Cheaper and lighter compared to its more expensive, cumbersome silicon cousin, plastic photovoltaics (PV) could herald a revolution in the solar power market, according to a UK solar panel expert — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US states are facing a new obstacle to enforcing the death penalty after the sole American manufacturer of a drug used in lethal injections announced it was ending production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Oh dear. Last week I appear to have scared a lot of people 🙁 I guess a modicum of scaring is a good thing as it makes people aware of the dangers and traps that it is easy to fall into. I was perhaps a little bit hyperbolic when I said anywhere else
. I should have said Why you should never search for free WordPress Themes in Google or Any Other Search Engine
— via WPMU.org
A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words free WordPress themes
, builtBackwards‘ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh‘s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for Free WordPress Themes
are — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Idaho home that has been infested with thousands of snakes for at least five years has been put up for sale for $66,000 less than its estimated market value after the recent owners gave up and walked away — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A council is proposing to save money – and combat global warming – by heating a leisure centre and swimming pool using heat generated by the crematorium next door — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 32-year-old man is accused of forcing his girlfriend to watch while he sexually assaulted her 12-year-old daughter three times — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The pungent smell of roasting chillies in an apartment building sent four people in the Finnish city of Espoo to the hospital on Monday with respiratory problems.
Rescue workers had to use gas masks to get up to the top floors where the smell was coming from,
rescue services spokesman Mika Maekelae told AFP, saying the smokeless odour was akin to pepper spray.
The first rescue worker who entered the building had a bad coughing fit and trouble breathing, he added.
Inside the apartment, rescue workers found an oven full of burnt whole chillies, which the occupant had forgotten — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
I had bad blocks on my iPod classic 120gb. I was told to trash it and by a certified technician but I wouldn’t give up. I tried reformating at least 50 times. My iPod would restore and show up in iTunes no problem but I couldn’t copy more than 2gb of data before iTunes would hang.
I also tried reformating the iPod with Disk Utility. I was able to format but not with zero out data
selected (recommended for fixing bad blocks). I even tried changing the partition map through terminal but was unsuccessful — via Mac OS X Hints
Local start-up Noosbox is hoping its selection in the Startmate entrepreneur program will boost the success of its email-sharing application — an idea borne out of frustrations in helping solve customer problems — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Crochet Sitting Kitty by Bethany Scofield – how utterly cute – pattern here — via whip up
One reason why people with diabetes can suffer more damage during strokes has been discovered by US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone has terminated its dealer agreement with Communications Direct after this website on Friday revealed allegations that staff at the dealer were misusing customer information and forwarding detailed call records outside the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MI5 and MI6 will argue in a test case before the supreme court tomorrow that in future no intelligence gathered abroad, even if initially obtained through torture, should ever be disclosed in a British ourt.
Last year an appeal court dismissed what it described as an attempt to undermine a fundamental principle of common law: that a litigant must see and hear the evidence used against him or her.
Now the security and intelligence agencies are challenging that ruling in an unprecedented case. The Guardian, the Times, the BBC, and the human rights groups Liberty and Justice will argue before the country’s most senior judges that if the agencies get their way, the right to a fair trial will be eroded, while public confidence in decisions taken by the courts will be diminished — via redwolf.newsvine.com
CSS PNG Image Fix for IE Nov 05 181 We’ve all seen them, the hoards of PNG fixes for IE6. That is because IE6 is a bag of smashed buttholes. I’m serious. It is. That is why we (web designers of the new world) have to continually come up with creative ways to solve the PNG issue. In case you are lost, just realize that in IE6, PNG images with transparency do not show their transparent regions, so you have to use some crazy IE6 proprietary filters. Moving on — via Komodo Media
Beset by war against violent extremists, Pakistan is now thrusting itself on to the frontline of a silent battle: the world’s final assault on polio.
Asif Ali Zardari, the country’s president, is launching an emergency drive to immunise 32 million children under the age of five against polio, aiming to reverse an alarming surge in cases last year. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A founder of the internet has heaped praise on the National Broadband Network but warned it will be difficult to predict its economic benefits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NY Times – Turbine-Free Wind Power from Antfood on Vimeo.
The wind panels are the brainchild of Francis Moon, a professor of mechanical engineering at Cornell University. He created a panel of 25 pads that oscillate in the wind, much the way leaves vibrate when a gust of air sifts through a tree. The pads attach to piezoelectric materials that produce electricity from each vibration — via The New York Times
An Australian soldier has been awarded the country’s highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, for bravery while serving in Afghanistan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Outlying contexts surrounded by city border highways, fields, malls… require consistent answers. These are places where any action demands the same audacity, for example, a leaning building. The construction expresses with the language of kinetic, fitting its shape parallel to the slope while the ground floor retrieves the level of the plot defining streets — via ArchDaily
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