India’s health minister has said homosexuality was a disease
which was spreading fast
in the country — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Restored silent Alfred Hitchcock films will be screened complete with new orchestral scores as part of the build-up to the 2012 London Olympic Games, the British Film Institute (BFI) announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Montoya is a fairly common Spanish surname. Inigo is a much less common, but still not unusual, first name. The Princess Bride is not very popular on the Continent. Therefore, when the new guy starts and introduces himself with “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya,” bursting into laughter and choking out the words, “You killed my father, prepare to die!” will not be funny. HR will have serious words with you. #LFMF
— via Learn From My Fail
X-ray-style airport scanners are set to check in at Australian airports after parliament yesterday passed an amendment to the Customs Act 1901 that allows internal body scanners to be used to identify couriers carrying illicit drugs internally — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The world of online book retailing is about to get that little bit less competitive, with Amazon announcing that it’s reached agreement to buy UK seller The Book Depository.
Perhaps recognising the importance of the brand, the 900-pound gorilla has faithfully promised that it’s not going to squash The Book Depository brand. Customer disquiet has also led The Book Depository to reassure people that it will continue to operate independently — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The nation’s second-largest telco Optus this afternoon confirmed users would be able to defeat its implementation of a blacklist filter of sites containing child pornography merely by changing the DNS settings on their PC — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Optus has confirmed they’ll be the third internet provider in Australia to switch on a voluntary filter, as rival Internode re-affirmed their position on the scheme.
In a statement yesterday, an Optus spokesperson confirmed the telco would soon switch on the filter, and that like Telstra and CyberOne it too will be based off Interpol’s list of child abuse websites.
Interpol’s list is used by a number of organisations across the world as a basis for websites which should be filtered because of the strict criteria which is required to be met before a site is added to the list — in other words, assurance that sites that are blocked aren’t influenced by politics or other external forces — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Japanese bullet train has been forced to stop after a large snake was spotted curled up on a passengers’ seat — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Women with repeated miscarriages can be reassured that their chance of having a healthy baby is the same as women who have never miscarried, say experts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Infrastructure Australia, which was set up to advise the Government, says the country is suffering from poor planning and less than adequate investment in infrastructure.
It says Australia’s infrastructure is barely adequate
and there will be long-term costs if there is not significant improvement.
It has singled out water and energy infrastructure as key areas in need of extra investment — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group loosely connected to the hacker collective Anonymous says it took control of the Fox News Politics Twitter account to claim that President Obama had been assassinated while campaigning in Iowa.
The Fox News Politics account — @foxnewspolitics — was used to put out a number of fake tweets saying that President Obama had been shot in the head and died, and that vice-president Joe Biden had been installed in his place. The tweets went out at around 2am Pacific time (5am EST, 10am BST). Obama is in fact thought to be in Washington at the White House, where his schedule shows he is due to give a speech in the Rose Garden at 6.30pm — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An investigator working for the News of the World allegedly hacked into the mobile phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler, a lawyer for the family says.
Mark Lewis said police told her parents that Glenn Mulcaire hacked into her voicemail while she was missing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This house [Kavellaris Urban Design] is a critique and a response to the suburban housing vernacular and the planning laws that influence them. An endeavour to provide an alternative affordable housing to conventional European influenced copies of copies that proliferate throughout our sub-urban landscape. An area much discussed and debated in the last decade within our profession — via ArchDaily
A leading international neuroscientist has criticised the Australian Government’s commitment to funding research into dementia.
More than 250,000 Australians suffer dementia and that number is expected to balloon to almost 1 million by 2050 as the population ages.
With 1,500 new cases each week in Australia, dementia is described as an impending epidemic — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Now Twitter is trying to encourage us all to be Stelters, with the company publishing guidelines designed to help journalists — traditional, new media, professional, citizen — or any other kind yet to be coined — to use the platform effectively. As Twitter itself explains: We want to make our tools easier to use so you can focus on your job: finding sources, verifying facts, publishing stories, promoting your work and yourself — and doing all of it faster and faster all the time.
Twitter for Newsrooms, which went live last week at media.twitter.com/newsrooms, is split into four main categories, starting with Report
, which shows how to use Twitter’s advanced search functions and includes case studies on how reporters have used it to find and verify sources for stories — via redwolf.newsvine.com
inspiration from cthulhu, octopus and mike mignola’s style — via deviantART
An ancient Angkor temple has re-opened in Cambodia following decades of reconstruction work — a task described as the world’s largest puzzle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Shelf-Pod is a private residence and study building, located in Osaka prefecture, Japan. The client owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history, so he requested that we [Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio] create this building with the maximum capacity for its storage and exhibition — via Neatorama
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