seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 19 2007 | travel, politics
Ashgabat sounds like a surreal city.
Quoted: For all of their efforts at grandeur, the monuments are in their way a distraction. Much more interesting are the ways that social pressures in a police state, combined with the barrage of propaganda used to maintain Mr. Niyazov’s lingering personality cult, can twist public speech into forms at once safe and absurd.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 07 2008 | travel, japan, poetry, literature, books
A well-written article comparing six translations of the famous haiku book.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 15 2007 | internet, web 2.0, photography, travel, world
See Flickr photos on a map as they're posted around the world.
ShareViewed: 92 Times - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 03 2006 | iowa, travel, culture, hobo, event
There's an annual gathering of hobos in Britt, Iowa.
Quoted: Hobos they're called, a word with as many possible origins as there are reasons to join the fraternity. The Latin words homo bonus mean "good man" and could have been coined to make the term hobo. Some say that soldiers returning from the Civil War would be asked where they were headed and they replied "homeward bound". Migratory agricultural workers of the eighteenth century were referred to as "hoe boys", and since hobos worked as they traveled, it was concluded they were the original 'boes.
ShareViewed: 8 Times - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 01 2006 | russia, architecture, travel
Colorful buildings with lots of woodcarvings.
ShareViewed: 9 Times - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 17 2006 | russia, architecture, travel
Funky Soviet buildings. I suspect some of these were built just to freak out the CIA.
Quoted: Interesting news from Russia in English language.
ShareViewed: 17 Times - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 19 2006 | travel, belgium, art, architecture
Insanity! What do you mean, just for kids?!
Quoted: It’s the ultimate experience for kids – a night in an alternative universe at the Kids Sphere Hotel in Belgium. Known as the Atomium, a replica of an iron molecule with nine aluminum spheres (built for the World Fair of 1958), the complex has been renovated and updated to include overnight accommodation for children – dubbed the Kid Sphere hotel - set amongst the fascinating sci-fi exhibitions and original spheres. Kids are entertained by a packed calendar of events including films and there’s a restaurant at the top of the structure boasting panoramic view of the city of Brussels.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 19 2006 | restaurant, thailand, travel
Restaurant with a ridiculous view. Next time I'm in Bangkok...
ShareViewed: 17 Times
- laurel - Jul 20 2007
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