Remember that red-state porn craze we told you about? Apparently, Utah pays for it more than any other state. Typical: 16 people were arrested following violence at a concert held to promote non-violence. Hayden Panetierre may be headed toward a nervous breakdown. Yeesh. We don't get it. ...

Filed under: Europe, South America, France Last week we announced a new partnership between Gadling and the self-styled "independent travel" specialists over at BootsnAll. Every Friday we'll be taking a look at some of our favorite BootsnAll content from the past week, along with a few choice words ...

Vancouver gallery owner Jennifer Kostuik gave a talk at VISA (Vancouver Island School of Art) on Thursday (2/26) evening. Despite a technical glitch beyond her control (the projector stopped working, mysteriously, about 5 minutes into her presentation), and irrespective of a really laid-back, unstru...

By Patricia H. Kushlis I guess it’s that time again for another post on the continuing saga of US passports, e-passports and the proliferation of the ubiquitously insecure RFID chips embedded in both American documents required for US citizens to travel abroad and then return home. The problem is ...

Short version: The law is unclear and inconsistently applied. You may be stopped, or you may be let though with a smile. So yesterday started off the same as Wednesday: February 11 15,  2009. At Dorval airport. Going to Washington DC to see my son, meet with a client, and then on to Seattle for a w...

This has been going on for so long, yet no one would do anything about it. It's about damned time: February 13, 2009 (Computerworld) Federal agents on Thursday said they arrested 11 people in six states in a crackdown on H-1B visa fraud and unsealed documents that detail how the visa process was use...

Haaretz’s Akiva Eldar brings the bracing news that the Obama administration is contemplating denying U.S. visas to any Israeli politicians who were members of Kahane Chai.  The party is designated by both the U.S. and Israel as a terrorist organization.  The most prominent individual affecte...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Time Warner (TWX), Motorola (MOT), Estee Lauder (EL), NYSE Euronext (NYX), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) repo...

Recession be damned! A new “ultra-elite” credit card has launched in the US, in an effort to woo clients who aspire to better travel benefits and members-only services. Barclays is behind the new Visa Black Card, which obviously hopes to emulate the aura of exclusivity and status that th...

No worries - you aren’t getting the job anyway The Gist The Queensland, Australia tourism board is offering to plant one lucky applicant on an island in the Great Barrier Reef chain for six months, and pay a cool $105,000 for doing so. Your general job description is to lay around, swim, dive,...