Winnipeg Free Press

Bus tutorials aim to help seniors regain independence

This article was published 20/05/2010 (5605 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. When Laura Bangs stopped driving her car a year and a half ago, she suddenly found herself relying ...
Ars Technica

Using the Tomboy D-Bus interface

Tomboy is an open source note-taking application that integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. The recent Tomboy 0.8.0 release, which was included in GNOME 2.20, offers a new D-Bus programming ...
Winnipeg Free Press

Becoming bus-savvy through training

This article was published 17/10/2012 (4720 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Boarding public transit for the first time can be an intimidating experience for some people. They ...
CNN

Alaska’s ‘Into the Wild’ bus, known as a deadly tourist lure, has been removed by air

The abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska – made famous by the book and film “Into the Wild” – has made its first journey in decades. This time by air. An Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 ...
CNN

The tragic allure of Alaska’s ‘Into the Wild’ bus

Until recently, the iconic green and white-roofed 1940s-era International Harvester sat parked in a woodsy clearing beside a riverbank, moldering in a remote patch of Alaskan outback like the result ...
Smithsonian Magazine

‘Into the Wild’ Bus Airlifted Out of the Wilderness

The Alaska Army National Guard used a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to remove the bus featured in the book and film "Into the Wild." The bus was removed due to public safety concerns. Hundreds of fans of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The History of How School Buses Became Yellow

Children cross the street in front of a yellow school bus in 1965. H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock via Getty Images In a 1939 issue of American Childhood, the lyrics to the song, “The Wheels on ...
BBC

The driver who 'jumped' his bus over the Tower Bridge gap

On 30 December 1952, a double-decker bus drove on to Tower Bridge on its usual route between Shoreditch and Dulwich. It was late in the evening, dark and the temperature had dipped below freezing. It ...
The New York Times

‘Into the Wild’ Bus, Seen as a Danger, Is Airlifted From the Alaskan Wild

The Alaska Army National Guard transported the bus to a “secure site” after two hikers have died and at least 15 have had to be rescued while trying to reach the bus in the remote Alaskan wilderness.
New York Post

Doggy day care bus transports two dozen pups to the park: ‘Best job I’ve ever had’

Get in, loser, we’re going to the dog park. An old school bus has transformed into a doggie day care transport van that takes excited pups outside for play time and socializing — and it has captured ...