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Backpackers

Michael Palin's travel books online for free
This guy has one of the best jobs in the world - and now his books are available online.
Thorn Tree Travel Forum
I hadn't come across this forum in my travel research. Thanks Boing Boing, it'll be useful - I'm off to Malaysia and Thailand later this year - kids and all! The forum is part of the Lonely Planet stable and like most backpackers I rely on LP.
Fun on Flores
Oh yeah, travel to this Indonesian island will be boosted by academics, not by fun lovin' tourists. Ultimately it may have that affect as the infrastructure is boosted to cope and people talk about the Island but it won't be an instant hit.
Unwired in Kashmir
12 years ago when I travelled through SE Asia it would have been great to email or blog en route - making phone calls was hard enough and, really, you had to rely on mail. Personal security must be greatly improved by global internet connectivity.

Fun and Games

Airport: a short film
A cute short film made by the Aussies using the images from airport signs.
North Korea travel promotion
A wacky flash movie promoting travel, but of greater interest is the political nonsense about the links from Boing Boing to the site.

Personal Stories

The Island Chronicles
Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair moved from Los Angeles to the South Pacific. Their first stop is Rarotonga, a tiny island in the South Pacific and this is a photo essay on their experiences.
Jake, a geek traveling in Iraq
Interesting stories from the front-ish line.
Going Natural
Mary Belton tries out a little bit of nudity.

Oddities

Photos of Mass Tomb near Prague
Sedlec is a bizarre tomb from the Middle Ages constructed from human bones. This challenges the sanctity of the dead and the images presented are beautiful and not grotesque. Would I want my bones used in this way? No, but I can appreciate those that have been.
Travel-sized Xmas tree
Is it me, or is this just sad? A USB powered Xmas tree for the frequent traveller.
Retractable USB-powered phone-chargers
OK, I've run my Xmas tree from my laptop, now I'm going to charge up my cellphone. Well, this one makes sense!
Tigers in the Korean DMZ?
A heads up on the difficult maturation of the two Koreas and the conservation groups that try to tell other people how to live. However in this case I'm all for the conservation area, given the information I have at hand.
Lava lamp as tourist destination
Somehow I pictured it stuck in a field (a la Lemon and Paeroa, or the bra fence) but no, it's plastered onto the side of a building. Amazing what people will do to give their town an identity.
Do "out-of-office" e-mail autoreplies help burglars?
Here's a scam to consider... who has your email, and are they reliable? Just think about all those jokes you've sent - who did they get forwarded to with your email visible?

The Way Back Machine

19th Cen German travel-map
Want to know what it was like to travel in Germany in 1852. Well you want have the smells or the feeling of a stagecoach in a rutted road but apart from that the maps have been replicated beautifully.
When the travel industry had taste
A collection of nostalgic early 20th Century travel advertising.
Disneyland 1968 family holiday photos
A cute picture showing that Mickey has grown up over the years too.
Holiday snapshots from the '60s
A great collection of b&w and colour shots.
Fotos from Fiji, Postcards from Polynesia, Tidbits from Tonga, etc.
Historical images of places I have travelled to, and would like to visit.

Making $$$ from Travellers

Stan Robinson on adventure travel
Stan looks at Adventure Travel and how it's become a target market which people buy into. Duh. The Thais have been doing it for years with their rafting trips, AJ Hackett has turned it into an artform with a bungee attached to anything higher than a house!
Buy a phone there
This is common practice these days - for all countries, not just the European continent.
Virgin Galactic
I'd travel on Richard Branson's space project - perhaps. Another business to fleece the wealthy who are looking for legal highs.
The impact of the tourist trade in Antarctica
How increased accessability to the area can have a detrimental impact. But given the chance, I'd love to go, who wouldn't? You just have to find the way to balance the power.
Disney vacations getting cheaper as economy tanks
Wow, they're giving it away?

Travel Necessities

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WSJ: Google caught circumventing iPhone security, tracking users who opted out of third-party cookies
Google has been caught circumventing iOS's built-in anti-ad-tracking features in order to add Google Plus functionality within iPhone's Safari browser. The WSJ reports that Google overrode users' privacy settings in order to allow messages like "your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy" to be relayed between Google's different domains, including google.com and doubleclick.net. This [...]
Bruce Schneier's Liars and Outliers: how do you trust in a networked world?
John Scalzi's Big Idea introduces Bruce Schneier's excellent new book Liars and Outliers, and interviews Schneier on the work that went into it. I read an early draft of the book and supplied a quote: "Brilliantly dissects, classifies, and orders the social dimension of security-a spectacularly palatable tonic against today's incoherent and dangerous flailing in [...]
Minecraft creators building a fan-specified game live and on camera this weekend with Humble Bundle, with proceeds to charities
The Humble Indie Bundle people are gearing up for their next event, the Humble Bundle Mojam, and this one's pure charity. Humble fans voted on which game they wanted to see the folks at Mojang (creators of Minecraft) make, and over the weekend, Mojang is going to build it, live and on camera, in 60 [...]
Gatekeeper: Cancel or Allow?
The new OS X Gatekeeper encourages desktop apps to be registered with Apple, with users warned against installing unsigned software unless they disable the prompts. The benefits—and the potential pitfalls—are obvious. It's intended as as an anti-malware system (with a whitelist rather than a blacklist), and the registration process will be simple and inexpensive. It'll [...]
White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" performed on things found in a laboratory
The Blast Lab at Imperial College, London, is a place where scientists study how explosions affect the human skeleton, and try to find ways to mitigate some of those effects. As you can imagine, this involves blowing stuff up fairly regularly and The Blast Lab is a pretty loud place. But the team of students [...]

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