Devo? I thought it was Spaceman Spiff!

A good resource companion comes from a little further north. Deb Tolman's The Tolman Guide to Green Living in Portland, available online or as a free 3MB .pdf from the Portland State University Geography Department. Not much narrative, but lots of links. Despite the name, it is not limited to local Portland resources.

I thought all arms had to go in checked baggage anyway.

Just think what life would be like today if Edison had been able to get Congress to pass an Electric Millenium Control Act, declaring use of AC power to be felony interference with a business model.