From Comcast "news" (which is sort of like Fox News, only without the journalistic integrity and tireless fact-checking):

Blind People: Hybrid Cars Pose HazardThe gist is that the National Federation of the Blind is worried about the fact that hybrid cars make much less noise than regular cars, since blind people - quite understandably - rely on ( Read more... )

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I will avoid flying as much as possible - to the extent that I'd rather drive for 12 hours than fly for 3. This has nothing to do with the flying part of the equation, and everything to do with the airport part.

Airports are obnoxious. They were thus long before 9/11, but they're even worse now. The lines are long and slow, the employees are surly ( Read more... )

- The Teaching Company - purveyor of non-credit college courses on audio and video disc - has put up a complimentary audio lecture on the Jamestown Settlement. It's 45 minutes long. There's no form to fill out or anything like that. You just click on the link and download the file as an MP3 or an M4B.

- The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is ( Read more... )

- Today is Endangered Species Day. To help citizens prepare for this event,  the Virginia Citizens Defense League gave away guns yesterday at a Fairfax County government building.

And on a related note...

- Having lived in Illinois for most of my childhood, this doesn't surprise me. At all.
Baby 'Bubba' Gets a Gun Permit
The 10-month-old, whose given ( Read more... )

Rich Koslowski, writer/artist of the terrific Three Fingers, has posted a preview of his next project, called BB Wolf and the 3 L.P.s.  Set in the 1920s, the Big Bad Wolf is a down-on-his-luck farmer and blues guitarist endlessly hassled by his landlords - a trio of familiar swine brothers.

Koslowski talks about the project a little bit here (you ( Read more... )

Colin Beaven is a 43 year-old writer living in New York City with his wife Michelle Conlin and their 2 year-old daughter Isabella. A few months ago, Colin and his family embarked on a year-long experiment to determine whether they could reduce their net carbon footprint - the effect they have on the environment - to zero.

This entails things like:

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And now, just in case you think I'm going all intellectual on you after the last post...


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It's chic, it's green, and it's surprisingly expensive.  You can now get IPod cases, custom-made to fit whichever type of IPod you own, made out of reclaimed 45 singles.

(45s are those funny little vinyl things that looked sort of like black CDs that old people used to listen to music on.  You had to put them on a turntable and scratch them with a ( Read more... )