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6 Tips for Practical Packing - Wanderlust and Lipstick
a great blog for women travelers has good advice; one tip--audiobooks weigh nothing if you put them on your iPod.
10 Japanese Customs You Must Know Before a Trip to Japan
it's always a good idea to study up on behavioral cues that will help you fit in, and it's a mark of respect to do this kind of background research before traveling to a new place
What is SoundAboutPhilly : SoundAboutPhilly :: gophila.com - The Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia
audio tours of a city, great for travelers: "SoundAboutPhilly is a new series of free, customizable sound-seeing tours told by "real" Philadelphians, accompanied by dynamic mapping, audio, text and vivid photography."
36 Great Tips for Keeping Travel as Simple as Possible (and Two Poems) | Zen Habits
sensible advice from someone who is clearly an experienced traveler; this is for a warm climate but lots of the tips apply elsewhere
Smile you're on ele-vision: How a camera attached to an elephant's trunk captured amazing jungle views | the Daily Mail
new and intimate views of jungle life
100s of Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter: Our Recession Special | Open Culture
organized by category; Open Culture, the mother site, is one of the best independent learning sites for tips and resources
Deyan Sudjic on the city of the future | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
co-author of new anthology talks about spurt in size of already massive cities and has some proposals. He is not pessimistic about what the outcomes can be.
ItalyGuides.it: A Sightseeing Revolution - A virtual reality travel in Italy through monuments and masterpieces
both audio guides for iPods, and video ones. Interesting tech applications to travel media.
darkmatter » Home
"interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies"; postcolonial, race, cultural studies theory, with a focus on the politics of everdaylife
All My Faves | Why Search?
a fun portal to many aspects of the Internet with images of the icons of all the sites, organized into categories; good for how to do things, less for information or news.
http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com
combining Google maps with literature, an innovative way to develop student assignments around literature
10 Handy Numbers to Save in Your Mobile Phone | Marc and Angel
useful tips: health insurance provider, local locksmith, free phone numbers via 1-800-GOOG-411 (yes, Google, and better than paying big fee on phone bill)
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Bizarre' new mammal discovered
a kind of elephant shrew, not really related to shrews, size of cat, with a grey face, a long, flexible snout, a bulky, amber body, a jet-black rump and it stands on spindly legs.
Stranded at the airport? Don’t forget Rule 240 - TODAY: Travel - MSNBC.com
Just ask politely, "Could you please 240 me?" and you might get the next available flight on some other airline.
Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory
link is to Arts category, where there are a lot of podcasts in subcategories listed
The West Highland Way, Milngavie, Fort William, Walking in Scotland
official site; wide range of different terrains, ranging from lowland moors, through dense woodland and rolling hills, to high mountainous regions; 95 miles long; one of the world's most beloved long hikes
West Highland Way -- Scotland
a site about hiking some great long trails with varied scenery; this one plus the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail in US
U.K. leader hints at changing organ donor system - USATODAY.com
I can imagine some new grisly horror movies around this development: Britain's prime minister supports better organ donor system, to remove organs from a dead patient without their explicit consent.
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