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Jaunted Roundup: Israel Travel News, Tourism Guides, Jerusalem and Acre, Etc.

Posted on May 1, 2012 | No Comments
A roundup of posts on Israel travel, with the first two looking very much like – frankly, modestly – genre-faithful tourism posts. From Jaunted, where I blog about airport security, the airline industry, travel technology, tourism advertising and social media,...
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Jaunted Roundup: Google Goggles, Maps, Earth, and Executive Airplanes

Posted on April 30, 2012 | No Comments
A roundup of posts on sundry things Google and travel. From Jaunted, where I blog about airport security, the airline industry, travel technology, tourism advertising and social media, and the occasional bevy of cute animals: This is the Future: Google’s...
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Here Are Several Videos and Pictures Of Baby Hippos

Posted on April 13, 2012 | No Comments
Consider this an inexcusably delayed post on the picture of pigmy hippo baby Harry that swept the Internet a few weeks ago. Pigmy hippos are critically endangered, with less than 3,000 left in the wild. Unhelpfully mother Hilda is incompetent...
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Jaunted Roundup: Adventures In TSA Good and Bad Ideas

Posted on April 12, 2012 | No Comments
A roundup of posts on the Transportation and Security Administration, its borderline-comedic assortment of faults and contradictions, and the even worse legislative ideas to fix it. From Jaunted, where I blog about airport security, the airline industry, travel technology, tourism...
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Pop Music, The End of Summer, and Judith Butler

Posted on April 11, 2012 | No Comments
I was looking for an academic hook into this new Jon McLaughlin/Sara Bareilles nostalgia bomb and the best I could come up with is a recent comfortingly interminable lecture by Judith Butler on Kafka, communication, and the philosophy of departure...
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Jaunted Roundup: Baby Lemurs, Baby Polar Bears, Baby Anteaters, Plus Other Zoo News

Posted on April 11, 2012 | No Comments
A roundup of posts on zoos you should visit, because IIS hasn’t had one of those in a while. From Jaunted, where I blog about various things travel: airport security, the airline industry, travel technology, tourism advertising and social media,...
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Gandalf On A Skateboard

Posted on April 7, 2012 | No Comments
Via Neatorama, this may be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. Stay with it until the end: Here is an attempt to map every family tree in Middle Earth, which is another thing that may be the greatest thing I’ve...
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Turns Out, Russia Has An Indie Scene

Posted on March 30, 2012 | No Comments
Hey you guys, Russia has indie bands too. And their frontmen also stare forlornly through windows while dressed in thrift store plaid. I know, right? Here’s Parade by the Russian three-piece indietronica band Everything Is Made In China (Blog; Facebook;...
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Videos Of Baby Elephants Playing (Plus: Elephant Communication and Social Networks)

Posted on March 28, 2012 | No Comments
The elephant videos are at the bottom: a baby elephant rolling around in the sand at the Toledo Zoo, a baby elephant taking a bath at the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, and two older female elephants arriving at...
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Indexical Tweets: “Cutest Animal Footage Of 2011…” Edition

Posted on January 23, 2012 | No Comments
Highlights, lowlights, links, and a 2011 wrap-up of San Diego Zoo content, from the Icon Index Symbol Twitter stream. RT @sandiegozoo: We compiled all the cutest animal footage of 2011 & this is the result. http://t.co/olRtIfGx This is why the...
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