Latest High Country News has a profile on a pocatello graphic designer who also makes bikes to give away — when he’s not teaching folks how to fix their own bikes… Seems to be currying a sort of low-key activist stance on fighting urban sprawl.

here’s the web teaser.

the circus/charade that’s been the media coverage of events at virginia tech, I found it more than a little amusing that chimps appear to have evolved more than humans since we split from a common ancestor:
Chimps More Evolved Than Humans

while thirty shot dead is historic for USA, it’s just another bad day in Baghdad:
160 slaughtered in Baghdad car bomb avalanche