Morning Links: Skycar, Disney Shanghai and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.15.09 | 9:07 AM ET
- Disney and Shanghai have reportedly agreed on plans for a new Disney theme park in China.
- Google has added a transit layer to its maps in 50 world cities.
- The Skycar—a flying car—departed from London to Timbuktu with Neil Laughton behind the wheel.
- CNN offers video profiles of Dubai’s Emirates terminal and the airport of the year, Hong Kong International Airport.
- What about the world’s worst airports?
- Hu Jintao warns of potential travel problems in China for Chinese New Year.
- Men’s Fitness names Salt Lake City the fittest city in the U.S. The fattest? Miami.
- Slideshow: Paragliding over Africa.
- A Japanese website maps smells around the world. Apparently, there’s a “toasty odor of cow dung” somewhere out there.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 01.15.09 | 10:37 AM ET
Article about the skycar says they plan to drop in on African villages in their flying car, and challenge the villagers to a game of football, and then flyout again. Not to put too fine a point on it, but their insurance premiums must be very heavy.
TambourineMan 01.15.09 | 1:47 PM ET
Whaaaa?! No obit link for the great Ricardo Montalban, the man who hosted travelers to Fantasy Island for seven glorious seasons?
Of course, he’ll always be Khan to me.
R.I.P. Khhhhaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=UJTi7KJPx_E
Michael Yessis 01.15.09 | 10:51 PM ET
Indeed, Ling. Indeed.
And you’re right, Eli. Herewith, some more love for Montalban.
Hank Stuever wrote a fine appreciation of him and his career: “It’s the sort of career that could launch a hundred USC or NYU film theory dissertations all about an industry that can transmogrify anything brown or tan into any race or ethnicity.”
The WaPo also has a photo gallery.
Michael Yessis 01.15.09 | 10:52 PM ET
The link I forgot:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/AR2009011403393.html
TambourineMan 01.16.09 | 1:25 AM ET
Muchas gracias, Mike. And props to Mr. Stuever at the Post for the best Ricardo rememberance I’ve read, by far. However, the slide show would’ve been better had they included this shot:
http://www.stargalradio.com:80/_images/Laura_Star_Trek_2a.jpg