The blind will have greater access to the Internet through smart phones, and devices such as iPhones and Blackberrys will have to be hearing aid compatible, under legislation Congress has sent to the president.
Mark Richert of the American Foundation for the Blind said Wednesday that the measure was one of the most comprehensive bills in decades to improve access for the disabled. “It breaks down barriers for all of us,” said Richert, who is blind — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hollywood star Tony Curtis has died at his US home at the age of 85, according to ABC News — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hidden between the walls of this one-of-a-kind residence are piles of hemp, long touted as a sustainable material with many eco-friendly uses but rarely thought of as a building material. For this home, however, something special was required: the designer created it for his daughter, who has extreme chemical sensitivities that limited what could be used in its construction. Necessity, as they say, is the mother (or father) or invention Dornob
Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This… takes a visit to design*sponge and shows Grace how to make marbled paper which you can use to make a lampshade or necklace. The accompanying video is fun to watch! — via CRAFT
Firefighters rescuing cats from trees is a cliché they are unlikely ever to shake off.
But on Sunday at least there was a twist to the tale when firefighters from Leatherhead found an owner, Mike Wall, perched next to his feline friend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Media Watch last night quietly imploded a major story by Seven News reporter Mike Duffy who claimed last week that he had smuggled a suitcase of explosives into Dehii’s Jawaharlal Nehru stadium.
Duffy claimed that he walked into one of the venue with a case of explosive which could have triggered explosions if fitted with a detonator. He showed footage apparently walking past lax Indian security without being detected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Seattle family exposed to the virulent penny floor meme has contracted a more expensive (and therefore probably less contagious) mutant strain that metabolizes nickels instead of pennies. I do like the different color effect this achieves, but by my math (and depending on how much space you leave between the coins) penny flooring costs between $2.50 and $3.00 per square foot, whereas nickel flooring costs four times as much ($10-$12). I did not bother to compute costs for quarter-, dime- (ouch), or Sacagawea dollar-flooring, on the assumption that no one would ever go there. But if they do, please, nobody tell me about it — via CRAFT
Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.
The material or most common leaf used in leaf carving is the leaf of a Chinar tree. The Chinar tree is native to India, Pakistan and China. Chinar leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves — via MAKE
Matching Cushions, originally uploaded by redwolfoz.
Nestled in the hills of Mill Valley, California, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, Hillside House has just received certification as the first LEED for Homes Platinum custom home in Marin County, and one of only a handful in Northern California — via ArchDaily
Following on from other DDoS attacks in recent days, yesterday another wave took down the website of AFACT, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft. This latest assault, carried out in the name of Operation Payback, also had some very serious unintended side-effects — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Drivers on Australia’s busiest train line are voicing their alarm about an unprecedented number of dangerous mud holes along the track that have the potential to cause derailments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have identified a genetic defect linked to migraine which could point the way to new avenues of research and treatment targets — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The poaching of rhinos for their horns has risen dramatically over the last year and a half, conservationists report.
These crimes are fueled by demand for African rhino horn from the Asian market, where it can fetch more than $30,000 a pound ($60,000 per kilogram) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A swarm of thousands of earthquakes that struck the corner of Saudi Arabia nearest to Egypt in 2009 helped reveal that the area is unexpectedly volcanically active, scientists now report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The future of the $2.4 billion Waratah train project has been thrown into doubt, with the state government indicating it is unwilling to cover a potential $357 million funding shortfall prompted by the threatened withdrawal of four banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian man with criminal convictions for pretending to be a doctor has conned his way into a position at one of the most prestigious medical schools in Britain.
And despite being on a two-year-good behaviour bond, Vitomir Zepinic has continued the deception, telling an international war crimes tribunal he has a medical degree — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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