Hands up who remembers The Curiosity Show?
The South Australian production ran on Nine from for 18 years, from 1972 to 1990.
Presenters Dr Rob Morrison and Deane Hutton will reunite tonight and across the weekend atScience Alive!
in Adelaide, part of National Science Week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The incredibly popular HBO series Game of Thrones is a fascinating case study. Not only in terms of constructing and maintaining dramatic tension in a TV series, but also in how not to distribute content.
It’s proof that content distribution needs a new model. The show has become not only one of the most successful series aired on the US subscription network, but more notably, it is the most pirated TV show of all time.
Moments after each episode screened on HBO in the US, record numbers of people were downloading the program on torrent sites. It averaged around 3m downloads per episode, a high proportion of them in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brett Parson — via PLANET-PULP
A couple of wildebeest contemplate crossing a river — via Bird Box Studio
Fans still holding tickets for a cancelled 1979 show in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who can finally use them.
The Who’s 1979 concert in Providence was cancelled by then-Mayor Buddy Cianci, who cited safety concerns after a stampede before a show in Cincinnati, Ohio, killed 11 people. The band hasn’t been to Providence since.
The Who this week announced it will end its latest tour in Providence on Feb. 26 at the same venue where its show was cancelled 33 years ago, now called the Dunkin Donuts Centre.
General Manager Lawrence Lepore said on Thursday the venue will honour tickets from the cancelled 1979 show. Lepore said many ticket holders got refunds for the cancelled show in 1979, but others may have held on to their tickets as memorabilia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of Australia’s peak consumer groups has recommended the Federal Government investigate whether region-coding and charging Australians higher prices for products based on Internet IP address should be banned, in the context of an investigation which has found little justification for average Australian price hikes of 50 percent on technology goods.
In May, following a public campaign on the issue by Labor MP Ed Husic, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications called for submissions to help inform an inquiry into pricing of technology goods and services in Australia, publishing the terms of reference for the initiative on its web site. The results have so far demonstrated a strong groundswell of public anger about ongoing markups on technology goods sold in Australia.
Many of the submissions from users focused on the fact that online stores such as Apple’s iTunes, Valve’s Steam, Microsoft’s Xbox Live, Sony’s PlayStation Network, Amazon’s Kindle store and Adobe’s software store charged Australians higher prices for the exact same software and content than residents of other countries, particularly countries such as the US. Companies such as Microsoft have justified the charges based on the increased cost of doing business in Australia, but in its own submission to the inquiry (PDF), consumer watchdog organisation CHOICE said there was in fact little justification for the price rises and that the legality of geo-IP blocking should be investigated — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rollins describes the seminal moment when he decided to leave his job as manager of Haagen Dazs to become the lead singer of Black Flag — via Big Think
Grace Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock by Edward Quinn, 1954 — via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Journalists have an almost superhuman ability to hold forth on the ethics of our own profession. And yet, despite endless talk about self-plagiarism
or some such, we have been wilfully blind to the more grievous ethical breaches carried out by revered reporters who cover the so-called superhero beat
. Perhaps we are unwilling to admit that those who write about truth and justice are the least likely to champion transparency and proper attribution. Here are some examples of the most severe offenders:
Peter Parker
Imbued with the proportional strength, speed and ethical judgement of a spider, Parker has made a career of taking photos of himself in a mask and selling them to his employers. Some might argue that Parker is merely a symptom of the poor wages awarded to photojournalists, and the intense pressures they face (I want pictures! Pictures of Spider-Man,
his editor regularly exhorts). Amid such a cut-throat environment, this promising talent has clearly learned that with great power comes great ethical lapses.
Spider Jerusalem
Finally, a journalist whose ethics are beyond reproach. Hound of truth. Scourge of authority. Ignoring the guns and wanton drug use, here is a reporter we can all look up to — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is Dave Perillo’s piece for the Breaking Gifs the Breaking Bad Art Project put on by AMC and Gallery 1988 — via Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!
With his stocky build, bulging eyes and gap-toothed, pugnacious features, Ernest Borgnine, who has died aged 95, was one of Hollywood’s leading character actors.
His looks meant he often ended up playing the heavy, so it was, perhaps, a mark of his versatility that his only Oscar came for his role as the good natured Marty, in the 1955 film of the same name.
He added longevity to that versatility, being nominated for an Emmy when he was in his 90s.
Ernest Effron Borgnino was born on 24 January 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut, the son of Italian immigrants. His parents moved to New Haven in 1923 and changed the family name to Borgnine.
He had no early ambition to be an actor and, on leaving high school in 1935, he enlisted in the United States Navy. Discharged in 1941 he joined up again after Pearl Harbor and served until the end of the war.
On his return to civilian life he began working in a number of factory jobs until his mother suggested that his forceful personality might find more fulfilling expression on the stage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On WTVR CBS 6 in Richmond, VA, weatherman Aaron Justus provides the last weather forecast you’ll ever need
Is there anything better than going to Japan and then seeing Totoro with an umbrella waiting for a bus? Now that’s simply magical. I sure wish he was my neighbour — via Neatorama
On 20 January, New Zealand police showed up in style at the mansion of flamboyant Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, swarming over the property and bringing along two police helicopters. They cut their way through locks and into the home’s panic room
, where Dotcom was hiding in apparent fear of a kidnapping or robbery. They seized 18 luxury vehicles. They secured NZ$11 million in cash from bank accounts. And they grabbed a whopping 150TB of data from Dotcom’s many digital devices.
It was definitely not as simple as knocking at the front door,
said Detective Inspector Grant Wormald in a police press release at the time.
It was also totally illegal. That’s the ruling of New Zealand High Court judge Helen Winkelmann, who today ripped the “invalid” warrant and the subsequent search and seizure in a 56-page decision.
The ruling marks a major win for the Kim Dotcom defence, which is trying to prevent their client from being extradited to the US on a host of copyright and money laundering charges. Still, it’s not yet clear if Dotcom will actually get his data back; the FBI already flew to New Zealand, imaged much of the data in March, and FedExed it back to the US — via Ars Technica
Michael Curtiz’s best director Oscar for the movie classic Casablanca is going up for auction this week and is expected to fetch $US2.5 million ($A2.49 million) to $US3 million ($A2.99 million), according to auctioneers Nate D Sanders.
The Academy Award won in 1943 by the Hungarian-born Curtiz, who died in 1961, will be auctioned on June 28 by the Los Angeles-based company.
Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, and set in the Moroccan city during World War II, is one of the most enduring romances in American cinema. In 2007, the Los Angeles-based American Film Institute named it as the third best film of the past 100 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MP3s are so natural to the Internet now that it’s almost hard to imagine a time before high-quality compressed music. But there was such a time — and even after MP3
entered the mainstream, organising, ripping, and playing back one’s music collection remained a clunky and frustrating experience.
Enter Winamp, the skin-able, customizable MP3 player that really whips the llama’s ass
” In the late 1990s, every music geek had a copy; llama-whipping had gone global, and the big-money acquisition offers quickly followed. AOL famously acquired the company in June 1999 for $80-$100 million — and Winamp almost immediately lost its innovative edge.
Winamp’s 15-year anniversary is now upon us, with little fanfare. It’s almost as if the Internet has forgotten about the upstart with the odd slogan that looked at one time like it would be the company to revolutionise digital music. It certainly had the opportunity.
There’s no reason that Winamp couldn’t be in the position that iTunes is in today if not for a few layers of mismanagement by AOL that started immediately upon acquisition,
Rob Lord, the first general manager of Winamp, and its first-ever hire, told Ars — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This quilt, by Craftster member graverobbergirl, is a great tribute to this show, featuring a plethora of Daleks floating around the TARDIS — via Craftster
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