time, it’s become increasingly clear that the scope of government attempts to censor content on Google services has grown,
Infantino wrote in the report. In more places than ever, we’ve been asked by governments to remove political content that people post on our services. In this particular time period, we received court orders in several countries to remove blog posts criticizing government officials or their associates
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has strongly rejected Home Office plans to massively ramp up surveillance of Brits’ internet activity in a very public rebuttal of Theresa May’s proposals this morning.
The ‘Snooper’s Charter’ isn’t going to happen — the idea that there would be a record kept of all your online activity,
Clegg told listeners on his weekly LBC radio show. It won’t happen while Lib Dems are in government. Of course we need to support the police, they have significant powers already which I support them in using.
He added:
This idea of a ‘Snooper’s Charter’ — I think it isn’t workable or proportionate,
before repeating it isn’t going to happen
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via Gerbil With a Jetpack
I’ve got to be one of the only kids in the world to look outside and see her greatest fear almost to her turtle sandbox. Actually, I’m noticing my childhood default was set to terror
— via dasboo
This is my camera, originally uploaded by Roland Bircher.
A pile of pups has arrived at the United Kingdom’s Exmoor Zoo: a litter of seven Asian Small-clawed Otters, born in 2012, is enchanting zoo visitors with adorable antics. The smallest of the world’s Otter species, Asian Small-clawed Otters are native to the swamps and wetlands of Southeast Asia — via ZooBorns
France has become the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage, pushing through François Hollande’s flagship social change after months of street protests, political slanging matches and a rise in homophobic attacks.
After 331 votes for and 225 votes against, there were chants of “Equality. Equality.” in the French assembly, where the Socialists have an absolute majority. But thousands of riot police and water cannons were in place near the parliament building in Paris in advance of planned demonstrations against the law.
The right to marriage and adoption for everyone regardless of sexual orientation has proved bitterly divisive in France, triggering the biggest conservative and rightwing street protests in 30 years. Recent weeks have seen more than 200 arrests as police teargassed late-night demonstrators near parliament. More than 172 hours of heated debate in the assembly and the senate meant the bill was one of the most debated in recent history, with furious clashes and a near fist-fight between politicians — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Since last year the Finnish public had the option to suggest what laws they want to live under.
A recent modification of the national Constitution allows for citizens to make legislative proposals for the Parliament to vote on, providing it gets 50,000 supporters within 6 months.
One of the proposals that has submitted since calls for a fairer copyright law.
Termed To Make Sense of the Copyright Act
, the proposal wants to reduce penalties for copyright infringement, increase fair use, and ease the ability for people to make copies of items they already own (for format shifting, or backups) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vandals have defaced corrected a Liberal Party billboard in Perth just hours after it was unveiled by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
The billboard claimed more than 600 illegal
asylum seeker boats have arrived in Australia since the Labor Party won government.
The number has since been whited out and replaced with a zero.
Also spray-painted on the billboard were the words: No crime to seek asylum
.
The sign has subsequently been replaced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is Caroline L’s engagement present from her fiance, Mark, who made it from a vintage AT-AT toy and is clearly a keeper. Just saying, Caroline. But I guess you already knew that — via EPBOT
The popular jQuery JavaScript library has hit a major milestone with the release of jQuery 2.0. The 2.0 release is some 12 percent smaller than its predecessor, but the big news is that jQuery 2.0 drops support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.
Created to simplify the process of writing JavaScript and manipulating HTML, jQuery began life a mere seven years ago, but quickly found favor with developers sick of dealing with cross-browser JavaScript hassles. According to one survey published last year, jQuery turns up on roughly half of all sites on the web.
Will dropping support for older versions of IE change that? Probably not. If your site needs to maintain support for IE 8 and below (or even IE 9 and 10 running in compatibility mode) you’ll just need to stick with jQuery 1.9 or below — via redwolf.newsvine.com
1941 — Bell
author Ernest Hemingway, confers with Frank Capra, producer-director at Paramount Studio luncheon to author For Whom The Bell Tolls, where the details of the film version were discussed — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS — via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
South Australian mobile phone provider Excite Mobile has been found guilty of false, misleading and unconscionable conduct by the Federal Court after the ACCC took action against the company for faking a debt collection agency, creating a fictional complaints body, and misrepresenting scope of mobile coverage.
The Federal Court ruled Excite acted unconscionably in getting customers onto a 24 month phone contract, and used “undue coercion” when sending fake debt collection letters to 1074 customers, according to a statement by the competition watchdog.
The phone number included on the fake debt collection letters was answered by Excite Mobile staff.
The ACCC said the company had falsely stated on the letters that a court would make the customers pay 20 percent of the debt for failing to pay on time, and would order the repossession of all valuable assets owned by the customer, including children’s toys, to force late-paying customers to hand over the owed amount.
Excite Mobile directors Obie Brown and David Samuel were also found to have created a fake complaints company, called Telecommunications Industry Complaints
, to deceive customers into believing their complaints were being handled externally and independently.
Additionally, the company told customers mobile service was available at their premises when it wasn’t, including in indigenous communities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Planet Express ship will soon make its final delivery.
Comedy Central has decided not to renew Futurama, which means that the 31st-century-set animated comedy will end its 140-episode run on 4 September. The final 13 episodes, which represent the second half of season 7, begin — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 100-year-old church in Sydney’s inner-west is still smouldering after it burnt down early on Sunday morning.
Firefighters were called to the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Dulwich Hill just before 4.00am (AEST).
Inspector Chris Sedgewick says the old architecture made it especially hard to fight the fire.
He says the nearly 100-year old building could not be saved — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Absolutely soaking wet red fox kit — via 500px
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