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Net Sticky Notes All Over London

Posted by timothy on from the all-over-everywhere-would-be-good dept.

An anonymous reader writeswith a link to a BBC story which mentions in passing the Urban Tapestries project for distributed, collaborative location-based note-taking, excerpting "In practice this means giving people a specially-equipped mobile phone that allows them to wander around central London and leave virtual notes for other people to read by writing them on the phone and then 'sticking' them to a building. It works because the position of each phone is constantly tracked so when a note is written the place can be noted - when someone else goes to the same place, they can read the note."

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  1. first note by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    first virtual note you will see:

    "call jenny for a good time: 555-0634"

    1. Re:first note by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, both Jenny and your girlfriend are imaginary characters made up for the sake of a slashdot post. So you really shouldn't be surprised that they have the same phone numbers.

    2. Re:first note by lachlan76 · · Score: 5, Funny

      More like:
      SSH Jenni for a good time:
      IP Address 66.35.250.150
      MAC Address: 6A-4F-39-B7-15-C8
      WEP Key: 1764F31243B6A43C426C11701C6D583D

  2. "Dave... by squaretorus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... is a cunt"

    Can now be written absolutely ANYWHERE in central london :-D I just need to get one of these, write a script to post 'dave is a cunt' every 30 seconds, and spend a day on my pushbike!

    I wonder how it will work on elevators! "floor 2: Dave is a cunt" "floor 3: Davis is still a cunt"

    Can you say 'cunt' half a dozen times in a /. post without being automatically burnt to death? I may well find out!

  3. This will show up, eventually. by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You Stand Before the Museum of Natural History... Before you is a magnificently architected building, containing many marvels of the world. In front of it is a clear fountain, around which students sit and chatter. Beneath your feet is a manhole.

    A policeman (white aura) stands here, looking around in search of troublemakers.

    Visible exits are north, west, east, (down)."