There are plenty of bird-brained bloggers out there, but San Jose in California is about to take the crown. University of California scientists are planning to equip a number of birds with a GPS receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic cellphone rig so that they can text pollution information to be collated by computer in a public blog. [NewScientist.com]
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It’s a good thing that this important study is being conducted in San Jose California, if it was the brain child of a French University, the communist labor unions would put a halt to it faster than you can say national security.
(See: Celebrating European Solidarity, Castigating American Perfidy: Twenty-seven countries are in this category and twenty-six managed to produce the high-tech passports. France is the sole exception and the reason why is not surprising given the feisty nature of the nation’s unions. France is still churning out low-tech versions because of an ongoing legal tiff between the Interior Ministry and unions that took action to block the government from using a private printing company to manufacture the documents instead of the state-owned national printers.)