London importers cash in on PSP delay

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Sony vs. The PSP Importers - A Comedy

Sony vs. The PSP Importers - A Comedy 06/24/2005 04:03 PM

Welcome to cuckoo world! Sony, in all their majestic wisdom, has decided to hunt down and kill PSP importers in the UK. Let's read this, shall we? "The Japanese electronics giant Sony is demanding that companies importing its hotly anticipated PlayStation Portable to Britain reveal their customers' identities so the equipment can be tracked down."

Now, why would they do this? Because they are crazy? Because Sony CEO Sir Howard Lancelot Stringer Esq. has finally gone all Howard Hughes on us? Are those purchasers of Japanese PSPs in there on the Rainy Isle using them to mount an offensive against the Sony Yakuza stronghold or are they attempting to pay $400 for a game device. Next week: Sony kills and eats babies.

Sony bid to stop grey imports [Guardian]

UPDATE - Ok, so they don't eat babies so much.

US customs wants a loyalty oath from DVD
importers

US customs wants a loyalty oath from DVD
importers 12/27/2004 12:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: MBF imported a video from Italy and discovered this disclaimer in the packaging -- apparently, you can get a parcel through customs with more ease if you recite a hollow loyalty oath and promise that you're not sending in any footage that advocates treason. Link (Thanks, John!)

Customs officials eye Internet
transactions with importers, brokers

Customs officials eye Internet
transactions with importers, brokers 11/03/2003 05:58 PM
Manila Times Nov 3 2003 3:24PM ET

Open maps of London event: April 14,
London

Open maps of London event: April 14,
London 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Open Knowledge Forums are a series of lectures and panel discussions about the ways that "open knowledge" can benefit the public interest. The next one is a week away, in London, and it's about a plan to produce a set of public domain maps of London (London's maps were produced at tax-payer expense, but can't be freely used; rather, you have to pay the ordinance survey thousands of pounds for the privilege; by contrast, US government maps are free and plentiful, and form the basis for thousands and thousand of competing mapping efforts, from Michelin guides to Google Maps).

There are a number of interesting proposals for this, including deploying an army of GPS-wielding geohackers, and buying up Russian satellite photos of London. Check out this squib from last January's NTK:

London's geowanking fraternity have come up with an intriguing proposition. With a grand's worth of Russian 1-meter resolution satellite pics, they believe they can stitch together an entirely free, redistributable vector database of the capital, freed from the shackles of the Ordnance Survey's restrictive copyrights, and thus open to all manner of GPL-style repurposing.

Here are the details:

* When: Thurs April 14th 2005, 7-9pm

* Where: Stanhope Centre, Marble Arch, London. [WWW]Directions

* Who can attend: public. Registration is optional but useful so please notify us if you can via okforums-info@okfn.org.

* Speakers: Steve Coast of openstreetmap.org; Roger Longhorn (geodata policy expert); Giles Lane of urbantapestries.net; Jo Walsh of mappinghacks.com

Link

Property from the Estate of Johnny Cash
and June Carter Cash

Property from the Estate of Johnny Cash
and June Carter Cash 08/11/2004 01:34 PM

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Leading web software developer Global
Wine & Spirits launches Importer
Internet portal suite for wine and
spirits importers of America

Leading web software developer Global
Wine & Spirits launches Importer
Internet portal suite for wine and
spirits importers of America 06/24/2004 02:53 AM
Global Wine & Spirits, the leading e-business network for the wine and spirits trade, introduces a Wine & Spirits Importer Portal adapted to the needs of wine and spirits importers of America [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

Getting around London

Getting around London 02/01/2005 09:58 PM
The Transport for London Journey Planner shows you how to get from anywhere in London to anywhere else by public transport, on foot or by bike. Fancy a stroll from Trafalgar Square to Big Ben? Help yourself to a custom-built PDF route map. If you're travelling by road, you can use webca ms to see exactly what the traffic's like. (But the best downloadable London maps are still on the BBC web site)

Off to London

Off to London 02/01/2005 09:26 PM

I'm leaving for London in a couple of hours. I'll probably be posting a bit while I'm there as time and connectivity permit...hopefully some photos as well.

Packing this morning, I came up with a list of the extra stuff that I need to do before going to the airport now that everyone's a terrorist until proven innocent** and the major airlines are all about to go out of business:

• Clip my fingernails. With nail clippers verboten on planes, you need to do it before you leave.
• Silence my electric toothbrush. Last time I traveled, my toothbrush turned on in my luggage and the battery was long dead when I got home. Luckily I can plug the power cord into the brush to prevent it from turning on, lest some anxious baggage screener thinks it's a buzzing bomb and/or illegal sexual device.
• Leave ridiculously early. I am a single male traveling alone on an American Airlines flight to Heathrow on a ticket purchased not so long ago...I'm pretty sure that I'm going to get pulled aside for a "random" screening. My only hope: my summer tan has faded and I'm white as can be (Non-Terrorist White is the hottest color for pants at J. Crew this season)...come on, wave whitey through!
• Wardrobe change. Gotta wear pants that don't require a belt and shoes that can be slipped on and off with ease.
• Eat. You may get food on the plane, you may not. With random screenings come random feedings and I don't like my odds in either case.

** The Jan/Feb 2005 Atlantic Monthly has a couple of great articles on terrorism...here's a relevant snippet from Success Without Victory (subscribers only) by James Fallows:

Screening lines at airports are perhaps the most familiar reminder of post-9/11 security. They also exemplify what's wrong with the current approach.

Many of the routines and demands are silly, eroding rather than building confidence in the security regime of which they are part. "You can't go through an airport line without thinking 'This is dumb,'" says Graham Allison, the author of the recent Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, and the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at Harvard, which conducts many projects on anti-terrorism and security. "You have two people whose job it is to see if the name on your driver's license is the same as the name on your ticket -- as if any self-respecting terrorist would fail to think of that. You have a guy whose job is to shout out a reminder for you to take off your jacket and get your computer out of your bag. You've got one-year-olds taking off their shoes. It is hard to think of a way you could caricature it to make it look sillier." At the same time, the ritual manages to be intimidating, as a standing reminder of how much Americans have to fear.

In the London Eye

In the London Eye 04/21/2004 01:05 PM
Several weeks ago I posted a poll asking where you wanted to see me. "In the London Eye" received... (86 words)

Get a job (Boston), get a job (London)

Get a job (Boston), get a job (London) 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Web jobs, baby.

London Calling

London Calling 11/11/2003 03:21 PM
A nice sit down and a cup of tea are among many events (pdf) planned for GWB's impending visit to the UK. Police are estimating 100,000 plus demonstrators for his visit, and London's Mayor says of American requests for an exclusion zone to protect him, 'I don't think that's got a chance at all'. How does this level of grass-roots dissent compare to his reception when out and about in the US?

Ben and Mena come to London

Ben and Mena come to London 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
weather presenter .. Tom Coates .. more

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London crawling

London crawling 06/05/2005 11:06 PM
Tomorrow we fly to London to see old friends and new sights, spend time with family, and speak at a new conference featuring some of the top names in standards-based design. Last-minute addition: great job opening at Campbell-Ewald.

London: Next City of the Sky?

London: Next City of the Sky? 06/29/2004 08:41 PM
London architects and developers are pushing to remake the city's profile, much to the chagrin of conservation groups and locals.

WTF-2 in London this Saturday

WTF-2 in London this Saturday 05/24/2004 04:44 AM
The next WTFCon is in London this Saturday: it's a one-day convention devoted to hackery subjects.

* An open space gathering and conference of various groups, projects, people, and organisations active and interested in creating a better world.

* Action and not just talk. Too many social forums and gatherings result with little or no outcome. Come and propose and gain support for actions during Soho Summit, ESF, G8, GDR etc.

* An assembly of gifts and needs: tell everyone what your projects are all about, what they have to offer, and what they need. Together we have everything. Let's self-organise and share!

* About working together, many of us have shared principles despite our diverse goals. No more either or!

Link (Thanks, Tav!)

Poverty in London

Poverty in London 06/22/2004 05:04 PM
Charles Booth Online Archive. Charles Booth's survey of life and labour in London at the end of the Victorian era, with the famous poverty maps.

London Booted

London Booted 04/24/2004 10:42 PM
London Booted - A tribute to the Clash. In the vein of the Grey Album, here is an album of mash-ups in tribute to London Calling. Especially good is the mix of The Clash's Spanish Bombs and Outkast's Bombs over Baghdad. After reading the background (and hopefully donating to one of the worthwhile sponsors), get your download on.

Oh, sweet London

Oh, sweet London 12/30/2003 01:24 AM
This city is most certainly a place where it's impossible to get bored. Yesterday, after an early arrival, we went to see the Lord of the Rings exhibition at Science Museum, which was very well worth the rather steep 12£ admission: some of the miniatures are simply amazing, Sauron and the ringwraiths can scare you witless even if seen from a distance, but the best part are some of the paintings and sketches: I felt like any weak-minded creature in front of the Ring as I let my eyes rest upon the artwork of Sauron overseeing his troops at the plains of Gorgoroth... This must be mine - my precioussss...

Afterwards, we were - completely accidentally - treated to the artwork of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, who had an outdoor exhibition of 3x2 meter photographs outside the Natural History Museum. Go see the stuff this guy shoots - some of it is quite simply breathtaking. Especially in large size.

Anyhow, the tournament looks like it's going to be a good one: plenty of nice people all around, good location, relaxed schedule... Well, I might still lose all of my games :)

Unfortunately, I am not able to get GPRS roaming work, so it looks like no moblogging. I even forgot all of my USB leads home, so I can't even upload any pictures. Oh well.

3D London Tube

3D London Tube 11/15/2003 03:29 PM
These 3D rendered London Tube maps are pretty mind-blowing. Link (via Blackbelt Jones)

More on London Booted

More on London Booted 04/25/2004 11:07 AM
Following up on this BoingBoing post about the bootleg Clash remix project "London Booted," Will says:

We featured a preview of London Booted in issue-zero of our bootleg newsletter, which you can find here if you're interested (it's down the bottom in the "Coming Soon" section). We're also planning a follow up for issue-two (out 29th April) where we'll be talking to the remixers involved and also they guy who organised the project (only subscribers to the mailing list will get this issue).

Link

Ben and Mena come to London...

Ben and Mena come to London... 07/09/2004 03:00 AM

So Ben and Mena and Loic have been in London for meetings and a few of us managed to get together and hang out with them for a bit. We've got Ben drinking warm flavoursome beer, Mena puffing away on cigarettes in pubs and Loic's been trying to run over small children with his push trolley. We even got to roam around Television Centre with them a bit today - Mena making a particularly fetching weather presenter.

Loic took some pictures too:

• Arriving in London
• A really nasty picture of me looking like I have a comb-over
• M ena posing with cigarette
• M ena presenting the weather

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"article at This Is London,"

"article at This Is London," 03/19/2003 10:44 PM

Wi-Fi from London Streets

Wi-Fi from London Streets 12/20/2003 08:35 PM
StreetNet Islington, London

UXnet Comes to London

UXnet Comes to London 12/19/2004 03:55 PM
You’re invited to the first monthly social meeting in London for the User Experience Design community.

Back from London

Back from London 02/05/2005 10:18 PM

Back from London and up at the ungodly hour of 7:00 AM ET after getting to bed at 1:30 AM ET, which was the minute I got home from the airport. Still, six hours of sleep is better than none hours. I'm going to use the time to get some stuff done...lots of exciting and dread-inspiring things to do in the next couple of weeks. Trip pictures are forthcoming; luckily my camera battery lasted the whole time despite the charger being thousands of miles away and I took lots of photos.

But quickly, I learned a few additional travel tips on this trip (to add to the list):

• Never purchase a US to UK power outlet converter at a Canadian/Australian ex-pat shop. It will fail to work after a day or so. I practically had to splash water on it to get a good connection.
• When going through security at the airport, don't wear a shirt that depicts a little girl blowing her head off with a gun, even though her splattered brains turn into butterflies.
• You know that bottle of unopened soda in the bag bouncing on your hip for the last 1/2 hour? Yeah, that's going to spray everywhere when you open it, dummy. When I got home, my coat was so sticky that I just kinda pressed it to the wall to hang it up, no hook needed.

Oh, and I ate kangaroo! Not half bad, but I probably wouldn't go out of my way to order it again.

Faces of London

Faces of London 02/05/2005 10:18 PM

Without intending to, I ended up taking photos of a bunch of faces while I was in London. Here are some of them:

It's been awhile since I've seriously picked up a camera (not that I was ever that serious about it) and I'm a little rusty. I'm hoping to get in lots more practice in the coming months, so the quality should hopefully improve.

Goodbye London

Goodbye London 06/09/2004 02:33 AM

Had a "lovely" time in London. Goodbye and thanks for all the chips.

I'm off to Finland today. I'll be giving a talk at the EVA conference tomorrow.

The London Screensaver (B&W) 1.0

The London Screensaver (B&W) 1.0 07/07/2004 10:42 PM
10 high-resolution photos of London, England in black and white

The Museum of London

The Museum of London 12/07/2003 08:14 AM
The Museum of London.

Intel's London MAN Plans

Intel's London MAN Plans 04/29/2004 11:09 PM
Unstrung.com Apr 30 2004 3:28AM GMT

Lessig lecture in London, May 27

Lessig lecture in London, May 27 05/21/2004 06:49 AM
Larry Lessig is speaking on London on the 27th of May. Flash Link

London detainee wanted in US

London detainee wanted in US 08/05/2004 11:14 PM
A British citizen wanted by the US in connection with terrorist offences has been arrested in London.

i emerged in london rain

i emerged in london rain 11/18/2003 03:16 PM
Lots of people have written emails in the past few days asking about Dancing Barefoot and when the next printing...

London City Portal

London City Portal 12/29/2004 03:34 AM
Want to check out the nightlife? Want to look for a place to party the night out? Look no further - London1.info brings you the latest information on the entertainment scene of London. [PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]

London Tube Map as flowchart

London Tube Map as flowchart 12/22/2003 12:36 PM
Nice HOWTO for using graphics in the style of the London tube-map to flowchart complex processes. Includes downloadable PowerPoint templates. Link (via Kottke)

New eBoy poster: London

New eBoy poster: London 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: The new eBoy poster of London is an infinite source of eye candy. I just ordered it.
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James Street, London

James Street, London 12/10/2003 10:24 AM
Looks like there's a hottie somewhere on James Street, adjacent to Selfridges. SSID jre-wireless-4 and numerous Rendezvous contacts popped up near to the Lamb pub and also nearby the courtyard. Patchy reception, but good speed - managed to get a handful of audios downloaded before I got cut.

APs in Greenwich SE10, London

APs in Greenwich SE10, London 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
in and around greenwich uni, about 6 (init cnt) APs. will post exact details later in week (2 mch cors wk) topper

London: British Library

London: British Library 06/20/2004 08:45 PM
The British Library has free Wifi access in their cafe and resturaunt until June 30. You don't have to buy anything at the cafe, just log on and select British Library as your provider.
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