The FBI seized Web servers in a raid on a data centre Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including sites run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline — via redwolf.newsvine.com
2X5 ink/coffee on Stonehenge — via deviantART
Frank Gehry is not your average architect. He has a history of creating bold, innovative and often controversial buildings that stand out… such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which transformed the town it was built in but had some Spaniards wanting to lynch him — via Big Ideas
Sean at MAKE has an awesome new project over on Make: Projects.
Fans of Patrick McGoohan’s classic BBC spy series The Prisoner will recognize this gimmick from Episode 15,
The Girl Who Was Death. It’s a pint glass with words etched on the bottom (in authenticVillagefont) that appear line-by-line as the liquid is imbibed. My version is the closest reproduction of the original I could achieve.
— via CRAFT
Not too long ago, theorists fretted that the Internet was a place where anonymity thrived.
Now, it seems, it is the place where anonymity dies.
A commuter in the New York area who verbally tangled with a conductor last Tuesday — and defended herself by asking Do you know what schools I’ve been to and how well-educated I am?
— was publicly identified after a fellow rider posted a cellphone video of the encounter on YouTube. The woman, who had gone to NYU, was ridiculed by a cadre of bloggers, one of whom termed it the latest episode of Name and Shame on the Web
— via joe-burd.newsvine.com
Photo taken following Welles’ radio dramatization of Wells’ book, The War of the Worlds
which sparked widespread panic from listeners who thought the alien invasion described in the story was real. Read more about it here.
Bonus Audio: Radio interview of Wells by Welles — via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
At least 4800 Australian websites have been lost with no chance of recovery following a break-in at Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT.
The hack attack caused so much damage that four of the company’s servers were unrecoverable
, the company said, leaving thousands of website owners in the lurch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The CSIRO has launched a website that allows people to see the raw data of greenhouse gases for themselves, as debate continues to rage over the merits of climate change science.
The website will report un-modelled, raw measurements directly to the public so people can make up their own minds about climate change — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Lately Tumblr’s been getting lots of attention from name bloggers like Steve Rubel (who closed all his existing blogs and moved exclusively to Tumblr), Rick Sanchez, Dan Patterson, and my friend here in San Diego Mitch Wagner. So when I began an effort to simplify my blog life, I considered switching this blog to Tumblr and making it my primary platform like Steve and Mitch did.
In the end I decided not to, for an important practical reason: the data you enter on Tumblr is locked in. While there are some hacky third-party tools that purport to do it, Tumblr itself does not offer an official export feature which lets its users move their data to another platform should they choose to do so — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.
Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.
ICANN will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new study has found that high caffeine use, combined with stress, can cause people to exhibit psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.
The research suggests that around five coffees, or the equivalent of 200mg of caffeine, may be enough to tip people over the edge and cause psychotic-like symptoms — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A rare Stradivarius violin that once belonged to the grand-daughter of English poet Lord Byron sold for a record $15 million at auction in a charity sale for Japanese disaster relief — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Russian spies used to study Michael Caine’s movies and marvel at the cleverness of his characters.
The British actor was flattered when he learned Russian leader Vladimir Putin used to watch his Harry Palmer films in the late 1960s with his comrades in the KGB — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The founder of Advanced Medical Institute (AMI), Jacov Jack
Vaisman, has bought back the infamous erectile dysfunction clinic from administrators for as little as $900,000 cash, according to a Fairfax media report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A western Sydney man has been charged after he allegedly sold underage girls for sex for at least a decade.
He was arrested yesterday after police raided his Granville unit, where officers say they discovered a large quantity of pornography and other evidence.
The 53-year-old faces charges including aggravated sexual assault of a child, causing and benefiting from child prostitution and operating a premises where a child participates in prostitution — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Cat Concern are a group of volunteers who devote their free time to Callan Park’s colony of stray cats.
The number of stray cats at the Rozelle parkland has fallen dramatically in the past two years thanks to members of Cat Concern, who have been trapping, desexing and vaccinating the animals before trying to find them homes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Every time paramedic Jan Erceg thinks about Kevin McClain, she gets goose bumps. Of the thousands of patients she’s seen in more than three decades on the job, she says McClain is one she’ll never forget.
His story will be burned in her memory because of the bond the dying man shared with his dog, Yurt, a connection Erceg said defies explanation
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sweden’s Stellan Egeland is one of the world’s most innovative custom motorcycle builders. Like Belgian maestro Fred Krugger, Egeland is prepared to push the limits of styling and use as much modern technology as possible. His approach resulted in a podium finish at the 2009 European Championship Of Custom Bike Building — with the remarkable hub-steered Harrier — and his BMW HP2-based Slugger
is the follow-up — via Bike EXIF
Everyone knows how to open the task manager: press Control + Alt + Delete and click Task Manager
, right? Still, the entire point of using keyboard shortcuts is to avoid having to use the mouse. Press Control + Shift + Escape to bypass the menu that appears and go directly to the task manager — via Lifehacker
A US soldier whose leg muscles were destroyed by a bomb in Afghanistan has been able to start walking again after using a radical therapy that enabled his body to regrow the lost tissue.
Marine Corporal Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles in the blast, an injury so severe that amputation is normally the only treatment.
Corporal Hernandez was, however, offered a therapy in which his remaining muscles were impregnated with an experimental growth promoting substance extracted from pig bladders. It prompted the muscles to regenerate to a point that Corporal Hernandez has regained most of his strength — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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