“The term ?warwalking? isn?t used very often, but the Ekahau HeatMapper adds a new tool to the pod bound hacker?s arsenal. The tool maps out wireless access points as well as their signal strength within a facility. A test of the HeatMapper on a map made with AutoDesk Dragonfly accurately determined the location of a router within 3 feet and helped ( Read more... )

“The [New York] Times’ data will join content from Project Gutenberg, a vast online library of text from public domain books, data from the U.S. census, and information from many other formative and vital entities in the semantic web space. Larson and his team intend to make available hundreds of thousands of tags for content dating back to 1851 ( Read more... )

Alien prequel, Total Recall remake, Dune reboot, new Futurama, Ghostbusters III filming soon, Little Brother opined, no live action Akira?

2012 looks like a bit of a disaster. And ohh, OFFLINE. Just a promo reel though.
Crossposted from my blog.

Open source SingStar clone + some of these + maybe those + requisite hard drive space = wai nice!
Crossposted from my blog.

Couple of things out in the last few days on AR;

“Layar shows you what is around you by displaying realtime digital information on top of reality through the camera of the mobile phone. Just flip through the directory of layers and find ATM’s, bars, houses for sale, hotels and other cool stuff around you.” link

Click to view

and

ARhrrrr! Augmented Reality ( Read more... )

Scottish Green Party; 55/78
Liberal Democrats; 54/78
Libertas; 50/78
Scottish National Party; 45/78
Alan Wallace (Jury Team); 44/78
Conservative Party; 44/78
Labour Party; 41/78
UK Independence Party; 27/78

Does your vote match up to your policies?
Crossposted from my blog.

Has anyone tried Auto Gordian Knot for DVD ripping? I’m [again] looking for an elegant DVD to MKV on the back of reading this /. post. Uh, not that I have the space to actually try it out right now..
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Just mailed this out to my Things and stuff to do in Edinburgh group on Facebook;

*** LGBT History Month Film Night
13 February 2009, 18:30 - 21:30, LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing

“To celebrate LGBT History month we’re having a film night!

We’ll be showing: a short film about the experiences of older gay men and lesbians; the Holocaust ( Read more... )

Via Nick Herd’s Edinburgh Zombie Club Facebook group, for those interested;

“Another little bit of news which may interest some of you lot. According to the cameo facebook page -

*****
SPECIAL EVENT

You heard it HERE first. The legendary Bruce Campbell will be
appearing at the Cameo on Thursday 5 February for a Q&A following a
screening of MY NAME ( Read more... )

?Did I mention the free wine?? - Poetry recital by the publisher/philanthropist/character Felix Dennis. Tickets are free, booked in advance, but donations to his Forest of Dennis charity appreciated. Edinburgh date is October the 9th. via The Forest’s bb.
Crossposted from my blog.