I know none of our fabulous face2face readers miss the three-martini lunch of yesteryear, but this article from hotel-online is interesting nonetheless. And it offers this list of do's and don'ts, which could be a good pass-around to any new...

Paul Williams over at Brand Autopsy is planning to open an "ideation destination, a place for people to brainstorm." He's going to be building his ideas for the space in public, via the Internet, inviting input and feedback from potential users ...

Some things I've seen on BoingBoing I've been meaning to post about: ...

Note to hoteliers: Read this article from MPI if you want to know what to do to make a site inspection truly useful. It's worth the effort to do it right.

Another must-read article, this one from Time magazine:The School of Bright Ideas. It's all about how a company named ...

Today's my birthday--I just turned 45. Woo hoo! Then I saw this longevity game that Anne Taylor-Vaisey posted to her CE Current Awareness Yahoo Group, and just had to play. Despite my trepidations, it looks like I should make it to the ripe old...

I love this kind of thing: Bob Lemen, a fitness attendant at Desert Springs, a JW Marriott resort and spa in Palm Desert, Calif., just turned 90. The guy has been leading 3.2-mile, one-hour-long walks around the resort three times a week--remember...

Usually when someone says, "they treated her like a dog," it's not a good thing. But when was the last time you heard someone say he was going to take his Scottish terrier to classes because, though she's great at catching vermin, she couldn't run...

Orac over at Respectful Insolence has a great post about people who you always see come up to the microphone for the Q&A portion of a session. While he's mainly talking about medical/surgical conferences, I've seen these types at just about...

Even for Pez dispenser collectors. I've said it before, but now I've officially heard of everything!