The morons at Warner Bros (the same people who canned Angel and now want it back) have passed on Warren Ellis‘ Global Frequency, a wonderfully twisted modern-day SF TV series which may yet air, but the company that owns the series will now have to shop it around to other networks
A careless mistake by someone dropping a case of CDs allegedly containing forged documents used to create fake identities has led police to crack one of the largest and most sophisticated identity fraud rings in Australia
Swirly scratching posts for your cats, leather recliners and wheelie beds for you dogs and other gorgeously designed stuff from Postmodern Pets.
It ranges from the hideously expensive to the easily affordable — via boingboing
The irises I bought last year from Isabella’s Iris‘s Norma Hart have started to bloom.
Next off the mark is Duranus in a dark blue purple.
It’s only put its first flower out and should be flowering for the rest of the week.
The irises I bought last year from Isabella’s Iris‘s Norma Hart have started to bloom.
Second to bloom is Almost Dark in a dark violety purple.
It’s flowering quite nicely.
Robert Andrew Street, a Melbourne financial adviser, caught up in a Nigerian investment scam has been sentenced to five years and three months’ jail after he used AU$1 million of his clients’ money to pay the fees
required by the scammer
The very citizen journalists who very nearly pushed John Kerry into the White House have continued with their stellar work, uncovering an interesting photo naming policy on a shared Netscape/CNN site. The photo showed a lovable Laura Bush holding her ape-faced hubby. Until late last night, the photo was appropriately called asshole.jpg. It has now been changed to the more innocuous, but less amusing, georgelaura135.jpg
The retarded monkey boy has caused uproar in Greece with his decision to recognise the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as Macedonia
I’m very fond of ecoburials. This biodegradable coffin is made from starch plastic and holds the deceased in a fetal position — via BoingBoing
Capsula Mundi is planted in the earth like a seed. Above it, to signal the presence of occupied space, is a shallow concave circle dug out of the ground. In the center of which, a tree is planted, the essence of it chosen in life by the dead one, the care of this tree is the responsibility of everyone. The aim is ecological burial, literally a more natural way to decay.
The cemetery will, then, acquire a new look. No longer the overpopulated urban environment with congested architecture, it will be a natural one in contact with the earth, enveloping expansive areas, entire hills consecrated to the cult of the dead. Summarizing, it is a different landscape devoted to the worship of our ancestry: a sacred forest.
A brother and sister, Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, who sent unsolicited junk email to millions of AOL customers were convicted in the US’s first felony prosecution of distributors of spam. Each could receive jail terms
Telstra is to trial an extension of its ADSL broadband services, hoping to increase their reach beyond the current limit of approximately 4km from exchanges. Telstra will increase transmission limits from 56dB to 80dB on lines to approximately 1000 subscribers participating in the three-month trial. How far beyond present reach such a change could extend ADSL services had yet to be determined and no mention of distance was made in information provided to potential subscribers
Software patents could be used for anti-competitive practices, as large IT players form a cartel to pool or cross license patents in order to keep out smaller players
No idea where the photos come from originally, but they were found on the Portuguese language blog of a Brazilian student.
An Asian guy is making gorgeously intricate bugs and dragons and birds and other critters from bendy drinking straws — via BoingBoing
Anti-spyware vendor Aluria Software has partnered with WhenU of WhenUSave
and SaveNow
infamy. They’ve removed WhenU from their spyware/malware definition lists, certified their applications as safe, and they deny that money was involved
Google has fixed a security flaw in its Gmail Web-based e-mail service that allowed attackers to hijack users’ e-mail accounts
The Cleveland Clinic says it is the first institution to receive review board approval of human facial transplant for someone severely disfigured by burns or disease. Several independent medical teams around the world also are pursuing the procedure. The Cleveland Clinic said its approval on 15 October followed ten months of debate on medical, ethical and psychological issues. It has no current patients or donors for the procedure — via meta-roj blog
A few weeks back, the New York Times ran an article on people modifying their flash drives. I’m assuming it was a slow news week as the extent of the modifications amounted to crappy little stickers.
A far more imaginative flash drive mod is using a Pez container as a case for the unit — via boingboing
Regional player SP Telemedia has bolstered its presence in the city with the acquisition of failed telco Comindico
The broadband battle is intensifying as dial-up Internet dies in Australia. The past few weeks has seen Internet providers deliver a raft of intensely competitive broadband deals — albeit conditional — as research compiled on behalf of Ericsson reveals that the number of broadband subscribers in Australia is likely to overtake dial-up by mid-2006
Starbucks has launched an aggressive plan to ensure coffee sold in its stores comes from environmentally friendly farms paying workers a fair wage. By 2007, Starbucks expects that 60% of its coffee will come from farmers following strict rules on everything from forestation to pesticides to labor practices. About 10% of Starbucks’ coffee is bought from suppliers following such rules now
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