Cool Things

Lovely By Surprise

Date: April 11th, 2006 |

Is it a book? is it a movie? It’s Marian.
Daily Candy wrote up a bit about Marian Walker and LovelyBySurprise.
All I know, is that I need a big sponsor like Lincoln to tout my books and make me a cool flashy website with a movie trailer, and and and. Or just give me a car [read more]

Paper Source: Cool and Hip Stationery

Date: April 10th, 2006 |

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Waste Not Paper has great stationery. Because, you know, us writers can’t correspond on just any kind of paper. Well, unless it’s for a love letter. Given. However, this is a wholesale store. So, pretty much the only way to use them is if you have a retail license.
Retail shoppers can check out Paper Source. [read more]

Laptop Bags and other nerdy accessories

Date: March 30th, 2006 |

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The new laptop was worthy of a new bag, and I’m getting heaps of compliments. It’s a power sleeve from Booq. I got it at Melrose Mac in Burbank, but they’re available online. Even if you don’t have a Mac, you can use their Laptop Wizard to pick out a bag that would fit your [read more]

Literature Map: Who Reads Who Else?

Date: March 8th, 2006 |

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This is more fun than responding to email.
Literature Map
Who else do Pico Iyer’s readers read? Type in Pico Iyer and see what other authors come up. The result is a map of additional authors that are also read by Pico Iyer’s readers. So, you’ll see names like Bill Bryson, Jan Morris, Tim Cahill, Joseph [read more]

Cool Things: NETGEAR Travel Router

Date: January 29th, 2006 |

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This is a story of travel tech problem solving. I held back from telling you about this last week because I wanted to see if it worked. And guess what, it does.
My boyfriend and I were going to be staying in European hotels for 2.5 weeks including Lithuania, France and Holland. Since both of [read more]

Put a States Map on your Blog, Website

Date: April 10th, 2006 |

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My friend Leigh shows me all sorts of cool stuff. Luckily she doesn’t mind me finding the gems on her site, and showing it to you over here on WR. Here’s the latest. Visited States Map
These are the only states I could remember having been to. Sorr [read more]

Story Lead: The World Cup Blog

Date: April 5th, 2006 |

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My good friends at BootsnAll are achieving their long time dream of attending the World Cup. And now that I want to do more story leads on Written Road, I figured this one is a natural.
So, if there are any of you out there with a reason to do an article about the World Cup, [read more]

New Mobissimo.com Travel Activity Search

Date: March 21st, 2006 |

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Mobissimo, the company that I wrote up as the Google of Travel Searches in TIME a few years back, is out with a new feature. It’s called the Activity Search. Instead of just punching in where and when you want to travel, select an activity that you might want to partake in and wallah [read more]

Rolf Potts Has a New Yahoo Travel Column

Date: March 7th, 2006 |

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Rolf Potts likes to shit.
Well, who doesn’t. But I just wanted to say that as I was laughing at the opening of his latest work. Rolf just launched a new travel column with Yahoo! Yahooooooooo! It’s called Traveling Light: The Art of Independent Travel. His first piece was about saying good bye [read more]