Melbourne domain kingpin hit with cyber death threats

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A Melbourne web domain kingpin has received death threats after he blew the lid on emerging fraud campaigns.

Attackers warned Michael Gilmour that he would be killed unless he removed a series of blog articles that warned domain name buyers of a new scam sweeping the industry.

Ten days ago, a large denial of service attack from a global botnet slammed into Gilmour’s personal blog, where the articles were posted, and his business website. Both have remained under attack and offline.

Gilmour shrugged off the attacks until he noticed the death threats embedded as URLs in the attack logs — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Science, Wildlife

Fish living in dark caves still feel the rhythm of life

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A blind, cave-dwelling fish in Somalia knows what time it is, but its day is twice as long as ours.

Most animals have an internal body clock, or circadian rhythm, that lasts around 24 hours and is modified by the light-dark cycle of a day.

But an international team, whose research is published in the open access journal PloS Biology, shows that certain blind cave fish have a circadian rhythm that lasts almost two days — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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Max Brenner and Australia’s fascists

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Paul Howes, Michael Danby, Andrew Bolt, Gerard Henderson: have all joined in a very public campaign that draws a line between the Brenner protests and Fascist anti-semitism.

It’s certainly true that, throughout Australia, fascists are increasingly taking an interest in the Max Brenner rallies. But here’s the thing: they’re not supporting the protests.

They’re supporting the stores.

The newest face of what’s euphemistically-called the nationalist community is an outfit called the Australian Protectionist Party. The APP was formed by Mark Wilson, a former organiser of the fascist British National Party, who emigrated to Australia in the 1980s. One of the APP’s most active members is Nicholas Hunter-Folkes. He was formerly the administrator of a charming Facebook group called Fuck off, we’re full. More recently, however, he launched a new Facebook event entitled Protest Against the Mad Marxists: essentially, a counter-rally in support of the Sydney Max Brenner shop.

The hardline left, radical Muslim and student groups have been campaigning for the closure of any business with links to Israel, he explains, […] The left totally ignore the aggression and agenda of the Islamists in the Middle East and also in Australia.

Another prominent APP leader is Darrin Hodges, a long-time racist activist. Joe Hildebrand once identified Hodges as the semi-anonymous poster on the Nazi Stormfront site explaining that: I’m more interested in the purer form of fascism… and while I don’t subscribe to the whole ‘worship Hitler’ thing, his comments on multiculturalism and politics in general are still just as relevant today as they were 70-odd years ago — via redwolf.newsvine.com

There Can Be Only One Bruce Campbell

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We just had to post this awesome picture that popped up on Reddit. Bruce Campbell, in full Scottish regalia, standing with the Highlander’s sword outside Edinburgh Castle. We haven’t seen definitive word on what the context is for this picture, though it’s probably that he was in Scotland in support of My Name is Bruce back in 2009 and posed for this (see the mention in this news story). Whatever the case, we love this picture — via Wired.com

Zombie Squid Hat / ObeyMyBrain

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10 September 2011
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BRRAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNSSSSSSSsssssss…….

It’s a squid… wait, it’s a hat… no, it’s a Squidhat and it wants your brains. But only a little.

Made from snuggly-warm polyester fleece this guy will hug you long into those cold nights. Also makes a wonderful decoration for the couch — via Etsy

Brighton Pier / Brighton

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10 September 2011
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Okay, it’s not a haus, but it doesn’t get more wow than Brighton Pier, which is up for sale right now, should you have a few quid to spare.

Obviously there’s a downside to all of that. First you’ll need to find the money to buy it. The seller doesn’t give a price, but offers of around £30 million are said to be invited. If you want to know more, give the agents GVA Humberts Leisure a shout — via WowHaus

Small Aviator G4C Automatic / Tourby Watches

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Tourby Watches is a small, exclusive watch manufacturer from Hagen in Westphalia, Germany. They represent all that people around the world admire about top quality German craftsmanship.

Unlike most watch manufacturers who offer you the finished item as a fait accompli and you either like it or you don’t, Tourby Watches produce bespoke timepieces that you can design and specify to your own tastes.

Tourby Watches do not keep any ready-made watches in stock. Instead each one is built to a client’s liking, and they choose their own components — via Watchuseek Watch Blog

Retro-Futuristic Victorian Interior Refab / ModVic

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9 September 2011
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Between science fiction fan art and historical Victorian remodelling, this turn-of-the-(20th)-century Craftsman-style home was radically remodelled into a blend of new-age fantasy and original reality.

ModVic is a restoration-and-redesign business that started with a leaky roof and ended in entrepreneurship as Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum discovered a love for fixing and enhancing period pieces, starting with their own house — via Dornob

Iridium creates link from iPhones to satellites

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Satellite service provider Iridium is introducing a new satellite phone and access point that enable communications anywhere on the face of the Earth from Blackberry and Android mobile devices, and will offer support for Apple’s iOS-based gear later this year.

The two new devices enable use of data applications on mobile smartphones and tablets that have Wi-Fi capabilities, and the access point bridges the connection over the Iridium satellite network.

The speed of the data-only connections is 26K to 27Kbps, according to Iridium CEO Matthew Desch, suitable for email and Internet access — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Woman punches bear to save her dog

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Black bears in residential neighbourhoods aren’t exactly unheard of in Juneau. While many people stay inside when bears are about, one local woman says she had a different instinct when she saw her dog was in trouble.

It started out as a typical evening for 22-year-old Brooke Collins. She let her dogs out as usual but this time, she said there was a black bear outside who took hold of her dachshund Fudge. She said she feared for her pet’s life and, in an instant, ran over and punched the bear right in the face to make it let go.

It was all so fast. All I could think about was my dog was going to die, said Collins.

It was a stupid thing but I couldn’t help it, she said. I know you’re not supposed to do that but I didn’t want my dog to be killed

Researchers’ Typosquatting Stole 20GB of E-Mail from Fortune 500

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Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months.

The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions.

Twenty gigs of data is a lot of data in six months of really doing nothing, said researcher Peter Kim from the Godai Group. And nobody knows this is happening.

Doppelganger domains are ones that are spelled almost identically to legitimate domains, but differ slightly, such as a missing period separating a subdomain name from a primary domain name — as in the case of seibm.com as opposed to the real se.ibm.com domain that IBM uses for its division in Sweden.

Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo / Woodland Park Zoo

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9 September 2011
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Woodland Park Zoo’s Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo joey is growing up fast, so here are some new photos and video to fill you in on how it is getting along in its behind-the-scenes exhibit. Now eight months old, the joey has begun to leave its mother’s pouch for short bursts, doing a little exploring and then retreating back to the pouch for naps. Keepers do not know the sex of the joey yet so for now he or she remains nameless. The joey is mostly eating leaves but also munches on greens including kale, romaine and celery. Mother Elanna is not so great at sharing, so the joey has learned to go after the food it wants for itself — via ZooBorns

Single-chip DIMM offers low-power replacement for sticks of RAM

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8 September 2011
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Invensas, a subsidiary of chip microelectronics company Tessera, has discovered a way of stacking multiple DRAM chips on top of each other. This process, called multi-die face-down packaging, or xFD for short, massively increases memory density, reduces power consumption, and should pave the way for faster and more efficient memory chips — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Teen sex slave, bullying and assault victim shook with terror

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A teenager who allegedly raped a 14-year-old boy and kept him as his personal slave has shown no remorse for his actions, a children’s court has heard.

The 15-year-old yesterday faced charges of rape, indecent assault of a person under 16, making threats to kill, making threats to inflict serious injury, false imprisonment and assault.

Police opposed bail for the teen, who can’t be named for legal reasons, telling the court he was a bully who had no remorse for his actions.

In denying bail, a magistrate described the allegations as one of the most disturbing scenarios he had heard — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Yahoo fires chief and puts itself up for sale in search for success

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It was once the world’s leading search engine, its founders held talks about a merger with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation — and it even managed to fend off a $44bn takeover bid by Microsoft. But Yahoo has put itself up for sale, after firing its chief executive of 18 months Carol Bartz by phone.

A fierce manager with a proclivity for swearing, Bartz was brought in to revive Yahoo’s fortunes after the company rejected the Microsoft bid, but she was unable to match the pace of innovation of the new Silicon Valley giants – Google, Facebook and a resurgent Apple.

Her dismissal prompted what Yahoo said was “comprehensive strategic review to position the company for future growth — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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