Celebrated composer Ennio Morricone will serve as president of the jury at this year’s International Rome Film Festival, organisers have announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s a midcentury-style bungalow, the work of American architect James Hunter back in 1964 and a house that is all about space – both with a large plot and an open plan design that screams a bygone era. That, despite some serious renovation, which thankfully takes into account the heritage and history of the house — via WowHaus
Eleven people stormed into a house in a central Indian village and assaulted a woman whom they accused of witchcraft, blinding her and her husband by stabbing them in the eyes with scissors, police said on Saturday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Victoria Police officers got a nasty surprise when they opened the bonnet of a car in Ararat, in central Victoria last week.
The officers were taking part in a vehicle safety testing course and pulled over a car that appeared to be unroadworthy. The front bumper was held on with duct tape.
The officers inspected the bumper and then lifted the bonnet and was shocked to see two rats jump out — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some of you will shudder at this next line, and some of you will applaud. I want you to picture an America without government regulations on the private sector. An America where companies of all stripes, from the smallest hardware store to the biggest oil conglomerate, were given completely free reign to run their businesses however they wanted, making up their own rules along the way. I want you to imagine a world where the markets regulated themselves, wholly and fully, without any intervention whatsoever from local, State, or Federal government. If your imagination is struggling to draw a picture here, allow me to paint one for you — via matt-rock.newsvine.com
Check out this new Hydroscaph Central Chronograph watch from Geneva-based Clerc SA. The watch is signature
Clerc in its overall aesthetic, with a few unique features and design elements added to give it extra appeal — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
A bill moving through the US Senate that would grant the government greater power to shutter Web sites that host copyright-infringing content is under fire from security researchers, who say the legislation raises serious technical and security concerns
. Meanwhile, hacktivists protested by attacking the Web site of the industry group that most actively supports the proposal
Allan Dunn, who committed suicide at 86, had told neighbours his wife was in a nursing home.
But when the sisters went into his foetid apartment Tuesday afternoon, Kingsbury made a gruesome discovery: a body in a chest freezer on the porch.
Investigators believe it could be Dunn’s wife, Margaret, and that he kept her death secret more than a decade so he could collect her benefits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is for my buddy SP, I was messing around in Illustrator and Photoshop and am semi-happy with how it turned out. Her character’s tail can be anything, so I immediately thought of cephalopods because… yeah — via Vivispection
This high-polished solid stainless steel pendant may have a hexagonal shape reminiscent of honeycomb or a complex molecular structure, but in the true spirit of form follows function
, the hexagons can fit a standard sized bit (not included) and 8, 10, 12 and 14mm bolts, so that in a pinch, you’ve got a functional wrench in addition to a very cool piece of jewellery. MacGyver would be jealous — via Blend Creations
Points of View (POV) is a Herman Miller series sharing architects’ perspective on design. Directed by Hello Design, POV provides five different California architects’ step by step process from approach and design development to materials choices. Architects include Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner of Marmol Radziner, Kim Coleman of Cigolle X Coleman, James Meyer of LeanArch, Jim Jennings of Jennings Architecture, and John Friedman of JFAK Architects — via ArchDaily
Typekit is one of the easiest ways to get fancy fonts working on your website. Just sign up for an account, pick a font and paste a few lines of code into your pages. TypeKit takes care of the rest, ensuring that your fonts load and there’s no unsightly flash of unstyled content (FOUT) or other problems.
There is, however, one possible problem with the default way of embedding Typekit fonts. If the TypeKit code fails to load, it can slow down the rest of your site. Typekit avoids FOUT by pausing your page load for a fraction of a second, but if the Typekit script never finishes loading, that fraction of a second can turn into many seconds. While Typekit has excellent uptime, let’s face it, outages happen, and we understand if you don’t want to hang your own site’s fate on another — via Webmonkey
They’re not discussing the latest celebrity gossip or passing on stock tips just yet, but Australian robots have begun talking to each other – and in a language of their own devising.
The two Lingodroids
, developed by the University of Queensland, have picked up their hared vocabulary for places, distances and directions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A popular dog walking spot has been closed after 16 pets mysteriously died or became ill.
Officials suspect the animals may have been poisoned, but no one knows if they were deliberately targeted or died by accident.
In almost all instances, the dogs collapsed and died in agony within minutes of returning from a walk along a tree-lined footpath which leads down to fields by a lake — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The federal government has suspended exports of live cattle to a number of killing facilities in Indonesia following last night’s exposure of brutal practices in some of the country’s abattoirs.
Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said the decision was based on footage collected by Animals Australia that showed cattle being mistreated before slaughter.
I have decided to halt the trade of live animals to the facilities identified by the footage,
he said in a statement today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US woman who forced her two-year-old son to drink a concoction of olive oil and vinegar because she thought it would exorcise a demon from him has been convicted of murder.
Latisha Lawson was also convicted of neglect and battery charges, the Journal Gazette reported. Jurors deliberated for about five hours before finding her guilty. Lawson faces at least 45 years in prison when she is sentenced next month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
His head was swollen, purple and disfigured. His body was a mess of welts, cigarette burns and wounds from bullets fired to injure, not kill. His kneecaps had been smashed, his neck broken, his jaw shattered and his penis cut off.
What finally killed him was not clear, but it appeared painfully, shockingly clear that he had suffered terribly during the month he spent in Syrian custody.
Hamza Ali al-Khateeb was only 13 years old — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google Wallet is currently in a field test in the US only,
a spokesperson from Google Australia said. We don’t have specific dates to announce today but will keep you posted as we make progress.
Now sure, we know this is only a trial, but as we’ve previously noted several times, Google’s continual US focus — and the fact that some of the products and services which it launches never end up coming to Australia, where the search giant has a large presence — has started to grate a bit. And as we’ve been discussing this week, Australia is a very enthusiastic early adopter of both smartphones with nice NFC chips, as well as the Mastercard PayPass system which Google is using for Wallet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Inspired by comic strips and hated by font designers, new research suggests Comic Sans may help people remember what they read.
Comic Sans was released by Microsoft in 1994, as a font that looked friendly and childlike but most importantly did not look techie
.
But the font does not enjoy overwhelming support. A few years ago there was an internet campaign to have it banned, and there are forums where designers and typographers whinge about the font’s awkward weighting and haphazard kerning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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