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Gadlinks for Thursday, 10.29.09

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) on Oct 29th 2009 at 4:00PM

Halloween is right around the corner-- hope everyone has a great costume picked out already. If not, get crackin'! And check out our own Heather Poole's guide to creating a flight attendant Halloween costume. (Fellas, this is your chance to dress in drag unaccompanied by the judging eye of others.)

Now it's time for our daily look at what's going on in the travel world today...

The 13 sins of hostel living.
Pico Iyer profiles the great W. Somerset Maugham over at World Hum. Maugham's book The Razor's Edge had a real effect on me back in college. My favorite quotation from it: "Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it." Indeed.
Mobile phones as the key to prosperity in Africa? Not so fast.
Over at Slate, Brian Palmer explains where the "The" comes from in The Netherlands, The Hague, and The Bronx.
Dallas police issue 39 traffic tickets over the course of three years for the "crime" of not speaking English. A police department spokesperson has since apologized.

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