The Usonian is a computer enclosure designed in the architectural style of Frank Lloyd Wright, with window walls modelled on the Bachman-Wilson house. Creator Jeffrey Stephenson adds: The colors are FLW’s favorite, Cherokee Red, and Covered Wagon, the color of Falling Water’s cantilevered balconies
— via Boing Boing
An evangelical offshoot of Hillsong Church has opened a School of the Supernatural
offering a course it reportedly says teaches the power to cure cancer, help women conceive and bring the dead back to life.
Seventy people have already enrolled in the six-month course on how to perform miracles and run by the Westlife Church in outer Brisbane, The Queensland Times reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A north-west Queensland resident says kilometre-long trains are blocking access to his property for hours at a time.
Jay Mackenzie has to cross a rail line to enter his property at Cloncurry, in north-west Queensland, but he says a kilometre-long train has regularly blocked the road since late last month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The attempt to use super-injunctions to gag the media in the internet age reached new levels of absurdity yesterday.
A Scottish newspaper became the first mainstream British publication to identify the Premier League footballer who is attempting to prevent discussion on Twitter about his affair with the former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas. Meanwhile it was reported that a High Court judge had referred an unidentified journalist to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, to consider a criminal prosecution for breaching a privacy injunction with a tweet about another footballer.
The move could potentially mean that criminal proceedings would be brought against 30,000 people who have broken one or other of the contested injunctions by tweeting in recent days the identities of those involved — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As if rising ticket prices and chatterbox patrons weren’t enough, moviegoers in the Boston area are being left in the dark thanks to the regular misuse of the lenses on new digital projection equipment at many of the region’s major theater chains. But almost no one at the theaters or their corporate headquarters is willing to talk about it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After almost a month of speculation, James Packer, along with a prominent hedge fund, has moved to invest in daily deals sites Catch of the Day and Scoopon.
Packer’s Consolidated Press Holdings and New York-based Tiger Global Management teamed up with Andrew Bassat, co-founder of Seek, and Glenn Poswell of Gannet Capital in a consortium bid to pick up a massive stake in the daily deals sites.
The consortium is set to control 40 per cent of the deals business, owned by Gabby and Hezi Leibovich, with the investment pegged at $80 million — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Finely crafted with exquisite detail! You’ve never seen anything this cool in your life! There’s a hundred different ways to display this; hang it around your neck, dashboard mirror, your wall or put it somewhere cool like your fishtank, desktop Zen garden or just in a display case — via Etsy
A group of London designers got together with a theme, Brothers Grimm, to exhibit and create events with our personal work. Each event is based on a Brothers Grimm tale — via Duffy London
The New South Wales Government says it will introduce legislation into Parliament this week making life sentences compulsory for people who murder police officers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
8.5″ x 11″ digital print on 71 lb. high gloss photo paper. Artwork by Steve Rolston.
Originally created for a Monsters & Dames
artbook, this illustration features a vampire gangster, a werewolf with a tommy gun, and a squidgirl I’ve come to call The Chthulhu Flapper
— via Etsy
Check out this lively, modern chicken coop by Nicole Starnes Taylor of MAKE Design Studio. Taylor designed it for three chickens and their owners in urban Seattle. With a screen floor and castors, the mobile hen house fertilizes the underlying ground. Also, the coop has a hinged door for easy access and can be used as a chicken tractor if need be. Taylor built the 15 square-foot coop with salvaged framing lumber — via Jetson Green
The government is to be urged to relax UK intellectual property laws to make it easier for people’s work to be parodied, potentially paving the way for the more robust humour seen in US programmes such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — via redwolf.newsvine.com
3M Library Systems announced it will launch an e-book lending service that will let iPad, Nook and Android tablet owners borrow e-books from local libraries. The service, called 3M Cloud Library, will include software, hardware and content accessible from special apps or in libraries via touch-screen terminals. Publisher partners include Random House and IPG, with more expected to arrive soon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle.
Archaeological excavations of the Tollense Valley in northern Germany unearthed fractured skulls, wooden clubs and horse remains dating from around 1200 BC.
The injuries to the skulls suggest face-to-face combat in a battle perhaps fought between warring tribes, say the researchers.
The paper, published in the journal Antiquity, is based primarily on an investigation begun in 2008 of the Tollense Valley site, which involved both ground excavations and surveys of the riverbed by divers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
People have been advocating three different approaches: conditional stylesheets, CSS hacks, or conditional classnames. All these techniques have their pros and cons. Let’s take a look — via Mathias Bynens
— via The Oatmeal
For years, a team of computer scientists at two University of California campuses has been looking deeply into the nature of spam, the billions of unwanted e-mail messages generated by networks of zombie computers controlled by the rogue programs called botnets. They even coined a term, spamalytics
, to describe their work.
Now they have concluded an experiment that is not for the faint of heart: for three months they set out to receive all the spam they could (no quarantines or filters need apply), then systematically made purchases from the Web sites advertised in the messages.
The hope, the scientists said, was to find a choke point
that could greatly reduce the flow of spam. And at the annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Californoia, they will report that they think they have found it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Users of the Google search engine like it because it’s fast, but a team at Stanford University has come up with ways to make it up to five times faster
A wide-ranging study of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland has revealed just how wildlife-rich the area is, with researchers finding more than 260 species, including a new species of frog — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A comparatively cheap vitamin D supplement could change the way sufferers of multiple sclerosis are treated for the disease — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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