NPR had an excellent commentary on Friday about a man who just came back from the Tsunami zone. He was detailing some of the good that can ultimately come from the misery there. New technologies can be put in place to purify water, provide electricity, and provide work for the […]
Diving back into the Charles Higham biography of billionaire wacko Howard Hughes, I found this nugget. In 1953, when Hughes was planning one of his dreadful ’50s movies, “The Conqueror,” about the life of Genghis Khan, he decided to do the filming in the Nevada desert. At this same time, […]
Men’s and women’s brains are different. Found this on boingboing.net, a directory of wonderful things. Indeed! Here is more from the scientists explaining this fascinating photo: Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of – or connections between – these processing centers. […]
Just found this great list site that shows all of the blogs that have updated in the past 60 minutes…it is called fresh blogrolling. It was here that I read a blog by a woman from NC who used to live in WV named Jennifer. She’s a marketing person who […]
This week I started a new position as Vice President/Business Development for Airportparkingreservations.com. My business cards came and so it is official. It is all a part of my plan to stop driving two hours every day and to focus my attention fully on website work, which I love. I […]
Jeff Bezos, Amazon ‘multibillionaire’ has big plans for Van Horn Texas. This tiny burg of 3000, smack dab on Interstate 20 in West Texas, is where he’s purchased 165,000 acres for his ranch. Seems Jeff grew up on his grandaddy’s ranch in South Texas, so he wants to show his […]
from The Note, on ABCnews.com, a super insider political place to find good stuff… On Thursday: 7:45 pm ET: The President and First Lady attend the Constitution Ball 8:30 pm ET: The President and First Lady attend the Freedom Ball 8:45 pm ET: The President and First Lady attend the […]
Airbus Passes Boeing Thirty-five years ago, when Boeing introduced the 747 in Seattle, the 350-passenger plane that was the first jumbo jet redefined air travel. It gave Boeing a competitive edge no one successfully challenged, until now. But now comes the 555 seat JumboLiner. “The A-380 really has no competition […]
You find out who your real friends are when you put out a call for a weekend’s worth of help….and they all come through with smiling faces. Lisa, Kent and Cindy joined us for the weekend of schmoozing and chatting up the website at the booth in NYC. They once […]
The Adventure Expo travel show was a spectacular success where we were able to show thousands of travelers what GoNOMAD has to offer them. It was, again, so great to be in the Biggest City in the World, and to have new faces like Joe O join the GoNOMAD girls […]
We met up with two accomplished webheads at our Times Square hotel tonight. We are here in the Big Apple through Sunday for the Adventure Expo, and we thought it would make sense to get together with the owners of Bootsnall.com, one of the most successful alternative travel websites. We […]
