links for 2006-10-25

• Telegraph | News | DNA database 'should include all'
  Blair: non-criminals have nothing to fear etc (unless of course there are data leaks, or a subsequent govt uses data for other purposes)
  (tags: id privacy politics)
• IM on mobile: presence traffic hurts the network
  Presence data means lots of paging hits to the radio network, and diminished battery life for the device.
  (tags: mobbu mobile im enterprise)
• First UK low-power GSM + picocell service launches
  enables enterprises to act "as their own MVNO": pseudo-private networks for staff use on-campus, hooked up to their landline private/VPN networks to make free "on net" calls between sites. No WiFi dual-mode phones needed, just a new SI
  (tags: mobbu mobile enterprise)
• Zettabyte Storage: How It Works
  Box + monthly subscription + storage to S3 = simper storage and backup to Online/NAS. Interesting.
  (tags: saas servicemanagement backup)
• George Stewart: Earth Abides (1949)
  Via Mike Davis's Dead Cities.
  (tags: books sf ruins catastrophe fall toread georgestewart earthabides)
• James Sallis Web Pages - The Boston Globe: A Reading Life
  On Earth Abides.
  (tags: books sf ruins catastrophe fall toread georgestewart earthabides)
• Lost Books - Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
  On Earth Abides.
  (tags: books sf ruins catastrophe fall toread georgestewart earthabides)
• Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Of gods and monarchs
  See also audiocast at http://arts.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,1924296,00.html
  (tags: art velazquez jonathanjones)
• You can’t take your eyes off them - Newspaper Edition - Times Online
  (tags: art velazquez waldemarjanuszczak)
• New College, Oxford trivia
  Yoz found the archive.org page that diluted the story of New College's 400-year planned obsolescence. More here http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2006/10/danny_hillis_pr.html (And sorry Yoz.)
  (tags: design longnow via:yoz)
• Jont: The Great Escape
  My talented writer friend Stephen Brown's talented music friend Jont Whittington. And on http://www.myspace.com/onelongsong
  (tags: music jont stevebrown)
• -o--- on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Dorian's crack in the sky. And its mirror ---o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/lofoto/272642125
  (tags: dorianmcfarland photo art)
• Score for a Hole in the Ground
  By Jem Longplayer Finer
  (tags: art music ambient)