Louisville Metro Police apprehended a man the fire department called very strange
after he was allegedly caught stuffing cash in a washing machine early Sunday morning.
It happened at an apartment complex at the corner of E Main St and N Brook St. The fire department went to the scene after the fire alarm had been activated. When they arrived, they allegedly found 21-year-old Jose Veras of Radcliff, Kentucky, running around and acting very strange
. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Denmark’s EGE Carpets sells a line of carpeting inspired by HP Lovecraft illustrations called Dark Water. They were created by Kirill Rozhkov, who has a nice gallery of them on Behance — via Boing Boing
If Ducati has NCR, Moto Guzzi has Ghezzi Brian. Based in the lakes region of northern Italy, the company builds small runs of Guzzi-based sport bikes and created the MGS-01 superbike for the Mandello factory. (The odd name, in case you’re wondering, refers to the founders Giuseppe Ghezzi and Bruno Brian
Saturno.)
The Ghezzi Brian Super Twin 1100 was designed to give road riders a taste of race bike dynamics. In the 1996 Italian Supertwins Championship, Giuseppe Ghezzi’s Super Twin prototype won nine of the 32 races it entered. So four years later, Ghezzi and Brian was set up to produce a short run of replicas — via Bike EXIF
The Canberra Wikileaks cables revealed the US Embassy sanctioned a conspiracy by Hollywood studios to target Australian communications company iiNet through the local court-system, with the aim of establishing a binding common-law precedent which would make ISPs responsible for the unauthorised file-sharing of their customers.
Both the location, Australia, and the target, iiNet, were carefully selected. A precedent set in Australia would be influential in countries with comparable legal systems such as Canada, India, New Zealand and Great Britain. Australian telecommunications giant Telstra was judged too large for the purposes of the attack. Owing to its smaller size and more limited resources, iiNet was gauged the perfect candidate.
The involvement of major American studios in the offensive was suppressed. The case was filed by … the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and its international affiliate, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), but does not want that fact to be broadcasted,
the US Embassy, Canberra wrote. We will monitor this case … to see whether or not the ‘AFACT vs the local ISP’ featured attraction spawns a ‘giant American bullies vs little Aussie battlers’ sequel
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Its detractors may end up dubbing it Dementiaville
, but Switzerland is brushing aside a debate raging among geriatric-care experts with plans to build a mock-1950s village catering exclusively for elderly sufferers of Alzheimer’s and other debilitating mental illnesses.
The newly approved €20m (£17m) housing project is to be built next to the Swiss village of Wiedlisbach near Bern and will provide sheltered accommodation and care for 150 elderly dementia patients in 23 purpose-built 1950s-style houses. The homes will be deliberately designed to recreate the atmosphere of times past.
The scheme’s promoters said there will be no closed doors and residents will be free to move about. To reinforce an atmosphere of normality, the carers will dress as gardeners, hairdressers and shop assistants. The only catch is that Wiedlisbach’s inhabitants will not be allowed to leave the villag — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Panerai Radiomir California 3 Days (PAM 424) has the dial which was almost certainly the first one fitted to the Radiomir case, very original with its alternation of markers, Arabic figures and Roman numerals. The design of the dial is enhanced by the OP logo, the inscription CALIFORNIA engraved on the flange at 12 o’clock and the little date window at 3 o’clock — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
PIPA and SOPA may be dead in the water for now, but it’s worth remembering that the most controversial part of the legislation is something the Australian Government has been thinking about for years.
One of the provisions in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that raised the most amount of anger, and was also one of the first to be quickly removed, was that the US Government would be able to force US-based internet service providers (ISPs) to block overseas websites found to contain copyright-infringing material.
Outrage ensued, the provision was removed, Wikipedia blacked out and the legislation was ultimately shelved.
In Australia, the Attorney-General’s Department has reassured us that the government currently has no plans of bringing in any new SOPA-style laws, instead preferring an industry-based model for dealing with piracy.
But website blocking has been on the cards for the Australian Government for many years, in the form of the mandatory internet filter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two years after the launch of the iPad, the tablet has a considerable footprint among business professionals — especially in Africa.
According to the results of the IDG’s latest iPad for Business Survey
, African professionals are almost twice as likely as the global average to be supplied with an iPad by their employer.
Forty-seven percent of African respondents said they own a corporate-issue iPad. This is compared to the global average of 24% — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 40-year-old Melbourne man who told IRS agents he was not subject to man’s laws but instead was an American national who resided in the Kingdom of Heaven
, pled not guilty this week to charges he filed false tax returns.
Russell P Gentile also faces one count of obstruction of an IRS agent after a grand jury indicted him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Fond du Lac man was arrested after he told police a ghost
punched and strangled his wife.
Michael F West, 41, of 281 Fond du Lac Avenue, was charged Wednesday with strangulation and misdemeanours of battery, disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing an officer.
At about 8/00pm 15 January, police arrived at West’s home to find the woman crying and bleeding from her nose — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mike DeStefano was still on the rise as a comedian when he died of a heart attack at 44. He was one of the finalists on NBC’s Last Comic Standing
; and definitely stood out from the pack. He wasn’t always the funniest, but there was something direct and heartfelt about him that made you root for him, and you could feel the weight of his personal story, always. He grew up tough in the Bronx. Had been addicted to heroin. Three months before his death, he spoke with his fellow comedian Marc Maron on the WTF
podcast. With permission from DeStefano’s family, we’ve edited and condensed the interview and replaced the words that can’t be printed in a family newspaper.
DeStefano: She’s holding the pole! Marc, it was a pole with four wheels on the bottom, and we’re riding around this hospice, and you could hear the god damn wheels jangling and banging; it was insane.
And then I pass the front door, and all these nurses are standing out front, and they’re all crying. They’re watching us, and they’re crying. And I didn’t know why they were crying. I was like, Why are they crying? I didn’t get what they were seeing. I didn’t know. Because I was just in it; I was living it. I knew my wife who had suffered, she was a prostitute, she was a freakin’ heroin addict, she was beaten by pimps — this was her past — and then she ends up with AIDS, and she’s dying, and all she wants is a god damn ride on my motorcycle.
So the next thing you know we’re on I-95, because women, it’s never enough for them. We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over her head with her gown that’s flying up in the air so you could see her entire naked, bony body with the morphine bag whipping in the wind, and we’re passing by these guys in their Lamborghinis, and I’m looking at them like, What the hell kind of life are you living? Look at me, I’m on top of the world here — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian technology startup that aims to make reporting of website faults easier and more visual for non tech-savvy people today announced an investment of $500,000 from Melbourne-based venture capital firm Starfish Ventures.
The startup, BugHerd, was created in 2011 after Melbourne co-founders Alan Downie, 35, and Matt Milosavljevic, 29, were unable to find a bug tracking product suitable for logging and managing visual website issues. Websites owners generally welcome users’ reports of faults — or bugs — so they can fix them — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The only thing cuter than this Game Master asking TeX gurus for help making his RPG notes look like they were scrawled by a gibbering madman, unhinged by the horrors he has witnessed
is the serious responses, with examples of output. He even got an answer saying how to typeset an Elder Sign! Truly, there is nothing more awesome than typesetting geeks helping gaming geeks — via Boing Boing
It’s not easy to make a Honda CB750 custom stand out these days. Even if it’s a big money bike. But this budget build by Canadian Mike Salek caught my eye — via Bike EXIF
Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday.
Dasient, which describes itself as a cloud-based Web anti-malware technology company, introduced in 2010 a service to protect advertisement networks and publishers from malicious ads — via redwolf.newsvine.com
.htaccess files are used to configure Apache, as well a range of other web servers. Despite the .htaccess file type extension, they are simply text files that can be edited using any text-editor. In this article, we’ll review what they are, and how you can use them in your projects — via Nettuts+
Northern Territory Police are questioning a man after he allegedly tried to rob an off-duty police officer before being pulled out of Darwin Harbour naked.
The man allegedly demanded cash from the officer outside the Woolworths supermarket at the northern suburb of Nightcliff before running off when the officer told him he was a policeman — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Cobbled Solomon Bar is another impactful take on the classic Solomon Bar tie. Incorporating a subtle circling technique prior to the tying of each Square Knot, the tie doesn’t seem like much at first. But wait until you flip it over, and reveal its bewildering cobbled side — via Stormdrane’s Blog
The excellent ReadNow application, which allows you to easily read articles from your Instapaper and Read It Later articles on your Mac, has been pulled from the Mac App Store …because of an infringement letter
. Developer Michael Schneider added [i]n my current situation I’m not allowed to provide any further information
.
The good news is that if you have already purchased the app, you can still download it from the Purchases
tab in the App Store.app even though the iTunes page for ReadNow now leads to the message, Your request could not be completed
.
However, as I waited for the Mac App Store to load on my iMac this morning, I found myself wondering “What would I do if I couldn’t re-download it from the Mac App Store?
Fortunately I have the app on my MacBook Air, so I could go to /Applications/ReadNow.app and then select File » Compress Read Now
(or control+click the app and choose Compress
from the menu) — via TUAW
Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital has apologised for forcing unwed mothers to give up their children for adoption until the mid-1970s.
The apology came in a Senate inquiry into the forced adoption
practice, which will report its findings next month.
Between the 1940s and 1970s there were about 45,000 adoptions in the state and it is estimated about 5,000 unmarried mothers at the RWH were told to give up their children — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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