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If you’re going to visit Los Angeles, you’re going to want to party; and if you’re going to want to party, you’re going to want to eat, which is why Thrillist’s Late-Night Gorging guide should be an important part of your pre-inebriation ritual. The print at home card features 50 late-night eateries, as well as a few that will cater to you all night long while you attempt to eat off that hangover. Good luck, it’ll never work.
If you get a chance to visit San Francisco, make sure you do the Adam Savage tour. Savage, the man behind the Discovery Channel MythBusters show, responded to an Ask MetaFilter query about the city by the bay with gems such as Il Farolito’s Super Grilled Chicken Quesadilla, hiking through Glen Canyon, drinking atop the Medjool roof as the sun sets, socializing at Specs and Michelangelo’s, Sunday brunch and celebratory dinners at Foreign Cinema, Berkeley’s Chez Panisse, and finally, a good old cup o joe and a mag at Farley’s. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
[Ask MetaFilter - San Francisco]
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So you’re an Arab oil billionaire who needs to fly out of Dubai every once in a while. What do you do? Pick up a first class ticket and order a few drinks to pass the time? No, that’s too civilian.
Instead, you commission Airbus to build you a custom A380 for a pocket emptying $400 million ($100 million for just the interior). Normally a 555-passenger, double-decker superjumbo, this A380 will simply be called the “Flying Palace”. So what does change like that buy you?
How about: two dining halls, a 600-square-foot master bedroom, game room, a whirlpool tub (the first of its kind, it empties into an auxiliary tank in seconds if needed), and gold plating on all of your oxygen masks (probably not that last one, but maybe). The bar has officially been raised.
[Space.com - Airbus A380 VIP Flying Palace Interior]
[Via: Gizmodo]
In 1998, Barry Stiefel hatched a plan. He’d saved up a weeks worth of vacation time, and he wanted to use it in the most efficient way possible, so he left work on Friday at 5pm, returned to work a week later on Monday at 8am, and in the middle, he visited every single state (including Alaska and Hawaii).
[50 States In A Week's Vacation]
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In South Africa, the world’s highest swing is located in a place called Oribi Gorge. The jump takes you off of a 33-story waterfall, and lasts only a few terrifying seconds, but I’m sure the feeling is hard to beat. Check out the video (you might want to turn down your sound first):
Edit: This post has gotten quite a bit on attention, so if you’re looking for more information about this “Wild Swing”, check out: Wild 5 Swing.
[Via: High T3ch]
Chris Yates took the US Interstate System and remade it subway map style. Definitely a unique way of looking at the way we think of travel.
[Via: Boing Boing]
Mike and Annie Moore really took the saying “a penny saved is a penny earned” to heart, and saved and earned an estimated million of them to cover their McKittrick, California bar with. What started as a hobby turned into a passion, and the couple collected (or was given) over $10,000 worth of pennies, including an 1883 Indian head penny, their prized possession. The collection has tired them out though, and they’ve put the place up for sale with an $899,999.98 as is price tag. Given the rising cost of copper though, it could be an investment worth making.
[The New York Times - See A Penny, Pick It Up And 'Honey, Get The Glue!']
[Via: BookOfJoe]
Though I’ve never been one to worry about germs, I do give No Cooties spray respect for bringing back such an iconic part of childhood with their creative naming. Designed for travel (they’re less than 3oz in size), the travel spray will make quick work of any airborne microorganisms with its blend of essential oils and anti-bacterials.
[Via: Uncrate]
All roads lead to Fucking, Austria (including the fucking roads). Though named after “place of Focko’s people” in German, its English translation lead to numerous stolen street signs until they replaced them with theft-proof signs welded to steel and secured in concrete. I wonder what the people who live there do with their time?
[Wikipedia - Fucking, Austria]
[Via: Google Sightseeing]
The Pirate Bay is trying to acquire its own country by purchasing Sealand, a small “island” made up of an abandoned gun battery near the UK “that was occupied, declared sovereign, and turned into an offshore data-center for sensitive information”. Kopimists can donate money to the cause with promises of “high-speed Internet access, no copyright laws, and VIP accounts to The Pirate Bay” for every citizen of Sealandia. If they can’t get enough money together for Sealand though, The Pirate Bay still promises to buy another small island somewhere and claim it as a sovereign state, so no investment goes unrewarded. I’d be interested to see just how far they could go around copyright laws if they did in fact become their own country, so donate now to a movement that could change the world.
[Via: Boing Boing]
