Wildlife

Fennec Fox Pounces and Plays / San Diego Zoo

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16 September 2014
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A three-month-old fennec fox is full of energy and ready to play in the Children’s Zoo Nursery at the San Diego Zoo. The young male, who weighs just 680g, is in quarantine before training to serve as an animal ambassador for his species.

The nocturnal fox pup has spurts of energy, so animal care staff have been giving him lots of toys and food puzzles to help keep him busy. For example, meal worms are hidden in cardboard boxes or in his sand mound, which encourages the fox to use some of his natural searching and digging behaviours. The fox’s favourite toys to play with are small, plush toy mice — via Youtube

World

Costa Rica introduces postal address system

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15 September 2014
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Costa Rica has begun to reform its postal address system, which uses landmarks and directions instead of street names and numbers.

According to a study from the Inter-American Development Bank, the country loses an estimated $720m (£440m) a year in revenue associated with lost and undelivered mail.

The current system also causes problems for delivery workers — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Craft, Entertainment, Wildlife

Discord / morisato54

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14 September 2014
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For the spirit of chaos and disharmony, Discord sure looks tranquil in the shower. A good hot soak combined with a good back scrub is undeniably relaxing after all and it seems he also relieves excess tension by belting out his favourite songs, behind the seclusion of bathroom tiles at least. Or maybe it’s from being granted freedom and making new friends after a long, long time of seclusion?

Discord, the bathtub, and stand are carved from Philippine mahogany while Discord’s horns and goatee, the gears, scrub brush, and shower are made of narra hardwood. They’re hand painted in enamel with a protective flat lacquer top coat. Discord sits up at 7″ high while the entire piece measures 13″ high, 4″ wide, and 11″ long. It took 155 1/4 hours to complete — via Youtube

Craft, Entertainment, Wildlife

Cthulhu Tub Drain Stopper / LittleHorrorHouse

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14 September 2014
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These are new Halloween themed line of sculped drain stoppers. This ferocious Tentacle is Hungry for you. Coming up out of your drain… gonna get ya! Cast in hard durable plastic… comes complete with a silicone gasket to insure a nice deep bath… but who would want to submerse this collectible item? Stands about 4.5 inches tall — via Etsy

Entertainment

The Nether Regions / WÖNKY Films

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13 September 2014
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The Nether Regions from WÖNKY Films on Vimeo

Welcome to the Nether Regions; or by its offical title Hell – The Nether Regional Branch
Wielding untold power at the helm of a vast and mighty realm may sound glamorous but no one tells you about the sleepless nights and the unrelenting stress, but that’s what the Devil (Brian Blessed) must deal with on an eternal basis. Even in Hell, there’s no escape from bureaucracy but occasionally he does manage to slip away. With the most magical healing hands in all the nine circles of Hell and a sympathetic ear, it is Sven’s Massage Parlour to which the Devil makes his first port of call

Craft, Technology

3D Printed Prosthetic / Evan Kuester

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12 September 2014
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Evan Kuester, like many students, found his course work to be less than inspiring. However, he did have access to some really cool tools, such as a large 3D printer that started his mind wandering. Evan had noticed a fellow student on campus a few times. The thing that he noticed was that she had no left hand. Knowing that he had a 3D printer at his disposal, Evan found the inspiration he needed to embark on something wonderful. One day he worked up the nerve to simply walk up and introduce himself and propose an idea: Why not 3D print an aesthetically pleasing prosthetic? From that point forward, Evan and Ivania Castillo have been friends — via MAKE

Science

New digital map reveals stunning hidden archaeology of Stonehenge

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11 September 2014
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Photo: Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project

A host of previously unknown archaeological monuments have been discovered around Stonehenge as part of an unprecedented digital mapping project that will transform our knowledge of this iconic landscape — including remarkable new findings on the world’s largest super henge, Durrington Walls.

The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, led by the University of Birmingham in conjunction with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, is the largest project of its kind.

Remote sensing techniques and geophysical surveys have discovered hundreds of new features which now form part of the most detailed archaeological digital map of the Stonehenge landscape ever produced. The startling results of the survey, unveiled in full at the British Science Festival, include 17 previously unknown ritual monuments dating to the period when Stonehenge achieved its iconic shape. Dozens of burial mounds have been mapped in minute detail, including a long barrow (a burial mound dating to before Stonehenge) which revealed a massive timber building, probably used for the ritual inhumation of the dead following a complicated sequence of exposure and excarnation (defleshing), and which was finally covered by an earthen mound.

The project has also revealed exciting new — and completely unexpected — information on previously known monuments. Among the most significant relate to the Durrington Walls super henge, situated a short distance from Stonehenge. This immense ritual monument, probably the largest of its type in the world, has a circumference of more than 1.5 kilometres (0.93 miles).

A new survey reveals that this had an early phase when the monument was flanked with a row of massive posts or stones, perhaps up to three metres high and up to 60 in number — some of which may still survive beneath the massive banks surrounding the monument. Only revealed by the cutting-edge technology used in the project, the survey has added yet another dimension to this vast and enigmatic structure — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Craft

How to tie a lanyard knot / Stormdrane

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9 September 2014
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This video tutorial shows how to tie a lanyard knot with a loop.

This knot is also known as #787 in The Ashley Book of Knots, the sailor’s knife lanyard knot, marlinspike lanyard knot, single strand diamond knot, two strand diamond knot, and bosun’s whistle knot.

I used and 18 inch length of paracord for the demonstration, which is more than needed, but this will work with various length/diameters of cord.

After the knot is tied, I also show the adjustment of the loop size by finding one of the loop leads and creating slack, which is worked back thru the knot. You can do it the other way around to make the loop longer — via Youtube

Business, Politics, Rights, Technology

Copyright infringement is terrorism, screech the revolution’s losers

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8 September 2014
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You might have thought that Australia’s debate over online copyright infringement couldn’t get any sillier. But this week the journalists’ union came out as a fan of internet censorship, only to withdraw when they realised what they’d done. And Village Roadshow equated copyright infringement with terrorism and paedophilia, and came out in support of, oh, moonbats or something. Hard to say.

Village Roadshow’s submission (PDF) to the government’s copyright infringement discussion paper is the loopiest, with so much shouting and whining that it’s hard to take their hyperbole seriously.

The dangers posed by piracy are so great, the goal should be total eradication or zero tolerance. Just as there is no place on the internet for terrorism or paedophilia, there should be no place for theft that will impact the livelihoods of the 900,000 people whose security is protected by legitimate copyright, the submission says.

Oh get a grip.

The tone is clearly that of Village Roadshow’s co-CEO Graham Burke, whose manner at the best of times can most generously be described as eccentric. But to equate the abstract problem of a reduction in your profit margin with the damage done to the victims of child sexual abuse and the slaughter of innocents? That takes some chutzpah — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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