As an affirmed Whovian and supporter of all things TARDIS, I feel as though it’s my duty to share with you this clever crocheted TARDIS wormhole lap blanket from Craftster user Brackish Potato — via MAKE
Husqvarna has just set up shop in Bali, which got the boys from Deus’ Canggu outpost all excited. So they got their hands on the World Enduro Championship-winning TE250, a bike designed to spend 90 per cent of its life off-road — via Husqvarna TE250 by Deus Bali
Michael Knight, a house builder in Victoria, BC, Canada, has sent us images of a house designed by Victoria Design Group, that his company has built — via CONTEMPORIST
The vast majority of people taking out small short-term loans are on Centrelink benefits and fewer than half say the loans improve their financial situation in the longer term.
More than half a million Australians use pay-day loans, so named because the loan is made on the security of the borrower’s next pay cheque. At least $500 million is lent a year, most in amounts of $1000 or less and with very high interest rates.
The Caught Short report examined three years of Australia’s burgeoning pay-day lending industry, with funding from the Australian Research Council, National Australia Bank and Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service.
It found almost 80 per cent of those using pay-day loans were on Centrelink or pension payments, and more than 80 per cent of those were living with significant physical or mental health problems. Only 20 per cent of borrowers considered themselves better off after taking out pay-day loans; half said they were worse off — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A pair of coatis debuted at Germany’s Tiergarten Delitzsch this week, providing plenty of entertainment for zoo visitors. After spending the first few months of life secluded in their barn, the baby coatis are just beginning to explore their enclosure — via ZooBorns
Semachrysa jade new lacewing species, originally uploaded by Guek Hock Ping.
One day in May of 2011, Shaun Winterton was looking at pictures of bugs on the Internet when something unusual caught his eye.
It was a close shot of a green lacewing — an insect he knew well — but on its wing was an unfamiliar network of black lines and a few flecks of blue.
Winterton, a senior entomologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, has seen a lot of bugs. But he hadn’t seen this species before.
I sent the link to a few colleagues of mine,
Winterton told The Picture Show. They hadn’t seen it either. And I realised: This thing’s new
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s not often you hear words of common sense emanating from Federal Attorneys-General with relation to technological issues — normally they’re far more interested in holding secret Internet piracy meetings without consumer representation, developing plans to monitor all Australian communications, avoiding pesky Freedom of Information requests; you know, the usual humdrum day to day stuff.
But according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the current AG Nicola Roxon may have come to see the light on the unpopularity of her department’s current wide-reaching surveillance package currently before the Federal Parliament’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. The newspaper reports (we recommend you click here for the full article):
A controversial internet security plan to store the web history of all Australians for up to two years has been stalled by the federal government until after the next election
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Most classic motorcycles simply look old
. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) But a tiny handful still have the power to stop the traffic, decades after they were built. Brough Superior is one such brand; Crocker is another. This is a 1937 Big Tank
model, and it’s going under the hammer at Bonhams’ Quail Lodge sale on 16 August. The estimate is a staggering US$270,000—340,000 — via Bike EXIF
Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects (SAOTA) have completed the Nettleton 198 house in Clifton, Cape Town, South Africa — via CONTEMPORIST
A Eastern Black Rhinoceros calf was born on 1 July at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, and it’s a boy! The calf weighed about 36 kg at birth and is growing fast. In just four weeks he now tips the scales at about 68 kg. When fully grown he will weigh about 1,360 kg! Animal keepers will give mother and baby time to bond and hope they can be put on exhibit shortly in the Zoo’s African Savanna — via ZooBorns
You lost your wallet in Jakarta. You got hit by a car in Paris. You need to get online in a sketchy internet cafe in Reno. Getting stuck in a strange city with no ID, no money, no credit cards, and no medical or insurance documents can be inconvenient. In a medical emergency, it can be life-threatening. So have a backup plan: a secure flash drive loaded with your most vital documents and details. Here’s how to build your own — via Gizmodo Australia
Alternative health practitioners such as homoeopaths and healers could be fined or jailed for breaching professional standards, under new powers for Victoria’s health watchdog being considered by the state government.
The scheme would allow Victoria’s Health Services Commissioner to ban or restrict alternative therapists’ practices if they breached a statutory code of conduct, and take court action to enforce the orders where necessary.
At present commissioner Beth Wilson is limited in her ability to deal with alternative therapists who behave unethically, because they are not regulated by national boards that can remove their right to practise — unlike doctors, nurses and dentists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This project [Gus Wüstemann] is not a house but a family sculpture looking for freedom and social interaction. The created sculpture contains family life, where everybody meets and circulates on the first floor, while providing a great view over the lake of Zurich — via ArchDaily
A baby Anteater was born in June at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida. Keepers are not yet sure if the little one is male or female but once they are able to identify the gender, it will be named. Just over a month old, the pup currently weighs less than 2.26 kg but will grow up to weigh more than 45 kg — just like its parents, Adelhi (mother) and Buddy (father) — via ZooBorns
Researcher Stephanie Bush recently observed Octopoteuthis deletron deep-sea squid detaching their arms when faced with predators or prey (video). The bizarre behaviour is not unknown in the animal world (lizards and octopus are known to jettison limbs), but it is a first for squid. Octopoteuthis deletron are full of surprises—last fall researchers reported same-sex sexual behaviour in the little squid — via Laughing Squid
Showcasing opulence and architectural diversity, Leblanc-Cox Residence was envisioned by Texas-based architect Charles Todd Helton and is located in Austin, USA. According to the official project description, the design was inspired by the home featured in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, North by Northwest. It is a modern design with an overall Frank Lloyd Wright feel. Open spaces with high ceilings and large windows characterise the house, which backs up to the Hogg Bird Sanctuary and Bayou Bend
. The side of the residence facing the street is defined by compact walls of stone and wood, while the opposite façade was adorned with generous windows, opening up the rooms towards the two level swimming pool with three waterfalls. A large open plan social area sets the tone for an elegant haven, where opulence feels at home. How would you comment on the use of space and materials in the photos below? Can you find any striking resemblance between this residence and Hitchcock’s North by Northwest
house? — via Freshome
Pandora Black Heart, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
A Liberal Member of Parliament inaccurately claimed this week on national television that Telstra would launch a 12Mbps wireless broadband service which would surpass
the National Broadband Network’s 100Mbps fibre to the home service, meaning there was no need to proceed with a project he said was a “white elephant”.
The ABC’s Capital Hill program on Wednesday ran an extensive debate between Liberal MP Don Randall and Labor MP Mike Kelly on the NBN, following the Government’s release of NBN Co’s new corporate plan to cover the years until 2015. You can view the full clip on YouTube here or on the ABC’s website. And thanks to Terry Green for first highlighting this issue on his blog.
Speaking on the program, Randall said Telstra will beat the NBN at their own game
with competitive wireless broadband infrastructure. Thanks to the $11 billion the NBN’s giving Telstra, they are rolling out wireless, at a cheaper cost, 12 megabits per second, to people in outer areas of Australia,
said Randall — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s an image that’s hard to look at without smiling.
A dog sleeps in blissful repose, head rested against the neck and shoulder of a pony-tailed man standing shoulder-deep in water. The man appears in profile, and he wears dark glasses, but his eyes seem to be closed. The smile on his face matches the dog’s contentment.
The photo has drawn the attention of thousands of people since being posted on Facebook last week. The story behind the photo is touching.
Professional photographer Hannah Stonehouse Hudson took it off Bayfield’s Reiten Beach in Lake Superior on Tuesday. The man is her friend John Unger. The dog, an ageing, arthritic shepherd mix, is named Schoep, after a brand of ice cream that’s popular in southern Wisconsin (the dog likes vanilla) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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