Fairfax Media has confirmed it is conducting a strategic review of its assets, including New Zealand auction website Trade Me, amid pressure from key institutional shareholders to restore its flagging share price.
The newspaper, digital and radio business yesterday announced it was undertaking a strategic review of its portfolio of assets to maximise stakeholder value
and Trade Me, like all other assets, is included in the overall review
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Really! It’s paper. Paul Overton of Dude Craft summarises my own thoughts on the work of paper sculptor Calvin Nicholls:
Every time I think I’ve witnessed the limits of paper sculpting, along comes somebody who blows my mind all over again.
See a gallery of his amazing work — Neatorama
This apartment [Éva Katona, Péter Szigeti] is siutated in a listed building just below the UNESCO protected area of Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. The client is a young creative family with two children, who planned the refurbishment of the apartment, the stair was designed by Croatian designer Biljana Jovanovic — via ArchDaily
NEXTHouse [David Vandervort Architects] is a 2,700 square foot, custom-designed home fusing the northwest modern tradition with the highest quality environmentally sustainable building techniques, features, and finishes. It is a speculative venture on the part of the architect, created to demonstrate cutting edge green
features and modern design in a for sale
residence — via ArchDaily
A new resource for spotlighting organizations that are unwittingly contributing to the global spam problem aims to shame junk email havens into taking more aggressive security measures.
Healthcare providers that are top sources of spam.
SpamRankings.net is a project launched by the Centre for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas at Austin. Its goal is to identify and call attention to organizations with networks that have been infiltrated by spammers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twitter rolled out an automatic link shortening feature on Tuesday that enables users to paste long URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) directly into messages sent through its microblogging website, without worrying that the message will exceed the service’s 140-character limit.
Users can paste a link of any length into the message composition box on the site, according to a company blog post.
After you’ve composed your Tweet and you hit the ‘Tweet’ button, we’ll shorten the link so that it only takes up 19 characters,
it said. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has started using individual authors not just the publications they write for as one of its criteria for ranking search engine results.
Starting on Tuesday, Web publishers will be able to highlight for the Google search crawler the authors of content such as news articles, blog posts, reviews, columns or short stories.
Publishers should link each author’s name to an author page
on the same site which can contain an author’s biography, photo and links to other articles and external sites, like their personal web page — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jake O’Dell, 25, was found not guilty of dousing Sammie — a female staffordshire bull terrier cross — in petrol and setting it alight because evidence suggests his cousin, Ben Rainey, also had the opportunity to do it.
Mr O’Dell did not appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court for the decision today.
Magistrate Fred Field found either Mr O’Dell or Mr Rainey, who were neighbours of Sammie’s owner Alice McDonnell, could have attacked Sammie at her West Croydon home in August 2009 — via ABC News
Armed with a militant dedication to see communism progress, Nicolae Ceau?escu outlawed abortion and decreed heavy taxation to anyone who failed to produce children by the age of twenty five.
It was the first of many disastrous policies put into place by the Ceau?escu regime in the hopes of raising up an army of people to live out communist theory under his rule.
Contraception was also banned in 1966 and by the end of the decade the population had risen significantly; Unfortunately, the socioeconomic status for the typical Romanian family, had not. Poverty rose at an alarming rate and women were encouraged to turn their children over to state-run institutions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Radical Ducati is in the business of making good sportbikes great. The Spanish company produces top-drawer accessories and go-faster kits for most of the Ducati range, and the RAD 02 Corsa Evo is its latest release. The 02 moniker means that it’s configured as a race or trackday bike. You can buy the bike complete, or as a kit — via Bike EXIF
During recent research into how cuttlefish adopt camouflage positions, a common cuttlefish raises two of its eight arms in apparent mimicry of artificial algae placed in its tank. The animal reacted similarly when shown a photo of green algae, said biologist Roger Hanlon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A southwest Missouri jury has awarded a total of about $1.95 million to 12 plaintiffs who claimed odours from a factory hog farm had ruined their way of life.
The Barton County jury announced its verdict Saturday after a two-week trial. Iowa-based Synergy, which owned the hogs, and Kenoma, the local company that raised them, are liable for damages, according to The Joplin Globe — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Most people would think twice before buying a boat named Titanic II.
And sure enough, when Briton Mark Wilkinson took the 4.8-metre cabin cruiser out for its maiden voyage, it promptly sank — via redwolf.newsvine.com
IKONIKO designed this house on Kilrenney Avenue in Los Angeles, California — via CONTEMPORIST
Texas authorities have found up to 30 dismembered bodies, including children, buried at a house in a rural county east of Houston, local media is reporting — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Instructables user, j_l_larson, shares how to take a regular clothing pattern and size it down for doll proportions — via CRAFT
On the tiny island of Coll with just two hundred residents off the coast of Scotland sits a modest masterwork of modern renovation – a brand new home slotted delicately inside the (reinforced) crumbling stone ruins of an ancient local manor.
For all the polish of the finished product, construction was anything but easy. Between the fragile frame of the building and the fierce ocean winds, simply stabilizing the existing building remnants took WT Architecture months of careful planning and execution — via Dornob
Women unable to conceive naturally are being denied IVF on the NHS because they are too young, too old, too fat, smoke or live in Wales — in flagrant breaches of the guidelines.
The arbitrary nature of the restrictions placed on NHS fertility clinics around the country is revealed today in research which shows that more than 70 per cent of primary care trusts are ignoring guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) to offer infertile couples three free cycles of IVF.
Five of the trusts — Warrington, West Sussex, Stockport, North Yorkshire and York, and North Staffordshire — do not provide IVF on the NHS at all — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Marquetry is the art of applying carefully cut and often tiny pieces of wood veneer (and other materials) to an underlying structure to form a decorative image or pattern. At the highest levels, the craft requires an artist’s eye, deep knowledge of the selected woods, and a steady hand to execute the fine cuts. The Rotonde de Cartier with bear motif combines marquetry and watchmaking to produce a limited series of uniquely artistic timepieces — via WatchTime.com
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