Entries Tagged as 'News'

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Unofficial 7 New Wonders of the World

Efforts are on to vote for the new 7 wonders of the World. The New 7 Wonders website is conducting an election which allows users to vote for their favorite 7 wonders from the list of 21 pre-selected man-made architectures. This website was started by Bernard Weber, a Swiss adventurer for raising money to resurrect [...]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Travel=Tobacco

The title is neither a misnomer nor an attractive strategy to lure visitors, but a comparison; literally. The founder of Rough Guides, Mark Ellingham has compared the damage done by travelers as equivalent to that of the tobacco industry. He once encouraged people to take up traveling without thinking too much about it.
Ellingham feels that [...]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Fat Teens Can’t Hunt

Fat people have been an easy target these days. Last week I introduced seat belt extenders in flights for fat people; today I have something even more interesting. British overweight teenagers will be sent off to the Australian outback to hunt and gather food at their own peril. This show is a cover of the [...]

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

2007 Webby Awards Goes To

The Webby awards are a set of awards presented to the best websites on the internet. A parallel set of awards voted by people called as the People’s Voice Awards are handed out as well. It started in 1996. There are over 70 categories and it’s filled with popular nominees.
Here are the travel domain winners:
Webby [...]

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Space Travel for the Super Rich

As people get richer, they would want to jump into a bandwagon reserved only for the elite. The super rich want to try their hand in something that would be unreachable for almost everyone. Space traveling is by no means a commercial venture(as of now) and this is exactly what they are looking for.
Telecommunications [...]