Quoted: Each time the Royal Clipper slips its mooring and raises its billowing white sails, its passengers are taken on a truly unique journey. On Anita Dunham-Potter's recent cruise in the southern Caribbean, the ship visited islands less traveled, the captain played the bagpipes, and the guests bet on crab races for entertainment. It was one of Anita's best trips in 20 years of cruising, and she tells us why.

Bob Cringely on how Steve Jobs *intentionally* screwed the iPhone early adopters as part of his power trip.

If I'm going to be a puppet, I want to fly in Thunderbird 2...

Quito looks to be a cool place to visit.

Quoted: Gregg Easterbrook offers up reasons he is willing to sympathize with Michael Vick.

Some great points about the Vick case and the various double standards being applied

Freeman Dyson's views on climate change

Quoted: In the modern world, science and society often interact in a perverse way. We live in a technological society, and technology causes political problems

The latest from Paul Graham

Video of a new PS3 game - LittleBigPlanet

Quoted: As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, prediction. Don't get a life just yet.

Anthony Bourdain hates The Food Network

Breakdown of the liberties taken with the truth to make the story fit the views of the producers