In a story in this morning's Globe and Mail, the paper picks up the privacy thread, noting that Peter Watts's laptop had been held by US officials after his arrest at a border crossing last week. The reporter does a nice job hanging a couple of recent quotes from an Obama administration official on the Watts arrest peg. More like this, please.

In the BC online news site The Tyee, fellow sf writer Crawford Kilian picks up the story.

The first LTEs are starting to show up, and TheStar.com has a couple of good ones about the Canadian experience of crossing the border.

And drive time in the GTA this morning might include a squib on the Watts debacle, given what's up on the 680 news web site.

Over in the blogosphere, a Google search for "Peter Watts arrest" now returns 41,300 hits, six times the result from Saturday. Keep circulating the tapes.

Looking to help out Dr. Watts? According to fellow Toronto sf writer David Nickle, there is now a snail-mail address if you want to send checks: "Cheques made out to Peter Watts can be mailed to Bakka Phoenix Science Fiction Bookstore at this address: Bakka-Phoenix Books / 697 Queen St. West / Toronto, Ontario / M6J 1E6." Or you can donate online via PayPal and read some of his fiction here.

Update: Blurb hits Huffington Post (go buzz it up). Also, picked up by one of RI's great local blogs, I Dreamed I Saw Grace P. Last Night.

Full disclosure: Peter is a friend and colleague.