Biometrics & ID cards

I'm worried about the new ID cards. Not the thought of carrying one per se, more the scope for it to go wrong in so many new and interesting ways. Read the first bold link for a succinct reason behind my problems with the technology, and the second for my fears about the concept.

• Biometrics are cool, but...
  
• Problems with authentication
  
• BBC NEWS | Q&A: Identity cards
  
• BBC iCan - ID cards: an iCan briefing
  
• BBC NEWS | Other countries' ID schemes
  
• BBC NEWS | When the British fought off ID cards
  
• PrivacyActivism.org | Biometrics And Airport Security
  
• EPIC Statement on Biometrics and Identity Theft, 7/18/02
  
• No to ID cards- against ID cards, Identity cards and entitlement cards
  

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Pantone & colour rights

I was looking into trade marks when I stumbled upon the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys' website. On this there is a list of trademarkable things; I found it fascinating to find that it is possible to trademark a specific colour. With that in mind, I wanted to look into how specific the shade would need to be, but got sidetracked into the definition of colour in itself.

• Pantone Them themselves.
  
• Pantone - Wikipedia an Overview of what they do and what that means.
  
• PANTONE Color Cue™ - look, they make tricorders!
  
• PANTONEbirthdayCOLOR Apparently I'm Piquant Green.(solid, interesting, persistent) How about you? (This has been renamed and moved; it is now Colorstrology)
  
• Pantone to RGB Colour Conversion an easy way to make Pantone-ish colours online.
  
• Printing rules for MasterCard Not strictly related, but still on the anal level of control brandmasters like to have over their image.
  
• Pantone Flag Color Palettes - PMS 186 and PMS 280 Red, white and blue flags- but which shades?
  
• Colour in Motion a nice little animated look at colour theory.
  

Pantone's colour prediction

• Pantone - trend watch [PDF] Moving on, what colours will be in this season? According to Pantone, this year I will mostly be wearing Pumice Stone, Bolder & Zinc.
  
• Wired 10.10 Living Color - a look at Pantone's business, its monopoly on colour, and its plans for the future (as shown in the above PDF).
  

Update- Colour clash

Update: 13^th August: The recent announcement by EasyGroup that they planned to move into the mobile phone biz brought me back onto the original topic. Can you 'own' a colour?

• BBC NEWS | Magazine | Can you 'own' a colour?


• The UK Patent Office - Designs - What is a Design? So yes, you can.


• Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Stelios plans no-frills mobile business

With this in mind, EasyGroup's attitude towards Orange considering they both use Pantone #151 is a bit rich when you look at what they do to people who dare to put 'easy' in front of their name...

• easy.com : brand thieves
  
• The Register | This is how Easy Group enforces its domain name ?rights?
  

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Body Language

Theory and Career Applications

• Decoding body language
  
• Body Language in Debating
  
• interview techniques - body language
  
• Business Week | Watch Your Body Language
  

and also, the real reason you might be interested...

Flirting

• Flirting & Body Language - The one to read, if only because this was written by the woman from the BBC's Would like to meet... show.
  
• Deciphering Body Language
  
• Body Language hints and tips - aimed at teenagers, but doesn't love make teenagers of us all? (bleagh)
  
• AskMen.com - Body language Any article in the self help guide titled "dear Player" must be onto something good
  
• The Significance of Body Proxemics - Even where you stand matters, it seems.
  

Finally, something only tangentially related:

Derren Brown

• Derren Brown - His website
  
• Channel 4 - Mind Control - the TV show, and
  
• Guardian | - Was Derren Brown really playing Russian roulette - or was it just a trick? - Well what do you think?
  

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