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Mark Jolly, the founder of the luxury travel website, globorati and a writer for for Conde Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure, has been guest blogging for the NY Times' The Moment this week. A recent entry starts off as a condemnation of former travel writer Thomas Kohnstamm's new book about...
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Carol Burnett Show - Speedo Airlines on FunnyOrDie.com Funny or Die has unearthed video of an old Carol Burnett Show skit about airlines. In this case, it's a parody involving a fictional airline called Speedo, with Tim Conway as the agent and Harvey Korman playing a frustrated passenger. The video...
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Paris rat-catchers tackle rodents. Officials in Paris have launched a citywide campaign to eliminate the 8 million rats living below the City of Lights' surface. Ew, nothing cool or cute about that (except maybe a BBC photo editor's choice of putting a Ratatouille still as the article's accompanying...
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Come summer in NYC, few things compare to being able to drinking outdoors (that is, unless you're lucky enough to have summer Fridays, but that's another story). Be it in a backyard or on a rooftop, pairing a cocktail with a cool summer breeze is pretty much the best it gets. And what better...
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Slate Magazine has a photo that may be more disturbing than the Annie Leibovitz shoot of Miley Cyrus for Vanity Fair: a Disney underwear ad by way of China. The handpuppet-infested image is after the jump. Slate asked Disney's Spokesperson Patti McTeague about the ad, but she passed on commenting...
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The AP used this somewhat odd photo to accompany a story about "kidneys for foreigners" being banned in the Philippines. Health Secretary Francisco Duque is shocked! [ CNN ]
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Expect less strip clubs and strippers in the city of Toronto, as well as elsewhere, thanks to the Internet. "Why would a guy go to a club and pay to sit there if he could get it all for free on his computer at home?" a 23-year-old ex-dancer asked the UPI. Perhaps because he likes the feel ...
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Not only is the euro putting the US dollar to shame, now Europeans are getting America's drugs too. "The United States believes that South American cocaine traffickers are diverting shipments away from the United States to Europe." These larger amounts of blow are being routed to Europe...
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Washington D.C. will soon launch a citywide bicycle sharing service, called SmartBike D.C., that rivals similar European services. For an annual membership fee of $40, users are granted a card with which they can access bikes stored all around the city. [ Associated Press ]
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Luxury Airline Eos has folded, filing for bankruptcy, just 3 years after launching. The startup, which flew reconfigured Boeing 757s with 48 seats that extended into beds, served gourmet food and included "individual DVD players, and helicopter rides to the airport" for some travelers. [ Associated...
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Bids to save Berlin's historic Tempelhof airport have failed. The Cold War-era "hub of the Berlin Airlift" was built in 1923 and could accommodate 1.5 million passengers annually at complete capacity. Only 350,000 used the airport last year. [ CNN ]
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Budget Travel gets the goods on what it's like to work for a major airline in the provocatively titled piece, Confessions of an airline agent . As with all titillating titles, I assumed the article would be a let down. Can the behind-the-scenes experience of a modern day airline agent really be that...
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Dozens of bars in the Twin Cities are finding means with which to combat the smoking ban...and they're doing so by channeling Shakespeare's famous phrase, "all the world is a stage." The Star Tribune reports that bars are now holding "theater nights" and declaring all their...