Towards ubiquitous surveillance. Why didn't Google think of this?

http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/1930206&from=rss

Buses as Mobile Sensing Platforms?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 26, @07:06PM from the jealously-guarding-the-bus-lane dept. Transportation Wireless Networking

Roland Piquepaille writes

"According to European researchers, modern buses could be used as mobile sensing platforms, sending out live information to be used to control traffic and detect road hazards. The 3.83 million euro EU-funded MORYNE project was completed in March 2008 with a test in Berlin, Germany. During this test, the researchers 'equipped city buses with environmental sensors and cameras, allowing the vehicles to become transmitters of measurements, warnings and live or recorded videos to anyone allowed to access the data.' "

This is wrong on so many levels... Does no one proof read any more? Nice idea at the end...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=206&objectid=10512298

Fruity link too juicy for kids

5:00AM Sunday May 25, 2008 By Alice Hudson

A healthy food website promoted to children on hundreds of bags of pre-packed mandarins has turned out to be a link to hardcore pornography.

... She replaced .com with .co.nz and found what Levi was looking for - "a brilliant interactive site for children".

Finer said she phoned FreshMax thinking the .com address was a misprint. She said she was told the unregistered .com site had been hacked into. The company phoned back apologising for the glitch and promising to fix the problem.

... A free download available at netsafe.co.nz offers young computer users an icon called Hector's Button. Used in many primary schools, it teaches children to click on a swimming dolphin on the computer screen if they come across anything that upsets them.

Chisholm said the screen would immediately be replaced with an underwater scene featuring Hector and a message telling the child to get an adult.

Hate Outlook?

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/AtMailorg---AtMail-Goes-OpenSource/

AtMail.org - AtMail Goes OpenSource

AtMail, originally created in 1998, was of the first web-based mail solutions that was created as an alternative to Microsoft’s Outlook. Since then, it’s undergone four incarnations with latest taking on a Web 2.0 face with a simple and intuitive interface. And now, there’s an open source version available for users who want the same easy to use, feature rich webmail but for free. AtMail is written in PHP, has a lightweight Ajax interface which makes it faster, and includes videomail and IMAP support. If you’re familiar with Outlook or the commercial version of AtMail, this will have the same look and feel and it doesn’t cost a thing to use. Just download and get busy.

http://www.atmail.org/

The last three installments of the “Assessment Methodology”

http://houseofhackers.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2092781%3ABlogPost%3A44042

http://houseofhackers.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2092781%3ABlogPost%3A44076

http://houseofhackers.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2092781%3ABlogPost%3A44087

This one has potential

http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2008/05/26/search-engine-for-instructional-information-launched/

Search Engine for Instructional Information Launched

26th May 2008, 05:49 pm

New engine HowDoYa.com (http://HowDoYa.com) gave me some odd results, but I like the way it offers additional topic keywords.

For history and genealogy nuts, or you could make a movie for PBS

http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/05/american-civil.html

May 22, 2008

American Civil War Online

The Alexander Street Press has opened up access to their online Civil War collection: The American Civil War Online. From now through June 30th the resource is free to use online. This is an extensive and thoroughly engaging resource. Enjoy it while you can!