http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#bcf41e48-44df-474b-a15f-d5f08c296e37 http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/15/are_cellphones_killi.html I don't CARE if this is just hysteria-- http://instapundit.com/archives2/004182.php -- shut 'em off! Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:45:07 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#bcf41e48-44df-474b-a15f-d5f08c296e37 the Other™ 2007-04-16T12:45:07Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#9fd34890-b8f3-4164-a5f5-4311d1e30225 http://boingboing.tribe.net/photos/c2b240d6-7e09-4080-a92e-8d5ad0eefea7 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:30:12 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#9fd34890-b8f3-4164-a5f5-4311d1e30225 the Other™ 2007-01-18T18:30:12Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#992bf2be-4f2a-48ba-bd9c-9453bdfec4be http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009249.php Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:07:51 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#992bf2be-4f2a-48ba-bd9c-9453bdfec4be the Other™ 2007-01-09T21:07:51Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#f9d3390d-4f12-4ffe-a578-13a1319b2751 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgotterbarn/270203969/ we are not amused. Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:40:35 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#f9d3390d-4f12-4ffe-a578-13a1319b2751 the Other™ 2006-10-30T18:40:35Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#e7f5a441-ebdd-4cb7-b640-5e1300315012 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008981.php Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:47:16 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#e7f5a441-ebdd-4cb7-b640-5e1300315012 the Other™ 2006-10-05T16:47:16Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#98c27597-45ef-4f33-aab0-632516fac5f1 http://imomus.livejournal.com/228405.html Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:38:26 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#98c27597-45ef-4f33-aab0-632516fac5f1 the Other™ 2006-10-05T16:38:26Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#6d4c1319-03a5-4e5e-8aa8-7ade37b02a94 http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/29/handmade_wooden_cell.html Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:43:07 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#6d4c1319-03a5-4e5e-8aa8-7ade37b02a94 the Other™ 2006-10-02T16:43:07Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#80c058fe-7a2d-4bab-8149-8f170a7f5c67 Well, now we know what you've been doing with your nights. Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:12:20 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#80c058fe-7a2d-4bab-8149-8f170a7f5c67 Bwana 2006-08-23T02:12:20Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#d387c196-586f-43d0-926f-451ca96e1cca http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/14/nslasher14.xml Tyre-slasher targets drivers on mobiles By Stephanie Condron (Filed: 14/08/2006) A vigilante, who slashes the tyres of motorists who talk on their mobile telephones while driving, is being hunted by police. The so-called "mobile slasher" leaves an anonymous note made from letters cut from newspapers on the windscreens of the cars. The note reads: "Warning. You have been seen driving while using your mobile phone." Police are investigating a series of night-time raids in Hampshire after 20 motorists in Gosport, Lee-on-the-Solent and Stubbington reported being targeted. Officers believe the culprit may have been the victim of an accident caused by a driver using a mobile telephone. It is thought that he or she makes a note of an offender's registration, then somehow tracks them to an address where the car is vandalised. "Forensic specialists are in the process of examining these notes to gather potential evidence," said Insp Kevin Cuffe, the investigating officer. It is illegal to use a hand-held phone, even when stopped at traffic lights or in a jam. Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:17:36 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#d387c196-586f-43d0-926f-451ca96e1cca the Other™ 2006-08-14T14:17:36Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#346ecb88-2ef4-4c8b-9a15-5b6a975cb582 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008729.php For their Metal Phone project Jack Schultze and Matt Webb (blogo-famous for their Availabot work) have been using a low-melting point alloy to cast and recast a mobile phone shell using only hot air or water. Metal Phone comes with a machine that melts and reforms a phone around the internals of a standard Nokia handset (the 5140i). The idea is to discuss the local factory angle of personalisation: Could purchasing a mobile phone be more like a performance of manufacture? Could it be more like a vending experience? Using the Metal Phone is not meant to be a piece of cake. The phone is really heavy because it’s mostly lead so you’ll need strong pockets to carry it around. The metal reduces the effectiveness of the aerial so you’ll need to be closer to the transmitter. If you leave your mobile on the dashboard of your car on a hot day, you’ll come back to find the components in a pool of liquid metal. It’s not advisable to hold the phone in your hands for too long because cadmium is present in a low concentration. The Nokia 5140i is an illusory object. Disconnected from the network when you’re underground, it becomes a lump of plastics and metals. Although safe in your hands, you wouldn’t want to eat the components. It, too, would lose its shape in an oven—in time, it would break apart anyway. Metal Phone seeks to undermine the current experience of choosing a plastic replica fastened by a security tag to the wall of a handset outlet. The machine represents a vending model for fabrication of the phone in-store, extending the production line to the buyer’s palm. Metal Phone proposes and experience when consumers witness and participate in the fabrication of their products through novel techniques at the point-of-sale and subsequently. Metal Phone is an extension of work for Chris Heathcote of Nokia, Insight Foresight Group (now NEXT) to develop prototypes exploring personalisation in mobile phones. Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:00:33 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#346ecb88-2ef4-4c8b-9a15-5b6a975cb582 the Other™ 2006-07-11T22:00:33Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#c56b3dec-433e-42f0-b645-32028c289219 http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/cell_phone_blasphemy/ Tue, 30 May 2006 13:23:30 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#c56b3dec-433e-42f0-b645-32028c289219 the Other™ 2006-05-30T13:23:30Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#4a621e56-25a2-4206-977c-97705b62778f http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05192006 http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05222006 Mon, 22 May 2006 16:03:04 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#4a621e56-25a2-4206-977c-97705b62778f the Other™ 2006-05-22T16:03:04Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#295d13b5-a5cf-49e9-a394-4b2cbfb7f983 http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05182006 Thu, 18 May 2006 19:13:16 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#295d13b5-a5cf-49e9-a394-4b2cbfb7f983 the Other™ 2006-05-18T19:13:16Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#dd096bd2-4e6b-4735-baa8-5268cd487134 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/nyregion/27schools.html During the final stretch of David Ritter's hourlong trip to middle school, he pulls a cellphone from his jeans and calls his mother in Washington Heights to say he is out of the subway and moments from the Salk School of Science on East 20th Street. "It's one thing I can cross off my list of things to worry about," his mother, Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, said. "It's a required part of our everyday life. We have a refrigerator, we have running water, we have cellphones." Cellphones are the urban parent's umbilical cord, the lifeline connecting them to children on buses, emerging from subways, crisscrossing boroughs and traipsing through unknown neighborhoods. Though the phones have been banned in New York City schools for years, parents say that many schools without metal detectors have operated under a kind of "don't ask, don't tell" policy, with the cellphones ignored as long as they do not ring in the middle of class. But as the city began random security scanning at middle and high schools yesterday in its latest effort to seize weapons, the gap between school rules and parents' expectations has set off a furor. Some principals recently sent home letters reminding parents that cellphones are not allowed, and at the one school searched yesterday, 129 cellphones were confiscated. Anxious parents say that cellphones are not a frill but the mortar holding New York City's families together in these times of demanding schedules, mounting extracurricular activities, tutoring sessions and long treks to school. Some of these parents, also fearful of child predators and terrorist attacks, say that sending their children to school without cellphones is unimaginable. "I have her call me when she gets out of school, and she's supposed to get on the bus right away," Lindsay Walt, an artist, said of her daughter, Eve Thomson, 11, a sixth grader at Salk. "Then I have her call me when she gets off the bus, and I have her call me when she gets in the house. The chancellor will have civil disobedience on his hands. No one in New York is going to let their child go to school without a cellphone." ----- etc etc etc as to how the lack of cellphones will lead to the breakdown of families and the modern way of life indeed a total dissolution of the western hemisphere if not the universe. sob sob sob. Yes, terrorists and predators are a legitimate concern, but, uh, three calls on the way home from school? Somebody needs to cut the apron-strings a bit and wean the kid from the teat. There's going to be muy therapists bills for these kids. Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:24:31 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#dd096bd2-4e6b-4735-baa8-5268cd487134 the Other™ 2006-04-27T15:24:31Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#e8287475-4b5d-41a6-8aee-8b94810abeeb i'm gonna buy that mouse dessert... Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:50:49 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#e8287475-4b5d-41a6-8aee-8b94810abeeb atom 2006-04-21T16:50:49Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#49712475-9a5e-43ea-b384-e3de31e3d8dc http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/ade/1ca/ade1cacd-ffe3-44b5-9fb1-2a688b504a55 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:30:52 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#49712475-9a5e-43ea-b384-e3de31e3d8dc the Other™ 2006-04-21T16:30:52Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#bfb4fa00-eab1-43b4-bdcf-c6419169aead http://www.youyesyou.net/cards/06ringtone.htm Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:40:27 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#bfb4fa00-eab1-43b4-bdcf-c6419169aead the Other™ 2006-04-10T17:40:27Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#068d582e-7176-49d3-941e-41fc0584d4af you gonna eat that? Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:58:32 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#068d582e-7176-49d3-941e-41fc0584d4af atom 2006-04-09T03:58:32Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#18357cec-58f4-4582-8520-9eeae2b2b8cb By killing himself. Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:01:12 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#18357cec-58f4-4582-8520-9eeae2b2b8cb Bwana 2006-04-07T14:01:12Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#6d5db3a2-cd3a-4040-8aa1-b7241ba8fe34 a continuation of http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/88e7f53d-c881-4955-a2df-779e23cde190 Post 1: an ideal phone (see also: kosher phone http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/88e7f53d-c881-4955-a2df-779e23cde190#341a238f-68a9-4c54-9be1-62bc8960e33d ) http://www.futurismic.com/2006/04/selfdisassembling_phone.html What if the product disassembled itself, in one second? yeah. Phones that tear themselves apart. Next step -- getting them to do this IN THE FACTORY. does anybody else see some sort of Phildickian dreamscape approaching, where our interconnected viral-ad-spouting smart-appliances wander around killing themselves? See, Stross, the techno-scizophrenic auto-da-fe precludes your singularity. Marvin the Paranoid Android strikes a blow for counter-revolutionary freedom. Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:31:03 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/b15ded11-7365-43f6-837f-f91205b3c632#6d5db3a2-cd3a-4040-8aa1-b7241ba8fe34 the Other™ 2006-04-07T13:31:03Z