October 5, 2009

In & Out of America Deserta

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Location, location, location: "Sited upon small volcanic cone in the high desert midway between Las Vegas & Los Angeles, this 60-acre retreat seems to cap the mountain top with its dome-like roof." -- 50451 Silver Valley Rd, NEWBERRY SPRINGS, CA 92365

Ssssh: Frank Warren of Post Secret reveals he receives about 1,000 post cards a week.

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People 1.0

ChinaVegas - The New World Resort City - will also have a cosmopolitan flavor with the essential Chinese architecture landmarks combining architecture from many of the world`s great cities including Las Vegas, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Vancouver, Tokyo, New York and Hong Kong, etc.

Laughing last: Galileo's Middle Finger. Yes, for real.

Kitchen appliances hate and despise Lileks. Best Buy too.

Night of the Long Meat Cleaver: Gourmet, Cookie, and two Bride magazines on the chopping block at Condé Nast None of the about 180 employees of the magazines, including the Gourmet editor-in-chief, Ruth Reichl, are expected to stay with the company.

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Cargo Nets of Antelope Canyon:

Flash floods can happen, well, in a flash and there was a tragedy in 1997 when eleven tourists were killed by a flood. The only survivor, without irony, was the tour guide who had had training in dealing with swift flowing water. As a result of this the stairways were fully bolted in to place and there are even cargo nets at the top of the canyon which can be deployed to ‘catch’ people in the event of a flood.

Morgan is NOT gloating: “Those who sacrifice everything for popularity, end up with nothing.”

Yup: Eugenides: Signs of the coming environmental apocalypse, #2892 "It is hardly fanciful to suppose that these people rub their hands in quiet glee every time they see footage of bodies floating in floodwaters. But the beauty of the internet is that it only takes a few minutes to ascertain that, yup, they are liars."

Down the World's Largest Drain

Posted by Vanderleun at October 5, 2009 10:00 AM
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I get the feeling that the Internet is going to get a bunch of new talented food writers.

Posted by: Chris R at October 5, 2009 3:57 PM

You raise very good points, I agree. I even use Martha Stewart Every Day Food more than those for weekday meals – so good! I rarely buy all of those magazines. Publications also needed to get into the online game more, especially robust, beautifully designed online password-protected content for subscribers.

Posted by: Constant Gina at October 5, 2009 4:52 PM

You raise very good points, I agree. I even use Martha Stewart Every Day Food more than those for weekday meals – so good! I rarely buy all of those magazines. Publications also needed to get into the online game more, especially robust, beautifully designed online password-protected content for subscribers.

Posted by: Constant Gina at October 5, 2009 4:53 PM

Nice place. I wonder how far it is to the nearest Walmart.

Posted by: westsoundmodern at October 5, 2009 7:16 PM

From one of the links: It is the long bony finger of an enemy of the church, a heretic.

Nonsense. Galileo died in the communion of the Catholic Church and has, in fact, a magnificent tomb in the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Florence.

Posted by: ELC at October 5, 2009 7:37 PM