Fire crews have rescued a day-old kitten inadvertently
flushed down the toilet at a home in Sydney’s north-west — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The long arm of the law just got longer, with Victoria Police revealing they have used Facebook to serve an intervention order on a man who threatened, bullied and harassed
a former partner on the social networking site.
Victoria Police said the offender used Facebook to intimidate a woman in August this year, two days after a previous intervention order expired, which led to a Victorian court issuing another ban on him contacting the woman — via The Age
This is Rick Ross‘ interpretive concept of JF Sebastian’s chess table and chess set
Typewriter junk-sculptor Jeremy Meyer made this beautiful typewriter-part octopus as a gift — via boingboing
Intersex advocacy group Organisation Intersex International (OII) Australia is calling for more support from the GLBT community support in advocating for the rights of intersex people — via redwolf.newsvine.com
HIV infections have increased by almost five percent nationally since 2008, fuelled by a jump in heterosexual infections — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On the surface, it is just another modest minimalist houseboat with a sleek modern profile, floor-to-ceiling windows and a simple box-like form. But that is only half of its story (or rather, the top of two stories). While the living, dining and kitchen areas hover above the waterline, the bedroom, bathroom and other more private spaces are submerged below — via Dornob
Labor’s controversial ISP filter plan faces further delays as a meeting central to the policy is postponed yet again — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tom Bosley, one of the stars of the long-running 1970s television series Happy Days, has died of heart failure aged 83.
For 11 seasons, Bosley played long-suffering, gravel-voiced father Howard Cunningham.
He was the perfect foil for the show’s eternally cool Arthur The Fonz
Fonzarelli, played by Henry Winkler, and Cunningham’s less hip son Richie, played by Ron Howard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hemp is the far bigger economic issue hiding behind legal marijuana.
If the upcoming pot legalization ballot in California were decided by hemp farmers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, it would be no contest. For purely economic reasons, if you told the Constitutional Convention in 1787 that the nation they were founding would someday make hemp illegal, they would have laughed you out of the room — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified US documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as US officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistleblower website — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will this week host a series of meetings between international anti-spam regulators — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sumo wrestling has taken Mongolia by storm. Its male wrestlers have reached the peak of the sport in Japan, from where it originates, and in recent years, more and more women have been entering the ring — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A mother on the New South Wales south coast has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for forcing her under-aged daughter to work as a prostitute — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you’re anything like me, your main problem with tattoos is probably the fact that you’ve never been able to play Pong on them. But those problems seem to be over now that an international team of researchers, led by John Rogers at the University of Illinois, has developed a new flexible array of LEDs that can be implanted under the skin — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A register of around 20,000 artworks looted by the Nazis in World War II from Jewish families has been put online in the hopes of reuniting the paintings and objects with their rightful owners — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The company charged with installing Brisbane’s broadband network has recently been forced to abandon its sewer delivery method in a smaller United Kingdom project.
Lord Mayor Campbell Newman last week announced i3 Asia Pacific would install a $600 million fibre optic broadband network through Brisbane’s wastewater network within the next four years.
However, this website can reveal a similar scheme in the southern English city of Bournemouth had to be abandoned after the relationship between i3 and the local water authority soured — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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