— via Gerbil With a Jetpack
Private James Marshall Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky 1962 — via Steve Niles Tumblr
I’ve got to be one of the only kids in the world to look outside and see her greatest fear almost to her turtle sandbox. Actually, I’m noticing my childhood default was set to terror
— via dasboo
This is my camera, originally uploaded by Roland Bircher.
A pile of pups has arrived at the United Kingdom’s Exmoor Zoo: a litter of seven Asian Small-clawed Otters, born in 2012, is enchanting zoo visitors with adorable antics. The smallest of the world’s Otter species, Asian Small-clawed Otters are native to the swamps and wetlands of Southeast Asia — via ZooBorns
France has become the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage, pushing through François Hollande’s flagship social change after months of street protests, political slanging matches and a rise in homophobic attacks.
After 331 votes for and 225 votes against, there were chants of “Equality. Equality.” in the French assembly, where the Socialists have an absolute majority. But thousands of riot police and water cannons were in place near the parliament building in Paris in advance of planned demonstrations against the law.
The right to marriage and adoption for everyone regardless of sexual orientation has proved bitterly divisive in France, triggering the biggest conservative and rightwing street protests in 30 years. Recent weeks have seen more than 200 arrests as police teargassed late-night demonstrators near parliament. More than 172 hours of heated debate in the assembly and the senate meant the bill was one of the most debated in recent history, with furious clashes and a near fist-fight between politicians — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Since last year the Finnish public had the option to suggest what laws they want to live under.
A recent modification of the national Constitution allows for citizens to make legislative proposals for the Parliament to vote on, providing it gets 50,000 supporters within 6 months.
One of the proposals that has submitted since calls for a fairer copyright law.
Termed To Make Sense of the Copyright Act
, the proposal wants to reduce penalties for copyright infringement, increase fair use, and ease the ability for people to make copies of items they already own (for format shifting, or backups) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vandals have defaced corrected a Liberal Party billboard in Perth just hours after it was unveiled by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
The billboard claimed more than 600 illegal
asylum seeker boats have arrived in Australia since the Labor Party won government.
The number has since been whited out and replaced with a zero.
Also spray-painted on the billboard were the words: No crime to seek asylum
.
The sign has subsequently been replaced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is Caroline L’s engagement present from her fiance, Mark, who made it from a vintage AT-AT toy and is clearly a keeper. Just saying, Caroline. But I guess you already knew that — via EPBOT
The popular jQuery JavaScript library has hit a major milestone with the release of jQuery 2.0. The 2.0 release is some 12 percent smaller than its predecessor, but the big news is that jQuery 2.0 drops support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.
Created to simplify the process of writing JavaScript and manipulating HTML, jQuery began life a mere seven years ago, but quickly found favor with developers sick of dealing with cross-browser JavaScript hassles. According to one survey published last year, jQuery turns up on roughly half of all sites on the web.
Will dropping support for older versions of IE change that? Probably not. If your site needs to maintain support for IE 8 and below (or even IE 9 and 10 running in compatibility mode) you’ll just need to stick with jQuery 1.9 or below — via redwolf.newsvine.com
1941 — Bell
author Ernest Hemingway, confers with Frank Capra, producer-director at Paramount Studio luncheon to author For Whom The Bell Tolls, where the details of the film version were discussed — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS — via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
South Australian mobile phone provider Excite Mobile has been found guilty of false, misleading and unconscionable conduct by the Federal Court after the ACCC took action against the company for faking a debt collection agency, creating a fictional complaints body, and misrepresenting scope of mobile coverage.
The Federal Court ruled Excite acted unconscionably in getting customers onto a 24 month phone contract, and used “undue coercion” when sending fake debt collection letters to 1074 customers, according to a statement by the competition watchdog.
The phone number included on the fake debt collection letters was answered by Excite Mobile staff.
The ACCC said the company had falsely stated on the letters that a court would make the customers pay 20 percent of the debt for failing to pay on time, and would order the repossession of all valuable assets owned by the customer, including children’s toys, to force late-paying customers to hand over the owed amount.
Excite Mobile directors Obie Brown and David Samuel were also found to have created a fake complaints company, called Telecommunications Industry Complaints
, to deceive customers into believing their complaints were being handled externally and independently.
Additionally, the company told customers mobile service was available at their premises when it wasn’t, including in indigenous communities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Planet Express ship will soon make its final delivery.
Comedy Central has decided not to renew Futurama, which means that the 31st-century-set animated comedy will end its 140-episode run on 4 September. The final 13 episodes, which represent the second half of season 7, begin — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 100-year-old church in Sydney’s inner-west is still smouldering after it burnt down early on Sunday morning.
Firefighters were called to the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Dulwich Hill just before 4.00am (AEST).
Inspector Chris Sedgewick says the old architecture made it especially hard to fight the fire.
He says the nearly 100-year old building could not be saved — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Absolutely soaking wet red fox kit — via 500px
Australian rock legend Chrissy Amphlett, best known as the singer of the Divinyls, has died in New York aged 53.
The charismatic frontwoman was surrounded by family and friends at her home when she died this morning.
Her husband of 14 years, former Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton, says Amphlett died of breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
In a statement released by ARIA, he added she had fought the diseases with exceptional bravery and dignity
.
Chrissy’s light burns so very brightly. Hers was a life of passion and creativity; she always lived it to the fullest,
the statement said.
With her force of character and vocal strength she paved the way for strong, sexy, outspoken women
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman who complained about an unpaid £146 invoice is facing a libel battle that could cost her more than £100,000.
Lesley Kemp, 55, took to Twitter claiming that a company based in the Middle East had failed to pay her promptly for transcription work.
Now the firm is suing Mrs Kemp, of Milton Keynes, for defamation, claiming up to £50,000 in damages and a further £70,000 in costs.
The company, Resolution Productions, based in Qatar, has yet to comment — via redwolf.newsvine.com
12 November 1957. Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, East 89th Street & Fifth Avenue, New York. Under construction II. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.
Large-format acetate negative by Samuel H Gottscho — via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive
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