Morning Links: Post-War Comics, Notorious Airport Restrooms, Year-End Round-Ups and More
Travel Blog • Valerie Conners • 12.29.08 | 10:42 AM ET
- World Hum contributor Eric Weiner writes in a Washington Post op-ed about the recession and the pervasive negative media coverage that may just be making it worse.
- The Travel Hall of Infamy Awards have been announced, and yes, arm-sucking train toilets and scary pilots top the list.
- And the year-end round-ups continue: The San Francisco Chronicle highlights the year’s oddest travel stories.
- The hotel room of the future: straight lines and corners were so 20th century.
- The Tintin movie is in the works, and The Economist explains the popularity of the comic strip character—who grew to be a European cultural icon—through “the prism of post-war Europe.”
- The FBI has begun investigating the disappearance of a Norwegian Cruise Line passenger, reported missing on Friday and believed to have fallen overboard near the coast of Cancun.
- The airport restroom that gained notoriety following the Sen. Larry Craig “toe-tapping” scandal has become less of a tourist destination, said an airport official. He added, “I think we’ll all be glad when there’s no special interest in that restroom.”
- As the year’s end creeps closer, frequent flier mileage runs are in full swing. One traveler details the highs, lows and mad dashes of being a “frequent flier addict.”
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Valerie Conners is the senior producer and editor at World Hum.
Ling 12.29.08 | 12:59 PM ET
I’m not so sure that negative media coverage about the recession is such a bad thing. Worst thing you’d want now is for the media to go bullish and say that its all going to be ok. That’ll only push people to spend even more money which they have no means of repaying. You don’t want to dig this hole any deeper now.
cash back 02.13.09 | 12:16 PM ET
Interesting read thanks.