Forbes Travel Guide (formerly Mobil Travel Guide) has come out with its 2011 four- and five-star winners. ...

Despite calls for an airport scanner opt-out day and even a protest song, a CBS news poll finds that four out of five people support full-body airport scanners. From the article: ...

This is one meeting I wish I could go to, at least based on this writeup of PICNIC 2010. While the poster is admittedly biased, I loved everything about it. This part may be the key: ...

Otherwise known as yet another reason why you should make sure your session leaders actually engage participants instead of just present: Mind wandering. According to some Harvard research, mind wandering may be an integral way of life for us...

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I love cheese. I mean really, really love cheese. It's the main reason (along with ice cream) why I failed as a hard-core vegan many years ago. And now I know why: According to VegSource.com, cheese is up there with chocolate (and, go figure...

Here it is -- and it's a wiki, so feel free to add any tips you have.

An anti-invasive airport scanner activist is calling for air travelers to just say no to the scans, and the gropey enhanced pat-downs, on November 24 as a protest against the increasingly unpopular security measure. ...

This is just fun: Six Hotel Jobs that Are Way Cooler than Yours, from Hotel Chatter. Just the title "fish valet" makes me smile.

I'm always a sucker for a good optical illusion, and loved all five of these. I especially like the explanations for why they work, and the way they keep working even though my brain now knows why they shouldn't. So if you need a break that will...