Octopus/pot by Keiko Masumoto, originally uploaded by Ali M.
Color.hailpixel is the handiwork of coder-extraordinaire Devin Hunt. It’s easy: move your cursor left and right to adjust hue, up and down to adjust brightness, and scroll to adjust saturation. When you find a colour you like, give ‘er a click to pin it in your browser and keep on going. Aside from providing a hassle-free way of comparing and coordinating colours for any use (particularly the web), Hunt’s creation just makes you appreciate the awesome and vibratory power… of colour
. It’s also a great way to waste away a lazy afternoon — via Gizmodo Australia
A Banksy mural painted just before the Diamond Jubilee last year has vanished from a London street and been listed for sale at a US auction site.
The image, which shows a young boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, disappeared from the side of a Poundland shop last week.
It is now for sale in Miami, with an estimate of £320,000 – £452,000.
Councillor Alan Strickland said there is lots of anger
at the removal, and is campaigning for the work’s return.
Residents have been really shocked and really astonished,
he told the BBC. “Banksy gave that piece of art to our community, and people came from all over London to see it.
He said residents are disappointed
that a piece of art that was given freely has been taken away from them and sold for an enormous profit
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Online shopping giant Amazon fired a German security firm Monday, after a television documentary accused the company of mistreating foreign workers.
Amazon had been facing mounting criticism over the firm’s alleged mistreatment of temporary workers over the holiday season.
A spokeswoman for Amazon in Germany said they had terminated their association with Hensel European Security Services with immediate effect
, according to the Associated Press — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many dog owners will swear their pups are up to something when out of view of watchful eyes. Shoes go missing, couches have mysterious teeth marks, and food disappears. They seem to disregard the word no
.
Now, a new study suggests dogs might understand people even better than we thought.
The research shows that domestic dogs, when told not to snatch a piece of food, are more likely to disobey the command in a dark room than in a lit room.
This suggests that man’s best friend is capable of understanding a human’s point of view, said study leader Juliane Kaminski, a psychologist at the UK’s University of Portmouth.
The one thing we can say is that dogs really have specialized skills in reading human communication,
she said. This is special in dogs
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Proof of attacks on Occupy Melbourne Wikipedia page, attempts to change history and evidence in on-going federal court cases. More importantly the edits were made during the last week of MCC’s 2012 elections. A quick tidy up of MCC’s image just before the election. Anyone who didn’t think Melbourne City Council (MCC) was (and still is) opposed to Occupy Melbourne either has their head in the sand, is plainly lying or delusional.
The smoking gun, proof Melbourne City Council is behind the IP address 203.26.235.14 editing Occupy Melbourne Wikipedia page. The timing of this edit is far from coincidental. 21st October, the one year anniversary of the brutal city square eviction and just days before the 2012 Melbourne city council elections, where Robert Doyle sought and gained re-election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occupy_Melbourne&action=history
Note: The edit time is in UTC (GMT), so local time would have been Sunday 21 October 2012, 4:28 PM. Who is in Melbourne City Council on a computer on a Sunday afternoon?
At about that time two separate protests were occurring in relation to Occupy Melbourne’s treatment by Melbourne City Council.
Editing history the one of the tools of the totalitarian fascist. Has anyone read George Orwell’s 1984?
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Military leg amputees are to be given the most up-to-date prosthetic limbs available after the government announced a £6.5m funding boost.
The latest technology micro processor limbs, known as bionic legs
, will be available to service personnel who have been wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The move is expected to benefit about 160 members of the armed forces.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said it was a top priority to give troops the best possible care and support.
And Chancellor George Osborne, who is making the money available from the Treasury’s Special Reserve, said: Our troops are heroes who have and continue to give absolutely everything for their country and it is only right that we do everything possible to help them, especially when they suffer injury
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
New Zealand says it will put all tobacco products into plain packaging, following the landmark move by Australia last year.
A review had shown it would help reduce the appeal of smoking and better publicise health risks, Associate Minister of Health Tariana Turia said.
The government acknowledged possible challenges from tobacco companies.
It will introduce laws later this year but wait for the outcome of legal cases in Australia before enforcing them.
As in Australia, packaging would carry large, graphic health warnings and be stripped of branding.
Currently the packaging does everything it can to attract consumers and increase the perceived appeal and acceptability of smoking,
Ms Turia said in a statement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This piece is an elegant and understated version of an ancient and timeless symbol — via Etsy
This sculpture is one of Alexandre Arrechea‘s interpretations of famous skyscrapers in New York City — via Neatorama
It’s a problem that plagues passengers who park at Denver International Airport — bunnies are causing hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars in damage to cars.
The rabbits eat the wires under the hood.
The USDA Wildlife Service is removing at least 100 bunnies every month but the problem persists.
I see at least dozens every morning. They go hide under the cars and the cars are warm,
said airport shuttle driver Michelle Anderson.
They like to chew on the insulator portion of the ignition cables. That’s what we see,
said Arapahoe Autotek spokesman Wiley Faris — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the online shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers.
Germany’s ARD television channel made the allegations in a documentary about Amazon’s treatment of more than 5,000 temporary staff from across Europe to work at its German packing and distribution centres.
The film showed omnipresent guards from a company named HESS Security wearing black uniforms, boots and with military haircuts. They were employed to keep order at hostels and budget hotels where foreign workers stayed. Many of the workers are afraid,
the programme-makers said.
The documentary provided photographic evidence showing that guards regularly searched the bedrooms and kitchens of foreign staff. They tell us they are the police here,
a Spanish woman complained. Workers were allegedly frisked to check they had not walked away with breakfast rolls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Visitors at the San Diego Zoo were in for a surprise this past Saturday when they were unexpectedly greeted by the zoo’s newest inhabitant, a newborn Takin. The baby boy, born sometime between 7.30 and 8.00am on 2 February, was quick to its feet as mother Summer immediately started work on cleaning her new son off. While this was not Summer’s first child, it was the first for his father Lian. Summer’s grown daughter Mei Long was also there to help her mother care for her new half brother. These photos, taken less than an hour and a half after the birth, document some the intimate first hours of this newborn’s life — via ZooBorns
— via Imgur
An Australian senator on a fact-finding mission to Malaysia says he has been refused entry because authorities consider him a security risk
.
Nick Xenophon was detained at Kuala Lumpur airport on Saturday morning and will be deported back to Australia, correspondents say.
He was part of an Australian delegation scheduled to meet Malaysian officials to discuss forthcoming elections.
Mr Xenophon has been an outspoken critic of human rights in Malaysia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Out of chaos, comes order. A computer that mimics the apparent randomness found in nature can instantly recover from crashes by repairing corrupted data.
Dubbed a systemic
computer, the self-repairing machine now operating at University College London (UCL) could keep mission-critical systems working. For instance, it could allow drones to reprogram themselves to cope with combat damage, or help create more realistic models of the human brain.
Everyday computers are ill suited to modelling natural processes such as how neurons work or how bees swarm. This is because they plod along sequentially, executing one instruction at a time. Nature isn’t like that,
says UCL computer scientist Peter Bentley. Its processes are distributed, decentralised and probabilistic. And they are fault tolerant, able to heal themselves. A computer should be able to do that
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Los Angeles Times has scrubbed its Web site of malicious code that served browser exploits and malware to potentially hundreds of thousands of readers over the past six weeks.
On 7 February, KrebsOnSecurity heard from two different readers that a subdomain of the LA Times’ news site (offersanddeals.latimes.com) was silently redirecting visitors to a third-party Web site retrofitted with the Blackhole exploit kit. I promptly asked my followers on Twitter if they had seen any indications that the site was compromised, and in short order heard from Jindrich Kubec, director of threat intelligence at Czech security firm Avast.
Kubec checked Avast’s telemetry with its user base, and discovered that the very same LA Times subdomain was indeed redirecting visitors to a Blackhole exploit kit, and that the data showed this had been going on since at least 23 December 2012.
Contacted via email, LA Times spokeswoman Hillary Manning initially said a small number of users trying to access a subdomain of the site were instead served a malicious script warning on 2 and 3 February. But Manning said this was the result of a glitch in Google’s display ad exchange, not a malware attack on the company’s site — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s Taronga Zoo welcomed three Fennec Fox infants, the first to be born to a new breeding pair from Europe. The kits, which are just starting to emerge from their nest box, were born on 19 December 2012, a year after the zoo introduced their parents, Zinder and Kibali, a new breeding couple from Europe — via ZooBorns
By Stanley Chow — via PLANET-PULP
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