A close look at Abbott’s Direct Action plan

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21 July 2011
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The next election will not be until 2013, barring misfortune or worse. But let’s give these polls their due for a second. What if Kevin Rudd’s aortic valve gave out this weekend, and the Government of Julia Gillard fell?

What exactly are the policies of the Coalition, and would they work? After all, there’s been plenty of media scrutiny of the Government’s carbon tax. There’s been precious little on the Opposition’s own carbon policy, which it calls “Direct Action”, or the many sweeping statements on climate change and the carbon tax by Tony Abbott.

On Monday night on the ABC’s PM program, Stephen Long finally examined some of Tony Abbott’s claims. In a stunning piece of forensic investigation, Long single-handedly dismantled the distortions, misrepresentations and bald-faced lies that Tony Abbott continues to advance — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Punk Rock Octoplushie / jaynedanger

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21 July 2011
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Meet one of the toughest octo-plushies on the block!

I’ve had tons of requests for this little guy! Here’s the first of what’s sure to be a long line of punk plushies. He’s made of red felt and a super styling black felt mohawk.

His body has been carefully machine stitched, hand-sewn, and he comes with an official Jayne Danger hang tag. This rockin’ little dude measures about 4.5″ tall and 4″ wide — via Etsy

Social media is Pentagon’s new battlefield

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21 July 2011
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The Pentagon is asking scientists to figure out how to detect and counter propaganda on social media networks in the aftermath of Arab uprisings driven by Twitter and Facebook.

The US military’s high-tech research arm, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, has put out a request for experts to look at a new science of social networks that would attempt to get ahead of the curve of events unfolding on new media — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Twitter explores non-advertising revenue

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21 July 2011
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Twitter could potentially generate revenue from becoming an online marketplace in addition to advertising, its current money-maker, the chief executive of the company said.

Dick Costolo, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Colorado, said that the company is still seeing explosive growth, with over 200 million registered Twitter users sending one billion tweets every five days — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Deep sinkhole opens under woman’s bed

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21 July 2011
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The first step out of bed could have been a big one.

A woman in Guatemala City reports that a sinkhole, 40 feet deep and almost 3 feet across, opened under her bed Monday.

When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighbouring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street, Inocenta Hernandez, 65, said in an Agence France-Presse report — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The WWI British Biplane on a Rooftop in Lower Manhattan

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21 July 2011
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For years, Shawn Hakimian has wondered why a World War I fighter plane sits on the roof of 77 Water Street.

It’s not every day you see an airplane taking off from a New York City building, says Hakimian, a developer whose 75 Wall Street condominiums have views onto the roof of the neighbouring Water Street building and the biplane that is parked there, on a landing strip lined with runway lights. It’s one of our buyers’ most commonly asked questions.

When the William Kaufman Organization built the 26-story office tower in 1970, the owner wanted to adorn its roof with something more interesting than air-conditioning machinery.

When you’re in a building that’s higher, and you’re looking down, it’s pretty ugly, says Robert Kaufman, the company’s president. So we said: ‘what can we do?’ And we got the idea of putting an airplane on the roof — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Scientists work to reverse lazy eye

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21 July 2011
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Scientists say they expect to soon restore sight to people suffering from one of the most common forms of blindness.

Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the largest cause of single-eye blindness in adults affecting about 3 per cent of the population.

It can also cause the loss of vision in one eye in early childhood — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Google Will Warn Users About Dangerous Search Results

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21 July 2011
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Dangerous malware links in Google’s search results will bring up a warning as Google combats Search Engine Poisoning. Google hopes to help searchers update their antivirus software as Cisco Systems reports phishing attacks are getting more dangerous — and profitable. An analyst warned, however, that hackers could exploit Google’s warning — via redwolf.newsvine.com

What should Pluto’s new moon be named?

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21 July 2011
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Pluto’s tiny new moon needs a real name.

Right now astronomers are using two boring designators for it – P4 and S/2011 P1.

Ironically, the body tasked with approving an official name for the new moon is the same one that stripped Pluto of its planet status in 2006 — the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Hahn Super Dry / Publicis Mojo

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21 July 2011
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The winner of Mumbrella’s TV Ad of the Month contest is Publicis Mojo’s Knight Rider-themed ad for Hahn Super Dry.

The ad of the month for June is the first work by the agency for the beer brand and was shot by Emmy award-winning director Tom Kuntz, the man behind Old Spice’s The Man Your Man Could Smell Like — via Mumbrella

Suppressed Report Found Busted Pirate Site Users Were Good Consumers

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20 July 2011
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But were the site’s users all criminals hell-bent on destroying the movie industry? According to a report from Telepolis, a recent study found the reverse was true.

The study, which was carried out by Society for Consumer Research (GfK), found that users of pirate sites including Kino.to did not fit the copyright lobby-painted stereotype of parasites who take and never give back.

In fact, the study also found that Internet users treat these services as a preview, a kind of try before you buy.

This, the survey claims, leads pirate site users to buy more DVDs, visit the cinema more often and on average spend more than their honest counterparts at the box office.

The users often buy a ticket to the expensive weekend-days, the report note — via redwolf.newsvine.com

All the evidence points to CSI ignoring the gritty reality

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20 July 2011
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In a shed in Richmond, surrounded by grazing cows and green pastures, police crime scene investigators are searching for murder weapons in an upturned lounge room.

Next door, Senior Constable John Smallgood is dusting for fingerprints in a child’s blood-spattered bedroom.

The crime scenes are both simulated, part of Australia’s first and only specially built forensic science facility. The joint venture between NSW Police and the University of Western Sydney was unveiled at the university’s Hawkesbury campus yesterday.

The centre has a classroom and five scenario rooms. It will be used to train police officers and UWS forensic science students to navigate crime scenes ranging from backyards to illegal drug labs — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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