Whether this particular phone ever makes it to production or not, the idea is intriguing. Flexible phones were just one of the prototype devices demonstrated at the Nokia World Conference in London.Read | Permalink Read more »
“Shadow Land”: Memoir of a Medium
Elizabeth d’Espérance, one of the star mediums of the Victorian era, penned a fascinating memoir filled with rich descriptions of altered states and otherworldly visitations. An often-overlooked, first-person account of the 19th century seance from the perspective of the medium herself, Shadow Land is the subject of a recent review at VictorianGothic.org:
Read more »Elizabeth d’Espérance grew up in a tired old house on the East End of London, filled with dark, oak-paneled halls and desolate, forbidden rooms that compelled her to explore. “I was very fond of wandering about from one empty room to another,” she wrote,
“and of sitting with my dolls on the broad low window seats, whence I would be fetched with an exclamation of horror and wonder by our servant, who considered my liking for the haunted rooms as “uncanny” and unnatural, threatening me with the ghosts and their vengeance if I persisted in invading their domains by myself.
“I could never quite understand…
Objects Confiscated From People Entering British Parliament
Drawn from a freedom of information request, a breakdown list from London’s Metropolitan Police of the 667 items which they confiscated at Parliament over the first half of 2011 that were classified as “other”. Why were there so many ... Read more »
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to Sell London Site of Newspaper Union Clashes
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to Sell London Website of Newspaper Union Clashes By Jonathan Browning – Mon Sep 05 15:26:05 GMT 2011 Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA) is to sell its UK headquarters in London's Wapping area, the web site of clashes with the printing unions in the 1980s, soon after opting not to redevelop [...] Read more »
WikiHouse: Design And Print Out A Home
WikiHouse is an open source construction set from London architectural firm 00:/. Design a home, “print it out” with a CNC cutter, and assemble, without needing any training or power tools, even. TreeHugger explains:
Read more »Four years ago, I wrote:
Imagine ordering a custom house, connecting lightweight, manageable pieces without a crane, living in a house where the framing is furniture quality and you don’t even want to cover it with drywall. This is truly the future.
That future gets closer every day, and the future will be open sourced with WikiHouse.
You download the plans and cut them out on a CNC router, then bolt them together into a frame, which are set at 2 feet on centre. when you bolt on the exterior panels you have a rigid structure.
Anyone will be able to simply go into Google Sketchup, combine and adapt components, then hit “Make this house” and send instructions to the CNC router.
Four years…
Texas Straight Talk – True Liberty vs. Perfect Safety
http://youtu.be/JSmbUhAL6so by Ron Paul | Monday, 22 August 2011 Texas Straight Talk Recent incidents of violence in Norway and London have made us understandably uncomfortable here at home, as many fear that a worsening economy will lead to viole... Read more »
Phone Snooping ‘Prevented Riots’
Photo: Riemer Palstra (CC)
To tweet or not tweet where you’re rioting next? One option was to shut down social networks so that rioters couldn’t mass communicate. The other option was to allow them to tweet and text, then read their messages to find out what they’re planning next. The latter was able to prevent attacks on the Olympic site and London’s Oxford Street. BBC reports:
Read more »Police say they prevented attacks by rioters on the Olympic site and London’s Oxford Street after picking up intelligence on social networks.
Assistant Met Police Commissioner Lynne Owens told a committee of MPs officers learned of possible trouble via Twitter and Blackberry messenger.
But Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin said he had considered asking authorities to switch off social networks.
He said they provided intelligence but could also be misleading.
A number of politicians, media commentators and members of the police force have suggested that Twitter and Blackberry Messenger (BBM) had a…
LONDON BURNING: Infowars Special Report on Social Unrest and Economic Collapse 1/4
LONDON BURNING: Infowars Special Report on Social Unrest and Economic Collapse 1/4 www.infowars.com prisonplanet.tv (AUG 10) Alex Jones' special broadcast that examines the manufactured police state created to rule over the widening economic dep... Read more »
NYPD Forms Social Media Unit To Monitor Facebook and Twitter
Rocco Parascandola reports in the NY Daily News:
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. Newly named Assistant Commissioner Kevin O'Connor, one of the department's online and gang gurus, has been put in charge of the new juvenile justice unit. He and his staff will mine social media, looking for info about troublesome house parties, gang showdowns and other potential mayhem, sources said. The power of social media to empower both criminals and cops has been on full display in London this week, where riots and looting have been spreading dramatically. The rioters have been using Twitter and BlackBerry messages to choose targets for looting or burning - and to alert one another about police positions.Read more »
London Riot Fire Destroys Warehouse Containing 150 Indie Record Labels’ Inventory
A creative tragedy of immense proportions in London, as a fire has wiped out a massive distribution warehouse that housed the physical stock of most of the U.K.’s seminal independent music labels. Some of the labels will cease to exist, and some ... Read more »
