Made on Mallorca — via deviantART
Astromark created this beautiful half-scale Tardis for his very lucky kitty, Kaylee. I’m very impressed by how precise the copy is, and how hard he worked to ensure that all of the details were just right, from the sign on the door to the the lantern on top. Head over to Tardis Builder to see more photos of the building process! I think the Doctor would be proud — via CRAFT
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Sited on the edge of a 70-metre high cliff, the plan of Holman House [Durbach Block Jaggers] refers to Picasso’s painting The Bather. It contains a complex series of fluid living spaces set within a meandering perimeter that arcs, folds and stretches in response to sun, landscape and views. Living and dining areas cantilever out over the ocean, allowing dramatic views up and down the coast. The lower floor forms a base that is built from rough stone walls like an extension of the cliff below. These walls continue along the cliff edge to form a series of eccentric terraced gardens and a vase-shaped rock pool — via Romain Jerome TimeouT
Conservation scientists have developed a new technique to authenticate and determine the age of silk artefacts held in museums and collections, the Smithsonian Institution announced Monday.
Carbon dating is too destructive for most silk items, scientists said. The new method uses the natural deterioration of silk’s amino acids to determine its age by calculating that change over time — a process known as racemisation. Archaeologists and forensic anthropologists have used this process for years to date bones, shells and teeth — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Western Australian researchers today switched on a citizen science project dubbed theSkyNet, hoping that it will spread to computers throughout Australia.
Despite the similarity in name between the artificial intelligence software from the Terminator series, theSkyNet has no possibility of becoming self-aware and destroying humanity. Rather, its purpose is to use the combined computing power of personal computers to help analyse and interpret radio signals received from space.
Science and Innovation Minister John Day, who was one of the first to log on to theSkyNet, said that, by connecting hundreds and thousands of computers together through the internet, it will be possible to simulate a single machine capable of processing signals from space, so they can be used by scientists to support their work
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An internet troll who posted videos and messages mocking the deaths of teenagers, including a girl hit by a train, has been jailed.
Sean Duffy, 25, targeted Facebook tribute pages and posted videos on YouTube taunting the dead and their families.
Among his victims was Natasha MacBryde, 15, who died instantly when hit by a passenger train near her home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
The day after Natasha’s death in February, Duffy posted comments including I fell asleep on the track lolz
on the Facebook tribute page created by her brother James, 17.
Four days later he created a YouTube video called Tasha the Tank Engine
featuring her face superimposed on to the front of the fictional engine — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The battle over software and video piracy took a turn yesterday when a Florida file hosting service sued Warner Brothers for allegedly engaging in copyright fraud and abuse of anti-piracy laws. Hotfile accuses the Warner Bros of using the hosting company’s anti-piracy tools to remove titles the studio doesn’t own, including open source software. Hotfile is asking a court to make it whole for the losses they claim Warner Bros caused.
The suit is in response to a ruling in a related case. This spring, Warner joined with four other studios and the Motion Picture Association of America to sue Hotfile for facilitating illegal file transfers. Two weeks ago, a judge ruled that Hotfile must release detailed information about its users and affiliates. Hotfile’s countersued yesterday, alleging copyright fraud — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s now more than a decade since the internet began killing the music industry. The situation is so much worse than the last thing to kill music — home taping — that the industry is enjoying considerable success in getting its business model protected by law.
Just last year the Government passed the Digital Economy Act, which the industry argued was needed to tackle piracy, and yesterday the European Commission extended the copyright term on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years.
And the European copyright extension is great news for artists. At least according to the IFPI, the organisation that represents the international recording industry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Church of Scientology is facing the prospect of back-pay claims that on some estimates could run into millions of dollars.
In March last year the ABC’s Four Corners broadcast a program containing allegations of mistreatment and exploitation of some of the church’s most loyal members.
The next day, the Fair Work ombudsman started an investigation into the church.
ABC’s Lateline has obtained a draft copy of that investigation’s report, which contains allegations of false imprisonment and forced labour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says he has named a priest at the centre of an alleged seminary rape scandal because the Catholic church failed to stand the man down while investigating the allegations.
Speaking under parliamentary privilege last night, Senator Xenophon named the priest as Monsignor Ian Dempsey, a parish priest in the Adelaide suburb of Brighton.
Senator Xenophon said there were allegations that Monsignor Dempsey raped the Archbishop of the Traditional Anglican Communion, John Hepworth, more than 40 years ago — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Accusing the hospital of failing to protect her medical records, former employee and pediatric nurse Kristen Haight has filed a $45 million virgin
lawsuit against NYU Langone Medical Centre.
The lawsuit claims that, after being diagnosed with and receiving treatment for endometriosis, doctors, nurses and administrative staff accessed Haight’s medical files, harassing her about her sex life and calling her a 41-year-old virgin in honor of the film.
The media has yet to confirm the appropriateness of the nickname.
Regardless, her colleagues’ alleged behaviour was anything but appropriate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Astronomers using a telescope in Chile have discovered 50 previously unknown exoplanets.
The bumper haul of new worlds includes 16 super-Earths
— planets with a greater mass than our own, but below those of gas giants such as Jupiter.
One of these super-Earths orbits inside the habitable zone — the region around a star where conditions could be hospitable to life.
The planets were identified using the Harps instrument in La Silla in Chile
Yeah, i’m bored sometimes in the night, so i started drawing octopus-things for my wardrobe because it looked so boring white. Now i have little purple octopus on my wardrobedoor — via deviantART
A nearby star is pummelling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more intense than the Earth receives from the Sun.
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope suggest that high-energy radiation is evaporating about 5 million tons of matter from the planet every second. This result gives insight into the difficult survival path for some planets.
The planet, known as CoRoT-2b, has a mass about 3 times that of Jupiter (1000 times that of Earth) and orbits its parent star, CoRoT-2a at a distance roughly ten times the distance between Earth and the Moon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
70 miles north of Phoenix, in central Arizona lies an experimental town created by Paolo Soleri, intended to house 5,000 people. Arcosanti is the study of the concept of arcology, which combines architecture and ecology. The intentions of this community is to form a gestalt that houses the relations and interactions that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment.
One of the most imaginative thinkers of our time, Paolo Soleri has dedicated his life to addressing the ecological and social concerns raised by modern urban existence. Soleri’s career contains significant accomplishments in the fields of architecture and urban planning, and his groundbreaking philosophical writings on arcology, the co-presence of architecture with ecology, continues to garner interest globally — via ArchDaily
The DomainCrawler project started in October 2006 when Rickard Vikström had a vision of creating a database with domain/SEO-related information that, in contrast to other sites, also focused on a wide variety of ccTLDs.
During about a years time, we accumulated a large list of domain names and developed tools to gather information about them. In November 2007 we launched version 1.0 which was a really limited version compared to the services which we offer now
ANRA represents Australian retail businesses with a turnover of over $100 million a year, including Coles, Woolworths, Franklins, Bunnings Warehouse, Just Jeans and Jay Jays.
Speaking to ZDNet Australia at the hearing into the economic structure and performance of the Australian retail industry today, the CEO of ANRA, Margy Osmond, said that a carbon tax would see consumers go offshore to get better prices, leaving Australian bricks-and-mortar businesses to suffer with high costs and low sales — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In Britain, the phone-hacking scandal has put Rupert Murdoch’s media empire under unprecedented scrutiny. Questions are being asked about News Corporation’s influence over British democracy — its capacity to make and break prime ministers and to set the policy agenda of the day.
In Australia, similar questions must also be asked. News Limited controls 70 per cent of our nation’s media, representing the greatest concentration of media ownership in the democratic world.
The question for politicians and the community in this context is whether this huge concentration of media ownership and dwindling diversity is in the public interest. We can all argue about what constitutes media bias and what doesn’t, but with less and less diversity of media coverage and opportunities for journalists to dig deeper into an issue, proper scrutiny of policymakers of all stripes and persuasions is in fact limited — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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