A prestigious economics think-tank of the Japanese Government has published a study which concludes that online piracy of anime shows actually increases sales of DVDs. The conclusion stands in sharp contrast with the entertainment industry’s claims that illicit
downloading is leading to billions of dollars in losses worldwide. It also puts the increased anti-piracy efforts of the anime industry in doubt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Quadrature du Net’s repository of #cablegate cables related to ACTA, the secretive copyright treaty reveal that governments all over the world were pissed off that the USA and Japan wouldn’t let them discuss the treaty with their citizens and industry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Turnbull Griffin Haesloop designed the Branson School Student Commons in Ross, California.
The Branson School is an independent high school occupying seventeen acres of hilly terrain in the residential community of Ross, California, just north of San Francisco. The new 7,550 s.f. Student Commons building is located in a narrow glen in the center of the campus, along the pedestrian path between the upper and lower campuses — via CONTEMPORIST
In Africa, if you play music in an open space, any music, then people will generally come. It is the way to reach people, to bring them together.
So says Sister Fa, a Senegalese urban soul and hip-hop star who has been lending her voice to a remarkable new drive against female circumcision in 12 of the countries worst affected by the practice across the continent.
The first report into a United Nations project that began in 2008 has shown remarkable success rates with more than 6,000 villages and communities in six countries already abandoning the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) – also known as cutting or female circumcision – with the numbers growing every month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Genetically modified crops will be allowed to enter the UK food chain without the need for regulatory clearance for the first time under controversial plans expected to be approved this week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mobile phone firm Vodafone has accused the Egyptian authorities of using its network to send unattributed text messages supporting the government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For years they wondered who was behind the unique calling card.
To unmask the shopping strip’s midnight-to-dawn caller, a North Ryde restaurateur who had borne the brunt of the deposits took the matter into his own hands.
Someone was leaving behind human faeces on his pavement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Your favourite tweet wrapped around your finger Your favourite tweet wrapped around your finger.
What’s a tweet-ring? 140 characters, super sharp engraved on both sides of a ring
By pressing the Option
key while opening the Time Machine menu bar icon you see two new options, Verify Backups
and Browse other Time Machine Disks
.
The Second option is from 10.5 but as far as I can tell the Verify Backups option is new — via Mac OS X Hints
Scientists in New Zealand say they have linked the modern-day decline of a common forest shrub with the local extinction of two pollinating birds over a century ago.
They say the disappearance of two birds – the bellbird and stitchbird – from the upper North Island of the country has lead to a slow decline in common plants, including the forest shrub New Zealand gloxinia.
Ship rats and stoats imported into the country around the year 1870 are blamed for the birds’ demise — via coloradobob1.newsvine.com
How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day?
Simple.
You scrape data from Facebook — via jedipunk.newsvine.com
Let me just begin by saying… OMG so many fricking suckers… that took SOOO long. And then i exploded — via deviantART
Guy Bolton of Greasy Kulture magazine has just sent in this show-stopping Honda custom, which started life as a 1974 CL360. Builder Aaron Elliott bought it as a shitbox
from his local classifieds for $100. He’s primarily a car guy, and has worked with Cole Foster at the world-renowned US custom shop Salinas Boys for over a decade. But he couldn’t resist this cheap two-wheeled project, which he thought might have potential
— via Bike EXIF
Based on a block form some openings are carved to illuminate the interior space or in most cases tearing and piercing the building to its inner courtyard. The building, designed by Imago, is turned inside out: the exterior façades look opaque, dense, with just a few carves in the main points of the building like the stairs and the main entrance. The interior façades appear as a translucid and continuous glass curtain wall that embrace the internal patio shaded by proposed trees — via ArchDaily
Although most timepieces from the major Italian watch brand tend to be rather all-alike-style, the new Panerai Radiomir 3 Days Platino (PAM 373) manual-wind watch stands out from the crowd with its rather unusual dial layout.
As you can see on the photos, the new watch comes with its usual sandwich-style dial, but has the signature Arabic numerals replaced with baton-shaped hour markers: three singles at 3, 6, and 9 o’clock, and a doubled one at 12 o’clock — via World Watch Review
The design [Pichler & Traupmann Architekten] of the building playfully responds to the restrictions imposed by the building regulations as well as to the schedule of accommodation for the different floors, and develops an encasing figure that encloses all the activities of the bank in a continuous form. The continuity of the building envelope conveys a sense of identity to both staff and customers, while the building’s volumetric shaping ensures it a striking role in the appearance of the town. It is made of aluminium sandwich panels whose coloring might awaken associations with coins or the bank’s corporate identity. Narrow window openings at calculated positions in the façades respond to the need to screen people who work at computers from glare — via ArchDaily
I was bored one day so i sat around and made some octo jewery. a ring and necklace, out of polymer clay and painted them up — via deviantART
It is always a pleasure to see a second-tier brand going the hard way and turning a simple (and common) complication into a unique feature of the watch. The new Hamilton Khaki SkyMaster UTC automatic watch is the latest example of such an approach — via World Watch Review
A groups of scientists in Melbourne are this morning claiming to have unlocked what they think could be the key to curing HIV — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Children with Type 1 diabetes are nearly 10 times as likely to also have a viral infection than healthy children, Australian research suggests — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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