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Portable GPS devices seem to be getting better by the day, and TomTom's GO 740 Live is the latest addition to the increasingly competitive field. The most promising feature is the new Google search function, which means no longer depending on the Points of Interests stored in the TomTom database.
The First Picture of Orbs: Ghost Pictures Taken in Hotel Rooms
The First Picture of Orbs: Pictures of orbs taken in hotel rooms... could they be real ghost pictures? Madonna Inn - Yahoo Room - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn
Yahoo Room: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Travel Resolutions
I am sure most of you will be as happy as I am to see the back of 2008. It has been a horrific year for the world's economy,...
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