dcinput daily for Wed 22nd Nov, 2006
BBC News: “Police across England and Wales are to begin taking fingerprints while on patrol using mobile electronic devices. The hand-held gadgets - linked to a database of 6.5m prints - will enable officers to identify suspects within minutes“.
I’m pretty big on personal liberties and so I don’t like this sort of thing. Sure it might help them catch some criminals, and sure they might not be recording the finger print info yet, and sure it might very well be voluntary for the moment. Even if it remained voluntary, if it becomes widely used then due to social pressures, refusing to use the system would amount to admitting guilt. Not a good idea.
YouTube is memory lane
I was just listening to old school radio and the Scissor Sisters’s song ‘Take Your Mama’ was on. While I was bopping along to it I remembered that while I was working at the Creature Shop the Physical Department (I was in the Digital Department) had done all the puppets for the stage performance they did at the Brits in 2005. Looked it up on YouTube and they have the video! YouTube totally rocks. To think that even a year ago I probably wouldn’t have been able to do this and share the joy. Watch as the whole stage slowly comes alive, and you just got to love the melons. Classic Jim Henson.
You know, I think if Jim were alive today, I sure he would have gotten this thing we call the internets.
I’ve been busy culling my categories on the right side of the blog. The list is probably half as long as it was. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to aggregate bad categories into more general ones. In the end you just delete them. Still more work to do on this another day.
I’ll be going to see the new James Bond movie tomorrow night. I’m paying a little more money and going to see it on my first commercial d-cinema screen. Pretty excited.