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April 2008
11 posts
Q&A with NYT Travel Editor Stuart Emmrich →
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.
“Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most...”
– from Don DeLillo’s White Noise, via: Mary-Jo
“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.
March 2008
5 posts
Postcards from Warren - The Animated Life -... →
Jeff Scher’s animated assemblage of postcard imagery in remembrance of a friend. Thanks Leslie
“I remember the time when I thought that Graphic Designers were the people who...”
– Jerlyn
February 2008
8 posts
WatchAlien-Themed Tourism Ads Cause Uproar (26th Nov 2007) - LiveVideo.com
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.
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.
January 2008
6 posts
Entrepreneur Unveils New Tourist Spacecraft - New... →
Awesome. He finally did it.
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
December 2007
8 posts
U.N. Force Takes Control in Darfur - New York... →
FINALLY.
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.
PACK THIS! →
via Jeong-Hoon
Traveler IQ Challenge →
via: mj
Tourist Remover →
‘Removes unwanted objects from your photos!’ via:cds
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)
Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship - New York... →
Tourists following in Shackleton’s wake. via Jessie
Watchtell 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.