Whatever it is, Neil Patrick Harris is my generation’s feel-good gay. And it doesn’t hurt that he’s in a long-term relationship with a handsome young man with perfect hollywood-spouse credentials: a part-time actor who doesn’t steal the limelight — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Greens are demanding to know how many children will be held in ‘prison-like’ detention centres following next weekend’s federal election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
TortoiseSVN is my personal favorite SVN client, unfortunately it’s only fully supported on Windows. With a little bit of hacking, though, TortoiseSVN is usable on OSX. You can checkout, commit, update view the repo, etc. At this point there are no overlays or Finder contextual menus. These instructions are not for the novice user, but chances are if you’re using SVN it shouldn’t be a problem.
A tangible consequence of India’s shift to a neo-liberal economic model has been the flood of suicides among farmers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Swedish company Flattr has opened up the beta-test version of its social micropayment platform to everyone, the company said in a blog post on Thursday
Until now an invitation was needed to use the service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police raiding a drug den in the Italian capital have been confronted by an aggressive albino python which was used to intimidate addicts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Czech Republic may allow North Korea to repay its debt with ginseng roots — via redwolf.newsvine.com
IT is the name of Scotland’s oldest shopping mall, where generations of couples have sealed their love with diamonds, silver and gold.
Yet an ugly split over who owns the name of the Argyll Arcade has finally been resolved after an expensive legal battle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US doctors who thought a dark mass on an X-ray was a tumour were surprised to find a pea sprout embedded in the patient’s lung — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian company is offering a watery alternative to cremation or burial, using a process it says ”totally eliminates pollution” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nine people have camped out for several blustery winter days to secure a plot at a Melbourne cemetery — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Historic mayoral robes are among thousands of items lost in a massive blaze that destroyed the Liverpool City Council chambers overnight — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Plant scientists around the world are warning that hundreds of years of accumulated agricultural heritage are in danger of being plowed under after a Russian court ruled today (August 11) that the land occupied by a world-renowned plant bank on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg may be transferred to the Russian Housing Development Foundation, which plans to build houses on the site — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A human foot has been found on a beach in North East Lincolnshire — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 74-year-old Devon man is “gutted” after being asked to stop walking his owls by a busy Plymouth road — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A South Seattle man who police say threw a bucket containing feces, urine and vomit at a woman was arrested Wednesday night for investigation of assault — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Peanut butter bars are the perfect thing to serve at a party or picnic. Or if you are like me… just because on a Thursday night. They are easy to make and a little addicting — via Make it Do
I found a neat service that works wonders for TextEdit and (I’m sure) a bunch of other text editors. It’s free for the downloading from Ron Fleckner in Melbourne, Australia. What you’ll get is a ZIP file that expands into a little, 86KB application file called Change Case — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog
What I came up with is a series of hardware checks that anyone can perform right after taking an iPhone 4 out of the box and syncing it for the first time. This is by no means the only way to test an iPhone 4’s hardware for defects, and there are probably more comprehensive methods out there, but the following procedure is basic enough for almost any user to follow. Plus, it should catch any glaring hardware defects in an iPhone 4 right away — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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