Concept: The idea for this project was spawned at the first Motorhome Diaries Meetup in central New Jersey. Jason Talley and I discussed a site that would allow individuals to post media regarding their run ins with government officials. Particularly cops. The finished product would have the following functionalities.

• Map which provides markers for each event. Those markers ideally would be different colors and designs so as to more easily distinguish them by category.  (botched raid, traffic infraction, etc.)
• When clicked on markers should popup the specific information regarding the event. A Description, sources, location, media, etc.
• Categories as represented by the markers should be able to be toggled on and off so the user make view only those they care about.
• For performance reasons there needs to be some amount of intelligence in the placing of markers as the map is zoomed out. Currently using a modified version of Joe Poskanzer’s Clusterer2.
• Users should be able to search for an area using Google’s map searching abilities.
• New events should be submittable by users.
• Submissions will need to be moderated not unlike a blog so that spam and junk doesn’t get through.
• Before submitting to be moderated there should be some amount of logic (perhaps using a keyword/tagging service + source checks) to see if the story already exists and if so allow the user to add / modify the existing event. This too would need to be moderated.
• When the user submits a new story they will be required to enter a category. Categories already existing should be presented to them with an ability to add new ones. This too should be smart and do a keyword comparison to make sure it’s not a duplicate. Offer the user the list of possible preexisting categories.
• Using geolocation the form should allow lookup of where ever the new user submitted marker is. Fields should be editable and checked against geo location services to confirm before submission. Having autocomplete of fields would be good too.
• Part of the form should be contact information for those government agencies involved.
• Media should be uploadable though it’s not necessary given Youtube and such services. However, given that some times media is taken down it’d be preferable that not only can users upload specific media files (pdf,video,audio) but that links to media be followed and those be downloaded if possible as a backup.
• Using google alerts or just merging existing known feeds it should provide a RSS/ATOM feed showing news stories regarding government abuses. Such as Injustice News.
• A desirable feature would be to provide the ability to follow the news story link and attempt to build a submission for the site should it not exist already. Or bring up the event within the site so that the user may update it.
• A general RSS/ATOM feed should be provided so that new events and updates are easily picked up by followers of the site. Additionally there should be the ability to narrow down the feed to events within a particular country, state, county, city or maybe even radius from a particular lng,lat point.
• Much of this is already implemented in some way in the prototype though not in a very attractive way. The RSS feeds and event checker don’t exist. The uploader uses a special PHP addon called uploadprogress so that uploads can be tracked without the use of FLASH. Submissions are held for moderation but there is no way to actually moderat

Technologies used in prototype: PHP, Javascript, JQuery, Google Maps, Google geotags, GeoNames, custom version of Jef Poskanzer’s Clusterer2, the JQuery msdropdown, jquery.progressbar, jquery.blockUI, jquery.autocomplete and others. See http://github.com/bile

Similar pages: CopBlock, Injustice News

I’ve talked with CopBlock and Injustice News. Both are interested in working together should this get off the ground.

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1. Erlang/OTP: republishing node info to epmd after it’s failed

http://blog.ulfurinn.net/2009/1/17/emergency-epmd-reanimation

After finding out this I scanned Google to confirm and ran across a few mailing list posts which recommended placing epmd in /etc/inittab so that should it ever die or is killed it will be restarted but this doesn’t solve the problem where the old nodes are no longer registered with epmd. The link above shows how to use the erl_epmd server to reregister the node but one needs to know the name and port which the Erlang instance is listening on. After digging around in lib/kernel/src/erl_epmd.erl I found that the name and port were kept in it’s state and there was an undocumented call which would return them call ‘client_info_req’. So rather than using netstat or lsof and remembering the node name as required above one can automate the process.

Which I’ve done. I through together an OTP app which will poll epmd and scan for an entry for the node. If it’s not found it will reregister itself. Optionally it will also attempt to restart epmd in daemon mode. An event based implementation would be best but I currently don’t know enough to know if that’s even possible. For the time being this will help maintain that nine 9’s uptime.

epmd_monitor-0.1.0.tar.gz

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• DOS
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  • Time Slaughter (beta)
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  • Noggin Knockers 2
• Windows
  • Noggin Knockers X
  • Wrath of the Sea King
  • Skippy’s Revenge
  • Tromaball!
  • Terror Firmer
  • Disgruntled (prototype)
  • O’Sirus the Snip (platformer demo)
  • O’Sirus the Snip (adventure prototype)
  • Sensational Automobile Destruction Orgy Deluxe Version EX: Goopa Goopa Ultra-Enhanced Turbo Breed of Alpha Bloodlust Software Warriors: The Newcomers of Old Times Millennium Edition

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CHARTARUM is the first feature film by Think Twice Productions. John Shaw – Writer/Director/Co-Producer, Jason Osborne – Producer/Actor

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For those who give a shit:

Along my voyage, unexpectedly I met one of my soul mates. Her name was Carrie Louise Hamilton. She was the kind of person who could light up a room upon walking into it… She had pink dreads, tattoos billowing over her shoulder, long legs, a big smile and could diffuse any potentially bad situation immediately. I left my career, my friends and my family to sit by her side and watch her die from cancer. It ripped serveral hearts out and left me a shadow of what most of you once knew.

I spent the next few years shooting a lot of speed and following a spiral downward, throwing my giant temper tantrum. At first I made it all about you/them, then all about me and now I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t know who the fuck its all about but the speed eventually lost its charm and using Carrie’s death as an excuse got old.

Luckily I have some friends that I happen to be in a band with (Ena, and Enrique) and a couple others that I apparently didn’t alienate (Raven O. and Heidi Follin) that are better people than I am and who rescued me and showed me that there were still reason to want to be alive, acted in totally selfless ways completely above and beyond the call of friendship and to them I am very grateful and owe them my life. Thank you guys! I Love you!

It feels good to have my head finally out of my ass and I didn’t write this to make any excuses or apologies for any of my behavior. It’s all part of my life and I have always had an extreme one from the day I was born

It might even happen again cuz life isn’t perfect. I’m somehow dumber than I ever was but it’s kind of refreshing and if anything it all taught me two major things…… 1. If you pull your head out of your ass, you find there are other people in the world to experience and………..2. I WILL SURVIVE. ………..I hope you enjoy “Black Dahlia” and the subsequent music we made as a result and fuck it, now there is nothing to gossip about so let’s not speak of it again!

Pat Briggs.. Live and die rock and roll!

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The ZT_A006, a knockoff 2nd gen Apple iPod shuffle, mp3 player and spy cam.

General specs:

• Picture element: 1.3m CMOS
• Visual angle: 65 degrees
• Minimum illumination: 1Lux
• microSD: Maximum 8G
• Battery: BEP032323 3.7V 130mAh
• Video format: MJPEG 640×480@20 fps
• Photo format: JPEG @ 1280×960
• Plays MP3s
• Record length: ~1 hour

ICs found on board:

• ANYKA AK3631814402 FS06I9
• SEC 701 BN75
  K4m641633K
  ZKK047A1
• SST 25VF016B

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and Psychotica performing a sound check with Little Prince

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• Shine On: FLAC

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