A sacked New South Wales local councillor has been sentenced to up to nine months’ jail for lying to corruption investigators — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian director of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says its new vessel has the potential to stop Japanese whaling.
The fast interceptor vessel, which is registered in Fremantle and cost $4 million, is called Gojira.
It is the first Sea Shepherd vessel to be registered in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the Middle Ages the area, where the building is situated, was a cannon foundry. Customers bought a site where stood the old yellow brick lodge with a basement. Cleaning the plaster of a house revealed that the lodge had been built by ancient bricks which were made in a old Vilnius brick factories. Because of a historical and physical value of a house were considered to preserve it by wrapping it with outer glass shape. Historical house structure have been carefully restored — via ArchDaily
WikiLeaks has reported that its Web site is currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. The whistleblower Web site posted an update via Twitter early Sunday afternoon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The National Australia Bank (NAB) said that it has fixed a computer problem that left millions of customers short of cash and has scotched reports the problem was due to human error — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A peak Australian technology body has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to not force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect the infected computers of its customers as part of its response to a Senate committee report into online security threats — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered clandestine surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of VPN versions used
as well as biometric information, according to a secret directive made public today by WikiLeaks.org — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Veteran Canadian funnyman Leslie Nielsen has died of complications from pneumonia aged 84 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Located in a residential area in East Surabaya, this house manages to look attractive in the middle of the Mediterranean-style residential neighborhood. The owners wanted a modern house can arise among their neighborhood because they are bored with Mediterranean-style home design — via ArchDaily
A bride has leapt from a jetty into the sea to help save a woman who was floating face down at an Adelaide beach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Swedish man has broadcast music from his stomach for several hours via a mini audio system, but says he is disappointed by the sound quality — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has released extracts from secret messages sent by US embassies which give an insight into current global concerns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dwelling of generous proportions developed over a single storey to facilitate the indoor-outdoor connection and to make the most of the environment in which it stands. Surrounded by meadows, tree groves, chestnut, pine and oak trees and wildlife represented by stags, wild boar and roe deer, the edifice establishes a recognised link with the traditional architecture and vernacular customs. Stone, tile, wood have been used in its construction — via ArchDaily
The luxury residence, located in Limassol, attracts attention with elegant proportion of intersected volumes. The variety of materials- white paint, fair face concrete, wood- highlights an architectural composition, that converges with the yard area. Playful unexpected division of the walls between the yard and the garage entry visually closes relax zone, at the same time it is see-through– via ArchDaily
Sometimes it gets so busy around Santa’s workshop that the new guy scarcely gets noticed. A quick background check would have found this new elf on a list of the VERY naughty. Woe be to his supervisor when he summons him once too often for menial chores. A coworker thinks she overheard him softly singing, It’s beginning to look a lot like End Times…
The Cthulhu Elf is an original work of art, a one-of-a-kind figure sculpted from epoxy clay over a wire armature and then painted with acrylics. He stands about 6 1/2 inches tall — via Etsy
The octopus represents wisdom, creativity, will, strength, and focus. This beautiful golden octopus circle pendant hangs from a strong chain and creates a unique necklace-perfect for any age — via Etsy
Nor is Duxbury free of its own oddities. Duxbury does not feature in any of Lovecraft’s fiction; Arkham
is based on Salem, Innsmouth
is based on a combination of Ipswich and Gloucester, and Dunwich
is based on Athol. But Duxbury was no stranger to sea serpents, even in Wiswall’s day. The English writer John Josselyn’s An Account of Two Voyages to New-England (1674) described the 1639 sighting of a sea serpent off Cape Anne, north of Duxbury, which sparked a rash of sea-serpent sightings along the Massachusetts coast, including Duxbury. And in 1857 Henry Thoreau wrote in his journal that Daniel Webster had seen a sea-serpent off the coast of Duxbury — via io9
News publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. That’s why we’re experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of these metatags addresses a different scenario, but for both the aim is to allow publishers to take credit for their work and give credit to other journalists — via benno.newsvine.com
A man has died after jumping into an icy river in Lancashire in an attempt to save his pet springer spaniel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United States has rejected talks with WikiLeaks over its planned release of confidential US documents, saying the whistleblower website is holding them in violation of US law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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