The folks over at Open Acta Mexico sent over their report on an open information meeting at the Ministry of the Economy in Mexico about ACTA last week. There were two oddities that they called attention to. The first is that there was an MPAA representative at the meeting, who apparently asked whether or not ACTA could be used to block access to damaging
sites like Wikileaks. As the Open Acta Mexico people asked, what does Wikileaks have to do with movies? It seems like an interesting question, though, and I’m assuming that the MPAA is using Wikileaks as an example of a site they deem “dangerous” to get the idea across, so that later when they designate other sites (say… The Pirate Bay….) as dangerous, they can use this to make the — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The owner of a Spanish old people’s home is under investigation after the deaths of two wheelchair-bound 80-year-olds he left in the back of a parked van — via redwolf.newsvine.com
German scientists said they had discovered a new rare and endangered ape species in the tropical rainforests between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by its distinctive song — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Works of art, collected by the late actor Dennis Hopper, are expected to fetch up to $13m (£8.3m) when sold at Christie’s auction house in New York — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Engineers at social network Twitter.com plugged a vulnerability in the company’s main Web page after attacks that exploited the hole may have hit more than 500,000 users — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010.
During the same timeframe the UK government put in over 1,000 such requests.
This is just two snippets from Google’s new Transparency Report, a set of tools designed to show censorship levels around the globe — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is the third revision of this project. From the first pin to the last took about two and a half semesters, though the final version was completed entirely within the first two months of Fall 2008. There are over 17,000 pins on the board, and the work was done entirely by students, mainly members of the CIS Student Association. The board is currently in the Student Computing Center at the University of the Fraser Valley.
This machine took 10th place at the 2005 World Championship of Bike Building, and it now sits in the garage of Robert M Malachowski, Jr. The Boardtrack caught the eye of Malachowski after he saw it in shows, magazines and Art of the Chopper book, and he eventually managed to buy it at an auction in Los Angeles — via Bike EXIF
A Vietnamese war child adopted by a British family has sold all of her possessions including a £500,000 home and sports car – to fund an orphanage in her home country — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As the weather gets more crisp and the calendar gets closer to October, I start to crave pumpkin. That’s why Katie Goodman’s recipe for pumpkin cinnamon rolls has me drooling at just the thought of the taste — via CRAFT
South African police have threatened a Johannesburg Twitter user with arrest for using the social media site to tweet regular updates on police road blocks and speed cameras — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The global cost of dementia this year will be £388bn – more than 1% of GDP – and governments are unprepared to meet the challenge, according to a report released today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nine people have been arrested and are to appear in a South African court on Wednesday for their alleged role in a rhino poaching syndicate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were “regularly” shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two officials at the Vatican Bank are being investigated as part of a money-laundering inquiry, reports say.
Rome prosecutors are investigating allegations that money-laundering laws have been broken, judicial sources are quoted as saying by news agencies — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
There are plenty of studies which show that dogs act as social catalysts, helping their owners forge intimate, long-term relationships with other people. But does that apply in the workplace? Christopher Honts and his colleagues at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant were surprised to find that there was not much research on this question, and decided to put that right. They wondered in particular if the mere presence of a canine in the office might make people collaborate more effectively. And, as they told a meeting of the International Society for Human Ethology in Madison, Wisconsin, on August 2nd, they found that it could — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A British woman who was caught on camera dumping a cat into a rubbish bin has been charged with causing unnecessary suffering to the animal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The heavy rain across much of Queensland might be causing flash flooding, cutting off towns and grounding flights, but it is also causing some people to rejoice — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 73-year-old Polish pensioner was shocked to find a two-metre anaconda peering up out of her toilet bowl Monday in her flat in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, local police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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