Morning Links: Walking on Broadway, Fees for Airline Toilets and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.27.09 | 9:43 AM ET
- New York City plans to turn parts of Broadway into pedestrian malls.
- The inevitable Coldplay reference comes only four seconds into this video about that ice music festival in northern Italy.
- Are the “taste police” out to get German bakers?
- The literature of men in boats vs. women in houses. (via Arts & Letters Daily)
- Here’s the latest Carnival of Cities.
- Happy belated 90th birthday, Grand Canyon National Park. (thanks for the reminder @evaholland and @AlisonSWellner)
- The economic downturn has boosted Peace Corps applications and the number of financial types snowboarding the Alps.
- Mule drivers in period costumes need TSA security clearance, too! So Boing Boing started a contest to create mule-driver TSA IDs.
- Will passengers soon need to pay to use the toilet on Ryanair? Just how ridiculous can the carrier get?
- Finally, this is fun to say: Sassy the Sustainable Sasquatch.
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Ling 02.27.09 | 10:54 AM ET
Those sasquatch posts and videos are hilarious. Youtube is turning into a place for people to show their acting talents now. :)
Eva Holland 02.27.09 | 11:39 AM ET
I feel like there ought to be some law preventing Ryanair from charging for its toilets. Seriously, if restaurants and bars are obligated to provide them, shouldn’t a tin can at 30,000 feet need one, too?
Jerry Haines 02.27.09 | 11:45 AM ET
Careful how you phrase that, Eva. Soon Ryanair will say, “Have to go to the bathroom, huh? Here’s your tin can.”
Eva Holland 02.27.09 | 11:57 AM ET
Ha! “Here’s your tin can. That’ll be five pounds.”