AOL has acquired Michael Arrington’s US-based technology blog TechCrunch in a deal thought to be worth about $25m — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When rioters took to the streets of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, in September, the government swiftly called out the police. When investigators discovered that protesters mobilized via text messaging, the government called on private cellphone firms to turn off text messaging — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Iran’s state TV says the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has received its first three squadrons of radar-evading flying boats — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Privacy concerns for Google’s Street View may now extend to penguins, following the service’s extension to a seventh continent – Antarctica — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Thailand’s 78-year-old queen has been admitted to hospital in Bangkok, where she was visited on Friday by her husband King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who has himself been hospitalised for the past year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Government has cut funding to a national flying squad of disease detecting specialists that has been operating for nearly 20 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Stephen J. Cannell, an indefatigable writer-creator-producer who was among TV’s most prolific suppliers of primetime programmming, died Thursday of melanoma at his home in Pasadena. He was 69 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police said Greathouse traveled from Kansas City early Wednesday to allegedly kill Jamison because she believed that he made derogatory postings about her on the internet.
Too serious — via tyler.newsvine.com
A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador after President Rafael Correa accused the opposition and security forces of a coup attempt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An ancient archway at Scone Palace in Perthshire has been destroyed after a van crashed into it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Before Infrastructure Director Chris Strandt went on vacation he played a prank on the maintenance team by covering everything in their office with aluminum foil. While Chris was away, the maintenance team retaliated by making his office disappear. They removed the door to his office and filled it with drywall. Accented with a white board that charts the total Win of this prank — via liquidweb
The mysteries of bat sex and whale snot and an unusual way to deal with human pain were the focus on Thursday of the annual tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel Prizes.
ENGINEERING: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Agnes Rocha-Gosselin and Diane Gendron for developing a method to collect whale snot using a remote control helicopter.
MEDICINE: Simon Rietveld, Ilja van Beest for investigating asthma on a rollercoaster.
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi, Dan Bebber, Mark Fricker for using slime mould to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks.
PHYSICS: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams and Patricia Priest for demonstrating that wearing socks on the outside of your shoes helps prevent slipping on ice.
PEACE: Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston for confirming that swearing helps relieve pain.
PUBLIC HEALTH: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews and Larry Taylor for determining that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
ECONOMICS: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk.
CHEMISTRY: Eric Adams, Scott Socolofsky and Stephen Masutani for disproving the belief that water and oil don’t mix.
MANAGEMENT: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if promotions were made at random.
BIOLOGY: Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang of China and Gareth Jones for scientifically documenting fruit bat fellatio — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Well this sure isn’t your everyday Cartier. Limited to 30 pieces, this platinum cased watch comes with a retail price of $510,000. Yea, that’s right. This Cartier watch will set you back a half million dollars. The movement is made by Renaud & Papi (APRP). I got to see the movements being put together at the factory. You can also see some shots of the completed watch as well. The movement has a perpetual calendar, tourbillon, and monopusher chronograph. Seem like a lot of money? Well it is… but don’t forget that Cartier brand premium — via A Blog to Read
Tasmania’s Cabinet Secretary has congratulated police for refusing to allow a Hobart lawyer to shoot native animals at his local golf club — via redwolf.newsvine.com
French police are hunting thieves who sneaked on to a farmer’s land under cover of darkness and harvested his entire crop of cabernet sauvignon grapes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When Graham Sippo and Patricia Schmidt finish building their home at Billen Cliffs Village it will be one fine joint.
The couple are building what is believed to be Australia’s first home using hemp as a building material — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Kick Ass is a JavaScript bookmarklet created by Erik Andersson that turns the entire web into a game of Asteroids. Just head over to the site, drag the bookmarklet into your tool bar and start destroying stuff.
Kick Ass will add a triangular spaceship to any page. Use the arrow keys to steer and the space bar to shoot. And remember, like the site says, “it’s cooler if you make your own sound effects” — via webmonkey
Two and a half years ago, [Chris] Downey had just started running the architecture practice at a stylish green-design firm. A few weeks after he took the job, he noticed something wrong with his vision. A tumor was wrapped around his optic nerve; he needed surgery right away. When he woke up, everything was blurry, but he could see. “Five days later,” he said, “it all went black.”
Downey returned to the office. But he couldn’t use design software. He couldn’t read plans. A few months passed, and the firm was caught up in the housing crash. Downey scheduled a talk with the owner, an old friend, to figure out how he could be more useful. He was at a workstation, up on a loft, when she came to see him, and he could tell by her footfalls that it wasn’t going to be the kind of conversation he had been planning to have.
San Francisco was full of laid-off architects. Downey could be pretty sure he was the only blind one. It turned out to be an interesting credential. SmithGroup and another firm, the Design Partnership, hired him as a consultant — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US copyright reforms set to pull the rug from pirate-pushing websites leaves the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for dead, according to a copyright lawyer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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