links for 2007-06-12

• Can the suspect tell his story backwards? If not, he's lying - TimesOnline
  (tags: police criminaljustice psychology)
• Psychology and Crime News / A place to collate information of interest in a forensic psychological context
  (tags: psychology criminaljustice police)
• Tom Hume: Why Agile Teams Fail
  (tags: agile talks dev toread)
• More police to patrol on full moons | Uk News | News | Telegraph
  (And cf Kit Whitfield's entertaining lycanthropic novel Bareback)
  (tags: police criminaljustice psychology)
• stamen design | New Work: INdigital
  Very nice real-time data display for 911-emergency call centring.
  (tags: maps visualization infovis design police)
• MEX - Hands-on with the HTC Touch - a broken experience
  When UIs are a bit broken, they tend to feel very broken. (Is there a sense in which button and wheel Uis are therefore more forgiving of shoddy design because they're less 'intimate' than touch ones?)
  (tags: ui ux mobile design touch)
• village voice > Million-Dollar Blocks: Jennifer Gonnerman takes a close look at the neighborhood-by-neighborhood cost of locking up New Yorkers
  "Last year, five residents were sent to state prison, at an annual cost of about $30,000 a person. The total price tag for their incarceration will exceed $1 million." cf http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofsound/526732280/
  (tags: economics criminaljustice politics prison maps infovis visualization via:cityofsound nyc)
• L00K: Million Dollar Blocks (2005)
  "many cities in the United States in which the state regularly spends more than one million dollars to incarcerate prisoners who live within a single census block" cf http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofsound/526732280/
  (tags: economics criminaljustice politics prison maps infovis visualization via:cityofsound)
• Tom Hume: Launching US Ghosty
  Futureplatforms' real-time app launch on US tv (hardcore, well done!). Used Mobile Complete too.
  (tags: mobile j2me games tv)
• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another
  Poor data sync = problem.
  (tags: google offline dev browser)
• mind this - by Lars Plougmann: Reboot mind maps
  Good mindmaps from Reboot9
  (tags: reboot9)
• GigaOM And finally eBay opens up, offers new APIs «
  Paypal mobile checkout api and Skype extras sound interesting.
  (tags: ebay api dev mobile voip)