Some new ideas on proper stretching:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112pewarm.html?_r=...

This was one of my hopes for an Obama presidency - hopefully it lasts...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_on_re_eu/eu_election_an_american_...

I just read about a photographer who made a circuit to remotely trigger his camera using standard family walkie-talkies:

http://www.robertbenson.com/blog/archives/860

While this is neat and it looks like he did a good job implementing it, I was surprised and disappointed to see he decided to persue a patent for it.  Not only is this a fairly obvious idea, it's not even unique... it's even been a project in Make magazine (http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol15/?pg=153).  Rather than trying to create a false monopoly for himself, it would have been nice if he'd followed the lead of Mitch Altman and others in the open-source hardware movement: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/patentbgone_inventor_mitc.html . He could still make some money off of producing this for people, but he could also benefit from the free ideas for improvements from other gearheads.

Clinton thought it'd be a good idea to enact a roadless-rule to protect America's national forrests... Bush has other ideas:
"Whether it's getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks, loosening regulations for factory farm waste or making it easier for mountaintop coal-mining operations, these proposed changes have found little favor with environmental groups."
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4A117D20081102?sp=true

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR200810...
 
Maryland is going back to paper ballots :-D  Maybe my harassing the election rep at last year's spring fair paid off...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/30/polar.warming/index.html
 
Article "Attribution of polar warming to human influence" Nature Geoscience, authors looked at data from poles and performed simulations - were unable to expalin data by natural effects alone, only by factoring in human activity.