I love the idea of decorating with my kids’ art, and this project from Jen of A Thousand Words takes a new spin on the just-stick-it-on-the-fridge way of display. She created an amazing duvet cover using 120 of her son’s original Pokemon drawings. I love the look of it, and the meaning behind it makes it even more awesome — via CRAFT
— via Chaos Life
Managers are alerted by flashing lights if an employee is away from their desk for a loo break or other personal activities
beyond the allotted time.
But unions and workplace inspectors have branded the practice at insurance company DNB as highly intrusive
and a potential breach of their human rights.
Norway’s privacy regulator called Datatilsynet has now written to DNB telling them the monitoring system is a major violation of privacy
.
It said: Each individual worker has different needs and these kinds of strict controls deprive the employees of all freedoms over the course of their working day.
The employees union Finansforbundet described the rules as unacceptable.
Elvis and His Little Friend, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Vespa in the Workshop, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Hoof stock keepers at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in the UK are delighted to announce the birth of an extremely rare Malayan tapir. The young male, named Manado, was born on 12 January to mother Malacca and father Hunter. This new arrival is the tenth successful tapir birth there, the first occurring in 1989. Now Port Lympne’s tapir house is home to two young male tapirs, as little Kejutan, born 4 months ago to mother Lidaeng, is growing fast — via ZooBorns
Customers hosted at Primus Telecom’s Melbourne datacentre experienced outages this morning, with several sites forced offline.
Among those confirmed to be affected were security software vendor AVG and Mirvac’s chain of sites, including Mirvac Hotels.
These sites were not responding, or were experiencing intermittent delays, from 9.45am AEDST this morning. The outage has resulted in several other sites on the same hosting service being taken offline, but Primus has not indicated the scale of the outage, or how many were affected.
Initial customer reports indicated that the problem was caused by a routing issue with Primus’ upstream providers, but the company later clarified that some of its core switches were having issues. Most outages were resolved almost immediately, and all issues were resolved by 11.35am, the company said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Omega Seamaster Limited Edition James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch uses a 007 theme
on the black lacquer dial with 50
filled in with red on the outer bezel. The watch also offers Omega’s caliber 2507 co-axial movement, with the winding rotor designed to look like a bullet. It’s also inscribed with 50 years of James Bond
.
The limited edition Seamaster is being sold worldwide in an edition of 11,007 pieces, with a shelf date of some time early this year
. No mention of price as yet, but as both a classic watch and a limited edition, this is unlikely be one of the cheaper watches on the market — via Retro To Go
Rovio Mobile learned from the music industry’s mistakes when deciding how to deal with piracy of its Angry Birds games and merchandise, chief executive Mikael Hed told the Midem conference in Cannes this morning.
We have some issues with piracy, not only in apps, but also especially in the consumer products. There is tons and tons of merchandise out there, especially in Asia, which is not officially licensed products,
said Hed.
We could learn a lot from the music industry, and the rather terrible ways the music industry has tried to combat piracy.
Hed explained that Rovio sees it as futile
to pursue pirates through the courts, except in cases where it feels the products they are selling are harmful to the Angry Birds brand, or ripping off its fans.
When that’s not the case, Rovio sees it as a way to attract more fans, even if it is not making money from the products. Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Octopus hugs are free, originally uploaded by No Knit Sherlock!.
The Arturo 1000 has been restored and upgraded by the Japanese workshop Ritmo Sereno; it’s a 1989 model, with modified bodywork and a meticulous mechanical restoration — via Bike EXIF
A specialist police unit that fights wildlife crime is joining forces with an animal charity.
The Metropolitan police’s wildlife crime unit is teaming up with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), which warned animal trafficking is a major source of revenue
for criminals.
It is the first time a charity has directly funded a Met police unit and it is hoped it will lead to more staff being recruited and trained in how to tackle wildlife crime — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The JeanRichard Diverscope LPR (linear power reserve) has an the in-house movement and a respectable water resistance of 300 metres — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
Two large ISPs in the Netherlands have said they will not be blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, as demanded by the Hollywood supported anti-piracy outfit BREIN. T-Mobile and KPN argue that blocking websites is a threat to the open Internet, and suggest that the entertainment industry focuses on new business models instead. BREIN is now expected to take the ISPs to court — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I love the tiny details on this hand-stitched TARDIS from Slair’s Lair. She shares pictures of the project in progress over on her blog. Each tiny little panel was whipstitched on, and she made a cardboard insert so it would keep its shape — via CRAFT
Australian designer David Giametta’s 1968 Vespa scooter was beyond restoration, but not beyond repurposing. He modded the back end into a laptop desk and the front end into a lounge chair — via reinventing wheels
Facebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics.
The company at the centre of the allegations, Adscend Media, denies the charges and said it will fight them vigorously. According to the office of Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, the company paid and encouraged scammers to design Facebook pages to bait users into visiting Websites that pay the company. The bait pages would appear in posts that seem to originate from a person’s Facebook friends and offer visitors an opportunity to view “provocative” content in exchange for clicking the ‘like’ button on the Facebook page.
By clicking like
, the user alerts their Facebook friends to the page. From there, the user was directed to complete one of several online surveys and provide information such as their age. Oftentimes, the promised content did not exist, and the duped user was directed off Facebook through a series of prompts that took them to unrelated Websites. In some cases, clickjacking was used to activate the like
function and spread spam, according to the state’s suit — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Wiggling Makes the Chair Comfier, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
crocheted cacti and succulents, originally uploaded by June Gilbank.
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