The Usonian is a computer enclosure designed in the architectural style of Frank Lloyd Wright, with window walls modelled on the Bachman-Wilson house. Creator Jeffrey Stephenson adds: The colors are FLW’s favorite, Cherokee Red, and Covered Wagon, the color of Falling Water’s cantilevered balconies
— via Boing Boing
The attempt to use super-injunctions to gag the media in the internet age reached new levels of absurdity yesterday.
A Scottish newspaper became the first mainstream British publication to identify the Premier League footballer who is attempting to prevent discussion on Twitter about his affair with the former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas. Meanwhile it was reported that a High Court judge had referred an unidentified journalist to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, to consider a criminal prosecution for breaching a privacy injunction with a tweet about another footballer.
The move could potentially mean that criminal proceedings would be brought against 30,000 people who have broken one or other of the contested injunctions by tweeting in recent days the identities of those involved — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After almost a month of speculation, James Packer, along with a prominent hedge fund, has moved to invest in daily deals sites Catch of the Day and Scoopon.
Packer’s Consolidated Press Holdings and New York-based Tiger Global Management teamed up with Andrew Bassat, co-founder of Seek, and Glenn Poswell of Gannet Capital in a consortium bid to pick up a massive stake in the daily deals sites.
The consortium is set to control 40 per cent of the deals business, owned by Gabby and Hezi Leibovich, with the investment pegged at $80 million — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The government is to be urged to relax UK intellectual property laws to make it easier for people’s work to be parodied, potentially paving the way for the more robust humour seen in US programmes such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — via redwolf.newsvine.com
3M Library Systems announced it will launch an e-book lending service that will let iPad, Nook and Android tablet owners borrow e-books from local libraries. The service, called 3M Cloud Library, will include software, hardware and content accessible from special apps or in libraries via touch-screen terminals. Publisher partners include Random House and IPG, with more expected to arrive soon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
People have been advocating three different approaches: conditional stylesheets, CSS hacks, or conditional classnames. All these techniques have their pros and cons. Let’s take a look — via Mathias Bynens
For years, a team of computer scientists at two University of California campuses has been looking deeply into the nature of spam, the billions of unwanted e-mail messages generated by networks of zombie computers controlled by the rogue programs called botnets. They even coined a term, spamalytics
, to describe their work.
Now they have concluded an experiment that is not for the faint of heart: for three months they set out to receive all the spam they could (no quarantines or filters need apply), then systematically made purchases from the Web sites advertised in the messages.
The hope, the scientists said, was to find a choke point
that could greatly reduce the flow of spam. And at the annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Californoia, they will report that they think they have found it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Users of the Google search engine like it because it’s fast, but a team at Stanford University has come up with ways to make it up to five times faster
With cybercrime now the second largest criminal activity in the world, measures such as the creation of an Internet Interpol
and better cooperation between international law enforcement agencies are needed if criminals are to be curtailed in the future, Kaspersky Labs founder and security expert, Eugene Kaspersky, has argued.
Speaking at AusCERT 2011, the Moscow-based Kaspersky said the last five years had proved to be the Golden Age
of cyber crime with the criminal activity now ranked second only to drug trafficking as the most significant criminal activity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Full blooded, empty-headed, time-rich, girlfriend-poor Aussie blokes, including a trio of North Melbourne footballers, are suffering a savage attack from media and the public over their membership to an exclusive mens-only Facebook group called the Brocial Network
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Android users risk exposing their Google calendars, contacts and other personal details when logging on to unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, say researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany. A weakness in ClientLogin, the authentication system used to access Google services, means that 99.7 per cent of Android smartphones could be attacked — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whether it’s recipes, driving directions, or complex mechanic’s work, Tildee‘s free tutorial creator can help make laying out all the steps easy. Tutorials on the site can be searched, browsed, and viewed as well.
If you’re looking to share a file with a few of your friends, it doesn’t get any simpler than Fyels. Just drag and drop a file onto their web page, and it will spit out a short link that you can send to your friends.
Web typography used to be something of an oxymoron, but recent browser advances and tools like Typekit have helped bring web typography out of the dark ages with custom fonts. Thanks to JavaScript libraries like Lettering.js you can tweak those custom fonts — targeting specific words or letters — and adjust them to your liking.
Lettering.js even makes it possible to do custom kerning on the web. Kerning refers to the space between characters in proportional width fonts. CSS has long offered the letter-spacing property, but because it applies to an entire element — for example an h2 tag — what you’re really doing with letter-spacing is adjusting the tracking.
A new bill before parliament will significantly increase ASIO’s powers to conduct offshore surveillance and extend surveillance to organisations such as WikiLeaks, just months after legislation widened ASIO’s power to share the results of its spying — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police have admitted arresting a technology journalist covering an IT security conference after yesterday denying it.
The Queensland Police Media Unit last night flatly denied a claim by Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb that he was arrested at AusCERT in Surfers Paradise.
@bengrubb was not arrested. He was interviewed briefly by police,
the unit said on Twitter, referencing Grubb’s handle on the website.
This morning the unit posted another update saying it had made a mistake.
“Our bad @bengrubb was arrested for questioning briefly Our tweet last night was based on information provided at the time Apologies (sic),
it said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For the last decade, hosting a large scale web application has been a daunting task, reserved only for experts. Not anymore; when Amazon opened its server architecture, everything changed. Computer hardware moved to the cloud, and became available to any and all developers. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress in the cloud — via Nettuts+
WorldTimeBuddy (WTB) is designed to be the easiest way to lookup times and plan meetings around the World – all here, at your fingertips, in a single convenient page.
The system is powered by the same sources for timezone, daylight savings and geolocation data that most other sites use. The key differentiator is in the user experience, which, they believe, is paramount
Electric power cuts in India are frequent and all over the country. But information on the extent of the problem has been largely anecdotal.
Now a volunteer group is working with a large number of Indian users of Twitter to create an infographic based on Twitter messages from various parts of the country, reporting power failures from various cities and towns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ongoing debate over the supposed dangers posed by mobile phone usage and wireless signals has exploded once again. An influential European committee has called for a ban on mobile phones and Wi-Fi networks in schools – but industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) has denounced the report as an unbalanced political assessment, not a scientific report
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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