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This may be the best news I’ve ever heard from any airline. Ever. Southwest and WestJet have agreed to form an alliance that will finally offer low-cost flights between Canada (my homeland) and the US (my home). Cheap flights to Calgary here we come!

Southwest Airlines to Offer International Service Via Pact With Canadian Carrier WestJet, [...]

If you haven’t seen The Big Picture blog yet then I recommend you take a look. It is a photojournalism blog sponsored by the Boston Globe that tugs at the heartstrings and presents some out-of-this world images (quite literally in the case of Mars). If you enjoy world news, current events and photography you will [...]

Here are some ways to donate to the current disaster relief effort in Myanmar:

LDS Church Humanitarian Services
Google

I suspect the death toll will rise dramatically when representatives from more relief agencies are finally allowed into the country. Several news sites are now reporting the death toll could top 100,000 people. For current information on the unraveling [...]

We had an earthquake last night around 8:05pm. Here are the details:
Magnitude: 5.6
Date-Time: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 08:04:54 PM at epicenter
Location: 37.432°N, 121.776°W
Depth: 9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Region: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
Distances: 8 km (5 miles) NNE (31°) from Alum Rock, CA, 11 km (7 miles) E (91°) from Milpitas, CA, and 15 km [...]

News outlets are reporting a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 passenger airliner operated by Thai budget carrier One-Two-Go has crashed in heavy rain on the resort island of Phuket (pronounced Poo-ket) in southern Thailand. Flight OG 269 was carrying 130 passengers when it slid off the runway shortly after landing and broke into pieces and then [...]