The average American spends about 47 hours per year stuck in traffic. Yet with all the discussion of how to combat an ever growing number of cars on the road by ever constructing more thoroughfares, public transportation is not considered.

kicking the bottle

San Francisco city departments are officially off bottled water. Three cheers! Over a billion water bottles end up in California's landfills each year. Bottles of stuff that falls from the sky and costs more per gallon than gasoline. Oh, human folly...

I was skeptical I'd see the day global warming would be all over the media. Now the even less likely is happening -- sci-fi-like proposals to counteract its effects.

Anyone for cycling in California wine country? A Cali version of bar-hopping on bikes...

A mother searches Tijuana for her mentally disabled son, who has been deported despite the fact that he is an American citizen. The picture of pathos.

Are we millions and millions of exuberant monkeys?

worldwide spam decrease?

It's hard to imagine that the arrest of one spammer could decrease spam worldwide, but apparently the arrest of 27-year-old Robert Soloway may have just that effect. The man has made a lot of money via "zombie" computers of unwitting users--enough that "even with four bank accounts seized by the government, he was sufficiently well off to pay for his own lawyer."

The only difference I've noticed recently is that an increased number of phishing attacks have been making it through Gmail's spam filter to my inbox.