2008 May

Rumble in the Jungle: Surviving Macaques and Danish Tourists in Thailand

Phil Goldman barely survives a macaque attack and wily Danish tourists in the jungles of Thailand.

Photo of the Moment: Camels in Amsterdam

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Signspotting: Racists, Sexists, Homophobes and A**holes Not Welcome, Seattle

How You Can Lend a Hand in the Wake of Cyclone Nargis

Nora Dunn and Kelly Bedford are on the front lines to help bring aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. And they’ve made sure you can help too.

Photo of the Moment: Crater Lake Mirror, Oregon

36 Hours in Seattle, Washington

Think Seattle is nothing more than Starbucks and endless rain? Ben Hancock explains why Washington’s largest city is so much more.

Bizarre Culture: The Happiest Couple Ever Caught on Tape, All Thanks to a Bidet [Video]

Here’s a bizarre Korean commercial for the LooLoo bidet. Check out the guy’s face 0:25 in. Have you ever personally experienced this level of happiness in your entire life? I’m not sure I’d be that happy … if I won the freakin’ lottery. Or was married to Scarlett Johansson on my own private Polynesian island […]

Clever Malaria Awareness Ads Use Mosquito “Murals” to Make a Point

A new ad campaign by Africa Directo for malaria awareness uses mural drawings of mosquitoes to make its point. The portraits of despots like Hitler and Stalin - responsible for the deaths of millions - are created by drawing thousands of mosquitoes to define their features. The caption reads, “Nothing and no one takes […]

Port of Call: Riga, Latvia

I recognized those haircuts. I’d seen them in 1987. Complete with tapered stonewashed jeans tucked into high-top sneakers, teenagers and young adults filled all decks. This was, I presumed, going to be their booze cruise. The next demographic up were middle-aged men with forlorn looks dragging at cigarettes, followed by families with kids under ten […]

Poverty Tourism Gets Rio Tour Company in Trouble

A Rio de Janeiro tour company could have its license revoked after being caught offering tourists “intimate” tours of the city’s infamous slums, called favelas. Visitors were given the opportunity to meet the drug lords who rule these slums and even be photographed with them. The story was broken by an undercover reporter who […]

Photo of the Moment: Lonely Boy, India

Photo of the Moment: Prague in Blue

Google Ocean to Map Underwater Topography

There isn’t a lot known about what’s under the oceans that cover more then 70 percent of our planet’s surface. But all that could change if a new application by Google takes off. Tentatively called Google Ocean, the 3-D mapping application is along the same lines as Google Earth. The difference is that in this case […]

Austrian Rugby Team Does the Full Monty in Vilnius

Humiliated at their defeat to Lithuania, the Austrian rugby team apparently decided to humiliate themselves further. The group of twenty players staged a striptease on a street in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius as onlookers clapped and cheered them on. The episode would have remained hidden except for one onlooker who recorded the clip, and posted […]

Barcode Tracker Promises Quicker Luggage Retrieval

The Trace Me Luggage Tracker system might not exactly prevent the airlines from losing your bags, but it does seem to make lost luggage easier to find. The tag has a barcode and an individual serial number, which is then registered on an online database with your contact information. There is no GPS technology involved, […]

7 Bizarre Tours You’d Actually Sign Up for … Maybe

Amanda Kendle explores seven bizarre tours that may actually be worth signing up for. Illegal border crossings, vampires and sewers. You know: the important stuff.

Photo of the Moment: Lonely Tree in Tyrol, Austria

Ticketime: Combination Travel Pass and Watch

A new boarding pass design concept called Ticketime features a fringe electronic paper strip that can be ripped off and wound around the wrist like a watch. The time displayed on the watch will be set to the time zone of the destination zone you’re headed to, and will be set by the airline/train/bus […]

5 Simple Ways to Beat Your Travel Budget

Chris Cook outlines five simple ways to whip your travel budget into shape.

Photo of the Moment: Climbing Mount Ranier, Washington

Cereality Is World’s First Sit Down Cereal Cafe

It’s a concept so simple, you wonder why no one thought of it before. At the Cereality Cereal Bar and Café, customers can choose two different types of cereal, their choice of a variety of toppings, and add as much milk as they want to create a healthy breakfast or snack. With over 30 brands of […]

‘Google Me’: Film Follows One Man Around the World to Meet Himself

We’ve all Googled our names at some point, to watch in fear if some undesirable skeletons would tumble out of our virtual closet, or to check who else would turn up in the listings. But Jim Killeen decided to take vanity searches a step further. He went on a journey to meet the other […]

Photo of the Moment: Sunrise Near Rangpur, Bangladesh

Home, No Longer: Bittersweet Memories and a Final Departure

Ben Hancock details his one last visit home before crossing the Pacific, and on to a new life in Seoul.

Google Video’s ‘Real Life’ See-Through Billboards Campaign

A new marketing campaign for Google video is leaving the industry abuzz. The campaign uses a see through billboard to make its point. The billboard is nothing but a giant frame that has been laid out to resemble the screen of Google’s video player. What you basically see while looking at the […]

Annual ‘Crying Sumo’ Baby Contest Held in Tokyo

The annual baby crying contest was held at the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo last Sunday. At least 80 babies participated in the traditional contest that determines which baby cries first as a pair is held aloft by two sumo wrestlers who persuade them to cry. If both babies begin bawling at the same time, the […]

Photo of the Moment: BENS Restaurant, Montreal

© colros Word from the photographer: BENS, a classic Streamlined Moderne restaurant in Montreal, visited by many celebrities, is being sold and is in grave danger of being demolished. Sam Benatar, president of SIDEV, the developer, has declared, “It isn’t worth anything.” It is very ironic that there is now an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of […]