Tigar Playing, Tigar in Sunlight and Caught It!, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Neat bar signage. Road trip to Seattle, WA, originally uploaded by Megan Asche
Plenty of tradition and handcraft—combined with high-tech, where it outperforms handcraft: That is NOMOS Glashütte. All our movements are built in-house and by ourselves in Glashütte. This also applies to our watches — Tangente, Orion, Zürich and all the other models — many of which are already considered classics. You can find out how we do this by visiting us in Glashütte and taking a tour. In the meantime, this short film can give you a first impression of what we do — via Youtube
People charged with the murders of almost 100 people can be linked to a single far-right website, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The White Nationalist web forum Stormfront.org says it promotes values of the embattled white minority
, and its users include Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a 2011 massacre in Norway, and Wade Michael Page, who shot and killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012.
After a two-year investigation, the SPLC said (pdf) that since Stormfront became one of the first hate sites on the internet in 1995, its registered users have been disproportionately responsible for major killings. The report was released a month early after white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, was accused of killing three people at a Jewish center in Kansas City on Sunday.
We know that the people who are going to commit the kinds of crimes, like the kinds of crimes Miller committed last weekend, this is where they live,
said Heidi Beirich, report author and a director at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project. The report, released on Thursday, calls Stormfront the largest hate site in the world
and
a magnet and breeding ground for the deadly and deranged
.
Of the site’s more than 286,000 users, only a small sliver are highly active, the report found, with fewer than 1,800 people logging in each day. While the SPLC only identified 10 murderers out of this large user base, researchers think the murderers’ connection to the site is important because it shows how the website offers a community for people who commit these crimes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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Secret World Wildlife Rescue, a wildlife rehabilitation centre in South West England, is busy taking care of spring’s first badger cubs. The four rescued cubs were all found orphaned or abandoned, but they’re in good hands now. The first cub was named Hovis, after a UK brand of flour and bread, because the six-week old cub was about the size of a loaf of bread. Since they usually go with a theme for naming badger cubs, the following rescues have been named Pannini, Warby, 50/50 and Nimble — via ZooBorns
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New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell says he will resign owing to a massive memory fail
when giving evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) yesterday.
Mr O’Farrell made the announcement after a handwritten note was produced today in which he thanks an executive from a water company for the gift of a $3000 bottle of Grange wine.
The note was addressed to Australian Water Holdings (AWH) executive Nick Di Girolamo and tendered as evidence at ICAC this morning.
Mr O’Farrell, who was recalled to ICAC this afternoon, told the inquiry that he could not recall receiving the bottle, even after reading his handwritten note.
In evidence yesterday, Mr O’Farrell denied receiving the wine at all, telling the inquiry: I’m not a wine connoisseur — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Tulsa Zoo is proud to announce the birth of a Jaguar cub, marking the third Jaguar birth at the zoo. This new addition was born on 26 March to mum, Ixchel, and dad, Bebeto. This is the second successful birth for the Jaguar pair, and another important contribution to Jaguar populations — via ZooBorns
Bacardi Leaving from Luke White on Vimeo.
The first campaign I [Luke White] created for Bacardi with Martyn Smith was an attempt to bring Bacardi up to date and make it more relevant and masculine. The campaign featured DJ Ray (played by Jeff Kober) a cool Bacardi drinking expat who ran Reef Radio, a small island radio station somewhere in the Latin Caribbean. The first two ads were shot in Bahia in Brazil by Gerard de Thame and involved taking over a whole town for two weeks, which was very cool. The third as Leaving
was shot by Andy Morahan in Mexico and again was an amazing experience. The campaign ran for 3 years in the UK and English speaking markets around the world and helped pave the way for the Latin Quarter campaign — via Behance
Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) was an industrial designer who focused on aerodynamics. His designs extended to unrealised futuristic concepts: a teardrop-shaped automobile, and an Art Deco House of Tomorrow. By popularising streamlining when only a few engineers were considering its functional use, he made possible the design style of the thirties
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Hellboy sketchbreak! I finally watched the movie on Netflix after seeing Pacific Rim. Turns out del Toro likes making adorable action movies!? I need to read these comics for serious — via Cube Watermelon
Australians have been told they are wasting their money
on homoeopathy, with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) reporting there is no reliable evidence
homeopathic remedies are effective in treating health conditions.
The finding, which has been documented in a draft information paper, has been welcomed by some in the medical research community, who argue patients should not pay money for unproven folk remedies.
Doctor Nick Zeps, who was part of the working group that developed the paper, says the evidence that was gathered in the review would suggest that there is no reliable evidence in many instances that homoeopathy has an effect that is different from a placebo
.
If it’s no better than a placebo, then objectively you could say that they [patients] were wasting their money,
he said.
The finding has been supported by Emeritus Professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales, John Dwyer.
I think there’s no question … that people are relatively easily hoodwinked into thinking that these preparations might be effective,
he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s very uncommon to find an original 1950s English Rose kitchen in a house these days. The next best thing, if you want the look, is to buy a reproduction. Like this 1950s-inspired Creme de la Creme kitchen by John Lewis of Hungerford — via Retro To Go
Researchers have uncovered an extremely critical vulnerability in recent versions of OpenSSL, a technology that allows millions of Web sites to encrypt communications with visitors. Complicating matters further is the release of a simple exploit that can be used to steal usernames and passwords from vulnerable sites, as well as private keys that sites use to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data.
From Heartbleed.com:
The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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