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Ever booked a summer vacation, then felt that sinking feeling as you watched your ticket prices plummet before you fly? Now a website will track your airfare and hotel prices to see if you can swing a better deal. Yapta is a free website that tracks airfare and hotel prices, then notifies you if prices…
Heard about the Air Canada jet that dropped so fast over the Atlantic Ocean, its terrified passengers thought they were going to die? It’s a crazy story. On January 13th last year, an Air Canada Boeing 767, flight 878, was flying overnight from Toronto to Zurich. The cabin was dark and peaceful. Many of the…
Here’s one theatre that’ll be tricky to exit, if you hate the movie and want to storm out in a huff. Last month, film lovers launched a strange new auditorium in the south of Thailand. The first ever ‘Film on the Rocks Yao Noi’ film festival was staged on this stunning floating theatre in peaceful…
So I’m sitting in the Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia near the warm Caribbean sea. The airline’s gate hostess just made a squawky announcement. And judging by the groans of the people around me, our flight’s been delayed for the second time this morning. There is a bright side to the wait: Colombia’s…
So I’m recuperating at the Hotel Marbella Club in Andalusia. It’s a 5-star luxury resort on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga, Spain. I’m not here for the sun, waves, or deep tissue massages next to the seawater pool at the Marbella Club’s Thalasso Spa on the beach of the Mediterranean…
Have you seen the TV series, ‘1000 Ways to Die’? Now in its 4th grisly season on the SPIKE network, 1000 Ways to Die depicts graphically funny (albeit chilling and uncomfortable) true-life deaths. It uses CGI animation to docu-dramatize some of the silliest & goriest ways that real-life people have accidentally offed themselves. Typical shows…
Oh, man, do I love this short little film! It’s big fun, check it out here. Here’s the background on this video: 1) Qualcomm makes cell phones. 2) Apparently their new cellphone, Snapdragon, has a long battery life. 3) To demonstrate its awesome powers, the company decided to shoot a short and quirky video with…
Did you hear about the foodie contest in Richmond, BC? Tourism Richmond recently posted a job opening for food blogger. The winning applicant is awarded the prestigious position of ‘Richmond’s Foodie Blogger’. They’ll get to eat out at a different restaurant every day for a year, $50,000 in salary, a daily restaurant stipend, free rent…
My best friend Jim is famously hard to impress. He’s pursuing a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at a leading technical university. His life’s mission is to teach robots HOW TO SEE. When he succeeds, I suspect he’ll have created Skynet, like in The Terminator movies, and the human race will be doomed. Jim…
Ken Hegan 