Archive for the ‘ Travel ’ Category
Shared items from my Internet travels: Radio Waves Cure Cancer? An exciting discovery that may lead to a cure or better treatment for cancer. BC Ferries board gives itself $18,000 pay increase An $18,000 pay increase for each part-time board member is a bit much when ferry fares have been rising so much recently. I'm going to start swimming [ READ MORE ]
Shared items from my Internet travels: 22 Blogs Every Writer Should Read Still making my way through the list, but it looks like there's some good weblogs here. Lonely Planet Fraud Lonely Planet writer admits he never even visited Colombia while writing about it. Steampunk Star Wars Action Figures Obi-Wan Kenobi looks especially cool. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare Of course! It's all [ READ MORE ]
Sorry for this mass of text. I’m too tired to write any CSS to add linebreaks, and my CMS dictatorship, commonly known as WordPress, won’t let me add them manually in the HTML. I tried. Thanks everyone who left book recommendations on the last post. I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve read so many writing books [ READ MORE ]
I didn’t know about this, but it seems Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are at it again. This time they’re motorcycling from Scotland to South Africa, covering 15,000 miles and 14 countries, in a new BBC series Long Way Down. I loved their around the world trip in Long Way Round. I watched every episode of [ READ MORE ]
I hadn’t heard of Schmap before, but they decided to use one of my Munich photos from Flickr in their guide. The photo they chose isn’t an especially good shot, but they only display it at a maximum width of 150 pixels, so most photos will look decent at that size. It seems to be a [ READ MORE ]