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The Hajj and Eid al-Adha - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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Give to 7th grade SS teachers for Islam unit

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims cast stones at a pillar, symbolising stoning Satan, in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last and most dangerous rite of the annual hajj, near the Saudi holy city of Mina on December 8, 2008. To complete the ritual, a pilgrim must throw 21 pebbles at each of three 25-meter (82-foot) pillars and this year the faithful are being given pebbles in pre-packed bags to spare them the effort of searching for the stones.

Funny letter sent to Richard Branson complaining about the good on a Virgin flight

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I am pleased to report that the Food Page of The Washington Post wrote up this guide in the summer of 2001. Here is the article, The Lone Critic. Here is another article, Chasing the Perfect Meal, from the Fairfax Connection, the spring of 2004. I wish to offer thanks to all those who offered dining suggestions and evaluations (keep them coming!). This has made the guide better, and longer, than before. It also means the guide has more unvisited places than before. I hope to get to them soon! Many thanks also to Doug Hanks, for his excellent article.

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.

"...by the end of the flight I would have gladly paid over a thousand rupees for a single biscuit following the culinary journey of hell I was subjected to at the hands of your corporation."

CUSTARD RICHARD CUSTARD

virgin airlines food,fuckin' funny

Constitution-free zone

Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders. The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone.

I live within 100 miles of the coastal border and "the government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone." I don't have constitutional rights. ...Wait, what?

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10. De-ice your windshield with home-made solutions Dollar Stretcher blog's recipe for DIY de-icer—simply 3 parts vinegar to 1 part water in a spray bottle, applied before a cold and wet night. 9. Get better sound from your iPod 8. Put together a quality emergency car kit 7. Keep a level head, re-think your commuting strategy 6. Don't get pressured into 3,000-mile oil changes 5. Stay awake on long drives 4. Use your fuel efficiently 3. Learn the secrets of parallel parking 2. Get an honest mechanic (or at least avoid rip-offs) 1. Handle a traffic stop, possibly skip a ticket

timelapse of night time clouds outside of plane

Amazing.

This is awesome...

Enter a narrow natural passageway that may lead to simply mind-boggling underground world - to get away from the depressing sights like these... Caves may lurk right under your feet: a fascinating and unexpected environment, which is often known only to spelunkers and dedicated Gollum-seekers.

Some of the cave and rock formations: - Flowstone (also known as a Bacon formation) - Cave Pearls - Soda Straws

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This shit is AMAZING.

It is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades put on just prior to the observance of Lent.

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Reusable plastic moving boxes for rent to replace cardboard cartons. Delivered to and picked up at your door by "eco-trucks" powered on vegetable oil, of course.

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Pictures from an underground city built circa 1400 BCE. The map is amazing.

In 1963, an inhabitant of Derinkuyu (in the region of Capadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey), demolishing a wall of his house-cave, discovered astonished that behind the same was a mysterious room that never had seen; this room took to another one, and this one to another one and another one… By chance the underground city of Derinkuyu was shortage, whose first level could be excavated by hititas around year 1400 a.C.

Derinyuku es una de las ciudades subterráneas antiguas más fascinantes que se han encontrado hasta ahora, una autentica ciudad bajo tierra.

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Really interesting article

The blog of a guy learning to survive in an uncertain world future. Interesting reading.

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beautiful pictures, beautiful color!!!

Sur le blog Big Picture

Last Wednesday (March 11th), people in India and other countries with large Hindu populations celebrated Holi, the Festival of Colors. Holi is celebrated as a welcoming of Spring, and a celebration of the triumph of good over evil. What that translates to in action is an enthusiastic dropping of inhibitions, as people chase each other and playfully splash colorful paint, powder and water on each other. People also attend bonfires to commemorate the story of Prahlada, a Hindu figure and devout follower of Lord Vishnu who prevailed over his father and the demoness Holika with the power of his devotion. Collected here are photos from this year's Festival of Colors.

Forget Mardi Gras and St. Patrick's Day. THIS is the festival that I want to attend.

Photos of. I liked.

picture tour of Chernobyl ruins

We start not far from the remains of a tiny village. The village was destroyed, and then buried under orders from the soviets for being too radioactive. It was buried out of the Soviets desire to cover up the accident more than anything else. Ironically, the name of the village translated to English is called 'Diggers'..

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need is an unlocked mobile phone — that is, a phone that’s not tied to one particular carrier. (In the United States, some carriers will unlock your phone if you ask; abroad, most phones come already unlocked.) whenever you arrive in new country, you can buy a local SIM card (sold at mobile phone stores and kiosks for $2 to $25, depending on the country) and make phone calls and send text messages without paying exorbitant international roaming fees. Simple enough. But for folks back home to reach you, you’ll need Skype. • Unfortunately, Skype does not exist for the iPhone. Instead, I use a free third-party application called Fring, which functions as a kind of Skype-to-cellphone phone gateway, letting me access my Skype account wherever I have a Wi-Fi signal. • Two weeks ago, Google announced a new service called Google Voice that operates much like Skype — only cheaper!

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So heres my trip to Chernobyl in pictures. The trip was booked with http://www.tourchernobyl.com. I just emailed info@tourkiev.com, and got in touch with the guy who runs the whole place, Sergei. Really, really helpful guy who talked me through the whole process and answered numerous dumbass emails i sent him. You can book everything through them, from the flights (cost me about 500 euro) to hotel (160 euro for 2 nights), to a pickup at the airport and dropoff when leaving ($40 each).

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It used to be that when I saw Russian words like this-- компью́тер, студе́нт, па́спорт-- my eyes skipped over them like yours probably just did. But the Cyrillic alphabet, which is used in Slavic languages like Russian as well as non-Slavic languages like Kazakh and Mongolian, is easy to learn. Given the number of English cognates in Russian (the language we'll focus on here), learning the Cyrillic alphabet allows you to read and understand dozens of words in Russian, including the three above (computer, student, and passport, respectively).

Now you don't need to travel across the world to experience some of the world's greatest architectural treasures because here you'll find 100 excellent collections of buildings, details, and more.

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Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports

Excellent Article on Dubai: "Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history."

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just in case you happen to go back in time and want to be awesome

So you've gone back in time with just a gun, a few clips and your pants. What now? This is what. [Topatoco via Buzzfeed - Thanks Audrius!]

Just in case. :)

what happens when and what you need(ed) to know/discover when

Whether you’re traveling to another city,.

oh my goodness whoever made this must certainly be good at making things wink nudge

tomc: "Pre computed isochrones for 128k start points. Brute force wins."

Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com

Stonehenge in Georgia

Fascinating, thanks Pam!

The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern.

11 Essential iPhone Apps for a Road Trip

From China

"News stories about North Korea have been quite frequent recently, with their test launch of a rocket over Japan, withdrawal from nuclear disarmament talks coupled with a threat to restart their nuclear program, reports that their nuclear attack capabilities may be larger than previously thought - and their recent arrest and indictment of two U.S. reporters on its border with China. Even with all this attention, photographs from North Korea are still restricted and hard to come by. One way around that has been for photographers to peer inside from across the border, a pastime that has also spurred a level of curious tourism in both neighboring South Korea and China. Collected here are a some recent photographs, looking into reclusive North Korea from the outside - and some of the reactions these observations induce"

Scroll down to number 25. All of my links today have been via http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/

Great shots.

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WebUrbanist has covered everything from abandoned wonders of the world to the illicit art of exploring deserted places. These thirty-three core articles cover hundreds of abandoned buildings, vehicles, towns and cities from around the world - highly organized, summarized and collected for the very first time. Consider this our must-bookmark essential guide to the world of haunting abandoned places and daring urban exploration. 7 Abandoned Wonders of America (Part Two - Part Three): Most Americans don’t realize just how close their nearest abandonment might be. Some of these remarkable abandoned buildings and places - from prisons and asylums to entire islands - may be closer than you think. 7 Abandoned Wonders of the European Union: While American abandonments are impressive, European ones can be even more so. Some of them have long pasts and beautiful spaces filled with intrigue and many played critical roles during pivotal points of world history. 7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former

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If you've ever run out of power while hacking in a cafe, then this battery will pay for itself in one session.

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online and print sources - how to use them well when jetting

Guy parses the Twitter stream with MetaCarta data services to create a Processing visualization of people's flights around the world.

drool :) "The idea is simple: Find tweets that contain this phrase, parse out the location they’d just landed in, along with the home location they list on their Twitter profile, and use this to map out travel in the Twittersphere"

Looking for ‘Just landed in…’ in public twitter streams, »BOOM!« Arcs on map!

The Wave is a red-rock stunner on the border of Arizona and Utah, made of 190-million-year-old sand dunes that have turned to rock. L.A. Times photographer Spencer Weiner captured the swirling drama of this little-known formation that's accessible only on foot via a three-mile hike and highly regulated. (To apply for a permit, go to the Bureau of Land Management's Arizona Web page.) An earlier version of this text incorrectly said the sand dunes are 190 years old. Outside: Exploring the swirl Inside: Navajo sandstone and blue sky Inside: Walking on cinnamon taffy Outside: A vista of textures Outside: Desert-dwelling lizard READ ABOUT THE WAVE: • Arizona's The Wave a stone-cold stunner • Planning your trip to the Wave

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Traveling doesn't have to break the bank (in fact, you can travel for free), and there are plenty of places that'll help you find the best vacation for your budget. Get discounts and the insider scoop with these great resources. Don't forget to ask for free travel upgrades.

TripChill Mobile Travel Assistant web applicaton

mobile trip assisntant, similar to tripit.com?

hat they wish they could do more of, and the answer is literally always the same: “I wish I could travel more.” Yet when you remove all the excuses, few people actually do. I don’t have enough vacation days! It’s too expensive. My friends don’t want to go with me.

how do you find codeshares? First, find your desired flight number and punch it into a flight tracking service like Flight Stats. Look for a section breaking out specific codeshares and the flight numbers associated with the other airlines. Then, go to each airline listed and search for the codeshared flight number to compare the price. Once you've found the lowest fare, book it and start packing!

Before locking in your summer fare to Europe, see if you can't find a better deal by searching an airline's codeshare partners.

This is pretty awesome. It's a plain-English explanation of what rules should have to apply to any literary use of time travel, given what we know about space-time. "Time travel isn’t magic; it may or may not be allowed by the laws of physics — we don’t know them well enough to be sure — but we do know enough to say that if time travel were possible, certain rules would have to be obeyed." I was, of course, reading these rules and thinking of LOST, which, by my count, seems to play by all the rules expect maybe number three (but, in their defense, if you don't have some visual cue to the audience that time travel just happened, how would they ever know? I understand that it would happen in the real world, but you kind of need the flashing light as a storytelling device). Great read.

0. There are no paradoxes. 1. Traveling into the future is easy. 2. Traveling into the past is hard — but maybe not impossible. 3. Traveling through time is like traveling through space. 4. Things that travel together, age together. 5. Black holes are not time machines. 6. If something happened, it happened. 7. There is no meta-time. 8. You can’t travel back to before the time machine was built. 9. Unless you go to a parallel universe. 10. And even then, your old universe is still there.

Like Rule 0.

I love how smart everyone wants to act in the comments.

Great still photography compiled to make a video (stop motion, i guess) of a boats journey through the Houston waterways. (PART 1 of 2)

The two halves were assembled in Quicktime from 2000 still images taken by using a Nikon D700 in the "interval timer" mode. The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel.

Broken into two halves to meet Flickr's arbitrary 90 second time limit. The two halves were assembled in Quicktime from 2000 still images taken by using a Nikon D700 in the "interval timer" mode. The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel. The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green's Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan's Point at the head of Galveston Bay. From there we still have 31.5 miles of channel across the bay to the pilot station outside the Galveston jetties.

The two halves were assembled in Quicktime from 2000 still images taken by using a Nikon D700 in the "interval timer" mode. The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel. The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green's Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan's Point at the head of Galveston Bay. From there we still have 31.5 miles of channel across the bay to the pilot station outside the Galveston jetties.

funny complaining letter to rich about the worst meal somebody appears to have been expected to eat in their entire lives...

Look at this Richard. Just look at it:

This is a letter recently received by the Virgin Atlantic customer complaints team and is currently being hailed on news blogs, such as this one on The Telegraph as possibly the funniest customer complaint letter ever.

mdenny: RT @wmacphail: I love this complaint letter to Virgin http://is.gd/hpLv

Hilarious complaint letter to Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines.

Easy Solutions #1 So, you're in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn't have sex with you anyway. What you will need: 1 x knife, 1 x ring, access to a sunbed, the ability to grow a beard.

So, you're in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn't have sex with you anyway.

Step Nine: Upon hearing the year say the words 'It worked.' Pretend to lose consciousness again for a few seconds, implying that whatever it is that has worked took a great effort.

So, you're in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn't have sex with you anyway. (

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Are you planning to use your notebook abroad? If yes, you may want to check what type of power plugs and sockets are used in the part of the world you are travelling to. All EUROCOM Notebooks come with AC adapters switching between 110V and 240V allowing the notebooks to be used all over the world. However, you may not be able to use the US/Canadian power plug overseas. Please check what type of power plug and socket is used in a country of your destination. You may want to buy a foreign plug in your local electronics store before you travel abroad.

""les prises electriques dans le monde"

Check what type of power plug and socket is used in a country of your destination. You may want to buy a foreign plug in your local electronics store before you travel abroad.

nice monocle achtig stijltje, super simpel

David Lynch

david lynch project, om de 3 dagen een interview gedurende 1 jaar

Article on a book I'd like to read

“The beat of my heart has grown deeper, more active, and yet more peaceful, and it is as if I were all the time storing up inner riches…My [life] is one long sequence of inner miracles.”

Well written piece.

If you’re the kind of person who prefers freedom to security, who feels more comfortable in a small room than a large one and who finds that happiness comes from matching your wants to your needs, then running to stand still isn’t where your joy lies. In New York, a part of me was always somewhere else, thinking of what a simple life in Japan might be like. Now I’m there, I find that I almost never think of Rockefeller Center or Park Avenue at all.

happiness, like peace or passion, comes most freely when it isn’t pursued.

Great Food!

When everything else is closed.

unarama is a public directory of all-night restaurants and joints. Browse through the list of cities on the right. Don’t see your habitat or favorite all–night spot? Contribute! Thanks to everyone who’s come through with submissions for the site! I apologize for the overwhelming location list — I wasn’t expecting representation from so many medium–sized cities. A simplified directory is in the works, as is better international support.

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Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions.

Search. Explore. Decide.

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All of a sudden I have a keen interest in getting a GPS.

For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers, for others it’s abandoned factories or lost cities. But for those who enjoy reading, a huge beautiful library is a place of endless pleasure. Meet 20 of the biggest and most beautiful libraries around the globe, as presented by Curious Expeditions.

This could come in handy for many trips!

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Summer is here, the kids are out of school, and everyone is counting down the days until the summer trip. No matter where you’re going — the beach, the mountains, a foreign country or a town just down the road — you’ll be snapping photos.

Superbe visite de la maison de Thmas Jefferson

Nice story of Thomas Jefferson/Montecello by Maira Kalman

Thomas Jefferson

beautiful and a little sad. hand-drawn and -written essay about thomas jefferson and ach wie flüchtig.

If you’re 45 years or more you may consider retiring to Belize. The Retired Person’s Incentive Program may allow you to live a tax free lifestyle which should definitely help you saving up a few bucks.

(If it gets really bad...we might consider this!)

- In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/smashed-guitar-youtu-4850/ faris

Just watch this.

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The page on YouTube

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Ever wish you knew exactly where to stand on the subway to arrive at your exit? Front? Back? Middle? Plan where to stand accordingly with Exit Strategy NYC and shave minutes off your trip!

pushing commuting speeds to an absolute limit

There is plenty of summer vacation season left on the calendar, and boredom may already be settling in around the house. So what are some fun, geeky places to take your geeklets? Even better, what are some fun, geeky places that kids and adults will all enjoy? I was sitting down making some plans for my geeklets this summer. The list of places we wanted to go kept getting longer, and eventually turned into a wishlist, which I then put up for the GeekDads to add to. But this list is by no means complete. Please feel free to add your favorite places in the comments, and we’ll try to add them to the map, too.

Your mom won't always be around, and if you plan on being a well-traveled man, it's essential that you learn how to effectively pack a bag. 20081016

When going on a trip, many men, to their shame, have the women in their lives- their mom, girlfriend, or wife- pack their suitcase for them. They either can’t be bothered or are afraid they don’t know how. But your mom won’t always be around, and if you plan on being a well-traveled man, it’s essential that you learn how to effectively pack a bag. You don’t want to bring too much stuff, too little stuff, or have your stuff arrive in a crumpled mess

Behaviour and customs vary greatly from country to country. We discuss the correct travel etiquette so that you won't be caught out.

Insanely brilliant. Via @seldo.

Simple, elegant, and very useful. Brilliant.

via @ddmeyer

This was shot at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan.

Show and tell.

Next stop: Cholula!

Amazindly, the list misses China!!!

Urban society may seem a modern phenomenon but cities have been around for a lot longer than one might think. Indeed, once nomadic tribes began to settle in one location, they saw that it was good, became fruitful, and multiplied. Decades, centuries and millennia passed while war, climate change and human migration all took their toll. Relatively few ancient cities have managed to survive the test of time. Here are 10 that have not only survived, but continue to thrive.

The oldest thriving cities, travel-porn pics.

From Google Labs, take tours of cities.

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Un nuevo servicio de Google. Bueno, no sabemos si es nuevo pero lo hemos descubierto esta semana. Google Favorite Places: Unos cuantos famosos nos muestran (sobre Google Maps, por supuesto) algunos de sus lugares favoritos. Siempre hemos pensado que Google (o los chinos, en este puto hay discrepancias en el estudio), dominarán el mundo.

Explore the favorite places of local experts from cities around the world. Find out where they like to go, and why, from their own perspectives.

maps and twitter integration

Use of twitter and maps for Vodafone

U.S. citizens may be notoriously bad at using up our vacation days, but even if you're just taking off a few days this summer, make the most of it with these 10 vacation tips.

Not that I'm taking a vacation anytime soon but always good to keep handy.

great notes on packing lightly, how to pack, good preparations

行ってみたい所ばかりなのでメモ。

読子・リードマンがいそうな風景だ

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Simply stop eating during the 12-16 hour period before you want to be awake. Once you start eating again, your internal clock will be reset as though it is the start of a new day.  Your body will consider the time you break your fast as your new "morning." For example, if you want to start waking up at 2:00 am, you should start fasting between 10:00 am or 2:00 pm the previous day, and don't break your fast until you wake up at 2:00 am. Make sure you eat a nice healthy meal to jumpstart your system. Another example: If you are travelling from Los Angeles to Tokyo, figure out when breakfast is served in Tokyo, and don't eat for the 12-16 hours before Tokyo's breakfast time.

ေန႔နဲ႔ည မွားေနရင္ ဒီလိုလုပ္ပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အတြက္ေတာ့ မွားေသးတယ္ :P

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one day we should do something so intense

事をした時に、それが新しい一日のスタートとして体内時計がリセットされ、睡眠の周期をスムーズに変えることができます。 例えば、2:00 amに起床予定

次の起床予定時刻までの12～16時間は食べるのをやめること。

Some of these are surprising! Anna Karenina is a beach read?

Almost 16,000 of you voted in our Best Beach Books poll. Whether such a vote can determine literary quality, who can say? But if there's one thing a multitude of book-loving NPR types can definitely do, it's pick books that appeal ... to book-loving NPR types.

90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

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The mypressi TWIST is the world's first truly portable espresso machine. It produces quality espresso rivaling traditional machines while giving espresso lovers unparalleled convenience and portability. The TWIST's unique pneumatic engine also ensures you can enjoy incredible coffee even where there is no external power. Just add hot water and get ready to forever change how—and where—you enjoy quality coffee.

Espresso portátil.

portable mini espresso

Food and Travel Translation Cards for communicating food allergies and other health problems

We provide customized travel translation cards. Click on a card name above to see an example. If you don't see your languages or foods on our standard list, Special Order cards are also available. We have translated our travel cards into Arabic, Czech, Croatian, Vietnamese, Indonesian (Bali), Khmer (Cambodia), Hebrew, Tagalog (Philippines), Turkish and more.

A simple laminated card to translate food preferences

NYC Grid is a photo blog dedicated to exploring and discovering The City of New York block by block and corner by corner. Updated every weekday, each post covers a new block with a focus on the mundane and ephemeral.

You're out and about with your laptop and you're in need of some fast internet connectivity. Here are some tried and true ways to find and get free Wi-Fi.

Quando sei alla ricerca disperata di una connessione veloce

Collective Buying Power - Daily Deals

flight delay prediction, way better than what the airlines tell you

** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Being able to work just about anywhere is a mixed blessing. If you're tired of dying batteries, lost receipts, absent files, and l

"Sorry I didn't return your calls, honey. I was in Europe. What's your excuse for being a bitch?"

This self-obsessive girl failed to listen to her boyfriend tell her many, many times that he was soon to go off travelling around Europe. When he leaves and therefore can't reply to her emails, she starts up a hilariously tragic and mildly twisted semi-monologue as this over-zealous nut job fears the worst for her 'relationship'.

Create Vintage Traveler Diary in Photoshop

Tutorial für ein total schickes Bild mit einem Reisetagebuch und Fotos

In this reader tutorial Nikola Lazarevic aka Colaja from Nis, Serbia will show us how to create a very stylish vintage traveler diary in Photoshop. We will mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the effect.

A great explanation of finding out what hotels are deals at Hotwire

The world's first cocaine bar

ボリビアにある、世界初のコカインバーについて

where do i book?

Infographic - Reduce your odds of dying in a plane crash

Airline safety data visualization showing relative likelihood of fatality from plane to plane & airline to airline. Also shows that sitting in the rear is safest.

Your odds of dying in a plane crash.

Photos: Prokudin-Gorskii’s Color Photos of Russia, 1907-1915 . Note the Technology was revolutionary

color photos from 100 years ago

gorgeous

One-stop access to U.S. Government H1N1, avian and pandemic flu information.

Flu.gov provides comprehensive government-wide information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local communities.

614797, Influenza Pandemics

The US Dept of Health and Human Services has an excellent Web site with information and resources related to all forms of flu, including PSAs featuring Elmo from Sesame Street, K-12 guidance for school planning, FAQs, information on H1N1 etc.

一ヶ月間、57都市間、6万円で飛行機乗り放題！

Alll-You-Can-Jet Pass informational page

wish I had time to do this...

'$599 for a month of unlimited travel'

Osaka's robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician's fantasy metropolis

«Osaka's robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician's fantasy metropolis»

Referência/Turismo

Local Time, Weather and Travel Information

From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like Raymond Blanc, Michel Roux, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray

Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like Raymond Blanc, Michel Roux, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray

Yes, all of the above may be true. But it doesn’t mean you can’t carve out just 15 minutes a day to be a better citizen of the planet — forego a couple of TV shows per week, set a timer to cut your Facebook (Facebook) and/or Twitter (Twitter) sessions by 15 minutes, or curtail that long hot shower habit. If you can find just a small amount of time per day, you can give back to your local or global community in a way that can reap benefits to your mood and psyche that far outweigh the time you’ve “given up” from another hobby or habit.

Good ideas!

We toss around references to different burger styles on this site all the time, but it occurred to me that we've never really set them out all in one place for easy reference. I'm doing that now. Here's a list of all the burger styles we could think of. If there's something here we're missing, chime in with a comment. Here goes, in no particular order our guide to hamburger and cheeseburger styles...

via beijingboyce (twitter) .... foodie blog in hamburger niche

보라보라 섬의 풍경 사진

Compare Cheap Car Rentals Make a booking with no passwords and no hidden fees!

Find the cheapest car rental deals in the United States with Vroom's two step search!

ou are the least bit hesitant or apologetic for offering the money, you are doomed. No one likes to take money if he feels as though the person is stretching himself to give it away. Remember, the more public the favor, the more private the pass. Whip out the bill, move swiftly. Fold it in quarters for discretion. Use the right palm. Smile knowingly. Wave it flat, like

Gutsy: "I skipped the ticket counter altogether, walked straight into first class, and announced that I'd give anyone twenty dollars for his seat. There was some laughter, some nervous ass shifting, and just when I figured no one would bite, a big guy with a beltful of pagers and cell phones took the deal... The FAA would shit their pants if everyone could do that... One of the guys flagging cabs pointed me to the back of the line. That's when I grabbed him by the elbow, pulled him close, and shook his hand, passing the next twenty... As we pulled away, someone in the line threw a half-empty cup of coffee against my window... At 3:00 that very morning, I had called an Eighth Avenue bodega and told them I'd give them twenty dollars for a pint of milk and a Hustler magazine.... I got my shoes resoled in twenty minutes instead of two weeks..."

...Then I realized something else: Most people aren't willing to lose their job for twenty bucks, but if they have something they already take for granted--a place in line, a seat, a ticket to a show they've already seen--they'll jump on a twenty like a possum on a wet bag of groceries. How to Grease a Palm IT'S ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE AND NEED. You have to have the attitude. You must discern the need. If you are the least bit hesitant or apologetic for offering the money, you are doomed. No one likes to take money if he feels as though the person is stretching himself to give it away. Remember, the more public the favor, the more private the pass. Whip out the bill, move swiftly. Fold it in quarters for discretion. Use the right palm. Smile knowingly. Wave it flat, like a flag, when you're after more favors, more fealty. In this case, use the fingertips. Either way, it's really just a sort of greeting. Treat it like a how-do-you-do and nothing more.

A cafe where you get the food of the person who ordered before you. crazy.

this is a really interesting business model.

At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered.

Cabel stumbles upon what may be the coolest, most artistic idea ever for a business in Japan.

just like I did. So she got what she wanted. Ogori cafe synchronicity! Before we left, there was one last thing hat had to be done.

The small towns in America

Every now and then, you stumble upon a town that's gotten everything right—great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. These 10 spots have it all, in perfectly small doses.

Examples of small towns with character....what Kenmore wants to be

e that a lot of people go through that starts when people go a little crazy as a result of all that, gradually realize that it's all a little illusory and that what they have instead of friends is a lot of the same awkward party conversations over and over, start working a little too hard to recapture the former glory, and end up burnt out and jaded. I'm not saying all of this can't be avoided, but to do so, I think you have to come in with more skepticism and awareness than the typical wide-eyed SF hipster-techie transplant does. Perhaps if I had come to SF with Caroline's wariness and your advice, I would have had a better time.

I don't think the world should look like San Francisco, nor do I think that it should be home for everyone. But if you're going to come here, even if it's only for a year, you should make the most of it. And to do that (and this really goes for anywhere) you need to embrace what's unique about it.

http://emptyage.honan.net/mth/2009/07/are-you-going-to-san-francisco.html

How to make the most of living in SF. Wouldn't that be very lovely? Anyway, I think these could probably be generalised as to how to enjoy any city. (via Kottke)

Track and plan your active life! From rock climbing, running, cycling, hiking, and camping to yoga and gym fitness.

can do reviews and earn gift card

Tweeting planes.

While you're in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages. It's travel made social and it's easy to set up. Let's get started.

Writing about a place is difficult. You can spend months, years, even a lifetime in a city and still not really know it. More challenging still, everyone experiences a place differently. Two people who’ve grown up in the same place might fundamentally disagree on what the most scenic landmarks are, if the locals are friendly, the best places to eat, and so on.

I’m going to skip right to the heart of what I want to say about this city: if you’ve never lived in a major city before, you’ll probably like San Francisco. However, if you’re coming from another notable city, you may be disappointed. Hopefully, that’s pretty uncontroversial.

sive, and cold. As above, it’s easy to meet people through work or a common

Alex describes why he will leave SF when he can. Me, I'm leaving for these and more complex reasons. He's so in the tech bubble and the world of food and art, he never mentions California's political mess, or the desertification going on. He's the sort of person he is warning us about: "oung white men with high technical proficiency and lots of disposable income."

@newsycombinator: "Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, Your Tech Entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/Jcm2n" (from http://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/4762877839)

Looks like an awesome deal!

"A list of 100 hotels, culled from readers' suggestions, that represent some of the best bargains for travelers headed to one of 14 European cities in the next few months."

A list of 100 hotels, culled from readers’ suggestions, that represent some of the best bargains for travelers headed to one of 14 European cities in the next few months.

9. The universal rule of taxi haggling, for both driver and passenger, is that once both sides agree on a fare before setting off, neither side can reopen negotiations once you’re en route. You should not try to get a better deal nor should you accept any increase in the fare from the driver after the journey has started

Ok, maybe not every country, but with at least 12 different sockets in widespread use it sure as hell feels like it to anyone who's ever traveled. So why in the world, literally, are there so many?

Ok, maybe not every country, but with at least 12 different sockets in widespread use it sure as hell feels like it to anyone who's ever traveled. So why in the world, literally, are there so many? Funny story!

The travel and tourism industry is a great source of inspiration when it comes to web design. The main goal of any site in this industry is to entice visitors to travel. Imagery plays a huge part in this because any potential customer wants to see exactly where they are travelling to. Here are a few great examples of inspirational travel and tourism websites.

Find out what the reception is like for the carrier you're interested in BEFORE you buy their phone.

users put in data of where they get cell signal and for what service they have

Crowdsourced cellular coverage maps

Too much interference, too many dropped calls, poor signal, just 1 bar, barely 2 bars and oftentimes no coverage.Where have all the signals gone?..

cell phone coverage

A la Carte Maps provide a unique approach to traveling by combining guidebook, tourist map and a piece of art in one. No matter whether you travel for business or for leisure, with our "My City à la Carte" Maps you have a local friend in exciting cities all over the world. Not only will this friend provide you with the most important information about your city, he or she will also reveal the city's best-kept insider tips by writing them on a beautiful hand-drawn map.

hand-drawn maps for several global cities

Von Künstlern handgezeichnete Karten verschiedener Städte. Für jede Stadt einen eigenen Künstler.

By fasting for 16 hours before your breakfast in a new time zone or on a new sleep/wake schedule, or perhaps after some really rough sleep nights, one can "override" the body's other sleep clocks that have a really aggravating way of demanding obedience.

16h? Too long.

Herramientas utiles de video

bus route maps - updates automatically

@WardourWill: "RT @KazP View London bus routes on Google Maps http://is.gd/3Nfl4 - Superb!!" (from http://twitter.com/WardourWill/status/4490335029)

Lists more than 1,000 destinations worldwide. Select a destination and read articles about your destination. Find local attractions, hotels and restaurants.

Tells the luggage weight and number of pieces allowed on various airlines

Airline baggage allowance policies.

provides the baggage policies of over 90 airlines, based on your airline and trip route

recommended by four day work week

Comparison between low cost and regular airline infographic

Click Here

duct tape, handwerkschoenen, opdraaibare zaklamp, reservegeld

Twenty-five visual tales of culture shock.

Pictory

We can’t leave the house without encountering the strange and extraordinary, and people who live differently than we do. When we go overseas those feelings are multiplied. Broken conversations, disorienting locations, and jetlag are the hallmarks of international travel. Some find this exhilarating — but most of us end up somewhere between amazed and exhausted. They say we’re at our most creative when we’re farthest from home, and it makes sense. What better way to get a new perspective on who you are and where you come from than to be removed from it?

Very pretty site about photographs with an intriguing UI.

Gadgets can be both useful and cheap — they can help even budget travelers make the most of their adventures. Here is a list of the 10 gadgets, all under $50, that I either own or have been lusting after.

From iPods to noise-canceling headphones, from digital cameras to GPS trackers, they take up space, can consume electricity and distract us from actually enjoying the trip. Gadgets also tend to be expensive, small and easy-to-lose. But gadgets can be both useful and cheap — they can help even budget travelers make the most of their adventures. Here is a list of the 10 gadgets, all under $50, that I either own or have been lusting after.

The ultimate traveling companion, wandermelon.com is an informative, entertaining and unbiased resource that combines the latest travel news, inspired articles and visual content all in one easy-to-navigate online destination. Focuses on the five-star experience. Read more: http://wandermelon.com/about/#ixzz0YuaMXRYI

The ultimate traveling companion, wandermelon.com is an informative, entertaining and unbiased resource that combines the latest travel news, inspired articles and visual content all in one easy-to-navigate online destination.

If you're planning a trip to New York City, you need travel advice from someone who knows her way around. Because while there's a lot to do in New York Cityplenty of iconic places to eat and drink and seethere are also a lot of things not to do...

Travel website about a guy who packed up and sold everything to go out into the world in search of a place to call home. Great photography, travel blog, stories and an inspirational journey

NY情報

what, a nyt article names itself on delicious? anyways, good stuff

"For visitors, however, these can be seriously intimidating numbers. Even if you’re not aiming for high-end Manhattan indulgence, the basic costs of lodging, transportation, food, shopping and entertainment are the most expensive in the nation."

Grade 5 LEAP

cool walking tours

Referred to from Shirley Chong's Twitter post.

Interesting stuff here if we end up going to NYC for New Years.

travel

This is no luxury liner hopping between Caribbean islands. It is a modern freighter. Hundreds of cargo ships, carrying everything from fire engines to apples, are crossing the world's oceans and many are happy to take you along for the ride. A far more intimate and relaxed experience than you might imagine, the experience on board is a sharp contrast to the rough and industrial outward appearance a container ship tends to project. You will be one of a handful of passengers amongst a crew that is unlikely to number more than a few dozen. There will be no organized games of bingo or evening cabaret show. You might, however, be invited to karaoke with the sailors and you will almost always dine alongside the captain, who is far more likely to turn up in shorts and a t-shirt than full uniform.

From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like Raymond Blanc, Michel Roux, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray.

Recommended by Mike Morreti for yeast storage.

good for TSA too!

(has fees chart)

Very cool xray like looking map of flight lines

Flight patterns information visualization for the US in a 24 hour period. Where the flights are going and what their altitude is (altitude is mapped with color, darker is higher, lighter is lower)

Map showing bright spots at airports 8/12/08

Google Maps parnership

Looks like connecting neurons in the brain..

Toller Review der GF1

Oof. I've hardly touched my LX1 since I've been in france, instead opting for the lens on my iPhone. Also it feels like it doesn't autofocus right, but I have no evidence of that. Here's the logical replacement/improvement. It looks great.

Taking the Panasonic GF1 Micro Four Thirds camera on a fieldtest in Nepal.

awesome photo journal of Glacier to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the park

stunning nature photography

Until recently, I hadn’t traveled much. I grew up in and and around Portland, and that’s where I tended to spend my vacations. But after my wife’s parents took us on a few trips (to Alaska, to San Francisco, to London, Dublin, and New York), the travel bug bit me. I’d like to see more of the world, and I’d like to do it without spending a lot of cash. Travel full-time for less than $14,000 per year

18 gigapixel 360°photo!

恐ろしい解像度だ。

超パノラマ写真

유럽여행을 하고 싶다. 영어공부도 열심히하고 기회가 된다면 가보고 싶다. 누가 나좀 보내줄 사람 없을까... 돈모아서 계획하고 가야겠지 근데 사실 외국에 한번도 나간적이 없고 아는 사람도 없어서 무서울것 같은데.//그런데 진짜로 보고싶다. 실제로 한번 보고싶어 사진도 찍고싶고...

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geography game

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/19/norwegian-public-bro.html

The longest documentary ever? At least the longest we have made, almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo.

almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast,

"The longest documentary ever? At least the longest we have made, almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo."

Карта Киева и городов Украины — Mapia. Бизнес-справочник на карте

Карта Киева. Карты городов Украины. Бизнес-справочник на карте

Карта Киева, Харькова, Донецка, Днепропетровска и других городов Украины. Гостиницы, кинотеатры, рестораны, банкоматы и многое другое на карте.

Карта Украины

Very helpful article for travel-lovers!!!

Ooh lala -- I like these sites and would gladly move to France for a year to take care of a cat

I am not rich. I am not a trust child, nor do I have rich parents, a sugar daddy, or a stream of income that allows me to live the high life on the road. Full time travel doesn’t have to be expensive, and after two years on the road, I’ve learned plenty of tricks to travel the world without breaking the bank, and without an end in sight.

This list of ten social media tools will help you hack your transportation habits to better navigate your city.

From figuring out the best route to get from point A to point B to helping people avoid speeding tickets, from simplifying public transportation to arranging carpools, social media tools are making it easier for people to get around the places they live.

Smarter Transportation: 10 Social Media Tools to Navigate Your City http://bit.ly/MS2hd [from http://twitter.com/gohewitt/statuses/4705484091]

初心者が楽しめるアウトドアレジャー情報が500以上。全て公示最低料金で参加できるお得な予約サイト。

初心者が楽しめる 『アウトドアレジャー』情報が満載！！ 500を超えるコースに、全て公示最低料金で参加できる、お得な『予約サイト』です。

Twenty-four photo stories, four quotes, and an infographic describing the city by the bay.

Dear US government and TSA. This is reality, not TV. Please act accordingly not stupidly.

A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our societies, the more we're doing the terrorists' job for them.

“By not overreacting, by not responding to movie-plot threats, and by not becoming defensive, we demonstrate the resilience of our society, in our laws, our culture, our freedoms. There is a difference between indomitability and arrogant "bring 'em on" rhetoric. There's a difference between accepting the inherent risk that comes with a free and open society, and hyping the threats.”

Professor Schneier does it again. He puts into words what I've been thinking, much better than I could have done so.

Last week's attempted terror attack on an airplane heading from Amsterdam to Detroit has given rise to a bunch of familiar questions. How did the explosives get past security screening? What steps could be taken to avert similar attacks? Why wasn't there an air marshal on the flight? And, predictably, government officials have rushed to institute new safety measures to close holes in the system exposed by the incident. Reviewing what happened is important, but a lot of the discussion is off-base, a reflection of the fundamentally wrong conception most people have of terrorism and how to combat it.

Amazon.com: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life: Neil Strauss: Books

ブクマと次のエントリも

前にブクマした気がしたけどしてなかった

死亡・後遺障害の保険金額がめちゃめちゃ高いプラチナカードを一枚だけ持つよりも、自動付帯で疾病・傷害治療費の保険金額がそこそこ高い年会費無料カードを複数持つ方が断然イイ。

手持ちの見直してみるかな　＞とにかく傷害・疾病の保険金額が一番大事　自動付帯じゃないと意味がない

travel planning

tips and websites - See tips 7, 8, and 9 for hotel options Priceline.com, Hotwire.com and Lastminutetravel.com discounts if willing to pay first. To find best rate, Biddingfortravel.com and Betterbidding.com provide advice and tips from travelers on how to navigate the system. Getaroom.com tells the hotel and price before booking, even lower rate through call center if willing to pay for the room before finding out. Rentals: Homeaway.com, Zonder.com and Rentalo.com. Some specialize in specific regions like Rentvillas.com for Europe or Wimco.com for the Caribbean. 6 to 12 % fee, AirBnB.com connects budget travelers with locals. It's a cross between CouchSurfing.com and vacation rentals section of Craigslist

Redesigning The Boarding Pass

Tips on credit cards AND travel insurance

Suggests getting a Capital One card.

But why pay any fees at all? To keep from handing banks money unnecessarily (isn’t the bailout enough?), I also keep a money market account at Capital One Direct Banking, which charges nothing (and earns me No Hassle rewards points). I linked this Capital One online account to transfer money regularly from my Bank of America account. The transfers can take awhile — up to a week — so I always make sure to get that under way well in advance.

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It listed Nepal is an probable place to visit

The New York Times took on Portland on a budget and discovered all sort of local favorites and that the city is very affordable.

great security tips for travlers

Ed. note: On Tuesday, Google responded to cyber attacks aimed at Chinese human-rights activists by ending search-result censorship in China. An anonymous reader with experience living where privacy isn't respected writes in with tips for keeping your data safe in these situations.

Nice post about what not to do. It actually might be very accurate as some of what is said is supported by people that live there that I know.

travel

In this beguiling Pacific Northwest city of artisanal cafes, offbeat museums, funky neighborhoods and food carts from every corner of the world, the good life comes cheap.

RT @niklasgvThe Big Picture: Greenland: en "The Boston Globe" impresionantes imágenes en HD de Groenlandia. http://tinyurl.com/n4nyj7 [from http://twitter.com/FelipeMorales/statuses/3223769235]

Got shivers just seeing the photos!

Google has added a new twist to its popular 3D map tool, Google Earth, offering millions of users the chance to visit a virtual ancient Rome. ... This is another step in creating a virtual time machine.

I love roads.

Sure, it feels fantastic to traverse the vast stretches of the best roads in the world via adrenaline pumping speeds. How about a complicated road, one that twists and turns, or has downright congested traffic, or unforgiving terrain? They might give you a headache, but it sure feels good when you've conquered them. Here is the list of the world’s most complicated and dangerous roads. Some of these complicated mountain passes can be dangerous if not negotiated with utmost caution, while others are complicated sets of roads and bridges, erected to ensure a streamlined flow of traffic at busy junctions. Without further ado, we present our top 19 list...

This site lists coffee shops that offer free wifi and plenty of power plugins. It looks like it's just getting going and is London based, but since users are allowed to submit sites, it could grow rapidly. Now I just need to find a place in Pretoria that I can recommend.

Mobile Tools to Set Up Your Portable Office

New York Time's selection of the 44 Places you Must go in 2009.

From the Aegean Sea to Zambia, this year’s most compelling destinations are awash in sublime landscapes, cutting-edge art, gala music festivals, and stylish new resorts.

Places to go.

I love this list - although some of my favorite places aren't on it.

Scattered across the centre of San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between City and Commerce, these so-called POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate interiors. However, they are often poorly indicated – perhaps a deliberate tactic by the private companies who own the spaces to prevent the pesky public from using them. Accessing POPOS sometimes even requires walking past security guards, or through unmarked doors. No wonder many are underfrequented.

Scattered across the centre of San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between City and Commerce, these so-called POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate interiors. However, they are often poorly indicated – perhaps a deliberate tactic by the private companies who own the spaces to prevent the pesky public from using them. Accessing POPOS sometimes even requires walking past security guards, or through unmarked doors. No wonder many are underfrequented. SPUR lists all 68 POPOS in downtown San Francisco and rates them from poor over good to fair and excellent. For a complete overview, download SPUR’s guide (see below). Or take one of the architectural tours leading you through the network of POPOS in San Francisco’s downtown. Below is a brief legend to the map above.

Privately Owned Public Open Spaces

Kind of want to make one of these for PDX.

Scattered across the centre of San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between City and Commerce, these so-called POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate interiors. However, they are often poorly indicated – perhaps a deliberate tactic by the private companies who own the spaces to prevent the pesky public from using them. Accessing POPOS sometimes even requires walking past security guards, or through unmarked doors. No wonder many are underfrequented.

virtual journey on Google Maps

Enter your zip, get information on where there are BYOW restaurants

Lets you bring your own wine to specific restaurants (currently over 17000)

GoByo.com: Guide to SAN FRANCISCO (San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose areas) restaurants that allow you to BRING YOUR OWN (BYO) WINE including phone numbers, addresses, cuisines, price levels, days open, maps, reviews, websites and corkage fees.

The easiest way to find restaurants that allow you to BRING YOUR OWN WINE (BYO)

Welcome Guest! Sign In Sign up for news The easiest way to find restaurants that allow you to BRING YOUR OWN WINE (BYO) GoBYO.com provides unique Wine-Friendly Ratings, illuminating Composite Ratings, corkage fees, phone numbers, cuisines, features, price ranges, days open and maps...plus links to restaurant websites and reviews.

I will be using the book and this website for my college course.

Text for 5540

Estimate travel costs by country, city, and category. Use the Estimate Trip Costs search form to plan your expenses, or browse the list of countries. The trip expenses entered by other travelers help us calculate daily averages by location and category.

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Track Find out how you spent your money with charts, tables, categories, and daily averages. Sign Up and start a trip to find out how easy it can be.

Only putting this up here to test how the sharing thing works.

Städte-Websites, Stadt

Site de turismo de várias cidades do mundo

Aguas Calient

The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

The Colorado-based Love Hope Strength foundation hosted an event recently called "Peru Rocks", where 63 travelers - including musicians from The Fixx, Fastball, The Alarm and more - along with cancer survivors, and their supporters from around the world joined together to raise funds and awareness of cancer-related issues in Peru. The trip took the trekkers from Cuzco, Peru to the heights of Machu Picchu, back down to Lima, where they met with patients and doctors of INEN, Peru's main cancer center. The travelers finished their trip with a concert in Lima on October 15th. Funds raised on the trip were donated to INEN, and will be used to establish a fully staffed and equipped medical bus that will serve rural Peru, screening residents for cancer.

n accosted many times, but never with success. Although I wouldn’t recommend this tactic to everyone, here’s my secret: If you are forced to walk somewhere dodgy, such as the Albayzin or Sacromonte areas of Granada in Spain (tiny thousand-year-old streets, a labyrinth where masked thieves — usually little punk kids — like to prey), one thing I’ve found that works is putting on the “Oh man, what have I done?!” face. This is the kind of face one may have as they are thinking to themselves: “Oh man, I shouldn’t have hit that last person so hard...I wonder if they’re dead?” Imagine it. It’s the face of a person who has absolutely cracked, gone off the deep end, and just killed someone. This may sound really weird, but trust me, if you wear

Interesting list of scams perpetrated on travelers. I always ask myself if I am just lucky or actually more careful -- apart from the occasional over-charging taxi, nothing has ever happened to me.

Cover yourself against travel scams

Map and walking tour of indie bookstores in NUC

Aa map for a walking tour of NYC's independent book stores.

The Millions has a walking tour of independent bookstores left in nYc. http://bit.ly/uvVsT I love the list, but sad that it's so small.

Despite the vagaries of the business, independent bookstores continue to open, and to serve as hubs for communities real and imagined.

Walking Tour of New York's Independent Bookstores

It would be belaboring the obvious to say the last two years have been tough times for the bookmen and bookwomen. And yet, despite the vagaries of the business, independent bookstores continue to open, and to serve as hubs for communities real and imagined. I'll spare you the exegesis on why I think this matters - we've covered that ground in the original post, and elsewhere. Instead, I'd like to offer you a new and improved edition of the Walking Tour. You can still find brief descriptions of many of the stops in our first "Islands in the Stream Post," but the route we've charted has changed, and we've added new stops, with new descriptions below. In addition, through the magic of modern technology, we've created an information-rich online map of the tour.

まあ、外国から見たら不思議だろうな。僕だって、あれでよく儲かっているとときどき思うもの…

Bosley's recommendations (for coffee!) from Tokyo

Vending machines in Japan are as commonplace as temples, bicycles, and karaoke booths. It's not uncommon to see a street lined with a dozen or more machines selling products ranging from cold and hot drinks to flowers or rice. And almost none of these vending machines are vandalized or non-functional. According to the Vending Machine Manufacturers Association, Japan has one vending machine for every 23 people.

Paris em 26 gigapixeis!!!

Amazing! Paris 26 Gigapixel Panorama http://bit.ly/bwlKUq #autopano #gigapan #photography #paris

NYTimes -- 36 Hours in San Francisco’s Mission District

a bright corner cafe run partly by Mission High School students that sells scrumptious treats in collaboration with Pie Ranch, a nonprofit farm where teenagers learn about sustainable agriculture

travel posters

The Beauty of #India 50 Amazing Photos http://bit.ly/adCOon

The 90-second video above provides all the basics you need to become a chopstick pro and never drop food again. Several finer points…

How to Use Chopsticks - Become an Expert in 90 Seconds

guy lives in amazing garbage truck redesigned as home

45 Mobile Resources Every Freelancer Needs to Have

Here are 45 resources that will let you do your work wherever you are, as long as there’s a cell phone signal. No Laptop or Broadband required!

nice list off apps to use

Let's go have some tea. We will take a mountain trail stroll in Chia - 1st - Let's take the tram up to the start of the trail...

Tem certeza de que você precisa ir NESSA casa de chá? O caminho é um pouco... difícil...

Interdit à ceux qui ont le vertige http://is.gd/bg55r (via @skullpat & @buzz_tweet_fr)

Tips by the frugal traveler on nytimes.com

Best practices for researching a vacation.

essential travel websites

Good set of links for flights, etc

Хорошая подборка в одном месте

I figure this is like porn for you.

Timezones made usable (by @amyhoy and @thomasfuchs)

Amy Hoy & Thomas Fuchs created another beautiful Javascript/HTML5 website that's earned a place on my bookmark bar.

Nice visualization of timezones.

时区查询

A nice way to present international timezones.

Never warp your brain with that time zone math again.

Flightradar24.com shows live aircraft traffic in the airspace above Europe.

飞机在天上飞

gilles vidal - photographe

Lifestyle design is all about changing the way we live so that we can fulfill our passions and experience life now. We should all be striving for early retirement from lousy jobs. My wife and I have a one year plan to quit our jobs and move to a new country. We are not retiring from work, we still want to continue working on interesting projects and possible doing some longer term volunteering, but we do want to retire from our current career of owning an English school in Japan. Too many people still believe that retirement is for the 65 and older crowd who have worked and saved their whole lives and still have trouble making ends meet. How much money do you really need to retire? What if you could retire now, for as little as $500 per month? Of course, that means cutting back on most luxuries and living a relatively simple life but it does seem possible in lower income countries like The Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

GMapCatcher is an offline maps viewer. It downloads tiles automatically from many providers such as: CloudMade, OpenStreetMap, Yahoo Maps, Google Map. It displays them using a custom GUI. User can view the maps while offline. GMapCatcher doesn't depend on google-map's java scripts so it should work even if google changes them. It also provides a downloading tool. GMapCatcher is written in Python 2.6, can run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

GMapCatcher is an offline maps viewer. It downloads tiles automatically from many providers such as: CloudMade, OpenStreetMap, Yahoo Maps, Google Map. It displays them using a custom GUI. User can view the maps while offline. GMapCatcher doesn't depend on google-map's java scripts so it should work even if google changes them. It also provides a downloading tool. GMapCatcher is written in Python 2.6, can run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

GMapCatcher is an offline maps viewer - Project Hosting on Google Code http://bit.ly/arqeoH #DS

convert maps on line - off line

Offline Google maps viewer

How to land a 747. Main Checklist

Would this really be the way?

I've always wanted to know that.

The website of Sam Potts Inc., graphic design office in New York City.

Sensacionales fotos del Sahara de la mano de Boston.com.

Neat abandoned stations, places, and spaces of Antarctica.

Where in the world do people feel most content with their lives? According to a new report released by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, a Paris-based group of 30 countries with democratic governments that provides economic and social statistics and data, happiness levels are highest in northern European countries. In Depth: See All 10 of the World's Happiest Places Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands rated at the top of the list, ranking first, second and third, respectively. Outside Europe, New Zealand and Canada landed at Nos. 8 and 6, respectively. The United States did not crack the top 10. Switzerland placed seventh and Belgium placed tenth.

World's Happiest Places http://tinyurl.com/omxf5u [from http://twitter.com/fullfilth/statuses/1751512594]

これはすごい…見に行きたい！！ - 「これ日本ですか？」とおもわず思ってしまいました。これは兵庫県朝来市にある竹田城跡。日本百名城の1つで天守閣などがない石垣のみの状態ながら城マニアの方々からもかなり評価の高い城跡です。標高は353.7m。マチュピチュは標高2400mなので比べものにはならないのですが、この雲海（朝霧）の上にそびえ立つ感じはまさに「天空の城」ですね。朝霧は毎年秋から春にかけて見ることができるそうです。

こうしてみると日本の景色に見えない。典型的な戦国山城だったから関ヶ原後には廃城になって戦国時代当時の遺構が残っている。天と地とのロケ地でもある。行ってみたい。

いってみたいな

なんだここは。行ってみたいですよ。

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.

“‘I say, “It’s spelled ‘crap,’ as in crap,”’ said Mr. Pearce, 61, who has lived in Crapstone, a one-shop country village in Devon, for decades.”

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Ask the residents of Titty Ho, North Piddle, Spanker Lane or Penistone.

Penistone...Tumbledown Dick Road in Oxfordshire...Crapstone. You gotta love the brits.

There's more to Google Maps than a place you double-check your directions. Google's data-stuffed site offers a lot of helpful tools for vacationers, spreadsheet nerds, bikers, and others. Today we're digging into Google's data-rich geo-tool and pulling out some helpful lesser-known features.

RT @jackiegerstein: 10 Things You Didn't Know Google Maps Could Do http://bit.ly/datUU2

Geo RT @jackiegerstein: 10 Things You Didn't Know Google Maps Could Do http://bit.ly/datUU2

Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris took several photographs of some of the city's sights, including the famous red double-decker buses… But the tourists have said they had to return home to Vienna without their holiday pictures after two policemen forced them to delete the photographs from their cameras in the name of preventing terrorism.

Austrian tourist who photographed bus and Tube stations says 'nasty incident' has put him off returning to London. By Matthew Weaver and Vikram Dodd, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 April 2009 12.53 BST

Austrian tourist who photographed bus and Tube stations says 'nasty incident' has put him off returning to London

Jenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority and a Green party member of the London assembly, said she would raise the incident with the Met chief, Sir Paul Stephenson, as part of discussions on the policing of the G20 protests. "This is another example of the police completely overreaching the anti-terrorism powers," she said. "They are using it in a totally inappropriate way. "I will be raising it with the commissioner. I have already written to him about the police taking away cameras and stopping people taking photographs and made the point that if it was not for people taking photos, we would not know about the death of Ian Tomlinson or the woman who was hit by a police officer." More out of control policing.

"Austrian tourist who photographed bus and Tube stations says 'nasty incident' has put him off returning to London." Sigh.

To prevent tourism?

How to look sharp

In a perfect world it wouldn't matter what a genius JavaScript programmer or top-flight professional looked like In this world

How to Fold Wrinkle Free Clothes How to tie different tie styles

from guardian

15 Mashup Tools for Your Local Neighborhood

.jpg (JPEG Image, 7000x2748 pixels) - Scaled (20%)

If you must bring a laptop ...

These days, we Geeks don’t travel anywhere without our laptops . It’s a given that we need to have them on us! How would we survive?! Thankfully, Seth sent in the following tips to help us keep them safe while we are on the road.

RT @clembastow: How to pack for a 10-day trip using only a carry-on suitcase: http://u.nu/6jdg9

Heather Poole, a flight attendant from Los Angeles, demonstrates how to pack enough for a 10-day trip into a single standard carry-on.

STEP ONE Folded clothing takes up too much space. Instead, Ms. Poole tightly rolls everything, which also minimizes wrinkling. This suitcase will hold three pairs of shorts, three pairs of dress pants, one skirt, three pairs of casual pants or jeans, three nightgowns, three bathing suits, one sarong, three lightweight sweaters, four dresses, 10 casual shirts, six dress shirts, a clutch, toiletries and two pairs of shoes. She’ll wear the third pair of shoes, as well as jeans and a longer sweater.

TSA approved, Travel Size - 3floz

3floz.com is a lifestyle boutique offering luxury beauty and grooming products that are all 3 fluid ounces or less, as well as other travel items. TSA approved. Carry on approved.

tienda productos cosmética tamaño exacto para avión MUY CARO futuro

productes de bany i de necesser per viatge més petits

#train alerts through Twitter - http://uktrains.pbwiki.com - just signed up for #firstcapitalconnect [from http://twitter.com/holmestm/statuses/1575629163]

Wiki page that lists Twitter feeds for service disruptions to UK rail services

Disruption alerts for UK train services by Twitter

awesome use of wiki and twitter to provide live updates of train disruptions in the UK. Web 2.0 FTW!

Inspired by this tweet from MP Tom Watson and enabled by the excellent BBC Backstage's travel feeds, this prototype service tweets disruption alerts for 25 UK train operators. The original data is processed and shortened to less than 140 characters (in most cases) by Yahoo Pipes and tweeted via Twitterfeed which also adds a short-link back to the original BBC report. Tweetlater provides the automated welcome DM.

The Real Deal is a tarp hats and bags are made in Brazil and crafted from recycled tarps of Brazilian cargo trucks.

What better hat to take on a m/c trip than one made from recycled, battered old tarp material?

how london promotes cycling as a mode of transportation

plazhe sharene

have been on four of these!

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2F5539907%2Fa-savvy-travelers-guide-to-vacationing-abroad

神秘的な写真が多い．日本では政治的でダークなニュースばかりに触れているからわからないが，とても美しい．

Belezas naturais do Líbano (!)

"Switzerland" comparison does not exactly come to mind when you consider how war-torn and miserable this nation has been in the recent years. But cast a longer look around you while visiting this incredible spot in the Middle East - and the ancient, spectacular beauty of the place will start to haunt you, bless you, and lift you above political agendas and human strife.

ポンテシティアパート@南アフリカ、ヨハネスブルク

生存時間15秒、世界で最も荒廃した高層ビル ヨハネスブルグ＠南アフリカ

外国人が一人で生存できる時間15秒ともいわれる、ヨハネスブルグの九龍城、高層ビル

ヨハネスブルグ Ponte City Apartments。本当にこの街でワールドカップは開催できるのか。

ポンテシティアパート

やばい

これは良いなー。

Great place for an old-fashioned w/RAM

notes for using cell, data, internet, chat, when traveling abroad

NYT one bests the local SIM card solution I used in Italy with Skype In/Out workaround. http://tr.im/hOz0 [from http://twitter.com/prestons/statuses/1392222495]

Key point: anonymous agents are interchangeable and virtually worthless. Agents that don't do anything but help one side find the other side in a human approximation of Google aren't so helpful any more.

Now, the best ones are paid by the traveler, not the airline. The best ones provide a differentiated service that is worth paying for. Instead of being middlemen, then, they are the front men, the attraction, a key asset to the traveler.

Where have all the agents gone? /Seth's Blog/ - Travel agents... gone. Stock brokers... gone. Real ... http://tinyurl.com/dz9uw4 [from http://twitter.com/jorgefsb/statuses/1341447525]

Travel agents... gone. Stock brokers... gone. Real estate brokers... in trouble.

To thrive in a world of self-service, agents have to hyperspecialize, have to stand for something, have to have the guts to say no far more than they say yes.

cutesy notepads for making lists

best travel web sites

Seven Coffee Shops in Amsterdam that are Good to Go

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-27384279;_ylc=X3oDMTFxcWIyczFpBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMjcxOTQ4MQRzZWMDZnAtdG9kYXltb2QEc2xrA21hbGRpdmVzLTQtMjgtMDk-

Some good advice on taking good pictures in a poor country

We've seen maps of photographic activity around the world, and maps of traffic activity in a city, which reveal how heavily roads are used. And now, photographer Eric Fischer has combined both ideas, creating maps of 50 different cities around the world, using only the geotags of photos uploaded to Flickr and Picasa. What emerges are basically maps of human interest--that is, all the places fascinating enough that someone decided to take a picture.

Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit.

Overviews of places tourists visit versus places locals visit.

Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more). Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

OffMaps lets you take your maps offline. It is the ideal companion for any iPhone and iPod Touch user, who wants to access maps when travelling abroad (and avoid data roaming charges) and who wants to have fast access to maps at all times. This app (and the icon) just has to be on the right hand side of Apple's built-in maps app.

OffMaps allows you to take your maps offline and search them on your iPod Touch and iPhone without an active internet connection

This would have been handy when we were traveling Italy last year.

create a personal travel guide

RT @draenews: Del Top 10 Strategies for Surviving Airports and Airplanes: http://bit.ly/9fMWQI

RT @lifehacker Top 10 Strategies for Surviving Airports and Airplanes http://bit.ly/9G24Tf

TripLittle is aimed at both personal and business travelers alike, providing simple to use tools for all of your travel planning and organizational needs. Easily manage and share your plans with anyone. // Features Budget // Itinerary // Packing lists // Sharing options

用来计划一次旅行的好工具，从金钱，计划，到协作等。当然是要付费的！ 目前这个网站感觉有些不稳定，大概是突然增加了很多用户吧。

線上行程、預算計算

Kayak's Explore will narrow down all the places in the world to your specific criteria. Powered by Google Maps, Kayak's Explore filters places based on flight duration, ticket price (from your home airport), activities, season, temperature, and even languages spoken. If you're planning a trip with others, you can share results with others via a link.

Find where you can go based upon an airport, a general time frame (summer, fall, spring, etc) and a price range. Tool is visual in that it shows you flights by the location with the price overlaid.

Kayak's "Explore" feature is an awesome way to figure out where you can go in the world for a certain amount of money. Just give it an interval, and it will show you what airports are in reach of your budget

Descubra para onde ir dizendo quanto quer pagar.

Nettes GMaps Mashup RT @misterburton: best google maps mashup site i've ever seen. http://www.kayak.com/explore/ #byeByeSavingsAccount

... But the flight was over ten hours. The right thing to think is: oh, 10 hours of sleep, that'll do me good. But do not look at your watch and think about the flight time left. Just close your eyes, put on the blindfold, shut out the noise and relax. Of course, relaxing is hard, but I find that something simple like alternate nostril breathing works wonders to calm me down. The yogi probably won't tell you but the beer also helps. PS It's important to know how to unblock your ears because blocked ears can be painful. Here's a good description.

Fotos toll gestaleter schwedischen U-Bahnstationen

RT @petapixel: The Swedish subway system: http://j.mp/cZUzWE

RT @catarino: Swedish subway system http://bit.ly/aWR0kM :|

街頭博物館，透過iphone探測你在倫敦街頭的位置，展示昔日當地的歷史圖片/影片。

A nice app made by Brothers and sisters for the Museum of London http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/may/streetmuseum-app

Museum of London

The Viamente Route Planner is a web-based service that processes your list of locations and delivers optimized routes and schedules on-the-fly. It maximizes the efficiency of your transport resources while cutting down your planning time

This is the blog of the 16 year old who was solo circumnavigating the globe on her sailboat. She has been covered by the media as well as the internet. The first time I had even heard of this young women was via a facebook update. To follow Abby's story you need only to read her blog, or the many articles written about her, or blogs related to her. She, like others her age, wanted to challenge herself, but unlike those other teens who tried such an act, her parents have been met with backlash because of the attention she has received because she made her journey public.Her story has been made socially relevant because of the media technologies and thus has gone under a much more critical eye.

Nörtin pakkausvinkit lomalle

Planning a vacation can be stressful enough without adding technology to the mix. Take the stress out of your summer travel plans with a geek-oriented vacation checklist.

Great #infographic ! > #Travel and #Tourism Expenditures in America http://bit.ly/bV9Zl2 #Lp

special urban explorers US cc @emich RT @mllyssa: Abandoned Theme Parks 'Open' for Exploration http://is.gd/cHgHH

creepy

Wow. Creepy/awesome/sad RT @hugel: Abandoned Theme Parks of America http://bit.ly/deczSw (via @caseydonahue)

special urban explorers US cc @emich RT @mllyssa: Abandoned Theme Parks 'Open' for Exploration http://is.gd/cHgHH

creepy

Stelvio Pass

Espectaculares fotos de rutas, muy recomendable http://bit.ly/dpZT56

RT @NickRinaldi : @matadornetwork Photo Essay: The World’s Most Spectacular Roads, Vol. 2 http://bit.ly/cKIB6m Truly spectacular pics!

gorgeous photos of roads and landscapes around the world. a mini-vacation.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia...

ein im Ausland lebender Amerikaner liest s. Landsleuten die Leviten, lesenswert (English) http://bit.ly/9mcDsE ich fand es spannend #vfbb – Vera F. Birkenbihl (VeraFBirkenbihl) http://twitter.com/VeraFBirkenbihl/statuses/18785239408

The original edition sparked so much debate among readers that we had to revisit the subject.

Stelvio Pass

Espectaculares fotos de rutas, muy recomendable http://bit.ly/dpZT56

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia...

ein im Ausland lebender Amerikaner liest s. Landsleuten die Leviten, lesenswert (English) http://bit.ly/9mcDsE ich fand es spannend #vfbb – Vera F. Birkenbihl (VeraFBirkenbihl) http://twitter.com/VeraFBirkenbihl/statuses/18785239408

New York City from Above [PHOTOS] http://bit.ly/bI7GiY via @kenverburg

Recent photos above Manhattan.

New York desde lo alto

fotos de Nueva York desde el aire

Stunning images.

13 jul 2010

New York City from Above [PHOTOS] http://bit.ly/bI7GiY via @kenverburg – Erik van Roekel (evr) http://twitter.com/evr/statuses/19316830682

New York City from Above [PHOTOS] http://bit.ly/bI7GiY via @kenverburg

13 jul 2010

New York City from Above [PHOTOS] http://bit.ly/bI7GiY via @kenverburg – Erik van Roekel (evr) http://twitter.com/evr/statuses/19316830682

Great documentation: walking across the USA — http://imjustwalkin.com/ (via @Rui_Tenreiro)

I'm walking across America

a guy walks across the US

Carrying a Droid and SPOT Satellite Messenger; via <a href="http://www.modernhiker.com/2010/06/25/walking-across-the-country/">Modern Hiker</a>

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planificacion de viajes

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Parisians call it a gruyère. For hundreds of years, the catacombs under the city have been a conduit, sanctuary, and birthplace for its secrets. The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables’ Jean Valjean both haunted these tunnels, striking students descended in 1968, as did patriots during the Second World War. The Nazis visited too, building a bunker in the maze below the 6th arrondissement. Honeycombed across 1,900 acres of the city, the vast majority of the tunnels are not strictly speaking “catacombs.” They house no bones. Limestone (and, to the north of the city, gypsum) quarries, these are the mines that built Paris. The oldest date back two thousand years to Roman settlers, but most were excavated in the construction boom of the late Middle Ages. Riddling the Left Bank, these tunnels were at first beyond the city’s southern limits. But as Paris’s population grew, so did the city—and soon whole neighbourhoods were built on this infirm ground.

this is really, really cool. On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema sixty feet beneath Paris.

RT @ebertchicago: The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock: The Secret City Beneath Paris. http://bit.ly/93gYTB

crazy french secret society does cool things in the catacombs, doesn't want publicity, fame, attention

planifica viajes con calenario etc

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Plan your next trip with Kukunu: build your itinerary, share with your friends, add hotels, restaurants and activities. Get the best price and book.

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GoPhone for iPhone, 3G, 3GS

This is kool!!!