25 years; the strike was the first political event, indeed one of the first events, I actually remember. At least I remember power cuts and TV news broadcasts with the number of weeks the miners had been out counting up. After that, I recall Chernobyl - they set up a radiation monitor in the car par...

Watch Hulu on Your TV through Plex; those bummed over Hulu’s departure from Boxee may want to try this other XBMC-based project. (Zatz Not Funny!) Joost to Use Ooyala on Backend; video publishing service will provide ingestion, transcoding and metadata management tools to web TV site. (release...

In England, they monitor everything. You're practically lucky to take a crap without people catching a glimpse on CCTV. But sometimes, having ubiquitous surveillance allows for some pretty incredible things to be caught on tape - like this guy who damn-near goes and gets himself hit by a g*ddamn tra...

Are these people out of their spanking-loving, English-disciplined, bloody psycho minds? Judging from these news, yes they are: Schools in Britain are now installing CCTV and microphones in......

There’s rather an extraordinary story over on the Telegraph about a police investigation into verbal abuse suffered by Sol Campbell by away supporters from Spurs at Fratton Park in September. The investigation is certainly welcome, if reports of the nature of the abuse are anything to go by, b...

ABOVE: El Prat Airport, Barcelona. Photo: Simon Sellars. A man shrugs off the clucking of his family and makes his way to International Departures. With the ticketing formalities over, he slumps at the bar and orders drinks. He sits and waits. To escape. A wicked love gone horribly, horribly wrong. ...

I've been using MythTV, the DIY home digital video recorder/entertainment center for the better part of four years. It has included a mysterious "ZoneMinder" component for a while now. But since I had better things to do, I mostly ignored it. Then I bought a home. And then a pyromaniac started causi...

Situated immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is a city that has gone from nought to 12 million in less than 30 years. Naomi Klein described the emerging megacity in Rolling Stone as a large industrial sprawl with a glittering and increasingly glamourous core: “Newer neighborhoods like Kej...

John Honovich, a consultant on video surveillance and biometrics, says in a meta-analysis of recent studies of CCTV effectiveness that the industry needs to change its marketing pitch. Particularly it must stop promising the public CCTV can reduce crime, primarily because virtually all the research ...

Tegenwoordig bevind ik mij aan de andere kant van de Noordzee en ben ik woonachtig in Londen, een metropool die Amsterdam degradeert tot gezellig plattelandsdorpje. Om de enorme hoeveelheid mensen die hier rondloopt enigszins in goede banen te leiden heeft de gemeente een uitgebreid beveiligingsplan...