April 24th Miscellany!
Apr. 24th, 2012 02:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
We haven't had one of these in a while...no time like the present to start posting them again!
- Why is a 60 Minutes report on Israeli treatment of Palestinian Christians a "strategic threat to Israel," as Israel's ambassador to the US put it?
- Did Egypt really cut off Israel's natural gas? Actually, not really...they're negotiating a better price.. Which isn't stopping the Islamist parties from claiming some kind of victory for the "will of the people."
- NoLongerQuivering, one of my new favorite blogs, has a series on debunking the "fourteen basic needs of a marriage" according to influential nut Bill Gothard. The latest installment is here, and my response is, a million times, yes. Go, check it out.
- I'm telling you guys, the next tech bubble is going to be space. I don't just mean travel, but also asteroid mining. Slashdot has more here and here. Now, why would we want to do this? The answer is that we're running out of metals, and unlike oil, we know there are more metals out there in space.
- Attractive? Young? Female? Want to travel? Don't want to bother with things like getting a job to pay for it? Never fear! MissTravel.com is here! They even have a catchy motto: "Who needs money, beautiful people travel free!" The idea is that wealthy travelers who don't want to bother, you know, making friends, can use this site to search for attractive women who would love the opportunity to travel but can't afford it. The object here is companionship...yeah, that's the ticket. Jezebel sums it up nicely as "Explorers Club meets Ashley Madison". They even have a points system so that frequent attractive travelers can eventually earn enough bonus points to take a trip all by themselves. There is nothing creepy about this whatsoever. (Inb4 "female privilege.")
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Date: 2012-05-01 05:34 am (UTC)http://blog.nola.com/murders/2008/09/sept_27_unidentified_woman.html
Such a sad murder, and I'm sure it will never, ever be solved. Anybody in this city would have told her that was phenomenally stupid. It's certainly not the first time that's happened, but it was very close to home for me. It makes me angry- what were her gutter punk friends doing, telling her it's OK? Terribly irresponsible, to say the least. I've travelled solo all over the place, but my safety is utmost. I was part of a couchsurfer network, and I squicked on tons of those guys offering to put me up. Miss Travel seems like she's setting people up to run into the worst the world has to offer. And it has ALOT bad to offer. True, the good outweighs the bad in many ways, but not when you'e in pieces in some forsaken land.