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Shackleton’s Scotch: Coming to an Auction House Near You?
by Eva Holland | 11.03.09 | 2:43 PM ET
Two cases of the explorer’s drink of choice have been discovered under a hut at Cape Royds, apparently left behind after a failed 1909 polar expedition. The question now, of course: What will happen to the excavated bottles? If they do go to auction, maybe the lucky buyer will want to BYOB on Shackleton’s ship-turned-restaurant.
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Yahoo! BuzzR.I.P. Claude Levi-Strauss
by Eva Holland | 11.03.09 | 1:11 PM ET
The famed structural anthropologist has died at 100. We blogged about his 100th birthday—and some of his travel-related accomplishments—just under a year ago:
Travel lit readers know him in part from his 1955 travel memoir of sorts, Tristes Tropiques, which begins with the memorable line, “I hate travelling and explorers.” More importantly, as NPR points out, Levi-Strauss “changed the world’s perception of so-called ‘primitive’ tribes in Asia, Africa and America.”
Photo You Must See: London’s Oxford Circus From Above
by World Hum | 11.03.09 | 11:47 AM ET
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth Double-decker buses pass through the diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus in London. The new design was inspired by Tokyo’s Shibuya crossing.
Mapped: The U.S. Interstates, in the Style of the London Underground Map
by Michael Yessis | 11.03.09 | 10:21 AM ET
See it in Senex Prime’s Flickr stream. (Via Coudal)
‘United Breaks Guitars’—And Loses Baggage
by Eva Holland | 11.02.09 | 4:03 PM ET
Dave Carroll, the musician behind the “United Breaks Guitars” protest songs, has been burned by United again. He wound up flying with the carrier from Regina to Denver last week—and, sure enough, he landed in Colorado without his bags. Fool me once ... (Via This Just In)
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Marching Bands of Manhattan’ by Death Cab for Cutie
by Eva Holland | 11.02.09 | 1:35 PM ET
World Hum Goes to the Travel Blog Exchange ‘10
by Michael Yessis | 11.02.09 | 12:12 PM ET
We’ll be communing with our fellow travel writers and bloggers in New York City June 26-27, 2010, at the second annual Travel Blog Exchange. Founder Kim Mance and her crew launched TBEX last July in Chicago with a memorable day of travel talk.
Next year, the event spans two days and World Hum, one of the event’s media partners, is on the organizing committee. We’re working with Kim and several others in the travel blog universe to help develop the event, and we’ll also be preaching the Travel Writing in the Digital Age gospel with a small taste of our new workshops. If you’ve got any thoughts, suggestions, etc. about what you’d like to see covered, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Video You Must See: ‘Frequent Flyer’
by Michael Yessis | 11.02.09 | 10:32 AM ET
What We Loved This Week: Calexico, Toronto FC in Coach and more
by World Hum | 10.30.09 | 5:25 PM ET
Eva Holland
After years of listening to other people’s celebrity-on-a-plane stories, I finally had my own in-flight star-spotting: I shared my flight home from New York City last weekend with the coaches and players from Toronto FC. Who knew pro athletes sometimes fly coach with the masses?
Follow World Hum’s Contributors on Twitter
by Eva Holland | 10.30.09 | 3:21 PM ET
If you “tweet” (yeah, yeah, I know) then you’ve probably heard about Twitter’s new lists function—it allows users to organize their favorite tweeters into themed feeds, which other users can then choose to follow. We’ve created a list of World Hum contributors; feel free to follow along, and let us know if we missed anyone.
Photo You Must See: Halloween Sushi Bento Box
by World Hum | 10.30.09 | 2:08 PM ET
Homemade kimbap topped with nori and carrot bats. Happy Halloween!
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Decatur’ by Sufjan Stevens
by Michael Yessis | 10.30.09 | 1:26 PM ET
Get Your Sordid Kerouac Estate Details Here
by Eva Holland | 10.30.09 | 12:44 PM ET
The Telegraph delves into the ongoing nasty legal battle over the Jack Kerouac estate. It’s not pretty, though it is dramatic—a disowned daughter, a forged will and a couple of deaths by liver failure are all in the mix. The story also notes that Kerouac’s unpublished first novel, which we blogged about earlier this year, will be out in 2010.
‘Why Every Country Has a Different F#$%ing Plug’
by Michael Yessis | 10.30.09 | 11:57 AM ET
Funny story, says Gizmodo. They’ve mapped it out.
Travel Song of the Day: ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ by Glen Campbell
by Eva Holland | 10.29.09 | 5:27 PM ET
