May 2008
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May 8th
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April 2008
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Apr 28th
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Apr 15th
Q&A with NYT Travel Editor Stuart Emmrich →
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Please excuse my mess.
I’m in the process of customizing the CSS of this thing at the moment. Apologies for the visual disarray. It will all be fixed soon… I hope.
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“Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most...”
– from Don DeLillo’s White Noise, via: Mary-Jo
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“There has continued to be massive growth of international tourist flows…...”
– John Urry, The Tourist Gaze, p. 45 Not that I needed any justification to make all of them. 
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March 2008
5 posts
Mar 24th
Postcards from Warren - The Animated Life -... →
Jeff Scher’s animated assemblage of postcard imagery in remembrance of a friend. Thanks Leslie
Mar 11th
“I remember the time when I thought that Graphic Designers were the people who...”
– Jerlyn
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February 2008
8 posts
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WatchWatch
Alien-Themed Tourism Ads Cause Uproar (26th Nov 2007) - LiveVideo.com
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Postcards in peril: Camera phones, Internet... →
Could it be true? Postcards seem to retain enough cache value as collectibles that I wonder if they will ever fully die out.
Feb 10th
Tourist-friendly Kuwait Looks to Australia →
Kuwait has developed a 20-year tourism masterplan with the UNWTO, which includes increased hotels and leisure infrastructure. Another example of the delicate balance between tourism (leisure) and post-war reconstruction.
Feb 9th
January 2008
6 posts
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
Entrepreneur Unveils New Tourist Spacecraft - New... →
Awesome. He finally did it.
Jan 23rd
DOPPLR →
A social networking tool for business travelers. Put in your schedule, and find out if your friends will be in town at the same time. Thanks Jessie
Jan 10th
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December 2007
8 posts
U.N. Force Takes Control in Darfur - New York... →
FINALLY.
Dec 31st
Jet Lagged—Navigating the Unfriendly Skies →
New York Times blog on air travel with some really poignant jabs at airport security in the post-9/11 era.
Dec 31st
PACK THIS! →
via Jeong-Hoon
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Traveler IQ Challenge →
via: mj
Dec 11th
Tourist Remover →
‘Removes unwanted objects from your photos!’  via:cds
Dec 9th
November 2007
13 posts
“Our spoons are one of our indispensable possessions here. To lose one’s spoon...”
– South: the story of Shackleton’s last, by Sir Ernest Shackleton (chapter5)
Nov 30th
Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship - New York... →
Tourists following in Shackleton’s wake. via Jessie
Nov 25th
WatchWatch
tell your douche friends — objectsinspaceandtime Fishaay and his megaphone rain wisdom down on the streets of Providence in support of Marcos and Taylor’s movement. Absolutely brilliant. 
Nov 20th
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“The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has...”
– Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 3 (1961). via NYSH&TA
Nov 11th
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the...”
– Max Lerner (b. 1902), U.S. author, columnist. repr. in The Unfinished Country, pt. 1 (1959). “Lo, the Poor Sightseer,” New York Post (Sept. 15, 1954) via NYSH&TA
Nov 11th
“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don’t...”
– Don Delillo, from James Axton, in The Names, ch. 3 (1982), via Mary-Jo
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“The tourist certainly yearns for the authentic—and tourism fuels that desire. In...”
– Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, ‘Suit Case Studies: The Production of a National Past,’ p. 34
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