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12/15/07 // Link:
Stunning Temples Secretly Carved Out Be… Next time you think your hobby is occupying too much of your free time, consider this guy’s project, which is most likely a bit larger in scope and goals: Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 …continue reading »
12/14/07 // Link:
Tombs of the Grand Masters of the Knigh… Nothing gets the conspiracy fan tongues wagging like the Knights of Malta (the Knights Templar might be the one exception to that rule), but in this case these are just really cool and somewhat macabre watercolor sketches of their tombs. …continue reading »
12/14/07 // Link:
The 53 Places to Go in 2008 The Times bills this with the line: “From Laos to Lisbon, the travel choices for global nomads have never been more varied.” Yes, Laos is number one, very disappointing, but luckily only 6 percent of Americans actually have passports so …continue reading »
12/14/07 // Link:
Anthony Bourdain on how to Find Good Fo… Anthony Bourdain’s tip for finding good food wherever you’re headed: provoke the nerds. The question at hand was how to find good restaurants, and his answer was to take the city you want to go to and just google up …continue reading »
12/14/07 // Link:
Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit … There’s really nothing that takes you back to childhood like the romance of searching for pirate treasure. Well, maybe that depends on your childhood, but for me that’s what happens when I read about buried treasure, which admittedly isn’t often. …continue reading »
12/06/07 // Link:
Coast To A Writing Career Hilarious bit from my former Wired editor Paul Boutin. Sarcastic and tongue in cheek as this may be, there’s an element of truth in it and somewhat mirrors my own career. Hey Paul, wanna give me the hookup at the …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
Travelling In America, Where Everyone’s… Filed “we gotta get out of this place.” Here’s the story of what it’s like to be a foreign traveller visiting the United States. Contrasting this with my own experiences abroad is downright frightening. Nepal, for instance, may have a …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
BibliOdyssey: Dagbok East India Trading… BibliOdyssey has dug up another stellar set of illustrations. And there’s going to be BibliOdyssey book, so the nerdery can live on the coffee table, not just the computer screen. Anyway these great natural history illustrations are from the Swedish …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century Just when you think the internet might have actually overlooked a thing or two, you stumble across something like this: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century. And don’t forget the subhead: A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
Man Booker Prize Shortlist To Be Free D… Frankly I’m surprised they got the publishers to agree to do this, given that industry’s consistent lack of understand of digital media. Of course I’ve never really met a Man Booker novel I actually liked, but hey maybe the shortlist …continue reading »
10/18/07 // Link:
The World’s (Un)Luckiest Man This a quite simply one of the most amazing stories I’ve ever heard. A Croatian music teacher named Frane Selak has managed to survive a simply remarkable number of accidents and near death incidents, including falling out of a plane. …continue reading »
10/18/07 // Link:
The Southern Foodways Alliance One of Corrinne’s friends works for the organization, which is apparently quite well known, though it was new to me. Essentially they collect and preserve southern cooking culture. They did a whole bunch of stuff trying to help folks after …continue reading »
10/18/07 // Link:
Ethnic Minority Music of Southern Laos A must have for me. I was a bit sketched out by the low-budget look of the site at first, but it turns out that the owners are friends of friends, so don’t let it bother you, should you want …continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Vanishing Point: How to Disappear in Am… This is by far the most comprehensive, paranoid and occasionally illegal guide to disappearing I’ve ever run across, but it speaks to the extreme lengths one might have to go to “live off the grid” as it were, in modern …continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier In its efforts to combat terrorism, fight human trafficking, and bust drug dealers, the Department of Homeland Security is compiling a large database of where you go, who you travel with, what you read and more. Should you decide you’d …continue reading »

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