Website gagged as Calgary police chief wins court order

Well, if anything, this says that the police officer chief was more likely precisely that which he is accused of - appears that there are a number of sites dedicated to the misdemeanors of the Calgary police. I think the best course of action, not knowing anything about this police chief other than what I have been presented in the last hour, is for him to forget about false accusations - he doesn't have to clear his name of things that aren't true only of things that are true. And in the event that they are true, he really ought to take sanctuary in his "getaway church" and spend some hard time finding away to reconcile with others.

Nice to see that the CBC is also fighting the gag order that preceded the police chief's gagging of a website. Gagging really is the big thing these days.

GPS-Enabled School Uniforms

Combine this with the new satellite Google maps and you can always know where your friends are...

Japanese school uniform maker Ogo-Sangyo Company has released their newest advancement in uniform technology: GPS-enabled blazers. The GPS terminals, located inside the uniforms, can communicate back to parents (or potential kidnappers, naturally) the location of their children, allowing them to know exactly how many stops at the okashiya they made on their way home. The terminals are built by Secom, whose GPS devices showed up in similarly-intended GPS satchels. - from Gizmodo

Shall we make those ribbons maroon, boys?

One ought not to say in general that a man is obsessed with his crotch. For if this were true, one would need to account for the disproportionate number of men that die of prostate cancer over women from breast cancer every year. I say, men, take hede: it is time that you became more attentive to the radical otherness of that which dwells in the South and give it what it deserves - consult your friendly neighbourhood Economist for details.

"Prostate cancer is far more common in men than breast cancer is in women. Yet the public awareness of the two diseases could not be more different. Women have their mammograms, their ultrasounds, pink-ribbon days, designer T-shirts and celebrity-awareness campaigns. Like breast cancer, cancer of the prostate is treatable if caught early enough. Unlike breast cancer, it is also completely curable. Yet more men in America and in Britain still develop prostate cancer—and more die of it—than any other cancer other than that of the lungs. Why so?"