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Continually updated post on all the necessary long term travel info and gear.

Websites:
CouchSurfing: See the city from a locals point of view, and their living room from the resourceful CouchSurfing site.
Gmail: Best email! Use this for my domain account and @gmail address.
Google Documents: Don’t ever need to use Word on the road again. Google Documents is offering all the editing you’ll need, online from anywhere.

Gear:
Leica Minilux - Leica’s finest point and shoot camera. Great for pros and anyone looking for great film shots out of their pocket.

Transportation:
Mediterranean Ferries - map and list of carries for ferries in the Mediterranean sea.
Kayak - Great airfare search, haven’t tried other search categories.

Destination Research:
BootsnAll Travel Forums - personal experiences in far off lands.
WWOOF - budget travel and work in the worlds most exotic places.

San Francisco Zine Fest is happening today and tomorrow with all types of crafters and printers. Cheap bookbinding workshops too.

September 9–10, 2006 @ CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, in the Mission)

Moleskin launches a new set of city specific notebooks for the traveler hitting many of the big spots across the globe. The new notebooks include maps, street index, pockets, and of-course blank pages.

Individual(!) notebooks include: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, and Vienna.

New acrylic and ink works by Coop going up at sixspace gallery Saturday, September 9, 6 - 9pm.

Collection of approaches and new movements in urban design.

Recorded in 2002 as part of the Platinum DVD of Fellowship of the Ring, Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky lend perspective into Tolken and Jackson’s visions.

Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky for The Fellowship of the Ring, via McSweeney

Sticking it to 500 copies of Paris Hilton’s new album ‘Paris’ famned Londner Banksy adds some content and kind words.

Full BBC Story
Flickr Set of a CD Opening
YouTube ‘punking paris’

Washington D.C. is ofcourse known for it’s populous of politicians but few know it as the epicenter for East Coast punk and hardcore. Yellow Arrow documents the scene with maps and quality mini-docs.

Capitol of Punk
Washington, D.C. hardcore @ wikipedia
Banned in DC

Supertouch interviews favorite Adbusters subverter Ron English.

New Jersey based Painter, Billboard hijacker & all-around provocateur Ron English is at the forefront of a modern art movement set to take over the art world by any means necessary.

Culture Jamming with Ron English
Billboards by English
Graffiti.org feature

Brian Barnelco is a San Francisco artist who is lending his paint stylings to the side of FoodCo a grocery store in the Mission district between 14th and 15th Streets on Shotwell. The two hundred-foot piece explores the source of our food from seed to dinner plate. Still in progress if you live in the area and want to stop by.

Food Chain Mural blog
Brian’s previous work
SFGate Culture blog article