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1. Debunking Travel Myths – Business Travel Column – Joe Brancatelli – Seat 2B – Portfolio.com

   Business travelers are a secretive, clannish lot, and we take perverse pride in knowing the picayune details of how life works on the road. If there’s an airline rule, we claim to know and maybe even understand it. A strange hotel policy?

2. Why not fill each minute with joy? – Vaux.net

   A complex array of perforations within the pavilion’s surface allow light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem

3. The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It – Triviagasm – io9.com

   The London Science Museum (UK) finally completed work on the Difference Engine No. 2, 120 years after the death of inventor Charles Babbage, currently traveling to the Computer History Museum in San Francisco.

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   ListenToYouTube.com is the most convenient online application for converting YouTube flash video to MP3 audio. This service is fast, free, and requires no signup. All you need is a YouTube URL

5. Turf Houses in the Norse era – Hurstwic.org

   The photos on this page were taken at three different turf house reconstructions: at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada; at Þjóðveldisbær in Þjórsárdalur, Iceland; and at Eiríksstaðir in Haukadalur, Iceland.

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