Merseyside Police are appealing for information following the theft of thousands of pounds of mobile phone and consumer durables in a burglary at DHL‘s depot in Aintree, Liverpool, UK. Thieves made off with five lorries loaded with a substantial amount of property including sports clothing, mobile phones and electrical goods. One of the stolen lorries was recovered in Bootle. The four outstanding lorries are bright yellow and marked with the DHL logo, so they shouldn’t be too hard to spot
Leaked e-mails from two former prosecutors claim the military commissions set up to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay are rigged, fraudulent, and thin on evidence against the accused. Two e-mails, which have been obtained by the ABC, were sent to supervisors in the Office of Military Commissions in March of last year — three months before Australian detainee David Hicks was charged and five months before his trial began. The head of the military bar at the Australian Defence Legal Service, Captain Paul Willee QC, says if the emails are correct, he has serious misgivings about whether the detainees can get a fair trial
The lightsabre used by intergalactic hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars has sold for US$264,000 at an auction of Hollywood props that fetched far more than expected. The deadly laser sword brandished by actor Mark Hamill in the original 1977 film was the star among 550 pieces of movie memorabilia that went on the block and fetched a total of more than US$2.6 million
A giant patch of frozen water has been pictured nestled within an unnamed impact crater on Mars. The photographs were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board Mars Express, the European Space Agency probe which is exploring the planet. The ice disc is located on Vastitas Borealis, a broad plain that covers much of Mars’ far northern latitudes
The former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Sir Humphrey Gilbert — now in private hands and docked at Clarenville, Newfoundland — is for sale through eBay. As of Friday afternoon, no would-be buyer had posted even the minimum starting bid of US$1 million, let alone the undisclosed reserve price. That is the price below which the seller, Dan Burry, won’t part with the 73-metre-long ship. Now called Polar Prince, the icebreaker has four eight-cylinder diesel engines, three cranes, accommodation for 52 people and a helicopter landing pad — via HogBlog
Astronomical detective work led to the stunning discovery of a large new world beyond Pluto — and hiding in plain sight. The object could be the biggest in the Kuiper belt of rocky objects that orbit the outer reaches of the solar system. The first data made public about the object suggested the object could be up to twice the size of Pluto, but newly revealed observations indicate the object is about 70% Pluto’s diameter
Sunlight Direct is using fibre optics to bring the light from outside and transmit it inside. Their 1.2m diameter solar dish will light 90m² inside — minus the harmful UV rays — rendering a more natural lighting feel, which can be hybridised with florescent and possibly LED lighting to provide a constant light level, though the tone changes with the level of light outside. The GPS-based sun-tracking mechanism uses very little energy
Westnet is the latest ISP to be temporarily blocked from sending e-mail to BigPond’s mail servers due to a surge of spam routed through the smaller ISP
The Irish Republican Army has formally ended more than 30 years of armed struggle in Northern Ireland, pledging to lay down its weapons and fight British rule through purely peaceful means
www.designersinhouse.com – a mailing list for all you inhouse web designers out there wanting to whinge to each other about your similar occupational gripes.
I often find it hard to get my company to pay for training/seminars, so I was surprised when my half-arsed request to go to Web Essentials 2005 was granted with a positive full arse, and one of my co-workers for company.
New macs are out: iBook and mac mini. That’s great Steve, but where the fuck is the Australian iTunes store?
I’ve finished Harry Potter 6 and I liked it alot. Aside from character names, I think the most used word in the book was “snogging” due mainly to Won-Won. This interview with JK Rowling over at mugglenet, is worth a read, but make sure you finish the book first.
I’m really loving savage chickens. Here’s one of my fave’s creativity.
patchoforange has very nice sketches, including cute kitties.
bye-bye
This must be the ultimate in retro-cool hardware hacking. The floppy drive is obsolete, but the turntable is not, and that got one guy to thinking. He provides a full tutorial on how to turn that worthless old floppy drive into a most desirable piece of audio gear
From now on, customers looking to get the latest add-ons to Windows will have to verify that their copy of the operating system is legit. The piracy check will be mandatory for all customers worldwide who want to download add-ons for Windows XP. The only exception is for security-related patches. It looks like mandatory validation of your Windows XP license is now voluntary again. A simple hack has been found that disables the check
You know someone with a name like Ezekiel Rubottom is a person to watch. Described as a 21-year-old artist, occasional hip-hop emcee, and recovering methamphetamine addict
, Mr Rubottom was born with a club foot. This summer, upon advice from his doctor, he had the foot amputated. But instead of letting the hospital dispose of the body part, he took it home and stuck it (along with a can of beer and a porcelain horse) in a bucket of formaldehyde on his front porch. When a neighbourhood kid told one of his parents about seeing the foot, they called the police, who in turn confiscated the foot pending an investigation. As it turns out, it’s perfectly legal to keep your own body parts, so the foot was returned to Mr Rubottom, who’s already planning on giving a couple toes to friends — via BoingBoing
A study by digital music research firm The Leading Question, found that people who download music from peer to peer networks paid for four and a half times more music than regular music fans. Also that most of these people are extremely enthusiastic about paid-for services, as long as they are suitably compelling
. What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all file sharers are actually evil… they still pledged to carry on the carrot and stick
approach though
In preparation for a possible legal challenge, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation is requesting your help in identifying which printers are embedding traceable information in the documents they produce. Printer manufactures added this technology under persuasion from the government inorder to help combat counterfeiting operations, however this technology defeats the presumed anonymity most people expect from the documents they print
The Queen has ordered a DVD box set of the latest Doctor Who series for her summer holiday. She has become a huge fan of the hit BBC show starring Christopher Ecclestone and has reportedly followed the show since it began in 1963 with William Hartnell as the first of nine actors to play the time-travelling hero. By tradition, broadcasters give members of the Royal family recordings of their favourite programmes before they are available in the shops on video or DVD. But a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said last night: The Queen’s television viewing is a personal matter and we are unable to discuss it
Free web space services are increasingly being used to host spyware, with Internet security firm Websense claiming more of such dodgy material was found on free hosting services during the first two weeks of July than in May and June combined. These fraudulent, free personal Web sites have an average lifespan of two to four days, making them difficult to trace,
said an executive from the company
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has announced his resignation from politics, effective from next Wednesday
Just when you thought reality telly couldn’t get any worse. ABC, which pimps itself as the family channel, is said to be exploring the possibility of a reality television show with adult film star Ron Jeremy — via Warren Ellis
Four adult Scout leaders from Alaska were killed at the National Scout Jamboree, held at Fort AP Hill near Richmond, Virginia, after a tent pole they were erecting came into contact with an overhead power line. Apparently they weren’t prepared — via The Cult of Father Darwin
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