Some safe related links

• Study criticises DNA database – Yahoo! News UK
  Innocent people should have their profiles deleted from the National DNA Database, an inquiry funded by the Government has said.
• Eaten up | Environment | The Guardian
• Raj Patel’s book Stuffed and Starved predicted the current global food crisis – spiralling food prices, starvation and obesity. Ed Pilkington meets the soothsayer of agro-economics and talks about what will happen when all the food finally runs out
• MyNeighbourhood – West Midlands Interactive Crime Mapping Application
• check check: TSA targeting investigative journalists
  http://www.check-check.org focuses on airport security regulations seeing in it the worst case scenario of kidding with peoples fears, peoples brains and the idea of how security is installed as a focal point in our daily lives.
• Headmistress clamps down on fake tan – Telegraph
  A school has banned its pupils from wearing fake tan in a crackdown on “orange” schoolgirls.
• Handyman fined for smoking in van – Yahoo! News UK
  A painter and decorator who received a £30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned that British civil liberties are “going up in smoke”.Gordon Williams, 58, of Llanafan, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, was on the way to buy tea bags for his wife when he

links for 2008-06-04

• hope in shadows
  (tags: socialproject co_design participatory_design local_develpoment)
• Hope in Shadows
  (tags: activism art social_project co_design participatory_design local_development)
• Pivot Legal Society
  (tags: photography politics local_development co_design participatory_design social_projects)

Japanese cigarette machines now become savvy face recognition vendors

• BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japanese smokers to face age test
  A Japanese company is developing a vending machine that counts wrinkles and skin sags to check a smoker’s age. The machines are equipped with a digital camera that can compare users’ facial characteristics with a database of more than 100,000 people.From July Japan’s existing 570,000 cigarette vending machines will require users to insert a smart card proving they are old enough to smoke. “With face recognition, as long as you are an adult and have some change, you’ll be able to buy cigarettes as before,” Hajime Yamamoto, a Fujitaka spokesman, said.

links for 2008-05-08

• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Pinpointing people in a crowd
  A company claims new technology could save the police hours of time sifting through CCTV footage for suspects, by automatically searching for markings and colours on their clothing.
  (tags: cctv NSOP_DSL surveillance)
• BBC NEWS | UK | CCTV boom ‘failing to cut crime’
  (tags: surveillance privacy security cctv NSOP_DSL)
• HOARDmagazine – January 2001 – Antonio Riello’s Ladies Weapons
  (tags: toys weapons NSOP_DSL)
• BPB Baby camouflage
  (tags: NSOP_DSL viral)

links for 2008-05-06

• BBC NEWS | UK | The parish gossip and the fascist vicar
  (tags: FATE belief religion selfknowledge)
• BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | Passenger ‘moons’ at speed camera
  (tags: funny activism)

links for 2008-04-07

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Computers to merge with humans
• 10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die – GigaOM
• BBC NEWS | Health | Virtual tube ride ‘paranoia hope’
• Saudi woman killed for using Facebook – News – Tech.co.uk
• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Pregnant US man hails ‘miracle’

links for 2008-04-01

• RSA – Risk Commission – News
• RSA Journal – December 2007: Brainjuicer+ psychometric tests for young people and risk
• Miss Bimbo website promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds – Times Online
• man who is pregnant – Google Search
• TED | Talks | Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life (video)
• Passage Oublie
• PUNDO3000.com

links for 2008-03-19

• TeleSpy Phone
• Do You Know Where Your Children Are? – GPS Uniforms
• SensorFreshQ electronic meat smeller
• Hello Kitty privacy screen for your cell phone
• Design and the Elastic Mind – “Rewiring the Spy” illustrations/applet for New York Times Magazine December 3, 2006
• BBC NEWS | UK | Phonecalls and texts to be logged
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Do you know what they know about you?
• GPS may ‘lead thieves’ to your home – Technology – smh.com.au
• Microtrends: Guns for girls – Times Online
  Microtrends: Guns for girls
  Arms manufacturers are creating bizarre-looking pink guns, to attract women (and children) buyers
• FT.com / Services & tools / Search
  VIP Body Armour
  Business people that are worried about getting shot by angry
  customers or associates can now buy bullet-proof raincoats
  from a Californian company called Fortier & Co. Other
  products in the bulletproof range include denim jacke
• TN Games…3rd Space Gaming Vest
• RedTacton
  RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path. RedTacton uses the minute electric field emitted on the surface of the human body.