The Australian newspaper has announced it will put up a paywall around much of its digital content later this year.
News Limited’s national broadsheet will start charging for access to premium content
from October this year, while leaving much of its general news content available for free — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Almost eight months ago we had decided to build a new home. I really wanted a set of Eames shell chairs and a Eero Saarinen dining table, with that idea the hunt began. When I got thinking about the total price I cringed a little so I resorted to a Burke table. My area does not really offer the opportunity to grab these very cheap. eBay and Etsy were the places I found my shells. Some were in great shape and as you can see the two blue ones were pretty bad. With out reinventing the wheel I read up on the restoration processes via Chairfag. I pretty much followed most of the steps but added a few of my own — via PLASTOLUX
Australia has been branded a nation of racists by a US rap band who claim they were made to feel uncomfortable while visiting Down Under.
Tyler, The Creator, frontman for the group Odd Future which is touring Australia, made the claim while writing on his Twitter page.
People out here are racist, he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nowadays it isn’t uncommon to have more than one computer in a home, even if the owners aren’t tech savvy. Transferring files between these machines is a simple process, but not everyone knows how to do it. If you or someone you know has yet to learn how to share a folder over your local network, this beginner’s guide will show you how — Lifehacker
Altius Architecture designed the Cliff House in Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada — via CONTEMPORIST
In the wake of the UN report which described disconnecting citizens from the Internet as a breach of human rights, an anti-piracy group has made a somewhat surprising statement. Music Industry Piracy Investigations, which acts for dozens of labels including the Big Four, today said that while they support measures for dealing with infringement, that does not include termination of Internet accounts
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A committee of international chemists and physicists has officially added two new elements to the periodic table: the ultraweighty elements 114 and 116.
They’re the heaviest members yet of the periodic table, with whopping atomic weights of 289 and 292 atomic mass units respectively. The previous heavyweight winners were copernicium (285) and roentgenium (272).
The two new elements are radioactive and only exist for less than a second before decaying into lighter atoms. Element 116 will quickly decay into 114, and 114 transforms into the slightly lighter copernicium as it sheds its alpha particles — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Americans helped colonise Easter Island centuries before Europeans reached it. Clear genetic evidence has, for the first time, given support to elements of this controversial theory showing that while the remote island was mostly colonised from the west, there was also some influx of people from the Americas.
Easter Island is the easternmost island of Polynesia, the scattering of islands that stretches across the Pacific. It is also one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many things are too small to be seen by the naked eye. And some are even too small to be seen through a conventional microscope.
But a super resolution fluorescence microscope is no ordinary microscope.
A team at the University of New South Wales led by Associate Professor Katharina Gaus and PhD candidate David Williamson have used the only super resolution fluorescence microscope of its kind in Australia to reveal a crucial feature that enables T cells to function — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A preliminary study focused on counterfeit sales in China — the source of all those fake handbags in Chinatown and just about everywhere else — suggests that in many cases the sale of fakes may not be so bad for legitimate brands. The study, by Northwestern economist Yi Qian, examined the counterfeit market in the wake of well-publicized cases of food poisoning and exploding gas tanks in China, when enforcement efforts were diverted from policing fashion copycats and toward monitoring drugs, food, and gas. Counterfeit factories flourished, but surprisingly, this led to an increase in sales for high-end products in the years that followed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On the last day of Computex 2011, Apple and Google were hit by a bombshell when consumer forces in the capital, Taipei City, dictated that both American firms offer a seven day free trial on apps for the machines that use their operating systems — via redwolf.newsvine.com
From the Smithsonian‘s collection of remarkable artefacts, a wedding dress made from a B-29 pilot’s life-saving parachute:
In August 1944, Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, and his crew were returning from a bombing raid over Yowata, Japan, when their engine caught fire. The crew was forced to bail out. Suffering from only minor injuries, Hensinger used the parachute as a pillow and blanket as he waited to be rescued. He kept the parachute that had saved his life. He later proposed to his girlfriend Ruth in 1947, offering her the material for a gown.
Ruth wanted to create a dress similar to one in the movie Gone with the Wind. She hired a local seamstress, Hilda Buck, to make the bodice and veil. Ruth made the skirt herself; she pulled up the strings on the parachute so that the dress would be shorter in the front and have a train in the back. The couple married July 19, 1947. The dress was also worn by the their daughter and by their son’s bride before being gifted to the Smithsonian.
— via Boing Boing
These cupcakes from Joy the Baker might be about the most awesome cupcakes I’ve ever seen. Chocolate cupcakes, peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough, toasted meringue frosting — via CRAFT
The house [Bernardo Rodrigues] is located in the north side of S. Michael Island in the Azores. Since the microclimate of this farmland offers frequent wind and showers, the first design strategy was to block these winds with a wall and offer diverse patios and covered courtyards to protect against rain. These patios and courtyards also open all living spaces to the natural green by glass walls which receded from the exterior — via ArchDaily
When people are dissatisfied with their elected representatives, they have a few options open to them.
They can protest, lobby, or mount advertising campaigns to pressure politicians. They can join a party and attempt to change it from within. They can decide to run for office as an Independent. They can opt out
of voting altogether.
Or they can do what the Australian Democrats and Australian Greens did before them – start their own political party.
This weekend, two groups did exactly that.
Independent MP Bob Katter announced the formation of his Katter’s Australian Party.
And evangelical Christian group Catch the Fire Ministries launched its Rise Up Australia Party — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian researchers have developed a new way of recovering usable fingerprints from old evidence.
The scientists, at the University of Technology in Sydney, believe it is a world first, that could help police reopen unsolved cases.
They used nanotechnology to detect dry and weak fingerprints, which are not revealed by traditional techniques.
Nanotechnology reveals much sharper detail of amino acid traces from old fingerprints than existing methods.
Their aim is to detect fingerprints of any age on any surface — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The house [studio pha] is inspired by the proportions of traditional vernacular rural building without inhabited attic spaces, ie. without a need to insert windows into the roof surface — via ArchDaily
Machines have won the war and the human race is destined to become little more than house pets.
That’s the future according to one of the smartest geeks on the planet, Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computers and is convinced that in his lifetime he will see computer intelligence equal that of humans — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A schoolboy is on course for a £250,000 windfall after inventing a doorbell that fools burglars into believing somebody is home at an empty property.
Smart Bell, designed by 13-year-old Laurence Rook, dials the homeowner’s mobile phone when pressed, allowing them to talk to whoever is outside their front door — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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