Friday, November 30, 2007

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, I ran across this on McSweeneys Internet Tendency, and I thought it was too good not to share.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

NY Times article on Mariánské Lázne

I'm not the only person who has recently traveled to Mariánské Lázně: this article recently appeared in the New York Times travel section. The author's experience was very similar to mine.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Hand-held Credit Card Scanners

I was really amazed when I came to Europe and found that every restaurant and cafe and even most pubs have these hand-held credit card scanners. It's such a logical device: rather than a waiter taking your credit card away, and running the risk that (at best) it will be accidentally returned to another customer, the waiter brings the reader to you. Apparently, they're just now starting to catch on in the US, at least according to this article from the New York Times.

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