Penile plethysmograph
Good lord; until today, it was a routine practice by a service of the B.C. Ministry for Children and Family Development to assess a convicted sex offender by "attach[ing] a device to his penis [and then] play[ing] images of adults having sex and of naked children while monitoring the youth's level of arousal".
Sounds like something from the early half of this century.
Update (next day): surprise, surprise; the cancellation of this wacky test came down after somebody realized that one of their technicians had been convicted of sexual assault.
Alberta family’s cat found in Yukon
I love reading unusual yet oddly heart-warming articles like this, wherein a cat managed to travel over 1100 km north to Whitehorse.
Update: Not two days later, a similar story where a doggie makes his way home over 80 km south to Winnipeg!
Weird news day
From the CBC:
Feces-squirting thieves sought in Toronto, after a spate of spraying bank-machine customers with liquid shit and then stealing their money. Bizarre.
And, Gary Coleman was apparently in hospital on life support (update: now dead. RIP.)
Beavers and whales
Two animal-related news items reported by the CBC today to make us Canadians happy and/or proud: a grey whale was spotted in False Creek between the Granville and Burrard bridges, and an 850 km long beaver dam in Alberta that probably took 20 years to build!
Deliberate mis-editing by ABC in Toyota report
CBC: ABC admits tinkering with Toyota report. This is a first-degree fuck-up in news editing. (Filed under "film" because, well, apparently the editor thought he was doing a drama)
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Twittage
- Just took a 2-hour nap on the boardroom table.
- Likely going to stop reading twitter now that it's broken via RSS. Workaround suggestions welcome. (Hoping that @nnw_Mac will add support!)
- Praise the l0rd; iOS 4.1 finally restores my iPhone 3G to its reasonably-snappy state of old.
- How do I get an RSS feed of the twitter accounts I'm following? Previously using /statuses/friends_timeline.rss but that broke yesterday.
- Words which irritate me: "price point" (just say "price"); "sign off on" (just say "sign"); "viral video" (just say "trendy tripe").