Some items of interest:
- OpenPCR. An open source version of a high cost tool for biohacking, got double the funding it needed on Kickstarter. More on the team behind it.
- Inside/outside refrigeration/cooling system. Begs the question: what would be the savings of a refrigerator that leveraged outside air temp intelligently?
- Shot spotter. Being installed within lots of American cities. Audio surveillance that can locate a gunshot within 35 ft. See inset.
- Gang maps of LA. The alternative political landscape.
- Quran burning in Florida. Right Wing Extreme, an armed militia, will protect the "Dove World Outreach Center" during it's first annual 9/11 Quran burning. RWE is currently running a poll on its site: "Do you think it's time for a second American Revolution?" Charles C points out that RWE has withdrawn from the effort (see comments below).
- Haystack. A project to foil national firewalls and state monitoring in Iran (China and Egypt next). Newsweek did an article on the leader of the project, Austin Heap and this turned up: When I first met Heap in January, he was regularly shuttling to Washington, D.C., for meetings at State and Treasury and with senior lawmakers.
- Global police crack down on the open source insurgency, the Scene. They (the police) just wanted to know who or whom had used two different IPs during a couple of dates in 2009. Since we did not have this information (no logging) there was no information and/or hardware for them to seize. The police did not enter the datacenter, only the office, so no servers or network have been touched by them.