I always love when Portland gets its geeky mixed up with its crafty and builds beautiful, functional bling for high tech gadgetry. The latest effort to cross my desk is TOAST, a custom wood veneer for the back of your iPhone 4. And by custom, they mean you can get as creative as you like—one

Some thoughts after Iowa: "Candidates can continue to say things that are "flatly, grossly, and shamefully untrue," as the Post's E.J. Doinne described it, without fear of retribution. Obama has traveled the world and "apologized for America," says Romney. Except that, no he hasn't. The stimulus "created zero jobs

My brother and I walked over to my sister's place. "Let's get something from that sweet store across from her flat" he said. After a detour to that store, we walked in with keera vadai, vegetable cutlets, and chumchum.  Sister made tea (black for me, of course!) and we talked about stuff.

Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012COUNTY SEEKS APPLICANTS FOR BUDGET COMMITTEESClatsop County is currently inviting citizens to serve on local budget committees.These citizen committees review the proposed budgets and make recommendations to the county commissioners. Each committee is made up of five county commissioners and five other

Happy New Year! Here's to a year full of new experiences, good food and good friends! I'm ready to welcome the new year with all the events January has to offer, how about you? Be sure to keep checking this post throughout the month, as we will continue to add events as we receive information. A quick way to find this list

Since we haven't exhausted all the days of Christmas just yet, this post-holiday classic is still moderately topical, especially when you consider the low bar we set for ourselves at Edge HQ.

We have a new guest photographer today! Donna Posvar sent in this beautiful sunrise photo her husband, Dan, took along Mt. Pleasant Drive in nearby Scio. Thanks, Dan and Donna! Feel free to submit again whenever you like.

Isaiah Silva, frontman for the Rambles, says he and Courtney Love's daughter "stay at home, read books and watch 'Arrested Development.'"

Labor unions have consistently made concessions to corporations that effectively make it impossible for US workers to afford the very products they produce. Despite a culture that presents high wages as unsustainable and pushes the inevitability of working more for less, it is possible to pay good wages and still be success

• Rob Moseley and Adam Jude talk about the Rose Bowl victory in the latest edition of the Postgame Brew.

• Nick Aliotti, Darrion Weems, Justin Hoffman, and Rob Mullens talk with reporters after landing in Eugene yesterday. Video courtesy of KVAL.•

This is a guest post from Natalie Peace of PeaceAndProfit.com. She is the author of 30 Keys to Building a Multi-Million Dollar Business: What They Didn’t Teach Me in Business School. Natalie is an entrepreneur, business coach, and she’s currently writing a book on how to start a wildly successful business. Looking a

Aldridge scores a season-high 30 points in the win over the Thunder.

Aldridge scores a season-high 30 points in the win over the Thunder.

The Winter Market features covered spaces, hot food, and more. It runs through February 25th.

The Bible is filled with difficult verses. With these difficult verses come a myriad of explanations. Let’s take a look at one of those challenging verses.

Adding Old World Character to a New House So, most of you might know we moved to this brand new Craftsman style house in Washington three years ago (MY how time flies) from a charming old English Tudor in Portland Oregon. The reason we bought a new house is because we knew we would be [...]

As we predicted, the outgoing interim U.S. attorney, Dwight Holton, has positioned himself to run for Oregon attorney general by leaving the U.S.

My cousins were also impressed with the fact that JHSS was a coeducational school.  Until they pointed it out, I didn't know anything else.  As a kid, I was under the impression that boys and schools attended the same schools. But, coeducational did not mean that we boys and them girls freely interact

The smell of a freshly-sharpened pencil. A blank sheet of lined paper resting on the table. A new planner, days all white and waiting to fill. I love me a new beginning.  Over dinner on December 26th, Jeff asked me what had been the highlight of my day. Hands down: Taking down the tree and [...]

In-depth, informative and entertaining, The Annotated Sandman is a fascinating look at the New York Times best-selling series by Neil Gaiman. Edited by and with an introduction and notes by Leslie S. Klinger, the expert researcher and editor behind the Edgar-winning New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and the critically acclaimed

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There’s a new, free website service you can sign up for to get text alerts sent to your phone when snow drops on Mt. Bachelor: Cone Patrol. It’s a dead-simple service to use—all you need is a mobile phone with … Continue reading ͛

There are only four games to choose from in our charity pro football underdog game this weekend. The first of these kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time Saturday. All picks are due by then! Here are the lines. Despite the paucity of games, there are still a couple of fairly hefty pooches availab

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.~ King James version ~More often

The Blazers were good enough to hand the Thunder, and yet the team has not come close to revealing its best

The Blazers were good enough to hand the Thunder, and yet the team has not come close to revealing its best

The Blazers are not only not afraid of ghosts, they are not afraid of the Thunder, either

The Blazers are not only not afraid of ghosts, they are not afraid of the Thunder, either

Engineering and bridge buffs will get a kick out of two major Willamette River bridge constructions now underway. Observers have the convenience of watch the construction from the most convenient public places. Getting from one bridge site to another is just a short bicycle ride on a scenic trail. In July, the Portland-Milw

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Rugged Deceptively beautiful Worn by time warmed by the sun Will the spec of dust we are be missed? I am now content to just see the moon Above the handwritten wispy clouds Knowing that you exist nearby Occupying the same sky At the same time      

Robert Frank's Unitled from Painkiller "Painkiller is an original exhibition of 48 Polaroid images by groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank taken from the 1970s through the prese

Beauty of a paint job. I think I saw this bike up for a raffle at a bar in October. 003/365 #project365 (Taken with Instagram at UO Annex)

It seems as thought all that athletic investment has finally paid off. In case you didn’t already know (in which case, that’s one impressively titanic rock you’ve cloistered yourself under), the Oregon Ducks won the Rose Bowl yesterday 45-38 after a nearly neck-and-neck game with the Wisconsin Badgers. Aft

The Master said, "The commander of the forces of a large state may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him."~ James Legge translation via

No, this isn't a political post of some sort about freedom.  But I find a lot of inspiration, craft-wise and otherwise, from Diane Gilleland at Craftypod and so I'm taking up

Portland's police bureau, notorious for its mean streak, has started the new year with an unprecedented announcement: It's changing the way it responds to the use of force by its officers in the field. What's changing see

  Occupy Charlotte splinters:   People’s Coalition of the Carolinas. Ta-Nehisi Coates:  Ron Paul is like … Louis Farrahkhan. The Incredible Meaningless of the 2012 Presidential Election: Except perhaps for Aaron Burr and John Breckinridge (the candidate who came in second in the Election of 1860), I canâ

The old Sellwood bridge against a cloudy morning sky.

Well….. According to RMLS, there were ZERO New properties entering the market between Dec 26th & Jan 1st, 5 in Pending status, and 15 marked as Sold. See below for further details: PENDING SALES (Dec 26, 2011-Jan 1, 2012,, 2011) Address List Price # Beds # Baths Total SF Prop Type CDOM 3950 CA

By "us," I mean hundreds of people in our rural south Salem neighborhood who vigorously opposed a 217 acre Measure 37 subdivision proposed to be built on high value farmland that threatened our ground and surface water (wells and community...

One of my non-specific goals for 2012 is to simplify things in my life: cut down on the junk food, spend less time watching TV, get rid of some of the clutter around our apartment, worry less and trust God more. So when I read this post from author Lysa Terkeurst, it was quite inspiring. [...]

6 prospects to keep an eye on as signing day nears.

A compilation of old-time Christmas gun ads dusts off a cobwebbed memory. I was in the seventh grade. “What do you want for Christmas?” my parents asked. I knew they knew and this was a dance of formalities. So I paused as if deliberating before answering. “A .22 rifle.” They said nothing, and I felt

The horror is that the US soldiers were playing video games with live people. You can tell from their commentary that they were having fun by killing these unsuspecting people walking along the street. They enjoyed killing the father who stopped to help and shooting up his vehicle with th

“It’s hard to explain to writing students that there are pods of very friendly, arguably moral authors who treat each other as if the literary life is led on a firing range. They meet you alertly, brightly drawing from natty holsters their own signs of power, rank and aid, and then requesting that you do the same. Th