Each kraken has been hand-painted on durable all-weather lightweight upholstery fabric using permanent, nontoxic textile paints. The pillow measures 20”x20”x5” and has a removable fibrefill insert. Intended for use on your patio, deck, beside your pool, on your yacht, hammock or beach blanket — via Etsy
— via Society6
Axed HMV workers hijacked the music retailer’s Twitter stream to tell the world of a mass execution
taking place at HQ.
A fortnight ago HMV — an abbreviation of His Master’s Voice — called in the administrators when bosses realised they were likely to miss banking covenants at the end of January.
Deloitte was brought on board to seek a way forward for the ailing biz but confirmed yesterday it was slashing 190 jobs from HMV’s head office and the distribution network.
But amusingly a running commentary on developments at corp HQ was provided by staffers who had seized control of HMV’s official Twitter feed.
There are over 60 of us being fired at once! Mass execution, of loyal employees who love the brand. #hmvXFactorFiring,
the staffer said.
We’re tweeting live from HR where we’re all being fired,
it added — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Magistrates court has ordered Railcorp to pay Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner $10,000 for failing to provide regular and audible announcements on trains.
Commissioner Graeme Innes is blind and took Railcorp to court in a personal capacity alleging the company’s failure to provide appropriate announcements was in breach of federal disability discrimination laws.
Mr Innes alleged there had been 57 breaches of law since he began the case and was claiming $1,000 per breach in compensation.
Railcorp argued that a failure rate of around 15 per cent for announcements did not equate to discrimination.
But this morning the court agreed Mr Innes had been disadvantaged and ruled in his favour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some more Dream, originally uploaded by Vorrarit Anantsorrarak.
Earlier this month, Brian Dennehy started a new job as chief marketing officer of Nordstrom Inc. In his first week, he pulled aside a colleague to ask a question: How hard it is for a non-employee to enter the building?
Mr Dennehy doesn’t have a particular interest in corporate security. He just doesn’t want to be It
.
Mr Dennehy and nine of his friends have spent the past 23 years locked in a game of Tag
.
It started in high school when they spent their morning break darting around the campus of Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Wash. Then they moved on — to college, careers, families and new cities. But because of a reunion, a contract and someone’s unusual idea to stay in touch, tag keeps pulling them closer. Much closer.
The game they play is fundamentally the same as the schoolyard version: One player is It
until he tags someone else. But men in their 40s can’t easily chase each other around the playground, at least not without making people nervous, so this tag has a twist. There are no geographic restrictions and the game is live for the entire month of February. The last guy tagged stays It
for the year.
That means players get tagged at work and in bed. They form alliances and fly around the country. Wives are enlisted as spies and assistants are ordered to bar players from the office.
/q>You’re like a deer or elk in hunting season, says Joe Tombari, a high-school teacher in Spokane, who sometimes locks the door of his classroom during off-periods and checks under his car before he gets near it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
PayPal has fixed a security bug that could have allowed hackers to compromise the payment website’s databases using an SQL injection attack.
Researchers at Vulnerability Laboratory earned a $3,000 reward for discovering and reporting the critical bug to PayPal in August. An advisory sent to the Full Disclosure security mailing list explained the scope of the vulnerability, which was fixed this month.
The flaw was found in the code that confirms an account holder’s email address, and could have allowed attackers to get past PayPal’s security filters to compromise backend databases and grab sensitive information — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The world’s largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
Captcha — which asks users to type in words to prove they are not robots trying to cheat the system — is used on many sites.
But Ticketmaster has moved to ditch it in favour of a simpler system.
It means users will write phrases, such as freezing temperatures
, rather than, for example, tormentis harlory
.
Captcha stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, and was first developed at Carnegie Mellon university in 2000.
For sites such as Ticketmaster, Captcha is used to make sure robots are not used to buy up tickets automatically — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The new BlackBerry has landed. On Wednesday, the Canadian company formerly known as Research In Motion introduced its first two BlackBerry 10 devices and renamed itself after its best-known brand — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The theft of dreadlocks in Johannesburg is thought to be because of the rising demand for natural dreadlocks as extensions.
Erin Conway-Smith, Globalpost’s senior correspondent in South Africa, wrote wrote The Times, a Johannesburg newspaper, has reported that a growing number of people with dreadlocks are having their hair stolen. Jasper Munsinwa described how his friend’s dreads were stolen while out partying at a Johannesburg club.
Munsinwa’s friend, Mutsa Madonko, was found passed out, and his hair shorn — but unusually for South Africa, his cellphone and wallet were untouched.
The demand is thought to be coming from the hairstyle trend of dreadlock extensions — with the ultimate being real hair rather than synthetic — and trendsetters are willing to pay for a natural look — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A controversial plan to store information about personal internet and telephone usage in Australia has been criticised by the world wide web’s inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Internet service providers and telecommunications companies would be asked to store data that passes through their networks for up to two years under plans being considered by the Federal government.
Law enforcement agencies want the data retained to help fight crime.
Speaking in Sydney on Tuesday, Berners-Lee said that although it is important that technology is used to help fight crime, data retention laws could result in a nation where Australians are trapped by their own information — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When Leandro Almeida was taking out the trash, he really had no reason to believe he was throwing out a family pet that had been missing for 30 years.
But that’s what he almost did, according to Globo.com.
Almeida’s neighbour in Rio de Janeiro spotted the bag and asked Almeida if he was throwing out the turtle as well.
At that moment I was white and did not believe,
explains Almeida.
Crawling around in a box with an old record player was Manuela, a red-footed tortoise the family had written off as lost back in 1982.
Manuela had disappeared during a home renovation, and the Almeidas always assumed he had escaped through a door left open by workers. However, it seems Manuela was hanging out for 30 years in the upstairs storeroom where Leonel Almeida, the father, kept all sorts of old junk he hadn’t gotten around to fixing up — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Anyone who visited Soverain Software’s website could be forgiven for believing it’s a real company. There are separate pages for products
, services
, and solutions
. There’s the About Us
page. There are phone numbers and e-mail addresses for sales and tech support. There’s even a login page for customers.
It’s all a sham. Court records show Soverain hasn’t made a sale — ever. The various voice mailboxes were all set up by Katherine Wolanyk, the former Latham & Watkins attorney who is a co-founder and partial owner of Soverain. And the impressive list of big corporate customers on its webpage? Those are deals struck with another company, more than a decade ago. That was OpenMarket, a software company that created these patents before going out of business in 2001. It sold its assets to a venture capital fund called divine interVentures, which in turn sold the OpenMarket patents to Soverain Software in 2003.
Thank you for calling Soverain technical support,
says Wolanyk, if you press option 2. If you are a current customer and have a tech support question, please call us at 1-888-884-4432 or e-mail us at support@soverain.com.
That number, like the customer support
number on Soverain’s contact page, has been disconnected.
Soverain isn’t in the e-commerce business; it’s in the higher-margin business of filing patent lawsuits against e-commerce companies. And it has been quite successful until now. The company’s plan to extract a patent tax of about one percent of revenue from a huge swath of online retailers was snuffed out last week by Newegg and its lawyers, who won an appeal ruling [PDF] that invalidates the three patents Soverain used to spark a vast patent war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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Arnie, a stray cat who became known for his extraordinary talent as a babysitter
of abandoned newborn animals brought to the Linton Zoo, passed away peacefully last week. Arnie’s favourite creatures were lion cubs, and he babysat all four of the zoo’s adult lions as well as some of their cubs — via ZooBorns
Microsoft blames PC makers for underwhelming Windows 8 sales over Christmas, The Register has learned. The software giant accused manufacturers of not building enough attractive Win 8-powered touchscreen tablets.
But the computer makers are fighting back: they claimed that if they’d followed Microsoft’s hardware requirements and ramped up production, they’d have ended up building a lot of high-end expensive slabs that consumers didn’t understand nor want — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Enjoy a new underwater adventure each time you drift off into your dreams by docking this daring accent pillow on the horizon! Adorned with the image of a bold, bright white octopus and finished with pom-pom trim, this silky accent pillow is a fearlessly fun addition to your favourite napping couch or nautical-themed bedroom. With one sucker-clad tentacle for each recommended hour of sleep, this curious creature is an eye-catching reminder to rest up for the day ahead — via ModCloth
Keepers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park gave five-week-old Rhino calf Shomili, or Mili, as keepers call her, a bottle feeding as part of her daily nutritional routine this morning. Animal care has been giving the Greater One-horned Rhino calf bottle feedings since first time mother Sundari has not been able to give her calf all of the nutrition that she needs — via ZooBorns
This is one of my recent personal pieces which reflects the life style of modern society — via Illustration of VanessaSYFung
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