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The Art and Business of Making Movies 2007-08-18 21:51:00 Time to rush down to the news stand. I've got a teeny tiny picture in MovieMaker magazine. (Jodie Foster cover) Don't forget to bring your magnifying glass! For those of you who can't get to the Barnes & Noble fast enough to grab a copy before they sell out-- 'cause I'm stocking up. Here's yours truly---"In one of God's greater paradoxes, he made Virginia home to both Pat Robertson and a strangely independentand rebellious breed of filmmaker."The article is titled "American Revolution: Virginia's Vibrant History and Dynamic, Growing Population Make it An Ideal Setting." The filmmaker's comments read like vague commercials for Virginia production which ain't necessarily a bad thing, but I had been hoping for an insightful article on actual locations, current projects, and some statistics about the production community in Virginia. However, there is a nice little Virginia At-A-Glance that gives a once over to a variety of film resources in the state. Read more:Business
The Cult of Redheads 2007-08-12 19:43:00 Redheads make up less than 1% of the population, but I know from experience that we get a lot more attention than our numbers would suggest. Many redheads can be found in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, where they are sometimes referred to as "ginger nuts." (Stop that!) Scotland has the largest redhead population, estimated at about 15% with over 35% carrying the recessive gene. In the US the percentage of Redheads is estimated at between 2% to 6%.At Amazon there's a photo book of Redheads,an Encyclopedia for Redheads,a Redhead News Blog, and a book of Playboy Redheads. And just to add to the myths surrounding Redheads--I know what you're thinking. (Stop that!) According to the Daily Mail. "Blondes may have more fun but redheads have more sex, according to a study by a Hamburg Sex Researcher, Professor Dr Werner Habermehl. The dear ole professor looked at the sex lives of hundreds of German women and compared them with their hair color. He said: "The sex lives of women with re
PATAGONIA BALONeyIA 2007-08-05 20:58:00 When I think of the word gaucho, I think of a pair of loose mid-calf length pants that are not too long, not too short, and not too.... attractive. However, in South American countries the term gaucho is the equivalent of "cowboy." The word gaucho is derived from quechua, a word that means orphan or vagabond. Gauchos were generally nomads of mixed ancestry who lived and worked on the pampas or plains that extends north from Patagonia. Gauchos were known for being great horsemen and in many countries the gaucho is the symbol of an untamed nation much like that of the U.S. cowboy.Patagonia, the southern most portion of South America is also a word that I know in another context and that context has to do with clothes as well. Patagonia is a company that markets outdoor apparel, selling rugged clothing and accessories to mountain climbers, skiers, and other sports lovers and environmentalists willing to pay extra for their products. Besides the well-known Patagonia (outdoor gear and appar
Romantic Violence 2007-07-23 20:17:00 The original skinheads were influenced by Jamaican rude boy gangs, and the music of ska, rocksteady, and reggae. They adopted skinny suspenders or braces, work boots and shaved heads as symbols of their rejection of the latest fashions. These early skinheads were mixed racially and tended toward brawling, vandalism, and football hooliganism. The culture faded during the 1970’s, largely due to a crackdown from the police; however, a second wave of skinheads emerged in the 1980’s during the British punk explosion. Popular Skinhead musician, Ian Stuart Donaldson of the band Screwdriver played a key role in transforming the subculture into a racist movement. Donaldson organized a political action group called White Noise that became an outlet for the politics of the right wing British National Front. This racist influence caused a schism in the skinhead culture that remains to this day.At the present time there are two distinct skinhead cultures, each group embraces the same fashions a Read more:Violence
The Billy Goat Tavern 2007-07-21 23:35:00 The Curse of the Billy
Goat has its its roots in the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers. According to the legend, William Sianis a Greek immigrant took his pet goat, Murphy to the Series, but instead of sitting in their seats, Sianis and the goat walked out on to the playing field to garner publicity for Siani's tavern that was across the street. It didn't take long before both man and goat were escorted off by ushers. The pair returned to their seats, but orders came down from the Cub's owner, Philip Knight Wrigley to eject Sianis because the "goat smelled bad." After Wrigley insulted the goat Sianis placed a curse on the team, saying that the Cubs would never win another pennant or play in another World Series at Wrigley Field. The Cubs eventually lost the 1945 World Series and have not been back to the championship series since. Sianis' nephew has paraded a goat around the field a few times in an attempt to break the curse without any luck.The Bill Read more:Tavern
The Casting Couch 2007-07-11 20:46:00 Long before Joey on Friends was forced to sleep with a studio executive in order to get a part in a daytime soap the casting couch was a part of Hollywood mythology. Allegations that sexual favors are fair trade in Hollywood though are more than unsubstantiated rumor. The history of the casting couch goes back to the Silent Era. Tales that stars like Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne made ample use of starlet "audition" are more than just conjecture. But back then women were subject to sexual harassment whether they worked in Hollywood or Hoboken.Incidently, The CastingCouch
is also the name of a mysterious "stag" film that was purported to feature Joan Crawford. According to Hollywood legend MGM was blackmailed into paying a quarter million dollars for the film. The story goes that after MGM bought the rights to the film, the only existing copy was destroyed. One of the earliest star-attributed porn films to circulate widely was a 1950's era nudie loop of a woman who looked like a you
I am a Curious Happy 2007-07-06 20:21:00 Are you one of those people who pokes around in dresser drawers, rummages in the glove box when you're left in the car or just can't help but look in a stranger's medicine chest when you're at a party? Curious
fellow are we? Curiosity is a natural instinct. We all want to learn, explore, inquire. Right? Sometimes I think that I'm a little more curious than most folks. What am I curious about? Definitely not the contents of medicine cabinets or dresser drawers. I'm interested in the new, the novel, and the unknown in all shapes and forms. I'm aware that many people see curiosity as a child-like trait modeled by inventors or scientists. I'm no Einstein, but I must say that I am rarely bored and I can focus. Whether I'm ferreting out information on new films, learning the principles of floral design or teaching myself HTML in 48 hours, people often accuse me of having too active an intellect. "Relax," they say. A comment that never fails to amaze me. Relax? I am relaxed. But the Read more:Happy
Frozen Dead Guy Festival 2007-06-30 21:14:00 People in Colorado party around a cryogenically frozen dead Norwegian known as Grandpa in what is one of the world's weirdest festivals. The people in the small town of Nederland near the city of Denver spend a weekend celebrating Frozen
Dead Guy Days. In 1989, Bredo Morstoel, a former landscape architect died in Norway and his grandson Trygve Bauge paid to have the body flown to California, preserved and stored in liquid nitrogen. Four years later, Bauge and his mother Aud Morstoel brought the body to their home in Nederland, 45 miles from Denver and put it on ice in a garden shed. Their hope was to build a cryogenics laboratory to bring him back to life in the medically advanced future.When Nederland passed a law to prohibit the storage of frozen people within city limits, they could not make this ban retrospective. So the body was adopted by the town, while his relatives left America. Since then the town adopted the body in a very strange way.When the shed was just about to fall do Read more:Festival
Ice Palace 2007-06-29 19:39:00 "It's carnival time, you know. First in ten years. And there's an ice palace they're building now that's the first they've had since eighty-five. Built out of the blocks of the clearest ice they could find -- on a tremendous scale."F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace
The first ice palace was built in St. Petersberg by Empress Anna something or another in 1740 to celebrate a Russian victory over the Turks. Ice trees, ice birds, and ice furniture were all part of the attraction. Celebratory events included a procession, a mock wedding, and a couple forced to sleep over night in the castle where they nearly froze to death. If you visit St. Petersburg today you can view a copy of the original ice castle for 150 roubles or about 5 bucks.Throughout the U.S., ice palaces are often built as part of an area's winter festivities. In Eagle River, Wisconsin, volunteers put in more than 700 “man hours” each winter to cut nearly 3000 12-inch-thick ice blocks from a local lake to build a hu
Mutiny on the Columbia Eagle 2007-06-23 20:32:00 Protest against the U.S. Government took many forms during the Vietnam War, but none was quite as bizarre as what happened on March 14, 1970 when in the first U.S. mutiny in over 150 years, two sailors hijacked the merchant ship, S.S. ColumbiaEagle
. The boat was loaded with napalm and on its way to deliver to U.S Air Force bases in Thailand when Clyde McKay and Alvin Glatkowski claiming to have a live bomb forced the crew to abandon ship before sailing into Cambodian waters. Once there the men anchored 15 miles off shore where they were soon joined by the naval vessel, Denver and the Coast Guard cutter, Mellon. In a clear case of delusional thinking, the hijackers believed that they would be welcomed with open arms by the Cambodian government. They arrived just as Cambodian ruler, Prince Sihanouk was deposed by a right wing coup. Instead of finding asylum in Cambodia, the men became prisoners of the Phnom Penh regime. Following the incident, a rumor began to circulate that the mutiny
Syphilis and My Black Book 2007-06-17 20:13:00 Back in the olde days when male sexuality was defined in terms of "conquests" and belt notches, guys used to jot down notes about dates in a little black book. Now they have a website where they can store, analyze, upload photos, chart, graph, and print personal reports on sexual encounters.Launched in 2004, My Black
Book is a secure online sexual history tracker with almost 2,000 registered members. In 2006, the website went a step further and brought out VDnote (short for venereal disease notification), a program that gives odds on contracting venereal disease by comparing a user's sexual behavior to national statistics. The United States has the highest rate of sexually transmitted disease (STD) among industrialized countries. 12 million Americans acquire a STD every year; 1 out of 3 Americans will acquire an STD in their lifetime. Pretty nasty statistics if you ask me.Unfortunately, the history of sexually transmitted disease is one with a rather broad dividing line between gende
Prison:License Plates 2007-06-12 18:41:00 License
plates have been around for quite some time and every country uses them to keep track of vehicle registrations. The Netherlands gets the award for introducing the first tags in 1898. Each U.S. State has a unique design that belongs to that state alone. Most reflect some heartfelt message of stately pride. Thus Georgia has a peach, Arizona has a cactus, Indiana a grain field, and Mississippi has a lighthouse. Lighthouse? There are a variety of laws pertaining to the tags that depend on jurisdiction. Some States require both a front and rear plate: New York. Others will let you skate with only one: North Carolina.If you have an interest in license plate, you can COLLECT them. Many people do. Their plate collections are varied and often historical. There is a children's game with which we are all familiar. It requires hunting for out of state plates as you speed down the highway. There's a COOL website where you can pretend that you are in prison making license plates. Make you Read more:Prison
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Adventures of Tintin 2007-06-10 17:40:00 Looks like Hollywood still can't get enough of comic books and their erstwhile heroes. The Adventures
of Tintin a series by Belgian artist Herge (Georges Remi) will be the latest to hit the big screen. Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson have teamed up to direct two animated versions of the classic kids comic strip about an intrepid cub reporter, Tintin and his fluffy dog, Snowy. First issued in the 1930's, The Adventures of Tintin is one of Europe's most popular and enduring comics. The creator of Tintin, Georges Prosper Remi was born in 1907 in Brussels, Belgium. He got his start as a cartoonist when he was asked to produce a children's supplement for the Catholic newspaper, LeXXe Siecle. Remi was pegged a collaborator following World War II because he had posted his comic strip in the Nazi sham newspaper, Le Soir during the occupation of Belgium. Like many others who acted in a similar fashion, Remi was barred from newspaper work for two years, and was only able to return to pub
Bar Stories 2007-06-04 20:01:00 BUY NOWBar Stories
Edited by: Nan ByrnePrice: $14.00 (US)14 strong stories by such fine writers as: Michael Piafsky, Mark Higgins, Matt Oliver, MO Walsh, Lou Fisher, Molly Hoekstra, Bruce Taylor, Karl Elder, GK Wuori, Gary Young, Harlyn Aizley, Robert Flanagan, Lee Capps, Lee K. Abbott."Whether you're carousing in LA, New York, or Boise, Idaho, you'll recognize your favorite watering hole in this glorious new book. Bar Stories has all the hook-ups, fall downs, colorful characters, and laughs of a great night of the town." -Chris Lukic, editor of NewYorkOnTap.com.Huzzah! Pretty soon Bar Stories will be coming your way in a brand new form. I've just finished editing this wonderful collection of stories by 14 fine writers. The book is a great read that's full of light-hearted tales about bar life and bar culture. You are bound to recognize your favorite watering hole and the everyday foibles of bar patrons, bartenders, and a colorful cast of characters. The book is currently available
Who The #$%& is Jackson Pollack 2007-05-24 04:23:00 Hamsters and squirrels are two animals that are well known for hoarding food. Although the type of hoarding for hamsters (larder hoarding) is different than that for squirrels (scatter haording), the behavior is a natural one for each species. For humans however, hoarding is clearly a symptom of a deeper problem. Unlike animals, people who hoard seem to collect useless stuff. We all have a "junk drawer," but for these folks, homes and yards are excessively cluttered with debris and they are often live in squalor. Hoarding behavior in humans may be the product of several mental disorders, but at the root are feelings of fear and dread. Hoarders are usually excesively attached to their possessions. Family members may tag hoarders with innocuous labels such as "packrat" or "eccentric," but in truth, a compulsive hoarder is a breed apart. The Collyer Brothers of New York City were famous hoarders. In 1947 the brothers were found dead in a Harlem townhouse filled to the rafters with over 10 Read more:Jackson
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Medium 2007-05-18 06:23:00 Patricia Arquette's fictional character on the NBC television series Medium
was inspired by real life psychic from Arizona, Allision DuBois. Dubois came to the attention of producers after she wrote Don't Kiss Them Goodbye claiming to have solved crimes for a wide variety of law enforcement agencies including the Texas Rangers.In the real world, relationships like those in Medium rarely exist. Police departments are often skeptical about working with psychics, except as an avenue of last resort. Law enforcement cynicism stems from the nature of the information they are given by psychics which often proves to be either wrong or too vague to be useful. The idea that psychic ability can solve crimes has been around for a long time. In the 1800's when Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the East End of London, spiritualists from all over England held sittings in an attempt to learn the killer's identity.One of the most famous cases of psychic detective work was the mysterious disappearanc
Butcher Boys 2007-05-12 20:43:00 In June 1966 Capitol Records released the Beatle's album Yesterday and Today to radio stations with a cover photograph of the band in butcher smocks holding dismembered dolls and hunks of meat. It didn't take long before DJ's began to register complaints about the gruesome cover and the album was quickly pulled from store shelves, but not before some retail sales were made. A few weeks later Yesterday and Today was re-released with a new innocuous cover pasted over the old one. In the past few years albums with the substituted cover have become hot items in the world of Beatle's memorabilia because the innocuous cover is easily removed. Why did the Beatles produce such a macabre cover? The origin of the "Butcher
Boys" album cover has always been something of a mystery. Popular rumor says that the Beatles wanted to make a statement about how Capitol had "butchered" their music, but in fact that wasn't true. Yes, Capitol was guilty of greedily rehashing and repackaging Beatles mus
Origin of Pie Throwing 2007-04-29 19:31:00 Born in 1893 in Staten Island, NY, Mabel Norman got a job at 14 as an artist's model to support herself. Not long after she caught the eye of Director Mack Sennett and the two began an affair. Mabel's natural flair for comedy convinced Sennett that she was perfect for a lead in one of his short "Keystone" films and the rest was history. Mabel Norman became a huge star and made many films with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, two Kings of the 1920's box office. Although Mabel ditched Sennett, she unfortunately became addicted to drugs and alcohol and her name became associated with several Hollywood scandals that diminished her popularity, including the death of Director William Desmond Taylor who was murdered in 1922. Whether it was the series of scandals or the short attention span of a fickle public, Norman's career had a short shelf life. Mabel stopped making movies in the late 1920's, and died soon after at the age of 37 of tuberculosis. However, Mabel Norman left Read more:Origin
Automats and Dark City 2007-04-27 10:09:00 Ever since Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, I've been wondering about when marizan was first concocted (15th century), cream puffs (17th century), bagels (15th century)---bagels? Ah, the history of food. When did the potato chip come into our lives? Who invented the pop tart? Invented. Not exactly. According to culinary experts, most foods aren't invented, they "evolve." Familar food dishes are actually the result of contemporary twists on old themes. How do we know? Apparently there is a good deal of food research going on and most of it is not being done by professionals, but by average people. These folks are tracking down old family recipes, attempting to reconstruct favorite foods from the olde days, looking for signature dishes, and just satisfying their curiosity about the origin of foods like french fries, ice cream, and jello. They do their research by picking up old cookbooks at flea markets and garage sales, checking with newspapers and the Patent Office, tracking down e
Commune 2007-04-14 23:24:00 In 1968 several dozen members of San Francisco's Mime Troupe and Digger Movement decided to separate from society and form their own community. The group raised $22,000 to buy 80 acres near Mount Shasta in rural Northern California. Their motto was Free Land for Free People and about a dozen men and women were expected to live at the Black Bear Ranch, but Elsa Marley who established the commune with her husband, Richard, a former union organizer in New York remembers that 40 people showed up and the ranks quickly swelled to 100.Everyone stayed and both men and women were put to work planting, cutting wood, and building structures. The first winter was harsh. "Living in Harmony" required quite a bit of sacrifice, but weather was the least of the commune's problems. There was little money to spend on outside goods, and a militant free love policy that demanded that no one sleep with anyone for more than two nights in a row led to many fights. Fortunately or unfortunately, the free love
FEMINIST ART 2007-04-10 19:14:00 "Global Feminisms" is the inaugural exhibit at the newly opened Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. A stellar group of about 100 lesser known women artists from around the globe have their work in a suite of galleries that adjoin the permanent installation of Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" (1974-79). It is very hard to distinguish the genre of "Feminist Art" from other art by women, but the curators at Sackler have tackled the job with some degree of success. Gender issues and art makes for an interesting synergy, but it is often difficult to describe and even harder to categorize.FEM+IST= ART On the other coast by some odd coincidence, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles also brings us Feminist Art. "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" is an exhibit that focuses on the period bewteen 1965-1980 when radical groups like the Lesbian Art Project took on the male art establishment with dramatic results.
Over The Edge 2007-04-06 20:20:00 Foster City, nestled beside the San Francisco Bay is an affluent planned residential community with shops, restaurants, an elegant central park, and a 144 room Marriott Courtyard hotel. A cult movie, Over the Edge, that depicts suburban teen life is supposed to be based on events that took place in Foster City in the 1970's. Over the Edge stars Matt Dillon and has a great soundtrack by the Ramones. In the movie, suburban teenagers with time on their hands turn to drugs, rebel against authority and torch the local high school. The movie was so controversial at the time that it was made that although it was finished in 1979 it was never released to theatres, but appeared instead on HBO two years later. The film is reported to have been a favorite of Kurt Cobain's and he apparently was inspired to write the anthem Smells Like Teen Spirit after watching it. With Matt Dillon pushing forty the whole movie is to say the least, a real period piece with skateboards and bell bottoms. The film
St. Vitus Dance 2007-04-01 15:44:00 Syndenham's chorea or St. Vitus Dance
is a neurological disorder that primarily affects children and adolescents. Characterized by a series of irregular muscle contractions and uncoordinated jerking movements, the disease affects the face, feet and hands. Most often caused by Streptococci bacteria, this type of chorea has been reported to occur in 20-30% of patients with rheumatic fever. Sydenham's is also associated with psychiatric symptoms and obsessive compulsive disorder is the most frequent manifestation. The disease's namesake, Saint Vitus was a Sicilian martyr from the 4th Century, he was tortured and killed along with his nurse at age 12 for refusing to worship idols. For obscure reasons, some 16th century Germans believed they could obtain a year's good health by dancing before a statue of the Saint on his feast day. (June 15) This dancing developed almost into a mania and was confused with the neurological condition which later became known as Saint Vitus' Dance. This c
Bad Birthdays 2007-03-28 21:07:00 Can the month that you are born affect your health? According to a scientific paper reported in The New Scientist, being born in a certain month may increase your risk for certain problems. Seasonal research isn't new, ever since scientists in 1929 reported a correlation between children born in late winter and an increased rate of schizophrenia there have been studies done. We now know that for people born in the northern hemisphere in February, March and April, the risk of developing schizophrenia is between 5 and 10 per cent greater than for those born at other times of the year. In recent research, season of birth seems to be linked to other conditions, too. A study of more than 25,000 suicides in England and Wales found that 17 per cent more people who had committed suicide had birthdays in April, May and June than in the rest of the year. Studies looking at a genetic link found that people with low levels of the serotonin for instance, were more likely to have been born between Read more:Birthdays
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Lakota People 2007-09-01 18:06:00 The Lakota people are one of the seven tribes of the Sioux nation. They number about 70,000 at present and make up about 11% of the population of the state of South Dakota. The Lakota have always considered the Black Hills sacred, and used the location for spiritual ceremonies and burials. Although early settlers knew to tred lightly in the area, by the mid-18oo's the Black Hills were being threatened. In an attempt to protect their sacred land, in 1868, the Lakota entered into a treaty with the U.S. government that promised to exempt the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. However, gold fever brought a flood of miners, settlers, and others to the Black Hills. The tribe entered into several treaties with the U.S. Government in an attempt to stop the encroachment. With each treaty, including one in 1877, Lakota land was reduced in size in a vain attempt to stem the tide of settlers, and protect the Black Hills. But each succesive treaty was treated with less and less respec
Adventure Capitalists 2007-09-24 21:07:00 Most people believe that society needs government to protect people and property, but there are those who oppose the idea of the state, seeing any form of government as restricting freedom and instead believe that individuals either through mutual participation or collective ownership can meet the same needs and goals. Anarchism as a political philosophy has been around for a long time with many variations, but one version, Anarcho-capitalism is a modern theory. Anarcho-capitalists believe that society can run effectively without the intervention of government and that market capitalism forms the basis of a free society. These anarchists advocate for protecting personal property, a self-regulated market, and the voluntary trade of goods and services.Detractors of Anarcho-capitalism say that the theory lacks real world feasibility, as self-enforcement has limits not accounted for by the market economy. In other words how do you make the unwilling participate, protect property, and get Read more:Adventure
The DeLorean Motor Company 2007-09-22 19:18:00 John DeLorean was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1925 and after obtaining an engineering degree, he went to work at General Motor
s. While at GM DeLorean created what some consider the first "muscle car" by putting a big block engine into a Pontiac Tempest. The car, the GTO helped triple Pontiac sales in 1964, and before long DeLorean was promoted to an executive position at GM and earning one of the company's top salaries. In 1973 DeLorean left GM with the intended goal of starting his own company and giving the big 3 automakers a run for their money. In the next eight years the entrepreneur raised over 175 million from investors including 100 million pounds from the British government. In 1981 he introduced the DMC 12, a sporty car with distinctive gull wing doors and a stainless steel body. He began building the rear engine cars in a plant in Dunmurray, near Belfast in Northern Ireland. The car was innovative, but the DMC 12 had in addition to some shaky financing, assembly problems,
The Right Stuff? 2007-09-17 19:36:00 This summer following the arrest of berserko space cadet, Lisa Nowak, a panel of medical experts started looking at astronaut health. In its report filed in July the panel made the surprising charge that for some former astronauts, the right stuff was alcohol. According to the panel some astronauts drank heavily before space flights, and two may have actually flown their missions drunk. In response NASA filed its own it's own 45 page report that called the allegations "unsubstantiated." However, the agency did admit that its policy on alcohol consumption could use some revision.The "drunk in space" claims aren't new and seem more urban legend than truth, but anyone who reads the NASA report will find the agency's alcohol policy to be a little strange. According to the report astronauts drink in their quarters, make "booze runs" for each other when quarantined, and drink alcohol at pre-launch celebrations, all under NASA's watchful eye. Seems vaguely reminiscent of the behavior Read more:Right
Couch Surfing 2007-09-16 05:32:00 About a year ago, the CouchSurfing
Project was crippled by a massive database crash, but it's back on its feet and going strong. For those who have never heard of Couch Surfing, the term was reinvented a few years back and is the next generation's concept of freeloading. The project began after Casey Fenton, a computer programmer got a cheap ticket to Iceland and came up short on accomodations. Fenton got the "brilliant idea" to send a spam email to 1500 Icelandic students in Reykjavik and ask them for a spot on the sofa. Not long after Fenton devised the Couch Surfing Project where today a network of over 300,000 members arrange and exchange accomodations.Membership in CouchSurfing is free and the network states it's mission is to "internationally network people and places, create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, spread tolerance, and facilitate cultural understanding," (whew) which loosely defined means good experiences, a goal that the project appears to be
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