The breaking news from The Nation:
Coup rumours were widely spread Tuesday night after the Third and Fifth Army areas moved their four battalions out.
But officers from the two army areas said the forces were moved to be stationed in the three southern border provinces as part of personnel rotation there.
The 31st Infantry Regimen also […]
Thanks to Dave T. for passing along the shocking, shocking news regarding the existence of the Finger Forks. These contraptions, which were recently featured on BoingBoing, are clearly a shameless rip-off of my ingenious Chorks concept:
Two words: prior art! I am so calling my patent lawyer…
Economist:
…Your life-jacket can be found under your seat, but please do not remove it now. In fact, do not bother to look for it at all. In the event of a landing on water, an unprecedented miracle will have occurred, because in the history of aviation the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful […]
Apple continues to demonstrate that they just might have the most innovative consumer electronics product designers in the world. Check out the new iPod Shuffle. One gig of memory. 240 songs. 1.62 inches long. 78 bucks. A built-in clip. Wow.
The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten supplies some very amusing tips for men in their twenties.
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The LAT’s Richard Paddock has published a revealing story about the Myanmar government’s efforts to “rebuild” the country’s ancient temples.
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Speaking of Matt Gross/the Frugal Traveler, let’s give it up for another peripatetic Matt. I speak of Matt Hoffman, a dude who visited some 39 countries and did his goofy (yet oddly infectious) dance in each of them. Check out the video above or visit his site.
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In my latest Gridskipper post, I take a look at Matt Gross’s final dispatches from his round-the-world journey as the New York Times’s Frugal Traveler.
Related: World Hum’s Mike Yessis recently published an interview with Matt.
[Photo: Matt Gross/NYT]
Colum Murphy has a comprehensive essay about Thailand’s political situation in this month’s Far Eastern Economic Review:
Inside the entrance to the Thai Rak Thai’s party headquarters in Bangkok hangs a giant photograph of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra bowing to King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Dressed in the white uniform sometimes worn by government officials, the prime minister […]
The 2005 martial arts action flick Tom Yum Goong appears to be headed for Western theaters; its new title is The Protector. You can watch the trailer here. The film features Thai celluloid star Tony Jaa. Why it is, precisely, that the flick is named after one of my all-time favorite Thai dishes remains a […]
AP/MSNBC:
RISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, Australian media said. He was 44.
Irwin was filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Queensland state when the accident occurred, Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper […]
For your reading pleasure — and really, everything I do is, ultimately, for your reading pleasure — I’ve compiled a list of some of my best posts. I went back through my archives, which stretch back to January of 2002, and selected only the most ridiculously sublime of my musings.
Enjoy them again for the […]