Musings of an Honourary Canadian

RIP KTRK's Marvin Zindler.

From the home page of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL):

"Mark has been instrumental in the development and passage of legislation designed to protect our children..."

From the Associated Press:

"WASHINGTON - Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former male page..."

New Scientist has discovered that the Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.