The RSPCA has said it was faced with a very odd sight
when called to rescue a fox trapped in a floorboard.
Builders spotted the trapped animal’s head poking out of a hole in the floor while renovating an office.
It is thought the fox was trying to wriggle through a section of flooring when it became stuck at the de Havilland campus in Hatfield.
RSPCA animal welfare officer Kate Wright, who freed the animal, said: I just had these big eyes staring at me
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
It seems love was in the air for two Red Pandas earlier this year at South Dakota’s Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History. Zoo officials are now hearing the pitter-patter of little feet. The Zoo’s eight-year-old Red Panda Ruth
gave birth to a litter of cubs earlier this summer. The two cubs weighed 3.45 ounces and 4.23 ounces at birth, and were born with their eyes and ears closed — via ZooBorns
This is the story of an Indian woman who married at the age of 12, became a mother at 19, was deserted by her husband at 23 and was declared dead at the age of 40.
Asharfi Devi, now 64, fought a 24-year-long battle to prove that she was alive and her efforts paid off finally in May 2012 when a village council court ruled that she was indeed alive — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many businesses today find themselves locked in an arms race with competitors to see who can convert customer secrets into the most pennies. To try to win, they are building perfect digital dossiers, to use a phrase coined by Daniel Solove, massive data stores containing hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands, of facts about every member of our society. In my work, I’ve argued that these databases will grow to connect every individual to at least one closely guarded secret. This might be a secret about a medical condition, family history, or personal preference. It is a secret that, if revealed, would cause more than embarrassment or shame; it would lead to serious, concrete, devastating harm. And these companies are combining their data stores, which will give rise to a single, massive database. I call this the Database of Ruin. Once we have created this database, it is unlikely we will ever be able to tear it apart.
I have become convinced that my earlier, bleak predictions about the Database of Ruin were in fact understated, arriving before it was clear how Big Data would accelerate the problem. Consider the most famous recent example of big data’s utility in invading personal privacy: Target’s analytics team can determine which shoppers are pregnant, and even predict their delivery dates, by detecting subtle shifts in purchasing habits. This is only one of countless similarly invasive Big Data efforts being pursued. In the absence of intervention, soon companies will know things about us that we do not even know about ourselves. This is the exciting possibility of Big Data, but for privacy, it is a recipe for disaster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not since the waning days of World War II have the mammoth wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin seen as much airship manufacturing work as they do today.
Inside the 17-storey structures that rise above southern Orange County, Worldwide Aeros Corp is building a blimp-like airship designed for the military to carry tons of cargo to remote areas around the world.
Nobody has ever tried to do what we’re doing here,
Chief Executive Igor Pasternak said of the 265-foot skeleton being transformed into the cargo airship. This will revolutionise airship technology
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Taronga Zoo’s Tasmanian Devil keepers got their first hands-on check today of three little Tasmanian Devil joeys, the first to be born at Taronga this breeding season. The youngsters, born to second-time mother, Nina, were snuggled tightly in their maternal nest and keepers gently lifted them out to check their body condition and determine their sex — via ZooBorns
This is seriously amazing. It’s a gorgeous web-based player (which also works on mobile) that lets you stream every single episode of the ABC’s iconic music video show RAGE all the way back to 1998.
It’s called Rage Again, and it comes from the mind of Patrick Galbraith, who spent what must have been months trawling the old program listings to and compiling the relevant YouTube tracks to match — via Gizmodo Australia
With the two year anniversary of the release of the iPhone 4 in Australia just past, many folks who bought their iPhone 4 after that period would now be approaching the end of their contracts. The iPhone 4 has been known to experience some common defects later in its life (does anyone have a flaky home button?), so here is a guide for how to get Apple to honour the Trade Practices Act of 1974, and provide you with free warranty service: that is, a replacement for your defective iPhone.
First, let’s clear up some initial points. This is not a scam, or a way to scam Apple. The Australian Government and the ACCC have some fantastic consumer protection policies in place that many people simply aren’t aware of, and many companies don’t rush to inform you about. In 2011, they increased these protections even further with the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, but in the case of the iPhone 4, it’s likely that your situation is covered by the 1974 act, which this guide is based upon.
Also, this protection is to cover defects. You are not meant to use this guide if you have damaged your phone through accident, neglect or abuse — via Gizmodo Australia
One of Australia’s most prominent conservative and free market-focused think tanks has published a strongly worded critique damning the Federal Government’s planned telecommunications surveillance and data retention reform package as excessive
and systematically
breaching Australians’ right to privacy.
The Institute of Public Affairs is an independent, non-profit organisation which describes itself as supporting the traditional ideals of liberalism, being the free flow of ideas, free markets and capital flows, small government, representative democracy and so on. It is usually referred to by commentators as being associated with the conservative side of politics in Australia, but also often espouses more traditional liberal ideals which neither major side of Australian politics openly supports.
The Federal Attorney-General’s Department is currently promulgating a package of reforms which would see a number of wide-ranging changes made to make it easier for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to monitor what Australians are doing on the Internet. For example, one new power is a data retention protocol which would require ISPs to retain data on their customers’ Internet and telephone activities for up to two years, and changes which would empower agencies to source data on users’ activities on social networking sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mancini Enterprises designed a rural retreat in Sikkim, India — via CONTEMPORIST
Impress your fellow HP Lovecraft fans and cultists alike with this insanely impressive Cthulhu totem! This fine art sculpture was cast exclusively by the artist Meatspider for Shana Logic, and each highly detailed Cthulhu has been hand-painted. This limited edition item is truly unique and an awesome portrayal of the Elder God — via ShanaLogic
The Japanese custom shops have been modifying the Estrella-based 250TR for years, and Heiwa has got it down to a fine art. They’ve just released this lovely machine, tidying up the messy tail of the stock bike and giving the overall aesthetics an even lighter and sleeker look — via Bike EXIF
Camouflage, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Australian researchers have successfully performed the first implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes. A blind woman, Ms Dianne Ashworth, 54, who has serious vision loss due to an inherited condition (retinitis pigmentosa) can now see spots of light after being implanted with an early prototype bionic eye, confirming the potential of the world-first technology.
Ms Ashworth has received what she calls a pre-bionic eye
implant that enables her to experience some vision. After years of hard work and planning, Ms Ashworth’s implant was switched in July 2012 at the Melbourne Bionics Institute, while researchers held their breaths in the next room, observing via video link.
According to the researchers this the first time when a device successfully implanted behind the retina demonstrates the viability of this scientific approach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Now taking orders for pony squids!
Surprise it’s the mane six as squids! Before you ask Why?
, the answer: Because
— via deviantART
Last week, a 10-week old Lynx cub made his debut at the Montréal Biodôme. Visitors will now get to see the cub play hide and seek, learn to climb trees, and leap from rock to rock…all under the watchful eye of his mother — via ZooBorns
The site is located in Almeria, municipality of Mojacar, in the surrounding area of Cerro del Albar. It is a rugged topography, with steep and open distant horizon over the sea. On the site there exists a small platform, which will be used as base for the building. The project [MVN Architects] had to answer two questions raised by the client: One, offer a solution that would allow feeling the horizon as part of the house. Two, develop a housing program for a marriage with two children, according to the following needs: garage and kitchen; lounge dining room and office-library; main room, rooms for the children and guests; and a small sauna, workshop of sculpture and painting, and court-warehouse for drying and storage of parts. — via ArchDaily
Cyrus Watches has introduced the new Klepcys Mars
watch, featuring the Face on Mars
on the dial as well as a miniature construction of the entire planet. It seems that having a hand-painted Red Planet
on the piece was not enough, though, as the spheroid on the Cyrus Klepcys actually rotates at its real-world sideral speed of 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds (time that it takes the planet to rotate once on its axis) — via Perpetuelle
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