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Showing posts with label travel and adventure/entertainment. Show all posts

Sunday, September 26, 2010

More Good Stuff: Travel and Faith

The Loneliest Phone Booth on Earth
Environmental Graffiti

America's Best Dude Ranches
TravelandLeisure.com

Point of View
Gluing, hacking, and the realities of corporate programming

Cardus: equipping and connecting the next generation of Christian leaders

Cityscape View of World’s 30 Largest Cities
SmashingUSA.com

Get Around in Style – Great Metro Maps of the World
NileGuide

More Good Stuff: Travel, Cooking and Blue Grass

America's best fall color drives
MSNBC

Five Kitchen Must-Have’s For Down-Home Country Cookin': Kendra Bailey Morris
from CNN

100 Great Things About America
from Fortune

Adventure 06: Beehives, Bluegrass and Beautiful Ignorance
the The Osbourne Brothers: "Rocky Top", "Ruby"

America's most beautiful coastal views
from MSNBC

More Good Stuff: Travel, Finance and Popularity

Worlds Most Beautiful Lakes

What is Popular Around the World
An International Guide to Favorite Stuff

What $300,000 Buys In Homes Across America
from Forbes

the Popularity Issue
Blomber BusinessWeek

Simple Gestures, Lifelong Memories
During World War II, the women of one small town in Nebraska touched the lives of thousands. It's a lesson to remember now, as we battle for hearts and minds.

Pull Over! 10 American Roadside Attractions Worth Stopping For
from NileGuide

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Must See Places
Must See American Places

National Parks

Viena Wining an Dining
Vienna

Active Travel
America's Best Hiking

Gobal Travel
Amsterdam

Worldwide Adventure
Beautiful Lakeside Resorts

Baltic Home
Bergman Baltic Home

Maui Travel
Driving Maui's Wildest Road

Europe
Europe's Hidden Treasure

Four National Parks
Minus the Crowds

Jerusalem
Going Up to Jerusalem

New England
Leaves, Lighthouses and Lobster

Denmark
Many Happy Returns

Norway
Mountains and Fjords

Norway
It's Ultimate Thrill by Rick Steves

Pine Valley
Golf’s ‘Slice of Heaven,’ Opens Gates to Public

Stockholm
It's Noble Past and Present

Sweden
It's Beauty Brightens Dark Days

Switzerland
Mountains Amaze

Rocky Mountains
Magnificent Mountains

Norway
The Nature of Norway by Rick Steves

Presidio
SF's Most Scenic Spot

the View
The View from the Seven Highest Peaks on Earth

World Wonders
the World's Most Spectacular Natural Wonders

Awe
the Vatican

Travel Snapshots
South Africa

Texas
Wide Open in the West

Monday, September 15, 2008

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Great Photos, Web Sites and Taxes

Arctic Light
Paul Nicklen Galleries

101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site
from InsideCRM

How the government spends your taxes
from MSNBC

Free Stuff, ESV, Interviews, Happiness and Spirituality, 12 step, Faith Teaching, Online Lives

The Web's best free stuff
from InfoWorld

Theological reasons for why Mars Hill preaches out of the ESV

Seven Things You Must Do in an Interview
from BusinessWeek

Spirituality and happiness: are they connected?
from Beliefnet

Ad Track: Big red umbrella returns
from USAToday

Birth of Newspapers, part 1: The very first newspaper
from Mark Andreessen

Are conservatives really happier?
from BeliefNet

Glenn Beck: America needs a 12-step program
from CNN.com

One Place for Your Many Online Lives
from BusinessWeek . . . FriendFeed is tearing down the walls between Web haunts such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, etc.

Religious teaching straight to your iPod
from USAToday

Low taxes 'boost public sector'
from BBCNews . . . Countries with low taxes are better able to boost funding for public services and enjoy higher growth, a report from a UK think tank suggests.

The accurate, authentic, verifiable list of the . . .
top 25 christian websites


Dial D for Disruption
from Forbes.com
Want to build a phone company for $100? Give Mark Spencer a ring.

National Geographic: photos from spring

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Post-Christian, Pentecostelism, London, Denzel, Jobs, Life Lessons

'Post-Christian era'? Don't tell Third World

Pentecostelism's Growth in the Favelas

Cash-Happy London
If you haven't been to London in a while, you won't recognize it. The city hasn't seemed this alive—or expensive—in years

Denzel Washington's Ministry of Movies
The star tells us how he studies the Bible daily, prays every morning and night, and sees his films as a form of preaching.

Harvard: 'Hard' Skills Trump 'Soft' Skills
Research from Steve Kaplan and colleagues suggests investors should hire a Jack Welch or a Steve Jobs—both with tough reputations—rather than a Jeff Immelt

America's new jobs: We don't need no education, just comfort

I’m a Believer: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.

Life Lessons
When Harvard social scientist Robert Putnam was recently researching America's challenge in forging a common identity amid demographic diversity, he visited fast-growing Protestant churches--and was surprised by what he found.

Aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Fudge and Rich People Banking, Places to See

F Is for Fudging
Want to spot weak accounting before there is an embarrassing restatement? Fabulous earnings and a goodwill-rich balance sheet are a good place to start.

Where The Rich Bank Their Money
Managing money for extremely rich Americans--those with $10 million or more in assets to invest--has become a contact sport.

Where To Go In The U.S. Before You Die
Not only are there 1,000 places around the world to visit before you die, now author Patricia Schultz has hit the road again--and she's serving up another collection of must-visit destinations. This time, it's 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Hans Christian Andersen

Fairy Tales
It strikes most contemporary Americans as amazing or unbelievable when told that after the Bible, Andersen’s most popular “fairy tales” are the most translated work in all of literature

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Speed Record, Barna, Faith, Super Crunchers, Mobs and Motivation

75 year old likely set Internet speed record
Her fiber-optic connection could be world's fastest home uplink

Barna surveys Catholics
from the DallasNews Religion

I Learned What It Means to Have Faith
In this 1945 letter, an American soldier liberated from a German POW camp, tells his family what kept him going.

Era of the Super Cruncher
Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims.

Moms Mabley Agitation in Motion
Moms Mabley was one of the greatest comedians of all time. She is widely regarded as one of the most important African-American entertainers that ever lived and as the first bonafide female stand-up comedy superstar.

The stars' homes away from home
There’s no place like home. But if you’re a celebrity, there’s also no place like your second (or third, or fourth) home.

Get Motivated to Do More With Less
A Colin Powell speech got a BusinessWeek columnist thinking about force multipliers. Here are five ways to get more done with what you already have

Ice Cream Wars
Nestlé vs. Unilever: the $59 billion industry is dominated by two global giants looking to expand in Asia and Latin America