http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html

This is the most incredible display of re-purposing I have ever seen.

Yesterday as I drove to work I just missed being stopped by a road block put up by the Barrington Hills Police Department on Rt. 68. It was two thirty eight in the afternoon on a Saturday. They were picking up their “Prepare to be stopped” orange signs and getting in their cars. It appeared that they had encountered too much traffic. The other lane was backed up several football fields. I was thinking as I drove by that that was like Fascism. If I left five minutes earlier I would have had to check in with a police officer on my way to work. I must admit that that sort of thing makes me feel really angry. I feel as though my liberty is being taken away. The constitution says I have the right to “no unreasonable search.” What is reasonable about being searched/stopped because it’s Saturday afternoon at two. It’s seems hard enough to justify these road blocks on New Years Eve and other holidays where DUI is most pronounced. I felt completely violated by government yesterday.