Fly Favorites: April 09

Over the last few weeks, I've run across several interesting Internet items that I thought I'd share with you, my dear readers, starting with:

• A Hundred Single Ladies in Piccadilly Circus

• Life Magazine's brand-new online gallery of stunning travel photographs.

• Jet Set Zero: "...a group of twenty-somethings traveling the world after only three months of minimum-wage work. We started with nothing to see just how far we can go, and have a few good adventures along the way." Why the HELL didn't I think of this when I was in MY 20s?

• Writer Christine Garvin's treatise on cultural interloping, "White By Birth, Another Heritage By Choice", at Matador Network's Brave New Traveler blog.

• The Micro Machines-style interactive map of casino development on the Las Vegas Strip from the Las Vegas Sun newspaper (It's more interesting if you start at 2007 and work backwards).

• The humorous rundown, over at World Hum, of the tightrope walk that is international dating etiquette: "Around the World in Five Dates".

• Gawjus Jawjuh peach and consummate salsera, Zhaleh, currently in Korea, and some of the darnedest things people say to her, as elucidated at Supa Dupa Fly Seoul Sista.

• Smelling, tasting, and feeling the Cidade Maravilhosa through my computer screen while being swept up in Alex Forman's visceral travel dispatch on Rio de Janeiro over at Nerve (This is inspired prose!).
  

• Upgrade: Travel Better's thoughtful, thorough report on The Best Airfare Comparison Sites, and I guarantee you, it ain't Orbitz or Expedia.
  


• The very impressive Afro-Swedish culture and lifestyle e-magazine, Urbanlife, and its review of the hilarious French race-changing comedy, Agathe Cléry (You HAVE to watch the trailer).
  

Photo by Taro Taylor

• Taro Taylor's astounding photographs of the people and landscapes of the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea.

• Travellious' quick-n-easy guide to getting your first passport, for those of you who still haven't caught on that true ballers go through Immigration, biyotch!
  
  
• And last, but not least, IHOP is finally in all 50 states. BDT.