Beautiful photos of the beautiful game. That’s the subject of Hans Van Der Meer’s gorgeous photography. He’s published a book called “European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football.”
(Via.)
The AP’s Monte Hayes reports that Ecuador has elected a new president:
Ecuador’s president-elect Rafael Correa was once a Boy Scout, later a social worker in an impoverished highland Indian village and now describes himself as a Christian leftist.
Childhood friends still recall Correa’s natural leadership abilities and strong character on the soccer field.
But during his […]
Snip from a recent NYT story by Abby Ellin:
Even as science, medicine and government have defined obesity as a threat to the nation’s health and treasury, fat studies is emerging as a new interdisciplinary area of study on campuses across the country and is gaining interest in Australia and Britain. Nestled within the humanities and […]
TimesOnline:
A spicy sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon.
The sausages will now have to be labelled Welsh Dragon Pork Sausages to avoid any confusion among customers.
Jon Carthew, 45, who makes the sausages, said yesterday […]
A and our friends Ploy, Dan, and Beau headed to Bangkok’s Great American Rib Company last night to celebrate Turkey Day with ample and tasty portions of turkey, gravy, stuffing, potato salad, coleslaw, pumpkin pie, and even jalapeno cornbread. All that I found lacking was a Lay-Z-Boy on which to recline post-meal and dream about […]
Social bookmarking (i.e. Digg, del.icio.us popular, and the meta-site popurls) + editorial input from savvy people = a new site called BuzzFeed.
Seth Mydans, in the IHT:
Really, he is not up to anything.
Just doing a little shopping, taking a well-earned rest. What is everybody so worked up about?
From China to Hong Kong to Bali, Thailand’s deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in September in a coup, has been circling his country, mostly shopping for blazers, handbags, things […]
I happened to be up early a few days ago — we’re talking pre-dawn, a time of day during which I am most certainly not at my best. But I managed to snap some pics of the sunrise from my roof deck. (The one at my house, it should be noted, is a reasonable four […]
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That’s the subject of my most recent Gridskipper post. And here’re some additional pics of Sirocco, a rooftop restaurant perched 64 stories above Bangkok — and with little more than a glass railing separating patrons from the sheer drop.
Vermont Country Store:
This Christmas your dog will be all smiles (and so will you) when he bites into this cheerful chew toy. Made of durable rubber and doggy tested, it will keep Fido grinning ear to ear as he fetches and funs with it to his heart’s content.
I would kill to see our family pet […]
Nat Geo:
Sometimes married couples just need to add a little spice to their love lives.
A Thai zoo is hoping that “panda pornography” will spark romance between its two giant pandas, which were married by proxy last November in an elaborate Chinese-style ceremony.
(Link is SFW unless reading clinical descriptions of pandas’ sexual practices is verboten in […]
My buddy Ben P., an ex-roommate from college days, is an American climate scientist who lives in Melbourne. He recently visited Beijing; here’re some snips from his amusing observations:
Traffic:
Shocking! We found that the 10 km trip from central Beijing out to our hotel could take 1-1.5 hours during rush hour. Drivers appeared to steer with […]
A couple of days ago I discovered that a long-time friend of the family, a photojournalist in Portland, Oregon, has begun posting some of his images on Flickr.
(”Uncle” Joel’s a close friend of my Dad; he snapped the pic of me as a three-year-old, above, watching my Pop work in our yard. Here’s the […]
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Remember my trip to Malaysia back in March?
Well, I went there to meet up with my buddy Matt Gross, who was writing a story about Malaysian food. His article — and it’s really fantastic — ran in last weekend’s New York Times. Don’t miss it.
Not only has Matt accurately described the many flavors […]