The following is a special message from American Security Theatre (AST), a group that seeks a dramatic reversal of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policies. We hereby petition the incoming Obama… Read the rest of the article: The Right to Bear Pocket Knives

While we're waiting for the new economic stimulus plan to be unveiled on change.gov, or while we're waiting for it to kick-in, how about developing a backup plan at sparechange.gov?… Read the rest of the article: Sparechange.gov

We stopped yesterday in the small town of Field, in Yoho National Park in British Columbia. It's the western side of the Continental Divide from where we were in Banff… Read the rest of the article: Near The Burgess Shale

Michael Moore was a recent guest on Larry King talking about the auto bailout. Moore's terrific documentary, "Roger & Me," targeted the auto companies in 1989 while they closed plants… Read the rest of the article: Michael Moore on Bailout of US Auto Makers

Last night, there was a report of a meteor streaking across the Alberta sky and crashing somewhere in Western Canada in the early evening. Sadly I did not see it… Read the rest of the article: Alberta Meteor Sighting

BoingBoing readers may help me identify what made the trails in the photo below, taken from Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. I took the photo from the road when… Read the rest of the article: Icefields Mystery Trails

"The biggest fuck-up with killing people, if nobody, if nobody got told then nobody would've slipped information," he added. I was reading this story of a Calgary murder trial in… Read the rest of the article: If Nobody Got Told

Today, we travelled up the Icefields Parkway from Lake Louise. We didn't make it all the way to the Columbia Icefields but we saw lots of incredibly beautiful mountains and… Read the rest of the article: Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park

I heard the distant rumble and looked up from the trail. I quickly took this photo as fast as I could. It's a relatively small avalanche but I'd never seen… Read the rest of the article: Avalanche!

It's usual practice for a magazine to run an excerpt of a book written by one of its editors. However, BusinessWeek went one step further and converted an excerpt from… Read the rest of the article: Illustrating Alan Kay's Role in Portable Computing

The demolition of Long Mill Dye House in Roanoke, Virginia brought down two smokestacks but one didn't fall as planned. photo from WSLS.com Watch this AP video and listen for… Read the rest of the article: The Sound of Two Smokestacks Falling

Pygmy tarsiers, long believed extinct, have been found in Indonesia, according to a story in The Globe and Mail. In August, researchers from Texas A&M, led by Sharon Gursky-Doyen, trapped… Read the rest of the article: Pygmy Tarsiers Re-discovered in Indonesia

While on the trail to the falls in Johnston Canyon, which is a wonderful walk off a road that runs between Banff and Lake Louise, we came across this beautiful… Read the rest of the article: Sweet Snow-made Declaration

Lidija Davis on ReadWriteWeb summarizes current VC advice for startups and entrepreneurs: Go back to the garage. That's the message venture capitalists at the Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase in… Read the rest of the article: Going into Garage-mode

I'm doing my guestblogging assignment this week while in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. I came here to give a talk about Make and makers at Digitel (Digital Game… Read the rest of the article: Reporting from Banff for BoingBoing

ACCRC is in desperate straits. The Bay Area electronics recycler is going through tough times with an emergency re-org and a lack of funds to pay taxes and healthcare for… Read the rest of the article: Scrap market collapse threatens Bay Area recycler

The Wall Street Journal, Friday November 14th, reports on "culture clashes" between the brokers of Merrill Lynch and the bank that bought them, Bank of America. As the article portrays… Read the rest of the article: Merrill Lynch Needs a Dressing Down

I saw a nostalgic photo in the bathroom of a NY City restaurant recently, a picture of the beach at Coney Island and the ocean was absolutely filled with people… Read the rest of the article: Beach Dreams

Check out Daniel B. Smith's article on Lewis Hyde in the New York Times Magazine: "What is Art For? Hyde is the author of "The Gift", an influential book exploring… Read the rest of the article: Tinker in a Collective Shop

From a repair shop comes a collection of the sounds of hard drives failing. Their last words, their dying moans. Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's… Read the rest of the article: Hard Drives' Dying Moans