Star Wars fans will have no trouble recognizing this character crocheted by Alison of Crafty is Cool. Salacious Crumb was Jabba the Hutt’s … sidekick? Court Jester? Pet? He’s one of those so-ugly-he’s-cute characters, and Allison’s stitches capture him perfectly. He almost looks life-sized, and he’s even posable. Amazing. He’s headed off to Florida for the Bear and Bird Gallery’s Stitch Wars Strikes Back show — via CRAFT
Medieval suits of armour were so exhausting to wear that they could have affected the outcomes of famous battles, a study suggests.
Scientists monitored volunteers fitted with 15th Century replica armour as they walked and ran on treadmills.
They found that the subjects used high levels of energy, bore immense weight on their legs and suffered from restricted breathing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Press lord Rupert Murdoch isn’t accused of doing anything some of his notorious forebears wouldn’t have attempted given the technology. You supply the pictures and I’ll supply the war,
William Randolph Hearst is said to have instructed his Cuba correspondents as he ginned up circulation on the eve of the Spanish-American War. The hacking and cover-up are bad, but what makes them worse, dangerous for democratic societies, is that Murdoch sits atop an era of media consolidation that results in fewer voices, less real journalism and, as with so much else in the economy, less competition.
Murdoch’s News Corp controls major newspapers in the United States and United Kingdom, such as The Wall Street Journal and The Times of London. It owns the publishing giant HarperCollins. And it owns Fox News. His agenda is far to the right, especially evidenced on Fox with its partisan coverage and disregard for factual reporting. But News Corp has even slanted The Journal, one of the most respected names in journalism — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The next election will not be until 2013, barring misfortune or worse. But let’s give these polls their due for a second. What if Kevin Rudd’s aortic valve gave out this weekend, and the Government of Julia Gillard fell?
What exactly are the policies of the Coalition, and would they work? After all, there’s been plenty of media scrutiny of the Government’s carbon tax. There’s been precious little on the Opposition’s own carbon policy, which it calls “Direct Action”, or the many sweeping statements on climate change and the carbon tax by Tony Abbott.
On Monday night on the ABC’s PM program, Stephen Long finally examined some of Tony Abbott’s claims. In a stunning piece of forensic investigation, Long single-handedly dismantled the distortions, misrepresentations and bald-faced lies that Tony Abbott continues to advance — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The BBC is to revamp its science coverage after an independent review highlighted weaknesses and concluded that journalists boosted the apparent controversy of scientific news stories such as climate change, GM crops and the MMR vaccine by giving too much weight to fringe scientific viewpoints — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In response to the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed News Corp’s News of the World, founder Rupert Murdoch said his media empire would have a new code of ethics. It could help — if managers are serious about enforcing the rules, media experts say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Meet one of the toughest octo-plushies on the block!
I’ve had tons of requests for this little guy! Here’s the first of what’s sure to be a long line of punk plushies. He’s made of red felt and a super styling black felt mohawk.
His body has been carefully machine stitched, hand-sewn, and he comes with an official Jayne Danger hang tag. This rockin’ little dude measures about 4.5″ tall and 4″ wide — via Etsy
The Pentagon is asking scientists to figure out how to detect and counter propaganda on social media networks in the aftermath of Arab uprisings driven by Twitter and Facebook.
The US military’s high-tech research arm, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, has put out a request for experts to look at a new science of social networks
that would attempt to get ahead of the curve of events unfolding on new media — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The nation’s attorneys-general will discuss whether laws should be introduced to allow parents access to their children’s Facebook accounts and social networking sites, allowing them to legally breach their privacy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twitter could potentially generate revenue from becoming an online marketplace in addition to advertising, its current money-maker, the chief executive of the company said.
Dick Costolo, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Colorado, said that the company is still seeing explosive growth, with over 200 million registered Twitter users sending one billion tweets every five days — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A rare bog sun-jumper spider has been discovered at a nature reserve near Stirling.
The tiny creature — which has distinctive fluorescent green legs and mouthparts — has only been recorded at three other places in the UK — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The first step out of bed could have been a big one.
A woman in Guatemala City reports that a sinkhole, 40 feet deep and almost 3 feet across, opened under her bed Monday.
When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighbouring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street,
Inocenta Hernandez, 65, said in an Agence France-Presse report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For years, Shawn Hakimian has wondered why a World War I fighter plane sits on the roof of 77 Water Street.
It’s not every day you see an airplane taking off from a New York City building,
says Hakimian, a developer whose 75 Wall Street condominiums have views onto the roof of the neighbouring Water Street building and the biplane that is parked there, on a landing strip lined with runway lights. It’s one of our buyers’ most commonly asked questions.
When the William Kaufman Organization built the 26-story office tower in 1970, the owner wanted to adorn its roof with something more interesting than air-conditioning machinery.
When you’re in a building that’s higher, and you’re looking down, it’s pretty ugly,
says Robert Kaufman, the company’s president. So we said: ‘what can we do?’ And we got the idea of putting an airplane on the roof
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists say they expect to soon restore sight to people suffering from one of the most common forms of blindness.
Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the largest cause of single-eye blindness in adults affecting about 3 per cent of the population.
It can also cause the loss of vision in one eye in early childhood — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jenny Hoople of Authentic Arts shares some excellent tips and tricks for drilling natural stone for jewellery-making over on papernstitch. Her information is extensive and the post is a great resource for anyone wanting to practice using natural materials in jewellery — via CRAFT
Dangerous malware links in Google’s search results will bring up a warning as Google combats Search Engine Poisoning. Google hopes to help searchers update their antivirus software as Cisco Systems reports phishing attacks are getting more dangerous — and profitable. An analyst warned, however, that hackers could exploit Google’s warning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pluto’s tiny new moon needs a real name.
Right now astronomers are using two boring designators for it – P4 and S/2011 P1.
Ironically, the body tasked with approving an official name for the new moon is the same one that stripped Pluto of its planet status in 2006 — the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I don’t know anyone who’s a crafter who doesn’t also have at least a little bit of a button obsession. So, this tutorial for making your own skrink plastic buttons from scissorspaperwok is probably going to make you just as excited as it made me. Hello, fancy home made buttons — via CRAFT
The winner of Mumbrella’s TV Ad of the Month contest is Publicis Mojo’s Knight Rider-themed ad for Hahn Super Dry.
The ad of the month for June is the first work by the agency for the beer brand and was shot by Emmy award-winning director Tom Kuntz, the man behind Old Spice’s The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
— via Mumbrella
Looking more like a creation from their Bali garage this Deus/Sydney build is based on a Yamaha Scorpio 125cc — via (SILODROME)
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