The latest scandal about the NSW Government disgusts me. It doesn’t disgust me that someone was using public resources to look (or not look) at porn, but rather because that technology was used in exactly the way most citizens don’t want it used — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in Britain say they have devised a new ultra-sensitive test which can diagnose the presence of the tuberculosis bacterium in one hour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed Family First Senator Steve Fielding has lost his Senate seat — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two tourists have been arrested after six human skulls were found in their hand luggage at Athens international airport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Piaget one-of-a-kind watch is proposed with an 18-carat white gold case, which measures 25.60 mm in diameter. On its side the model exposes musical instruments in black grand feu enamelling. The reverse side of the case features such images as a drum kit and a trumpet, joined by a portrait of a jazzman. The interior life of the new Polo Tourbillon Relatif watch is represented by the manufactory-made Piaget 608P mechanical hand-wound flying tourbillon movement. Suspended from the minute hand, the tourbillon carriage demonstrates 3 titanium bridges. It rotates once per minute on its own axis. With the center of rotation in the middle of the watch, the minute hand, in its turn, accomplishes one full revolution per hour — via Infoniac
The RSPCA says an animal cruelty case in Mackay in north Queensland is one of the worst it has seen in several years.
A 30-year-old man is due to face court next month after he allegedly glued a puppy’s eyes shut, punched and kicked it and dragged it along the ground — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not that eBay has an awareness problem in Australia, but Dr Mumbo understands that the company recently attempted to have some promotional products produced for it.
The company – a banner maker – was convinced it was a scam and refused to accept the business — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This Ring features a 2 1/2″ Octopus made of acrylic. The ring setting is an elastic band. We use elastic band for a few reasons: It’s flexible making it easy to wear a ring this big because it moves with your fingers and hand, it’s very comfortable, it won’t turn your finger green, and can get wet — via Etsy
New Zealand prime minister John Key has ordered an inquiry into how intelligence services granted high security clearance to a defence official accused of making wild claims on his resume — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, has pitted several homing pigeons – Rory and Tref – carrying a microSD card with 200MB of HD video data, against a fairly typical rural broadband connection to see which is faster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Imagine a metal that remembers
its original, cold-forged shape, and can return to that shape when exposed to heat or a magnetic pulse. Like magic out of a Harry Potter novel, such a metal could contract on command, or swing back and forth like a pendulum — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New Zealand retailers are selling synthetic urine to help people beat workplace drug tests for substances such as cannabis and ecstasy, a New Zealand newspaper says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Hungarian couple have been reduced to washing in the downstairs sink after the Lord of the Flies’ terrifying visage appeared in their bathroom … Having failed to shift Satan with bathroom cleaners, the couple will now call in an exorcist. If that doesn’t work, they will seal up the room forever
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Germany’s Greens, who are riding a wave of record support, may take control of a state government for the first time next year, co-leader Cem Oezdemir said on Thursday, and deal a severe blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
France remains opposed to a plan by the European Union’s executive to let each member country decide on whether to approve the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops, the French farm minister said on Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Telstra ADSL, cable, satellite, Next G and dial-up BigPond services were hit with a national email outage following a server glitch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The design of the watch has been inspired by speedometers. It is predominated by black and silver shades. The black dial is framed by circles that will make you think of racing tracks. The bezel demonstrates a finely graduated tachometer scale as a way to hint at the importance of precision in the fields of top- level automobile sports and fine watchmaking — via Infoniac
This traffic-stopping machine, called “Great Escape“, is a 1963 BMW R60/2 customized by Blitz Motorcycles of France. Hugo, Léo and Fred have restored this 594 cc (36 ci), shaft-driven Boxer twin, powdercoated the frame, fork and handlebar in matt black, and then used high-temperature black for the engine — via Bike EXIF
Sew up a snazzy chevron pillow from plain striped fabric with this handy tutorial from Dana at Made — via CRAFT
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