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From the last posting of the Joy Trip Project you’ll know that I’ve been in Africa. I’ll have a few other stories coming up from that adventure so stay tuned. But first I want to circle back to a story I was working on right before I left. My friend, … Read the rest

The whole world’s eyes are on Haiti now, as the poorest country in the Americas faces yet another devastating disaster. Death toll has now reached over 200,000 at Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. These numbers are still increasing as survivors are losing patience with the painfully slow process of getting international… Read the rest

I actually did this once when I was living in Kyrgyzstan. Only instead of a shoe I used a hard-cover copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Thank you Voldemort.
[Via: Boing Boing]… Read the rest

Wondering what to pack for that trek across Central Asia? Why not get some computer-generated help from The Universal Packing List, an online program that was developed to help users generate a custom packing list for any journey.
In 1988, Mats Henricson, a computer programmer, spent months compiling lists of… Read the rest