Just when I thought all your 4/1 posts were going to have large headphones in them, you have to be serious.

But this _is_ serious, and I am glad that you are one of the folks paying attention, and bringing it to our attention. If there were no BoingBoing and BBC I would think that the most important thing on April Fools' Day was figuring out how to make all my office phones ring at once.

I'm sorry, but you lose points for not HAVING LARGER HEADPHONES.

FWIW:

Rite in the Rain gets my vote, too. Moleskine's branding is based on resurrecting a "lost" notebook form, while this is just a take on an authentic fieldbook style still very much in use by photographers, geologists, biologists, and birders....

My municipality's water provider (Denver Water) sends out an Annual Report of Water [PDF], with stats on what's in there. Of course, if you wanted to be all paranoid, you could imagine that they don't publicize _everything_ that's really in there, but I'll choose to have a little faith in humanity. At least for another couple of weeks.

In fact, they have a little note on trace pharmaceuticals in the water, too. Just updated today. Way to be sensitive to the news on teh internets, DW! Here's what they said:

Denver Water decided to be proactive and participate in some of the earliest research projects looking for microconstituents (a project with Colorado State University in 2005). We did NOT find any estrogenic compounds but did detect trace amounts of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals at part per trillion concentrations (one part per trillion is equivalent to one drop of water in twenty Olympic-sized swimming pools).

-CP

For anyone carrying a camera and using it in a public place, I highly recommend downloading Bert P. Krages' wallet-sized PDF about The Photographer's Right. When the fuzz or the feds or the TSA threaten you for taking a picture in a public place of a public building (or people in public), you can read them your rights before they try and take away yours.