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The Cannes Film Festival will screen nearly 100 films as part of its Official Selection and associated sidebars when it kicks off next week in the Southern France town. The festival runs from...
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Our single favorite piece of travel writing, the David Foster Wallace essay A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, is a humorous accounting of the absurd side of taking a...
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Traffic on route 101, the main highway leading to SFO airport, is bone gnarling bad. Long backups are routine anytime vaguely close to rush hour, but the Airport Hotel Guru has been bumper to...
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There are thousands of websites where you can research trip ideas and hundreds of websites where you make your trip reservations. But what after your accommodations are booked, after your travel...
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When Spot Cool Stuff travels with an iPod we always have it in a waterproof case, whether we plan to being near water or not. A case that protects an iPod from water also protects it from sand...
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Norwegian Finance Minister, Kristin Halvorsen, and her Socialist Left Party have put forth a plan that would disallow the sale of new cars that run solely on gasoline after 2015.
Under the plan...
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This is part one of the three part interview of Cliff May on the Daily Show. Jon Stewart discussing whether or not a "developed" nation can ever justify torturing anyone. Follow the link...
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I think the TV version of the Daily Show should extend to an hour long to allow for interesting, in depth conversations such as this one.
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A new study says jet fuel made with the oilseed crop camelina could cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 84% compared with jet fuel from petroleum.
The finding is expected to be used by the...
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There’s been a clear design trend towards cell phones with screens that occupy an increasingly large percentage of a device’s surface area. (Just compare the screen size of the...
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The locals call it Hell’s Door.
Environmentalists call it an unmitigated ecological disaster zone.
You may call it a destination on your next adventure vacation.
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