A 17-year-old Australian schoolboy said he unwittingly caused a massive hacker attack on Twitter that sent users to Japanese porn sites and took out the White House press secretary’s feed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Is MKII just another homage watch maker? No. In addition to Bill Yao having a great eye and passion for detail, he does a lot of things uniquely. The look and feel of his watches is very impressive, and he loves what he does. Parts are done well, and the timepieces even carry surprisingly fair prices — via A Blogt or Read
41mm wide is perfect on the wrist and the shape of the case is lovely. A slightly more delicate, tasteful version of the BR01 case and dial, but of course not square. The amazing thing about the dials is just how legible they are – and attractive — via A Blog to Read
According to the Der Spiegel site, BMW’s Mini offshoot is moving into the scooter market. Specfically the electric scooter market – and with a retro twist — via Retro To Go
Christopher Ward of UK will be launching their C60 Trident GMT line of watches in October. This will their first GMT watch. It is also known as a dual time watch. These new watches are very exciting. It is a true GMT movement, where the 12 hour hand can be set independently from the 24 hour hand. This is similar to the system used in the Rolex GMT Master II and the Omega Seamaster GMT — via Horology Crazy
2010. Pencil on Illustration Board. 30″ x 40″ — via Martin Kalanda
Social media sites are often seen as places to swap gossip, share photos and waste time, but they are increasingly being used in the hunt for missing persons — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s original ‘crocodile hunter’, environmentalist and wildlife documentary maker Malcolm Douglas has been killed in a car crash in Western Australia’s Kimberley — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hello lovely people! New toy designs! What do you think? We are working hard to make our toy designs available for you to own. Have a nice day 🙂 — via Yum Yum
After all-out assaults on the web presences of the MPAA, RIAA and later the BPI, last night a new company was targeted in a new 4chan DDoS attack. Anti-piracy lawyers ACS:Law, one of the most despised and complained about law firms in Britain, had their website taken offline last night and it remains down “Account Suspended” this morning. TorrentFreak has spoken to one of the key figures in Operation Payback for the lowdown — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Parents of children in Scotland who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could soon be offered special parenting classes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The former girlfriend of an Indiana teenager who pleaded guilty to murder says he told her he wanted to be just like the TV serial killer Dexter before he strangled his 10-year-old brother — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The European Commission (EC) has told UK telco giant BT that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will not force internet service providers (ISPs) to police their networks for copyright infringement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Queensland Police has warned of a surge in fake Microsoft phone scams targeting home computer users in the state — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The folks over at Open Acta Mexico sent over their report on an open information meeting at the Ministry of the Economy in Mexico about ACTA last week. There were two oddities that they called attention to. The first is that there was an MPAA representative at the meeting, who apparently asked whether or not ACTA could be used to block access to damaging
sites like Wikileaks. As the Open Acta Mexico people asked, what does Wikileaks have to do with movies? It seems like an interesting question, though, and I’m assuming that the MPAA is using Wikileaks as an example of a site they deem “dangerous” to get the idea across, so that later when they designate other sites (say… The Pirate Bay….) as dangerous, they can use this to make the — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The owner of a Spanish old people’s home is under investigation after the deaths of two wheelchair-bound 80-year-olds he left in the back of a parked van — via redwolf.newsvine.com
German scientists said they had discovered a new rare and endangered ape species in the tropical rainforests between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by its distinctive song — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Works of art, collected by the late actor Dennis Hopper, are expected to fetch up to $13m (£8.3m) when sold at Christie’s auction house in New York — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Engineers at social network Twitter.com plugged a vulnerability in the company’s main Web page after attacks that exploited the hole may have hit more than 500,000 users — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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