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News on high-tech US Toilets 19/07/2008

Posted by dlatman in u.s..
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Interesting article in Slate today about high-tech, self-cleaning pay toilets that several US cities have installed recently. Author William Saletan argues that they may be actually worse than regular public toilets. Key quote from an interviewee: “I used to smoke crack in there. But I won’t even go inside that thing now. It’s disgusting.”

Read more about toilets on my last blog post.

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1. lilianarodrigues - 24/07/2008

Hallo! Congratulations on the blog, been following it for quite some time now! The entry above made me thing about the following you tube video: Here“s to a good laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU9E0KJ8ftU#

2. dlatman - 05/08/2008

Hi Liliana, thanks. I like your blog, esp. the post about the censored exhibit on Israeli/Palestinian maps. http://middleeast.about.com/od/israelandpalestine/a/me080630.htm
So disappointing! But perhaps unsurprising.