here is the latest tune I’m working on.
lyrics come from a poem I wrote some time ago. had to be re-worked to fit a song so not exact but you’ll get the idea:
Pride
seminal sin
original gem in I
a grain of sand
can grow into pearl
as dirt can into worth
sin ineluctable can grow into
great grain
yield a harvest beyond the bounds of the field
nothing much comes from counting the
seeds of an apple
but one can never know
how much can be counted
from the seed of one apple.
You can give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city’s sewer plant!
“It’s a community urinalysis,” said Caleb Banta-Green, a University of Washington drug abuse researcher who was part of the Oregon State team…The ingredient Americans consume and excrete the most was caffeine, said Jennifer Field, the lead researcher and a professor of environmental toxicology at Oregon State.
She said that one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week.
As Bruce Schneier points out, you won’t identity individual users, but if you did push the sample high enough into the pipe, you can test groups of houses or even individual houses.
Michael Zimmer posts about CNet’s study onHow Search Engines Rate on Privacy.
Check it out. Further proof of what privacy watchdogs (as opposed to privacy advocates) have been saying in recent days: “the
it is not the link to this story about Canada balking at Washington’s request to grant asylum to Guantanamo Refugees that gets me (released to the Washingpost under the Access to Information Act).
What gets me is this: (a) the reason America asked Canada to accept the detainees of Uighur decent from China’s Xinjiang region was because they were deemed to be no threat to national security; and (b) today, 17 of the men are still being held and live in isolation for 22 hours a day.
uh, excuse me? can you conceive, let alone imagine, being no threat to national security and being held in isolation for 22 hours EACH day?
good god that makes me sick to my stomach.
shocking news indicating that Canadian officials new that Maher Arar might be sent to Syria by American officials
I posted a little about Maher Arar previously on my privacy post