links for 2008-06-10

• Timeless Belt Of Time: How I Integrated Twitter in Timeline at kepo-ing Zz85
  Twitter on a Simile timeline.
  (tags: twitter timeline design dev)
• Police say 42-day detention plan is unworkable - Times Online
  Some Met counter-terrorism sources favour the 42-day limit (though some other forces and MI5 don't), but fear current mechanisms would be unworkable: onerous and opaque bureacratic burden, and unclear boundaries between police and parlt.
  (tags: police politics criminaljustice)
• First super-prison likely to be built in London - Telegraph
  Meanwhile: ministers admit titan jails will be overcrowded on day 1: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ministers-admit-new-titan-jails-will-be-full-from-day-one-841396.html
  (tags: prison criminaljustice)
• The end of forward thinking | Sport | guardian.co.uk
  Interesting article by Jonathan Wilson on the forward as an endangered species. He has a book on the history of football tactics out this month: Inverting the Pyramid.
  (tags: football)
• 37signals Product Blog: Mailmanagr allows you to send e-mail messages to various categories within your Basecamp projects
  Outlook rule. Email from user forwarded to address with this service = everything spat into basecamp, but not threaded.
  (tags: basecamp email tools)
• Ian Bogost - Twittering Rocks
  Bogost and McCarthy are running Wandering Rocks again this Bloomsday (16 June) on Twitter. Excellent!
  (tags: books joyce twitter ulysses writing via:blackbeltjones)
• The Press Association: Policeman shot dead while training
  Greater Manchester POlice firearms(?) officer killed during training operation.
  (tags: police)
• Police agency secures handhelds - 05 Jun 2008 - Computing
  "Some forces will use Airwave ­- the police radio network ­- while others will opt to use commercial networks. The NPIA said that because traffic is encrypted, the network used is irrelevant."
  (tags: police npia mobile airwave blackberry)
• Thames Valley police to get BlackBerry Curve devices - Mobile Today
  Says RIM: "half of the country’s 43 forces now use BlackBerrys, with 10 per cent of the 143,000 police officers in the UK" and that only BlackBerrys are "accredited for use with up to ‘restricted’ level data by CESG"
  (tags: police npia mobile blackberry)
• Frank Watson: The Hush House: Cold War Sites in England (2004)
  (tags: photo war history ruins decay booksreadin2008)
• Apple - iPhone - Enterprise
  Needing itunes installed on the desktop to do app syncing seems like a roadblock for enterprise. And 12.5 days standby? - not with gps on, surely (it EATS battery).
  (tags: apple iphone mobile)
• Boy Genius Report | BlackBerry Thunder live shot, damn we're good!
  BlackBerry's iclone. Rumours of 4G (but perhaps unlikely given that RIM only just looking at 3G now?). Shame no slide-out keyboard.
  (tags: blackberry mobile iphone)
• Hand held computers | Kent Police
  "£1.9 million of the funding to cover the costs of 1,100 hand held computers for officers on patrol. In addition 150 mobile information devices will be installed into marked police cars"
  (tags: mobile npia police)
• British Transport Police Media Centre
  "part of a package worth almost £2m which will fund an additional 800 PDAs and printers for BTP areas throughout the country. That more than doubles the number in use by BTP officers to 1,350."
  (tags: police npia mobile)
• £3.7m mobile data boost - officers to spend more time on the streets
  "1,200 Staffordshire officers, and to 300 more working with the Central Motorway Police Group and the region's counter-terrorism unit."
  (tags: npia mobile police)