http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/03/not-an-april-fool-1.html Not an April Fool By Charlie Stross There is an app, currently on the Apple app store as a free download, called Girls Around Me. A couple of days ago, computer journalist John Brownlee wrote an essay about it explaining why he found it disturbing. I'd like to propose that it is symptomatic of a really major side-effect of our forced acculturation into Facebook's broken model of human social interaction—a broken model shared by all the most successful social networks, by design—and that it is going to get much worse, until it kills people. Quite possibly in very large numbers. ... The Pythonisters might like (with an Arduino tie-in too) (Video) http://css.dzone.com/articles/militarizing-your-backyard Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes