Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Malia, Greece, is the latest in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly.
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US Troops Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama, 4:1 to Paul over McCain
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008According to nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much in donations from troops deployed overseas than has John McCain. Even though he suspended his campaign months ago, Ron Paul has received more than four times the amount McCain has.
Zucchini ‘Pasta’
Monday, August 25th, 2008A dish that looks like fettuccine, but packs a healthier punch. From the NY Times.
Photography is Not a Crime - Simon Blint of SFMOMA ejects paying customer!
Saturday, August 9th, 2008“After purchasing my family membership and visiting the museum today I was forcibly thrown out of the museum by two museum security guards at the direction of the Director of Visitor Relations Simon Blint. My crime? Taking a photograph from the second floor stairs in the SFMOMA’s atrium (an area where the SF MOMA’s own website explicitly says…”
-Thomas Hawk
The Secret Curse of Expert Archers
Friday, August 1st, 2008There is an affliction so feared by elite archers that many refuse to even speak its name. It causes even crack shots to suddenly lose control of their bows, and their composure.
It’s Why We Read, Online and Off
Friday, August 1st, 2008To the Editor:.
Re “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” (“The Future of Reading” series, front page, July 27):
Bits: Outsource Your Chores — And Feel Good While You&
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Serebra Connect is an auction site for services that steers the work to students in developing countries.
Find an Undervalued Web Site. Fix It Up. Flip It.
Thursday, July 31st, 2008A wave of entrepreneurs are using free software to buy niche Web sites and fix them up with the hope of reselling them.
10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008A list of 10 things not to worry about on your vacation.
Drunk British women attempt to open plane door at 33,000ft
Saturday, July 26th, 2008A plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after two British women tried to open a cabin door mid-flight, police have said.
The women, aged 26 and 27, were drinking heavily and had to be held in their seats by security staff until the plane landed in Frankfurt.
