In a world filled with magic, one mysterious person tries to keep a forgotten power safe from both the Officers of OMEn and the Evil forces wanting to corrupt it — via Youtube
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Dennis Morris’ second interview by Nick Knight is the latest audio in our series of Punk: Photography phone calls. This time Morris was asked about capturing a famous image of John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) during the Pretty Vacant video shoot. The candid phone call unravels the story behind the photograph, from what the two talked about to John’s image conscious persona. It’s also one for the analogue fetishists, Morris goes into depth on the technical aspects of achieving such a shot — via SHOWstudio – The Home of Fashion Film
Join Jack the Fox on his daily routine including a quick game of football and a shampoo and blow dry — via Youtube
This was done as a request — via deviantART
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What happens when two famous grouches meet for the first time? Where do you put your money? — via Youtube
Technology media outlet Delimiter today revealed it would establish a free file-serving mirror of PDF documents published under Freedom of Information laws by the Attorney-General’s Department and relevant to the technology sector, in the wake of confirmation by the department that it has removed such documents from its website.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, all government departments and agencies covered by the legislation must provide a way for the public to access documents which any party has requested under the legislation. This means that if individuals make FoI requests of government organisations, that that information will eventually reach the public domain and be accessible to all.
Almost all Federal Government organisations — including some government business enterprises such as NBN Co — interpret the act to mean that they must publish documents released under the FoI act in a disclosure log on their website. The Attorney-General’s Department, which contains FoI oversight as part of its portfolio, has historically done this.
However, the department recently removed PDF documents relating to FoI requests from its website, forcing those seeking access to the documents to email or otherwise communicate with it directly. This has substantially reduced access to a number of sensitive documents — via redwolf.newsvine.com
54 years after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Florida Southern College, home to the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world, opened another structure designed by the famed architect. Originally called the Usonian House, it was envisioned as a professor’s home in 1939 but wasn’t built until this year using plans left by Wright — via ArchDaily
In celebration of the 50 years of awesomeness that Doctor Who has brought us, I made a special bracelet featuring all the incarnations of the Doctors. So far there has been 11 doctors, and soon the 12th will be among us — via Etsy
Labor MP Tony Burke declares it is as if Professor Dolores Umbridge, a fictional headmistress in the Harry Potter novels, is now in charge of Parliament as Bronwyn Bishop takes up the role of Speaker — ABC News
Being a mother is not the most important job in the world. There, I said it. Nor is it the toughest job, despite what the 92% of people polled in Parents Magazine reckon.
For any woman who uses that line, consider this: if this is meant to exalt motherhood, then why is the line always used to sell toilet cleaner? And if being a mother is that important, why aren’t all the highly paid men with stellar careers not devoting their lives to raising children? After all, I never hear being a father is the most important job in the world
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The deification of mothers not only delegitimises the relationship fathers, neighbours, friends, grandparents, teachers and carers have with children, it also diminishes the immense worth and value of these relationships. How do gay dads feel about this line, I wonder? Or the single dads, stepdads or granddads? No matter how devoted and hard working you are, fellas, you’ll always be second best.
I’m also confused as to what makes you a mother. Is it the actual birth? Or is a mother
simply a term to describe an expectation to care for children without payment? Is this empty slogan used to compensate women for gouging holes from potential careers by spending years out of the workplace without recognition?
Enabling this dogma devalues the unpaid labour of rearing children as much as it strategically devalues women’s worth at work. If being a mother were a job there’d be a selection process, pay, holidays, a superior to report to, performance assessments, Friday drinks, and you could resign from your job and get another one because you didn’t like the people you were working with. It’s not a vocation either — being a mother is a relationship — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian consumers are embracing digital commerce, but Australian retailers are failing to build long-term relationships with their customers online, according to new research.
More than 50 per cent of Australians have been described as digital buyers
who prefer to buy online where possible
, a statistic that puts Australians among the top digital consumers in the world.
But the Australian retail sector is late to the party. A recent Deloitte survey found that Australian retailers are going digital at a snail’s pace
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More than 50 per cent of respondents expect to generate less than 2 per cent of their Christmas sales online.
And while David Jones’ 1000 per cent quarterly increase in online sales recently made headlines, this increase comes from a very low base, with digital commerce now accounting for a mere 1% of the retail giant’s total sales figure — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Prime Minister Tony Abbott came to Sri Lanka to praise President Mahinda Rajapakse, not to bury him under the weight of human rights abuse allegations that completely dominated this Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
We are here to praise as much as judge,
he told the forum’s opening meeting, lauding the ending of Sri Lanka’s civil war, and the development in the country since.
For his fealty, he was rewarded. Sri Lanka has vowed to further help Mr Abbott with his No.1 domestic priority, stopping the boats
of asylum seekers looking to go to Australia.
The countries’ existing co-operation has been extended, with Australia giving Sri Lanka two patrol boats, so that asylum seekers might be intercepted before they leave Sri Lankan waters.
(The inconvenient truth that navy sailors have been arrested and charged with running the biggest people-smuggling ring in the country is being, publicly at least, downplayed.)
Mr Abbott came to CHOGM, a meeting of 53 member nations, with an entirely domestic agenda. He needed Sri Lankan support to combat people smuggling, and so was unwilling to criticise his hosts.
While human rights concerns — forced abductions, torture, and extrajudicial killings by state forces, land seizures by the military and oppression of political opponents — dominated every public CHOGM event, Mr Abbott sidestepped these at every turn — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) last week released videos of tests of plastic guns made with 3D printers that show some exploding on the first shot. The explosions could injure users, the testing found.
The ATF has been testing guns made with 3D printers using two commonly used thermoplastic materials over the past year to determine how safe the weapons are.
Guns made using one of the two thermoplastics tested, a polymer from VisiJet, never lasted more than one shot before exploding. The other material, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), could produce a gun that fired eight times without incident.
The agents stopped shooting after eight bullets, an ATF spokesperson said.
It depends on the material as well as the quality of the printer. Those variables both go into it,
the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson wouldn’t identify 3D printers used or which computer-assisted drawing (CAD) files were downloaded to create the weapon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Central Park Zoo’s new cubs enjoy their own personal waterfall and rock-wall for climbing at the Allison Maher Stern Snow Leopard Exhibit. The furry felines, a male and a female, are the offspring of Zoe and Askai, and the first snow leopard cubs ever to be born at the zoo — via Youtube
A diamond known as the Pink Star has sold for $83m (£52m) at auction in Geneva — a record price for a gemstone.
The diamond measures 2.69cm by 2.06cm and is set on a ring.
The Pink Star was sold to Isaac Wolf, a well known New York diamond cutter who has renamed it the Pink Dream.
The winning bid surpasses the $46.2m paid for the Graff Pink diamond three years ago, which was half the size of the Pink Star.
The $83m includes Sotheby’s commission — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two Sumatran tiger cubs took a brisk doggy paddle at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo today and passed their swim reliability test. The male and female cubs, named Bandar and Sukacita (SOO-kah-CHEE-tah), were born at the Zoo, 5 August. All cubs born at the Great Cats exhibit must undergo the swim reliability test and prove that they are ready to be on exhibit. Bandar and Sukacita were able to keep their heads above water, navigate to the shallow end of the moat and climb onto dry land. Now that they have passed this critical step, the cubs are ready to explore the yard with their mother, 4-year-old Dama — via Youtube
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The Bringer of Darkness, the Oncoming Storm, the Doctor, the Warrior — A Time Lord! The 50th Anniversary features Matt Smith, David Tennant and a mysterious incarnation played by John Hurt. Only one appears in the mini episode, The Night of the Doctor. But which? — via Youtube
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