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[www.boingboing.net] Joi Ito has a good blog entry about Nokia’s new “Airtexting” feature in the 3220 handsets: a string of LEDs down the side of the phone spell out user-defined words when the phone is waved back and forth. Joi ponders the heckling applications… Worth a look.

from my friend bart blanquart: [news.bbc.co.uk] Jailbreak duo escape punishment Two men who fled an open prison and knocked on the door of another jail asking for a stricter regime will not serve extra time. Audie Carr, of Hereford, and Benjamin Clarke, from Gloucester, claimed Leyhill Open Prison in Gloucestershire was “rife with drugs”. They…

[news.com.com] Sun is also launching per-citizen pricing for its Java Enterprise System server software. While the company had committed to the idea earlier, it now has begun selling it according to population and how the United Nations ranks countries as more, less or least developed. Countries with larger populations and lower development pay less per…

[www.infernus.net] as-gotten from Gene Saunders.

[www.trepanning.tv]

In one of my occasional fits of madness – wherein I switch off my natural cynicism and try to pretend the world is a nice place – I skimmed [diveintomark.org] and found the following piece of wisdom: How to credit people whose links you republish Ever since it was discovered that bloggers kill kittens plagiarize…

[www.wired.com] Security-Free Wireless Networks  SAN JOSE, Calif. — With a laptop perched in the passenger seat of his Toyota 4Runner and a special antenna on the roof, Mike Outmesguine ventured off to sniff out wireless networks between Los Angeles and San Francisco. He got a big whiff of insecurity. While his 800-mile drive confirmed that…

…is another scan of an old negative. If I remember right this was about a 6 second exposure on Fuji Superia 200 at f/8 on my Minox GT-E, set up using my Minox mini-tripod, and timer to reduce shake; the exposure is AP so I cannot be exact about it. Scan 2400dpi on a Epson…

well, the first round of holiday pictures are up on the website at [vol1] – smaller versions at [vol1-small] – after some fiddling with the scanner this weekend; it’s fantastic to be able once more to convert old (and new) film images to digital format, and – being as I eventually went for the mid-cost…

From [www.abmc.gov] : Please be advised that we only have the records of those casualties that are buried in our cemeteries or are placed on the Walls of the Missing a total of 33,717 records. There were 118,518 American casalties in World War I. …which answers a question that was in the back of my/our…

This weekend I will mostly be doing domestics, and perhaps scanning photographs from my recent biking holiday in France. First installment: the American Battle Monuments Commission‘s (of whom, more anon) memorial to the WW1 Battles of the Aisne/Marne, near Saint Thierry – as stumbled across en-route for Reims. larger version: [www.crypticide.com]

A permanent state of war, in a country with nobody to fight. Not a good combination. Back to the 1950s for America? [www.congress.org] Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005 The Draft will Start in June 2005 There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will…