What’s happening May 20, 2010:
The pay toilets spotted the other week were given their inaugural $0.25 flush yesterday. The self-cleaning bus shelter like booths will be deployed at a rate of two per year, and will hopefully work longer than this already broken garbage bin I passed yesterday.
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Neither you nor any unfortunate tourist trapped in Toronto during the G20 summit will be able to go up the CN Tower. It’s closed. Also worth avoiding: banks at night.
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Also security related, a tool found at reclaimprivacy.org allows you to check your Facebook privacy settings. The tool doesn’t change anything for you, but clarifies Facebook’s convoluted security info.
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Over in London, Greenpeace has managed to scale BP’s headquarters and unfurl a “British Polluters” flag.
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Finally, a story on working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese plant, which makes our Macs, iPads, iPhones, etc., offers some perspective on what goes into our devices. Spoiler: the 400,000 workers are far from happy.[rssbreak]
