links for 2007-03-17

• BBC NEWS | UK | 'Retail jails' ease police burden
  "Jail cells could be set up in high streets and shopping centres to detain suspects for short periods, under Home Office plans to increase police powers". Hmm.
  (tags: politics prison criminaljustice)
• Designers, Meet Systems (Recommended Reading)
  (tags: design systems ux via:blackbeltjones toread)
• LIFT Videos || The presentations of the LIFT conference delivered to your desktop.
  (tags: conferences podcast video web2.0 via:twhume)
• Tom Hume: LBS and GPS: I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
  Will GPS inside (or cheaply plugged-in to) your device make an LBS end-run around your operator?
  (tags: mobile mobbu gps geo maps)
• BBC - Manchester - Entertainment - Farming in the fast lane
  Paul Thorp sheep farms in the Pennines from the M62's central reservation (the motorway flows around it for engineering reasons, not because the owner refused to sell). But the ladies don't like the motorway thing.
  (tags: cars transport motorway jgballard)
• icHuddersfield - M62 secrets and problems revealed
  More on Stott Hall farm, embedded in the M62 motorway. (Will the farmer turn out like Maitland in Concrete Island?)
  (tags: cars transport motorway jgballard)
• Getting Real: Interface First (by 37signals)
  Start with the interface. (Compare Sierra and Spolsky on user expectations from design and the kind of feedback you get)
  (tags: demo design dev psychology users)
• The Iceberg Secret, Revealed - Joel on Software
  "If you show a nonprogrammer a screen which has a user interface that is 90% worse, they will think that the program is 90% worse", and other corrolaries of 'Non-programmers not knowing the rel between UI and the code underneath'.
  (tags: demo design dev psychology users)
• Where GPS Widgets
  lbs/gps widget platform for mobile
  (tags: geo gps maps mobile lbs widgets)
• RedMonk - Analysis for the people, by the people
  I like RedMonk's tiered from-simple-subscription-through-to-bespoke pricing model for analysis.
  (tags: business management pricing)
• The World Clock Meeting Planner - Results
  Nice conference call planner. (And shows one of the reasons why we prefer offshoring in Europe: better timezone overlap - Bangalore is shown for comparison, and Melbourne because, erm, would quite like to be there.)
  (tags: time business offshoring)
• Preoccupations: Looking back at FOWA 07
  David on FOWA'07 is good. I didn't go (and these days I feel less conference-envy when reading the blogs or being twitter-hosed from the events)
  (tags: conferences events)
• sevensixfive
  (tags: architecture blog via:eversion)
• sevensixfive: Industriosphere: On Functional Autonomy
  On Brian Hayes's brilliant Infrastructure book, which I'd like to see some UK, European and Indian/Asian (Chipchase?) supplements written for, a la Pevsners.
  (tags: architecture infrastructure cities)
• Ananova - House is an island
  "The villa owner refuses to move, so the real-estate developer has had to dig out all around it to force him to"
  (tags: architecture via:cityofsound cities)