Starting today, we are teaming up with our friends over at the awesome Everywhere Magazine to bring you a weekly Postcard. Instead of spotlighting an image from the Gadling Flickr pool on Fridays, we're going to highlight one from the pool of contributors' photos (including you!) from Everywhere. Today's image is from contributor Sloan Schang. He writes,


If you'd like to submit an image to be considered for Gadling+Everywhere's Postcard of the Week, please sign up for a free membership on Everywhere and start uploading! Every Friday, we'll choose one to spotlight.

Issue 5 of our favorite community-driven travel magazine Everywhere is debuting soon, and they're looking for your submissions in the Vietnam and San Francisco categories (among others).

"[Everywhere Magazine] is created almost exclusively by its readers, who submit their best travel photographs, stories, and articles to the magazine's website," wrote Aaron on Gadling a few months back. "Contributors who are published in the magazine receive $100 and a free one-year subscription."

If you're looking to get published in a real, paper travel mag (an awesome one at that), now's your chance. Head to Everywhere's website, sign up for an account, and submit away.

Priceline recently announced the details of their "Sunshine Guaranteed" vacation package which offers vacationers a "refund if their vacation is rained out."

As expected, to actually receive a refund from Priceline, the forces of nature must properly align in order to meet the rigid conditions set by the fine print. For example,

• You must book between June 2 and July 17, 2008 and travel between July 1 and September 7, 2008.
• Qualifying vacation packages must be 3-8 days in length.
• Travel must commence at least 12 days after a package is purchased.
• It must rain more than .5 inches for more than half of your total stay (including travel days).
• Rainfall amounts are measured at the destination airport of the vacation package.
  
• Rainfall will also be audited by a private independent provider of weather information.
• Rainfall samples must be collected by consumer in quart-sized Ziploc® bags.

Okay, so I made that last one up. But seriously -- I can assure you there's going to be some ticked off people this Summer who book this "Sunshine Guaranteed" package from Priceline and fail to read the fine print.

On the other hand, hurricane chasers might be well off booking a package through Priceline this season.

[Via The Cranky Flier]

Have you ever, upon arriving in a new city, wandered aimlessly in search of a popular place to eat or drink? Of course you have.

A new mobile company, Sense Networks, promises to make this much easier in the future with a new, somewhat creepy/bizarre cell phone application called Citysense that supernaturally senses the information emitted by cell phones and displays the results as a heat map on your own miniature screen (right).

The blotches of red represent large groups of people in a particular location, assuming most of them have cell phones. That data is then cross referenced with Yelp and Google Maps to provide information on what is actually at that location. So popular events, restaurants, or nightclubs are easily spotted and displayed along with their pertinent information.

Currently the service is being publicly tested with BlackBerry users in San Francisco only, with plans to support the iPhone and extend to other major U.S. metro areas in the near future.

For more information, visit Tech Crunch's article on the service, or head directly to Sense Network's website.

So, you want to get tickets to see Conan O'Brien before he ups and moves to Los Angeles to take over Jay Leno? Better hurry -- by this time next year, the Late Show in New York will be a thing of the past (unless you really like Jimmy Fallon or something).

But, as you'll soon find out, scoring said tickets can be tricky. Don't fret, though -- Gadling is here to guide you through the process.

HOW TO GET TICKETS

Tickets to see a live taping of Conan O'Brien are, no doubt, some of the hardest to score in all of New York City. But don't let this dissuade you; with the right amount of planning, persistence, and spring in your step, you won't have a problem. First, the gritty details: Tickets are free, and can only be secured over the phone by calling (212) 664-3056 -- no websites or fax machines allowed. You can request a maximum of four tickets, and everyone in your party must be over 16-years old. Finally, you can only requests tickets once every six months.

The first step in the process is figuring out exactly when you'll be in the Big Apple. If you're a local, you can skip this part for obvious reasons -- but if you're visiting, don't bother trying to get tickets before you have your trip planned and know the exact dates in which you're available.

Remember the new travel publication, Everywhere Magazine, we told you about a few months back? If not, let me refresh your memory:

"It's created almost exclusively by its readers, who submit their best travel photographs, stories, and articles to the magazine's website," wrote Aaron. "Contributors who are published in the magazine receive $100 and a free one-year subscription."

The deadline is approaching for submissions to their Grand Opening section of the magazine. It's all about brand-new things for travelers to see or do in cities all around the world. What do they mean by new? Anything that's opened in the last year or so: new hotels, new restaurants, new museums or attractions. They run three Grand Opening pieces in every issue of Everywhere, and if you want to get your story published, you need to submit *both* a good photo of your Grand Opening location and about 100 words of caption text describing what it is and what makes it special. It's that simple.

For inspiration, here's an example of a recently-published Grand Opening piece: Renaissance Providence Hotel.

To submit your own entry, sign up for an account at Everywhere Magazine. Then you'll be able to upload your photo and write the 100-word caption. The deadline to make it into this edition is Saturday, May 31.

Midwestern fans of the newest, shiniest airline to hit American soil, Virgin America, received some good news this morning: the airline is seeking government approval to set up shop at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

O'Hare, the world's second busiest airport, would make Virgin America's 8th official destination with plans to fly to and from both San Francisco (SFO) and Los Angeles (LAX).

No official word on when this would happen if given approval, but we'll keep you updated.

Chicago Business has a good rundown of the logistics of such a process, and what it could mean for Chicago and O'Hare.

Yahoo: Virgin America Seeks Service to Chicago O'Hare
Photo: Kevin Miller on Flickr (CC)

Don't let the rising cost of air travel keep you from going somewhere this summer! Remember to enter a comment in Gadling's Southwest Airlines ticket giveaway by tomorrow, Friday, at 5:00 PM EST. You'll have a chance to score two free round-trip tickets to and from anywhere SWA flies. Best. Contest. Ever.

Click here to enter.

When your friends dare you to jump a fence at your local Six Flags and punch a camel, do you A) laugh at them for being ridiculous and go wait in line for one of those giant turkey legs, or B) laugh at them for being ridiculous then actually do it?

Christopher Allen, a 24-year-old resident of Vallejo, California, went with option B, and was later arrested by local police after escaping from park security.

As the LA Times blog points out, he may have been impersonating Governor Schwarzenegger.

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Some new (to me) photos of the elaborate, sophisticated, luxurious, jealousy-inducing Singapore Airlines A380 emerged recently, and I've got the whole lot in a convenient gallery below. Feast your eyes on the amenities most of us will never have the chance to experience, like in-flight chess games and video monitors the size of my television at home.

Some of these are repeats, but some are new. Have a look:

Gallery: New Singapore Airlines A380 photos