Microsoft's plan to save $80m by cutting back benefits upsets many of its staff, an internal poll obtained by Reuters reveals.

Got this email today:




From:

info@proclame.com

I almost wrote if off as spam but noticed that is was sent to only M.River and I. So I went to proclame.com and what I found was good.

Of course I’m partial to art duos making net art ;-)

[From Slashdot]: "I'm trying to get local (US) maps together for a community project. I want to able to modify and annotate the maps and provide them free to the public, creating a derivative open work. They also need to be accurate down to the street level and no more than 10 years out of date. I've been searching around for maps available in the public domain or under open licenses, like the Creative Commons licenses allowing derivative works. I've looked at the National Atlas, but the maps, though interesting, aren't detailed enough with street information. The topographical and aerial image maps available through that site are from Terraserver, which are copyrighted to Microsoft. Plus, I really just need simple vector road maps, not USGS rasters. I tried looking at the Census Bureau's TIGER line data, but I can't make heads or tails of it. Are there maps available through other agencies (national or international)? Are there Free/Open-Source Software projects that are making use of public data to build street-level maps for free (as in speech) use?"

Patrick sez, "Digging through his cassette tapes last weekend, this guy came across 'Macintosh Plus: A Guided Tour' and decided he should archive it onto CD for posterity (being a pack rat by nature). It's especially interesting in that it gives a good glimpse of the level of user education necessary at that point in Computer History: it patiently goes over how to interact with icons, how to use the mouse, etc..."

Put the floppy disk into the internal disk drive. Put it in with the metal end first...and the label up. Push it all the way in.

4.6MB MP3 Link

With the release of Paperrad’s Tux Dog, I was inspired to post a reminder that MTAA’s historic Simple Net Art Diagram is free (as in speech), not as open-source, but under a very liberal Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 license. Easily editable vector art available for download :-)

Battelle says Google smartly gave Gmail accounts to a bunch of journalists [via] 

Sean Bonner, my co-curator in the SENT phonecam art project, says:

While watching a documentary from 93 last night where people were running around with giant brick cell phones I decided I need to start collecting these things and make some kind of archive of them. If you have one of these things sitting in the closet somewhere let me know. Actually, I'm expanding this to any kind of old school gadgetry - old pagers, original PDAs, but really old cell phones are going to be the focus.

Alias star Jennifer Garner wants you to join the CIA. Watch this video, it is totally insane, especially since the CIA endorses this!

[This is just like those ads in Starship Troopers. woah. I clicked on Text Only and opened the file in BBedit--ha! you can see their last edit. the script used to read "I play a CIA double agent." but now it reads "I play a CIA officer." I guess the CIA doesn't want double agents! Also, there is a bunch of data in the Word file that reveals pc login names and some of the directory structures where this file once lived (example: "\Macshare\Creative Server\Creative\ABC\CIA\CIA045_WebsitePhase2\CIA_GARNER MOVIE\1-09-04\CIA TV script final.doc") ... nothing incriminating there, except we can assume it was written in January, well before the lid was blown off Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh. Oh and i guess the CIA marketing department has a Mac server for filesharing. suite! —AG]

Paperrad Open Sources their character TUX DOG!!!!!

An oulipo-inspired contemporary poet who's set the land-speed record for reciting dada sound poetry and designed an alien language for Paramount's Earth: Final Conquest. Each chapter in Boek's book Eunoia is written with a *single* vowel, and each has its

Computer gamers are professional athletes in Korea (Some players are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, wear uniforms, and have rabid fans.)

You are Hamlet. "I am in an east-west corridor in the palace. My bedroom door is in the south wall. An opening in the north wall leads on to the balcony.
Horatio is here. Exits are north, east, south and west."

The Day After Tomorrow features spectacular scenes where hundreds of millions die because of sudden climate change. But the movie dodges deep questions about humanity's relationship with nature to focus on a hokey father-son reunion story. By Jason Silverman.

[Hmmm]

securitas writes "Total Information Awareness is alive and thriving. eWEEK's Caron Carlson reports on a new General Accounting Office study that says TIA-style data mining programs are rampant in federal agencies with 199 projects at 52 of 128 agencies. The Defense Intelligence Agency/DoD is the single largest user of these data mining projects (eg. Verity K2 Enterprise). The story was first reported by Reuters' Andy Sullivan (ZDNet UK mirror) and the NYT's Robert Pear, who wrote that at least 122 projects used personally identifying information like names, e-mail addresses, Social Security and driver's license numbers. The 'actual numbers are likely to be much higher' because the report excludes classified projects. Wired News' Kim Zetter writes that, in addition to government databases, federal agencies mine private databases of credit rating agencies, bank account numbers, student loan applications, etc. This week the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) released a report with privacy guidelines for data mining technology (PDF) development and use. Guidelines include data anonymization, government data access authorization and audit trails. Cynthia (Cindy) Webb's 'Total Information Dilemma' at the Washington Post is an excellent survey of media coverage of TIA, MATRIX and the GAO report 'Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses' (mirror, both in PDF format). More at GCN, GovExec and the Guardian/AP."

The online publication RFID News just published a fresh feature -- editor John Wehr interviewed representatives of several organizations about public perception of RFID technology, legislative efforts, and privacy best practices. Some thought-provoking stuff in here. Snip:

# "In most cases, asking how a company exploring item-level RFID tagging can protect their customers' privacy is like asking a fox how he can best ensure the safety of your chickens." -- Katherine Albrecht, CASPIAN

# "Businesses need to do more to educate the general public on the uses, benefits and issues about the use of RFID, fostering constructive solutions to their concerns." -- Dayna Fried, Hewlett-Packard


# "Much of the early work and publicity surrounding RFID was focused much too far into the future and on applications outside of the supply chain." -- Jack Grasso, EPCglobal US


# "[Auto-ID Center, now EPCglobal] documents detailed how such a campaign may unfold, citing the need for the development of a proactive plan that would 'neutralize opposition' and 'mitigate possible public backlash.'" -- Cedric Laurant, EPIC

I'm looking forward to a Kerry/Kutcher ticket  

Joe writes "There's a story about a Massachusetts company, Muzzy Lane Software, creating a Civ-style simulation computer game to teach history to high school and college students. 'Our view isn't that you take the right video game, stick it in a classroom and everything gets better,' Mr. McCool said. 'But with the right tools, this can significantly enhance learning.'"

BEIGE: Infinite Fill Summer Group Show CALL FOR ENTRIES

The successor to the GameCube could make its debut in May 2005, Nintendo has suggested.

[ok ok, i'm only reblogging this so i can whine about being stuck on the Omega Pirate in Metroid Prime. haha. Nintendo is gonna get 0wned by the PSP, so the next GC better be good. —AG]

My latest article at TheFeature.com is an interview with architect William J. Mitchell, director of MIT's Media Lab and author of three essential books about the spaces we inhabit, online and off:

"Increasingly, we are living our lives at the points where electronic information flows, mobile bodies, and physical places intersect in particularly useful and engaging ways," he writes. "These points are becoming the occasions for a characteristic new architecture of the twenty-first century." Link

[william mitchell is so lame and boring, but i'm reblogging him anyways .. jeesh. at least someone isn't taking him at face value. oh and i got this book the other day which is slightly less lame and boring. —AG]

applemasker writes "Slate.com has an article titled Feed The Worms Who Write Worms to the Worms which argues based on economic theory (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) that it is a 'better investment' to execute the creators of worms, virus and trojan authors, than murderers. Anyone who has tried to resurrect a network or computer after a nasty infection may agree. Although the author does not seriously argue for capital punishment for the script kiddies, it does raise some interesting issues about how much 'value' society puts on certain types of harm and the author's view of a government's role in protecting us from it."

[just to be clear: i agree with this modest proposal, but disagree with the indictment.. it's the microsoft monoculture that's at fault, not the script kiddies. don't confuse the symptom with the disease. —AG]

sucking up to McDonalds isn't very rock n' roll  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine months after Congress shut down a controversial Pentagon computer-surveillance program, the U.S. government continues to comb private records to sniff out suspicious activity, according to a congressional report obtained by Reuters.

Thanks to TotalGames.net for reprinting a GamesTM article remembering the genius of id Software's seminal PC FPS, Doom. The article starts with the question: "How many of the lodestones of modern gaming do we owe to Doom?", and continues by arguing: "Without Doom conceiving the multiplayer deathmatch, it could be radically touted that the PC today would be an abandoned platform insofar as gaming is concerned." The piece finishes with comments on Doom 3: "While tradition alone will endear Doom 3 to many, the long-anticipated game may yet fail to make the evolving grade it was fundamental in establishing. Let it be said that the gaming world is nothing if not perverse."

"here sure is a lot of people that have adopted BitTorrent as the tool of choice to download movies and TV shows. However if you are using a network router you might be facing painstainkingly slow downloads (of around 10Kbps) because of a network configur

Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man vs. Bush, Rumsfeld and Voltron [via] 

dritan writes "A new van unveiled at CeBIT America is equipped with 50 digital cameras and takes pictures every 15 feet -- with the goal of photographing 50 million buildings in the country. These photos could be cross-referenced with aerial photographs so that law enforcement or insurance agencies can get overhead and street level views of the same location -- just by entering an address." Time to hang out the "Hi, Mom!" signs.

If you are curious about your neighbors political donations, a new Web site follows the money in your hometown, address by address. Not everyone is pleased.

[if you haven't seen it already, another cool project from the kids at Eyebeam R&D. —AG]

withdrawn 1999 pamphlet by U.S. Department of Housing  

[WTF? —AG]

Aviation Week reports that the US Army is developing hand-held sensing-communicating-intelligence-gathering devices for individual soldiers, designed to network with "the enterprise." (But maybe not phonecams?)

(Thanks, Jim!)

can anyone think of something fun to do with this?

A little bird told me that tons of new Robbie Conal art-posters will cover negative space all over LA streets within the next 48 hours or so. Link

[suite! this is the best news all week... of course the KLF did it first —AG]

Due to WiFi being so pervasive these days, I always hear this question: “What’s the outgoing mail server?” This happens because you enter a wireless access point and you need to send mail from your mail program, but since you are not at home or on a familiar network you don’t have an outoging (or SMTP) server. Well if you use a Mac (like me), David Reitter has a great tutorial for setting up YOUR OWN MAILSERVER on Mac OSX Panther and Jaguar. Since I got this up and running (it takes about 5 mins to setup), my outgoing mailserver is “localhost” and I can send mail from any hotspot. Of course, some picky incoming mail hosts might mistake a “localhost” sender for a spammer and restrict access, but that probably only happens to .000001% of the mails I send. Good Luck!

[i did this and it was easy to set up. but i had worse results than Jonah above. outgoing emails will indeed be rejected now and again (ex: earthlink threatened to blackhole me as a spammer). plus a laptop is generally a bad home for an smtp server since it's always being put to sleep and might have spotty connectivity etc... so i wouldn't recommend having this as your main smtp server, but good in a pinch when you're on the road. —AG]

The legal defense fund for Steve Kurtz of CAE as he faces a tragedy and an inquisition.

Bit Radio kit (1,17Mb .pdf) by
Bureau of Inverse Technology

Have you ever looked at your happy, well-adjusted three-year old child playing with a ball in the sunshine, and thought: Hmmmm. How do I turn this kid into a reclusive, pasty nerd who spends hours in the basement playing Dungeons and Dragons? Why, with a set of plush 20-sided and 10-sided dice, of course!...

Just a couple of quick observations on the Susan Sontag New York Times Magazine essay on the Abu Ghraib photos. She talks as if the photos were exclusively private pics that soldiers were passing around, and relates the activity to webcams, internet p0rn, school hazings, etc. Some of that's valid pop-sociological speculation, but it's also been reported that the picture-taking was officially encouraged, used to humiliate and blackmail the sexually prim Iraqis. ("What do you want from me?" "Ve vant...ze information. Do you want ze family to see zese pictures?") Her "soldiers running amuck with cameras" argument plays into the government propaganda that a few unsupervised crazies were behind the prison torture. Also, she talks about our "quite justified" invasion of Afghanistan, something lefties love to throw as a sop to the right to make complaints about Iraq seem reasonable. Justifed how? By not catching Bin Laden? By jumpstarting the heroin trade over there again? Killing and bombing for women's rights? That war wasn't the right response to 9/11 any more than Iraq was. It was just to make the majority of Americans feel better after the government failed them on 9/11, by bombing some Muslims.

Cool idea! A new company called Mutual Art has created a pension fund for artists, which they fund by "investing"...

J ROC writes "Encouraged by their government Chinese electronics firms are shunning technological protocols invented abroad and developing their own, according to this article. The Chinese have developed several standards including EVD to replace DVD standards, and TD-SCDMA to replace the CDMA cell phone standard found elsewhere. The reasons seem to be partly based on "techno-nationalism", and Chinese firms growing tired of paying foreign patent fees. While this may force foreign firms to lower their patent fees, some experts warn that China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world."

Google Bombing, the act of linking text to a website to raise the association on Google, even when the text does not appear anywhere on the site, has been in the news a lot lately. The technique was first cited in mid 2001 by Adam Mathes referring to Ben Brown as an "internet rockstar". In otherwords, when you type in "internet rockstar" in Goggle, the top link was Ben's. Goggle Bombing has become especially popular for political statements. Here is a list of all the popular bombs I could find:


weapons of mass destruction -404, weapons can not be found page.

french military victories - 404, "did you mean french military defeats?"

miserable failure - leads to official George Bush bio on whitehouse.gov (con).

great president - leads to official George Bush bio on whitehouse.gov (reverse bomb).

unelectable - leads to official George Bush bio on whitehouse.gov (con).

litigious bastards - homepage of the SCO Group, a pro unix, anti linux company.

jew - undergoing a battle of late started by an anti-semitic hate group called Jew Watch, but reverse bombed with Wikipedia [ this controversial bomb has led to a disclaimer by Google].

buffone - personal page for Silvio Berlusconi (Italian Prime minister and business tycoon). Italian for "clown".

facce da culo - image bomb with picture of Silvio Berlusconi. Italian for some kind of porn language?

Santorum - a bodily substance referring to US Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum.

out of touch executives - leads to Google's own corporate management page.

waffles - John Kerry's 2004 election site.

more evil than satan himself - originally led to Microsoft Home though, as you can imagine, reverse bombed by the company.

scientology - currently in battle between The Church of Scientology and Operation Clam Bake.

douchebaggery -a liberal politics site.

Tense relations between Disney and Miramax are complicating a deal to find a distributor for Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary movie "Fahrenheit 9/11."

This HalfLife-inspired casemod is jaw-droppingly cool.

Link

(via /.)

Soldiers often go into battle wearing about 100 pounds of bulky, clumsy gear, making the point of all their high-tech gadgetry moot. So the Army is spending $250 million to start from scratch, building a future uniform from the skin out. By Noah Shachtman.

I just uploaded my report from the FutureSonic festival to my festival reports page. There is also my latest report on the CiberArt Bilbao event up there and some images from both. Turns out Richard Stallman is here visiting MLE today so I’ll go and bow down before his majesty (just jokin).

I wish this was a joke  

Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based in Toronto, Canada, looking at the intersection of digital media and civic activism. Functioning something as a DARPA for digital freedom, Citizen Lab serves as a seed-bed for a variety of very cool and interesting projects focusing on identifying, analyzing, and resisting efforts to censor and lock down information networks. Citizen Lab is the umbrella for a couple of other ongoing projects, Infowar Monitor and the OpenNet Initiative. Infowar Monitor, run in cooperation with the Cambridge Programme for Security in International Society, is a good resource if you're interested in ongoing developments in information and network-centric warfare; OpenNet Initiative, run with CPSIS and with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, looks more closely at censorship and surveillance.

The main site is a blog-like listing of updates about net surveillance, censorship, and the like, pulled from both mainstream and niche sources, along with links to its various projects. Aside from Infowar Monitor and OpenNet Initiative, Citizen Lab is also working on a project called "Rhizome," which will "remotely interrogate the networks of censoring countries and securely transfer the results to a database node network for analysis and storage" (responding to the fact that most filter systems, both commercial and governmental, keep the lists of what they censor secret), and a project called "Psiphon," a distributed proxy project to allow computer users in controlled regions to surf the web freely. If this latter one sounds familiar, it's because another project, Peek-a-Booty, took a similar approach. Peek-a-booty, unfortunately, appears to be dead; its site hasn't been updated since December, 2003.

For an infowar and sousveillance geek like me, the Citizen Lab site provides hours of fascinating reading. But one of the most powerful Citizen Lab-supported efforts linked from the site has little to do with computer networks, and will be compelling stuff for many WorldChanging readers. The Kandahar Chronicles tell the story of the day-to-day life of a M�dicins Sans Fronti�res worker in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from August 2003 through February 2004. Good stuff.

Here's a great example of piggybacking on what works to create something useful. Peerflix is a decentralized version of Netflix. It's all about 'movies I have,' and 'movies I want.' Watch a movie and send it on to the next peer. Read an overview of the service here.

The Recording Industry Association of America sues more people for copyright infringement. The music group has now ensnared nearly 3,000 individuals in its net, since last September, in an attempt to fight peer-to-peer file trading.

You might ask, what posessed Eyebeam to participate in a self-proclaimed Hipster Dodgeball Tournament in Brooklyn with a bunch of cheating hipsters?

Great question...brain damage? Oh no, it was in the pursuit of community and FUN!

This is how we spent the majority of yesterday...the rest of the team jumping out of the way to let Jonah dodge all the balls...Go team!

Although we didn't win the championship, we had fun playing together and emotionally bonded so that means that in the end we were all still losers right?

Thanks to Perry, my BFF, for taking this spectacular action shot.

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." (Steve Wozniak) A list of other quotes for the like-minded.

Yep.//// sometime this is what we all want 2 do

Westminster City Council have a pilot scheme that uses five wireless cameras to monitor people's comings and goings in Soho Square in London.The wireless CCTV cameras broadcast their pictures back to base using the council's new wireless network.The BBC reports Mr Tim Hearn of Cisco Systems which is providing some of the technology as saying that "within the square we have a network of wireless LAN bridges providing blanket coverage throughout the square.Down the narrows streets, Greek Street and Frith Street, we have wi-fi pointing down those streets as well so they give us coverage down there.So that's a network of wireless LAN devices that we then plug into CCTV cameras, we provide access to mobile workers that will have laptops of mobiles working with them, or maybe some specialist devices.We're also linking into noise monitoring devices or other sensors."
CCTV goes wi-fi to fight crime

Ars Electronica compiles an anthology of digital art from the last 25 years -- portraits, word waterfalls and eavesdropping computers -- displaying the surprising staying power of the pieces. Michelle Delio reports from New York City.

This is the best FLASH animation ever. no,...really....

Everyone's talking about Gmail, but it's still only a handful of lucky ducks who have snagged an account. And while the rest of us go hungry, you can be sure that the best email addresses are being gulped down by nefarious hooligans.

We are pleased to welcome Alex Galloway as reBlogger for the next two weeks. Alex is a professor at NYU, the author of Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, and the founder of Radical Software Group (RSG). As an early resident at Eyebeam, Alex developed the RSG project Carnivore which went on to win the 2002 golden nica for Net Vision. This summer, Alex is developing projects in the Creative Technology Research Group at Eyebeam. Take it away, Alex.

Also, thanks to Liz for representing last week.

the second page has interviews with five 2600 gods [via] 

Dot Journalism reports: The BBC has launched a new mobile phone service for children that will deliver headlines from Newsround, the current affairs programme for children.

"Our research reflects that children are becoming increasingly technologically aware, and we are simply reacting to the demands of that audience, offering approved, relevant content across easily accessible platforms," said Ashley Highfield, BBC director of new media and technology.

Other interesting fact:
new research by mobileYouth that shows that under 25 year-olds spend around five times as much on mobile phone services than on music.

Thanks to editorsweblog.org for the pointer.

This sound-art festival consisting of two exhibitions exposes many of the art form's amorphous possibilities and some of its history.

P.S. 1 comes home to open an Internet station that streams all art, all the time.

Introducing a new association against war.

News24.com

Rumsfeld bans phone cameras

London - Cellphones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported on Sunday.

Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US defence department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.

"Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works.

The increasing reliance of this administration on secrecy is really disturbing. When your government starts to strip the people of their privacy and civil rights and consistently marches forward with a variety of efforts to hides its own movements, you know you're in real trouble.

I've worked on whistleblower protection bills and thought a lot about the importance of the ability for people to come forward outside of the chain of command. It is an essential protection measure against coverups and corruption. I can understand arguments about why allowing random photos could be bad, but I'm sure the importance of having "eyes on the ground" outside of the "main channel" out-weigh the risks.

Wedding March via The wedding march 2004 - megnut.com Marriage is the bridge to 1,138 federal rights and more than 700 New York State rights, ranging from access to Social Security benefits and the ability to make health care decisions to inheritance, immigration, and protections for children and families. To...

Clive sez: "Chris Allbritton has begun blogging from Iraq. He's the writer who raised $13,000 last year from his blog readers to fund an indie-reporting trip to Iraq during the war. His readers have asked him to go back, and he raised another $11,000 in the last few months. He just arrived in Baghdad, and has begun writing more of his excellent stuff -- slices of everyday life in one of the most fraught places on earth. The first post describes the crazily harrowing landing you have to endure when you fly into Baghdad, as the plane corkscrews down to avoid shoulder-mounted missiles:"

After a normal flight, we went into a tight, corkscrew dive that sent your stomach up into your throat — and in the case of two passengers, out their mouths and into their laps. It’s a vomit-comet experience. But if you like roller coasters in a sealed container where you can’t really see anything, it’s a lot of fun. Just don’t think about the very real threat of shoulder-mounted SAMs.

An important piece of copyright litigation is in the offing: Golan v Ashcroft challenges Congress's "restoration of copyright" to thousands of works that were in the public domain as of 1994. The Golan legal team is collecting your horror stories about being denied access to works that were snatched from the public domain; they're publishing the stories as they come in:

To win the lawsuit we need your help: we need examples of how people have been harmed by this removal of works from the public domain. You can help us if you have ever wanted to use:

* a foreign sound recording made before February 15, 1972; or
* a foreign work published in or after 1923 that was in the public domain in the U.S. (due to lack of copyright notice, renewal, or national eligilibility of the author), including:

* works of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Khachaturian, and other foreign composers (search for restored works)
* numerous classic British, French, German, and other foreign films (including several Hitchcock films, Faust, Metropolis, and The Red Balloon, Kurosawa's Ikiru, The Third Man, and Intermezzo)
* or any other foreign book, photograph, song, or work subject to a "restored" copyright
* although registration is optional, you can search the U.S. Copyright Office for restored works

Link

(Thanks, Jason!)

This National Geographic story by John Roach [hehe, Roach] points out that those gazillions of "Brood X" cicadas unearthing themselves this month also double as an Atkins-compliant meal-on-the-go. Cicada McBuggets, anyone? Pass the dipping sauce.

"They're high in protein, low in fat, no carbs," said Gene Kritsky, a biologist and cicada expert at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. "They're quite nutritious, a good set of vitamins." The largest group of periodical cicadas, known as Brood X, have been crawling out of the ground and carpeting trees along the eastern United States for the past week or so. By July, Brood X will be gone--not to be heard from again for 17 years.

Google is becoming fodder for tons of projects that play off the search engine’s vast media grabbing capabilities. tooGle is an app that steals Google news and uses each word in the text to generate an image from Google image search. Similarly, Victor Lui’s RayGun pits image searching with sequenced audio from Ronald Reagan’s famous “Evil Empire” speech from 1982. Other examples include the Ars Electronica winning NewsMap, a visual aggregator of collected news feeds, Marika Dermineur & Stéphane Degoutin’s Google House which creates walls of a 3D house with mined images. There’s too many more to mention, but I can’t wait till Google makes it sound and video searching public.

These Iraqi torture/iPod ad mashups are appearing around NYC.

Link

(Thanks, Rich!)

Wireless CCTV cameras are being tested in London to see if the technology can help fight crime.