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A study has revealed that some small carnivorous marsupials in Northern Australia instinctively know how to avoid being poisoned by cane toads.
The University of Sydney’s Dr Jonathan Webb and his team have found that red-cheeked dunnarts from the Kimberley in Western Australia are naturally wary of cane toads — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Granville Train Disaster 1977, originally uploaded by Blue Mountains Library – Local Studies.
Survivors of the Granville train disaster have gathered at the western Sydney site of the crash to mark the 35th anniversary of what is still Australia’s worst rail accident.
Eighty three people died and more than 200 were injured when a passenger train derailed and ran into the base of the Bold Street Bridge on January 18, 1977.
Two passenger carriages were crushed as the bridge came down on top of the train.
The early morning service was packed with commuters travelling from the Blue Mountains — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some of you will have seen Balibo, but many more of you will know vaguely the story: that of five Australian journalists killed by Indonesian soldiers during the invasion of East Timor in 1975. They were Greg Shackleton, Tony Stewart, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie. Technically they were two Australians, a New Zealander, and two Brits, but all were Australian residents and working for Australian media in the form of Channels 7 and 9. An older AAP journalist named Roger East went to follow up on their disappearance, at a time when they were yet to be confirmed dead, and two months later was executed himself when the Indonesians took the capital Dili.
For those who haven’t seen it, you should. Just be warned that while the ending of the story is already known, this article still contains a bunch of spoiler — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Virtual Desktop storage provider Altantis Computing today announced a new product that runs non-persistent virtual desktop environments using only server memory.
The company’s Atlantis ILIO diskless VDI appliance eliminates the need for Virtual Machine Disk Formats (VMDKs) on VMware. By removing disk storage, Atlantis’s ILIO reduces the cost to run a virtual desktop to $197 and delivers performance superior to a physical PC, with boot times of just 12 seconds, according to Atlantis Computing CEO Bernard Harguindeguy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
To say that this is an aviation-inspired piece is a bit of an understatement. The Stolas Warthog model name of course refers to the famous A-10 plane, and even the family name (Ball Call) is a reference to terminology used when landing on an aircraft carrier. Finally, there are some nifty aviation-inspired features, such as the cable-grip on the bezel, referencing the catch cable on an aircraft carrier — via Wrist Watch Review
Believe it or not, to legally watch that famous Martin Luther King I Have a Dream
speech — arguably one of the most hallowed moments in American history — costs $10 thanks to the twisted state of United States copyright law. In related news, happy Martin Luther King Day!
The news of how MLK’s most famous moment costs money to watch is not a new one. But given the dramatic rise of the issue of digital rights, thanks largely in part to the dramatic controversy surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the story seems unusually prescient this year. Alex Pasternack, the editor of Vice‘s tech site, Motherboard, blogged about the issue on a few months back:
If you weren’t alive to witness Martin Luther King’s
I Have a Dreamspeech on the Washington Mall 48 years ago this week, you might try to switch on the old YouTube and dial it up. But you won’t find it there or anywhere else; rights to its usage remain with King and his family…At the family’s Web site, videotapes and audiotapes of the speech can be purchased for $10 a piece. The family controls the copyright of the speech for 70 years after King’s death, in 2038
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An Irishman and a Frenchman went into a bar, but the result was no laughing matter.
David Farrell, 26, of Ireland, and Nicholas Moinet, 24, of France, were among a group of travelling vineyard workers who broke into the river boat on the Opawa River, Blenheim, drank alcohol and took photos of each other having a great time, and then left the camera behind — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you were browsing through this week’s Target ad you may have passed right over the adorable little boy in the bright orange shirt smiling at you on page 9! And if so, I’m glad!
The reason I’m glad? Well, that stylish young man in the orange shirt is Ryan. Ryan just so happened to have been born with Down syndrome, and I’m glad that Target included a model with down syndrome in their typical ad! 🙂
This wasn’t a Special Clothing For Special People
catalogue. There wasn’t a call out somewhere on the page proudly proclaiming that Target’s proud to feature a model with Down syndrome in this week’s ad
. And they didn’t even ask him to model a shirt with the phrase, We Aren’t All Angels
printed on the front.
In other words, they didn’t make a big deal out of it. I like that — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian custom motorcycle builder Deus is best known for its SR and W650 customs, but its occasional forays into Harley-Davidson territory have been equally successful. Here’s the latest, based on a 2007-model Harley Sportster. Dubbed the Bald Terrier — no, I don’t know why — it’s essentially a remake of Deus’ 2009 V Twin Cafe Racer. And that’s a good thing — via Bike EXIF
Facebook and Google told the Delhi High Court today that they cannot block offensive content that appears on their services. The two Internet giants are among 21 companies that have been asked to develop a mechanism to block objectionable material in India, and the Indian government has given the green light for their prosecution. Although India is democratic (in fact, it’s the world’s largest democracy), many fear the country will resort to censorship — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The epidemic of telecom cable thefts has prompted a US company to develop a new design that drastically cuts down the copper content in a bid to deter metal thieves.
The GroundSmart Copper Clad Steel cable is probably the most radical solution yet devised to copper theft in that it removes almost all of the copper grounding (in the UK, earthing
) metal of the sort commonly used in networks to return current to earth for safety reasons.
Unlike conventional cables made from solid copper, the GroundSmart consists of a steel core around which is bonded a copper outer casing, forming an equally effective but far less valuable cable.
The end result, according to the company, is something that exploits the corrosion-resistance of copper with the conductive properties of steel — via http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/17/10172062-copper-thieves-battled-with-new-anti-theft-telecom-cable
Weight loss brand Jenny Craig has pulled its sponsorship of the Kyle & Jackie O Show after just one day, admitting that it badly misjudged public perception of Kyle Sandilands
.
The company did so in the face of a growing international backlash. By last night Jenny Craig’s US Facebook page had been overrun by Australian consumers attacking the sponsorship. Many of them pointed out that a previous target of the show was former Jenny Craig ambassador Magda Szubanski who Sandilands had said would lose more weight in a concentration camp. That incident two years ago saw him temporarily taken off the air — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When you look directly at illusion knitting you can only see stripes. When the knitting is turned, or you walk past it, the image is revealed
On the publication of the 21st Dalziel and Pascoe novel in 2007, an interviewer asked Reginald Hill if this was his 48th published novel to date. Hill replied: That sounds very reasonable. I counted religiously till I got to 10, then in a more secular fashion till I got to 20, and after that I lost interest in keeping a tally. I mean, if 20 doesn’t mean you’re a real writer, then what number does?
Such a self-effacing reply was typical of the modest and softly spoken Hill, who has died aged 75 after suffering from a brain tumour. One of Britain’s most consistently successful crime writers, he could easily have been mistaken for an absent-minded academic or a country parson — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is the latest build from Spanish shop Café Racer Dreams, which is starting to look like the southern European counterpart to the well-established Wrenchmonkees of Copenhagen. CRD #10 is called Night Track
, and it’s a 2007 Triumph Bonneville. The mods are well-chosen, tightening up the aesthetics of the Bonnie and giving it a sharper, more retro look — via Bike EXIF
Veronica Knight has once again outdone herself. Last she crocheted her very own viking costume that even helped her place second in the fake beard division at the Motor City Beard and Moustache Championships — via CRAFT
Zappos.com, best-known for selling shoes and clothing online and its top-notch customer service and corporate culture, appears to be the latest victim of a cyber attack resulting in a data breach.
In an internal email to Zappos employees on Sunday, CEO Tony Hsieh asked employees to set aside 20 minutes of their time to read about the breach and what communications would be sent to its over 24 million customers.
While Hsieh, who said the attack occured through one of the company’s servers in Kentucky, said that credit card data was not compromised, but did say that one or more
of the following pieces of personal information has been accessed by the attacker(s): customer names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers. User passwords were “cryptographically scrambled
, he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Leading scientists and naturalists, including Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir David Attenborough, are claiming a victory over the creationist movement after the government ratified measures that will bar anti-evolution groups from teaching creationism in science classes.
The Department for Education has revised its model funding agreement, allowing the education secretary to withdraw cash from schools that fail to meet strict criteria relating to what they teach. Under the new agreement, funding will be withdrawn for any free school that teaches what it claims are evidence-based views or theories
that run contrary to established scientific and/or historical evidence and explanations
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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