David Blair wanted to know more about Syria, so he spent a month travelling this ancient Biblical land.
Last month Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic made history in the international space tourism industry. Tickets aren't cheap (US $200,000) but neither are the costs: it's estimated that sending things into space costs around US $20,000 per pound, writes Frances Perraudin.
The Swamp Jockeys are part of that great tradition of Australian bands that play for the sheer fun of it. In their day they were right up there with the best pub-rock in the country and Bob Gosford was at the reunion concert at Darwin Railway Club, strumming his fingers and standing on the beer soaked carpet.
A Senate inquiry into airline flight crew training and standards in Australia has turned into a last-ditch stand by "the old Qantas" culture against "the new" Jetstar culture.
Amateur cook Maureen Evans has invented the concept of "twecipes" - food recipes condensed into single Tweets using equations such as "1⅓c bsugar ¾c milk ⅓c oil." A book is in the works, which will contain more than 1000 twecipes.
or every patently stupid rule imposed by the US, there seems to another equally nonsensical one imposed by the authorities in charge of arrangements at major airports such as London Heathrow or Frankfurt.
The sun is shining, the days are getting longer and soon fruit will be bending bough, bush and cane as it ripens in the promise of summer. Got mangoes, berries, cumquats and other fruit rotting on the ground? Make jam, says Jane de Graaff of Broadsheet.
As a child Nic Heath was inculcated in the belief that English beaches were crap and Australian beaches were always superior. Driving along the headland above Saunton Sands in North Devon, Heath realized he'd been mislead.
Over a few plastic cups of nice red, Bob Gosford last weekend met fellow online writer Liam Campbell. Campbell has contributed a ruminative piece to The Northern Myth reflecting on his experiences in Yuendumu.
In Australia to talk about tourism and sustainability at the Global Eco Conference, Gap Adventures Founder and CEO Bruce Poon Tip has lambasted Tourism Australia and described its promotion of indigenous assets as "very naive," writes Amber Jamieson.
