If I wait until I do a proper treatment of all these I may never get them online. So here are just a few quick items that have caught my eye lately:
- China's version of Google Maps is called Map World. "Map World only provides high-altitude images outside China, with the other side of the Chinese-North Korean border a stark white blank once a certain resolution is passed. Other countries also turn up a blank page at close resolution,” says Reuters." Still, it's fun to play with the world in Chinese. (via The Map Room.)
- Two of the longer flights we've been on, both through our home airport, have been ATL - JNB, 15 hours 20 minutes, and DXB - ATL, at 15 hours 45 minutes. The current longest scheduled nonstop is 18 hours plus. Take a guess on the route, and then click here for the answer.
- There's a story about how, shortly after 9/11, a very rural town nearby here in north Georgia, USA, applied for emergency FEMA aid for its post office - and after some snickering, was turned down. Here's a story about the most remote place in the USA and the emergency aid it's applying for - equalling about $3,500 per resident per year.
- Bad translations are always fun. For example, here's a tourism site offering "a wide range of gut-curdling activities." John Rahoi's May I Take Your Order, a bi-lingual restaurant menu in China, is a lot of fun. Next post we'll link to some fun photos of questionable products, including this one, the unconvincingly named Aftertaste perfume.
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