Qantas wants frequent flyers to install a toolbar on their web browser that records their internet searches and web browsing activity for marketing targeted and relevant products, services and offers
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The airline joins Flybuys, which launched a similar toolbar in November.
Flybuys’ policy states it does not collect search data about its users. But the policy of its partner, FreeCause, says it does collect the data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Torrential rain across Gippsland has stirred the local spider population into a web-making frenzy.
The local wetlands between Sale and Longford had nearly dried out before the rains hit last Wednesday and the drier conditions prompted a flush of new growth.
But since the rain started, rising floodwater from the Latrobe and Thomson Rivers has pushed the linyphidea spiders off ground level and up onto drier territory on the top of the grass tussocks, onto fences and into the trees.
In some parts of the wetlands, the web veil covers hectares of flooded grassland — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nigerian police have raided a home and freed 16 pregnant young women who were allegedly being forced to have babies to be offered for sale for trafficking or other purposes, police say.
The expectant mothers were aged between 17 and 37.
Abia state police spokesman Geofrey Ogbonna told AFP the raid in the southern city of Aba was carried out on Tuesday and the proprietor, Hyacinth Ndudim Orikara, had been arrested.
The suspect is a serial human trafficker. He claims to be a medical doctor. I could recall that the same man was arrested in May 2011 and 32 teenage girls were rescued from his home,
he said.
He said the girls confessed that they had been offered to sell their babies for between 25,000 and 30,000 naira (around $A216), depending on the sex of the baby — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I’ve finally finished my big quilling project and I am so proud of it! I started in January and I finished in June. The raised pieces are mountain peaks, with relative heights. The green swirls are representational of the ocean currents — via Amber Rousse
This is a huge disco ball. The hugest, actually. Michel De Broin‘s newest site specific installation One Thousand Speculations was created for Toronoto’s Luminato Festival. The piece consists of disco ball over 25 feet in diameter hoisted 80 feet into the air, spun and spotlit each night of the festival. The thousand
of the piece’s title likely refers to the ball’s mirrors — a thousand of which reflect on David Pecaut Square below. Each of the individual mirrors reflect a large swath of light that travels over the yards and buildings each evening. The surrounds, perhaps unavoidably, seem to feel just a little more light-hearted — via Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design
Let’s say you had no interest in sewing until you were 26 years old and living 3,000 miles away from your expert seamstress mother. Let’s say the first time you actually attempted to thread a sewing machine is after your partner buys you a top-of-the-line sewing machine for Christmas. And let’s say that you tend to be overambitious in projects because “the Internet has tutorials for everyone!”
Oh, that’s just me?
That is the exact scenario I faced when I decided what our apartment needed most in the world were giant chevron floor pillows — via Oven lovin’
Cut 12-13 feet of cord three colours I’m using two strands of blue and one grey it doesn’t matter if you have two grey and one blue either way it works. Depending on wrist size the one I’m doing is for a 8″ wrist — via Paracord Monster Cobra
This midcentury modern / modernist gem (delete as applicable) is now on the market, so if you have money to burn and like its striking looks, the 1960s John Lautner-designed The Wolff House in Los Angeles, California, USA is ready and waiting for you.
Described by the agent as one of the most important architectural statements in Los Angeles and the world
(some statement), the Wolff House is a modernist icon in wood, stone and glass. It also sits high above the Sunset Strip with the kind of exceptional
views you would expect. The Wolff House has now been meticulously restored in line with Lautner’s vision of form, space and function
, mixing a plethora of period features with some more contemporary high-end finishes. You can see the impressive end result here.
The hardwood floors, exposed stone, sharp angles, premium finishes, amazing views and flawless renovation are just some of the selling points here. But you can see more from all these amazing photos. If you want it, you’ll have to find something in the region of $7,995,000 — via WowHaus
Stratasys Ltd unveiled plans to buy privately held MakerBot in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $403 million, a deal that expands Stratasys’ position in the three-dimensional printer market.
Stratasys said the merger is poised to drive faster adoption of 3D printing for multiple applications and industries.
After the deal closes, which is expected to occur in the third quarter, MakerBot will operate as a separate subsidiary of Stratasys. MakerBot Chief Executive and co-founder Bre Pettis will continue to lead the business, Stratasys said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pet-owning apartment and townhouse residents will no longer be faced with choosing between their furry friends and their homes when new strata laws come into effect.
The NSW Fair Trading Minister, Anthony Roberts, confirmed in Parliament this week that default strata bylaws will be changed so that pets will be allowed, subject to reasonable
approvals and conditions set by executive committees.
At present in NSW the model bylaws say pets are banned unless there is written approval, so this is a subtle but significant change in emphasis.
However, the model bylaws can be altered once a new building or townhouse complex has accepted them, and most do. It takes a 75 per cent vote of owners to change them — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A terrified burglar in New Zealand has handed himself in to police after breaking into a house and stumbling across a dead body.
His screams alerted neighbours in the North Island town of Hamilton, who thought it was a domestic dispute.
Police say the man died hours before the burglary, but might otherwise not have been discovered for days.
The 26-year-old burglar was arrested before helping police with their inquiries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what’s happening with local businesses and organisations around them.
The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, could help Twitter beef up its efforts to keep users in the loop
. The company has been rumoured to be working on its own location discovery feature to surface certain tweets posted by people nearby.
Spindle’s technology was based on delivering social updates from businesses and other sources to users. For example, Spindle users could use interactive maps to see where things were happening nearby and also set alerts to receive notifications from specific places — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What started out as an art project using the Australian think-tank the CSIRO’s additive titanium 3D printer has turned out to have much more serious application: scaled-up versions of microscopic bugs that make it easier to study their biology.
Originally, the minute insects from the Australian National Insect Collection were scanned, scaled up and printed for a national art exhibition. As CSIRO Science Art fellow Eleanor Gates-Stuart explained: “We combined science and art to engage the public and through the process we’ve discovered that 3D printing could be the way of the future for studying these creatures.”
The process is actually pretty straightforward: the bugs were scanned to produce the CAD files that the printer worked with.
A print run takes about 10 hours, producing a dozen bugs at a time — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fox cubs having a quiet moment rural Suffolk Vulpes vulpes, originally uploaded by Mike Rae
These are printed with a technique that allows the design to be the same texture as the fabric. The design is IN the fabric, not laying on top of it like with paint, creating a softer feel… it will also not wash out! You can even dye the bandanna to tint the design any colour you want! — via Miss Monster)
From creator Jose Guizar, The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in me since chance put me in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up
— via WebUrbanist
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