Some quick links to strike-related news, and then some more regular kinds of links. A hybrid like this seems a good solution.
- The City Pages is hosting Strike! Metro Transit Strike Blog.
- Six photos from the Minneapolis Public Library photo collection of people during the strike in 1938.
- Did you know there were Cowboys on streetcars in the 1889 streetcar strike here in town?
- Benefits drive buses as discussed in the comments on Jim’s post about the bus strike. [press-patch]
- Bus strike encourages more to hoof it to work, or to drive near to downtown and then walk from there. [press-patch]
- Metro Mobility keeps pace with new demand, too. They’re seeing extra riders as people who were riding the bus, but qualified for Metro Mobility now have nowhere else to turn. [press-patch]
- Here’s a look at dating from the woman’s point of view: It’s not me, it’s you. Again. Includes the top ten signs that a guy is going to be bad in bed. Lessee, I get numbers 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7. I guess I should start working on the others.
- Como carnival ending an era as St. Paul decides to get the carnival completely renovated, which will mean a different company running it, too. I remember some of the rides there pretty fondly. Definitely more fondly than one of my grade-school friends who puked on any ride faster than a merry-go-round. Naturally, we thought that great fun, so tried to get him on every ride we could. [press-patch]
- Now a number of internet providers are suing hundreds for spam under the Can-Spam act. I’m still waiting to see if it’ll do any good, but expecting it won’t make much difference. [fark!]
- There’s now a single pill that tackles smoking and obesity, and was found while researchers were trying to figure out why pot-heads got the munchies. It should be available in the UK next year. [fark!]