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October 23, 2007

Imprecise Testing land Mum in jail for Cat Urine

Boing Boing says

38-year-old Cynthia Hunter of Florida was jailed for 50 days when police found a vial containing a yellow substance in her purse. She said it was cat urine for her son's science experiment, but she was locked up for 50 days until the lab results confirmed that the substance was indeed cat urine.

200710162220 Cynthia Hunter was arrested in August accused of stealing at a Brandon Wal-Mart.

The 38-year-old mother was charged with possession of a controlled substance after deputies found a vial in her purse that a field test suggested was meth.

Whatever happened to Innocent until proven guilty...

October 16, 2007

Moving beyond Technofetishists and Fluffy bunnies

Nice long piece on Dave Snowden and KM at Matts site

Includes the definition of

* Technofetishists who believe that people are just there to enter data and that everyone wants to spend their lives in virtual chat rooms.
* New age fluffy bunnies who believe that technology is the spawn of Satan and that everyone should hug at the beginning of a meeting.