Tart cards: illicit ads from London, chronicled in new book

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Bring me my glowing pop tart

Bring me my glowing pop tart 08/03/2004 04:29 PM
My old PCs are scattered to the wind, and I type this upon a PowerBook, so it pains me to admit that I can't make use of the perhaps the Greatest Invention Ever Created In The History of Computing. As...

Writer Chronicled Lives in Detail-Rich
Portraits (Los Angeles Times)

Writer Chronicled Lives in Detail-Rich
Portraits (Los Angeles Times) 06/02/2004 05:30 AM
Los Angeles Times - William Manchester, the eminent popular historian and biographer best known for his detail-rich and highly readable books chronicling the life of Winston Churchill and the death of John F. Kennedy, died Tuesday at his home in Middletown, Conn. He was 82.

The illicit trade in compromised PCs

The illicit trade in compromised PCs 04/30/2004 10:50 AM
Information Security 2004 Zombie army

Illicit Music Swapping on the Decline?
(NewsFactor)

Illicit Music Swapping on the Decline?
(NewsFactor) 04/27/2004 03:59 PM
NewsFactor - Champagne corks must be popping over at the Recording Industry Association of America, which for the last year has been on a crusade to stop what it deems to be illegal music swapping on the now ubiquitous peer-to-peer Internet networks.

Iraq Illicit Arms Gone Before War,
Departing Inspector Says

Iraq Illicit Arms Gone Before War,
Departing Inspector Says 01/24/2004 12:07 AM
David Kay said that he had concluded that Iraq did not have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons at the start of the war.

Sex and the City worms promise illicit
thrills

Sex and the City worms promise illicit
thrills 11/04/2003 01:19 PM
Mildy irritating infection

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

Iraq Illicit Arms Gone Before War,
Departing Inspector States

Iraq Illicit Arms Gone Before War,
Departing Inspector States 01/24/2004 01:17 AM
David Kay said that he had concluded that Iraq did not have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons at the start of the war.

iPodlounge Announces Editorial Policy on
Dangerous, Cloned, and Illicit iPod
Accessories

iPodlounge Announces Editorial Policy on
Dangerous, Cloned, and Illicit iPod
Accessories 02/05/2005 09:28 PM
Leading independent iPod information resource fights consumer exploitation and deception, bars advertising and coverage for associated vendors [PRWEB Feb 2, 2005]

ID Cards: Home Affairs Committee to give
ID Cards bill thorough examination

ID Cards: Home Affairs Committee to give
ID Cards bill thorough examination 04/28/2004 06:09 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 28 2004 10:27AM GMT

ATP Announces Industrial Grade SD Cards
- Ruggedized SD Memory Cards to Endure
Extreme Temperatures, Shock and
Vibration in Harsh Environments

ATP Announces Industrial Grade SD Cards
- Ruggedized SD Memory Cards to Endure
Extreme Temperatures, Shock and
Vibration in Harsh Environments 04/06/2005 02:40 AM
ATP Electronics Inc., a premium manufacturer of digital flash media products, today announced a new line of highly durable and reliable Industrial Grade SD (SecureDigital) Flash Cards. ATP Industrial Grade SD Cards are designed for demanding Industrial applications such as military, automotive, marine navigation, aviation, and manufacturing, where mission critical data requires the highest level of reliability, durability, and data integrity. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature 10/31/2003 06:21 PM
InternetRetailer.com Oct 31 2003 4:44PM ET

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition 06/12/2004 12:32 PM

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute 03/19/2005 02:43 AM
In MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers 02/13/2004 05:52 AM
One of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out - and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site, it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's pissing off retailers, who don't want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats 12/15/2003 08:15 AM
vnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET

Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book

Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book 07/13/2004 03:49 PM
This NY Times piece compares Amazon.com with Napster. Huh? The odd logic is that used books sold online are cutting into sales of new books, which may or may not be true. But the Napster comparison is ludicrous for some obvious reasons, including the fact that an actual book is not a digitized song, and that if I'm holding a specific book you are not holding the same copy. The Times piece is about the "doctrine of first sale," which basically says that once a work is sold, it's gone from the creator's control. The purchaser of the item can resell it, give it away or throw it in the garbage, if that's what he wants to do. Copyright holders have never liked this very much, and I can sympathize. Visual artists who see escalating prices for works they sold at bargain when they were starting out tend to really not like this situation. But the doctrine of first sale is vastly better than the alternative. The idea that the copyright owner should get a cut every time a book changes hands is a Pandora's box. It's also just what copyright industry would like to see happen, and that's what the entertainment industry is trying to create with its various digital restrictions technologies. The industry wants a pay-per-use world of arts and letters. Resist. And let's please not equate selling a used book with copyright infringement.

Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)

Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review) 11/18/2002 09:56 AM

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.

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)

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)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

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)

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.

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 12ÂŁ 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.

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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"article at This Is London,"

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

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

Wi-Fi from London Streets

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

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!)

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.

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.

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