“A collection of photos containing humorous, bizarre, and or confusing signs from around the world.”

“Body gestures have different meanings according to the country in which they are expressed. We shall seek to examine the proper body etiquette in the nations of the world on a per continent basis. We shall begin our review with Europe.”

A handy reference. “These pages are currently not maintained as I do not have the time to devote to keep all pages up-to-date. Enjoy them but please be aware of the fact that not all pages are current.”

“When Paul Grimes, the originator of the Practical Traveler column, turned it over to me 14 years ago, he said the most important task was to read the fine print on everything — tickets, insurance fliers, tour brochures, guarantees. In the big type, he said, everyone fibs. Typical is the ‘nine night’ tour that the small type clearly shows includes one night in an airline seat. It’s a good first principle. And now that it is time for me to yield this space, I thought to compress into the allotted 1,200 words other nuggets I have derived from 613 weeks — I did take vacations — of sometimes furious research. So here goes.”

“Vindigo is a personal navigation tool — tell it where you are or where you’re going and it can find the nearest and best places to eat, shop, and play. Vindigo knows about every great restaurant, bar, movie, and store in your city.”

This looks cool. Find out what’s available at U.S. highway exits. “eXitSource is a leader in the mobile information business. There are over 2.4 million data points in the current database, which includes over 20,000 exits within a quarter mile radius of either side of the every interstate highway exit in the U.S., with over 130,000 individual businesses organized into categories such as Food, Gas, Lodging, Retail, Medical, etc.”

“ITA’s Trip Finder gives travelers a powerful, easy-to-use tool for quickly finding the travel option that best meets their needs.”

“The International Traveler’s Visual Language Translator Card. KWIKPOINT is a picture card of over 600 color illustrations designed to help an international traveler communicate. It is easy to use; travelers just point to a picture indicating what they want to communicate. KWIKPOINT’S visual vocabulary includes FOOD, EATING OUT, SHELTER, TRANSPORTATION, SHOPPING, SERVICES, and CUSTOMS.” Note: The drawings won’t win any awards but it would be a handy thing to carry around.

Make reservations for shared-ride door-to-door ground transportation to and from 21 airports in the United States.

“UltraDNS, Whois, Traceroute, Calculators, Software, Spam Tools, Geek Hotels, Domain Registration, Copyright… It seemed to us that we were always looking for a way to have all the external resources we use often, at our fingertips. And there were all sorts of cool tools that seemed to be in different places that kept moving and disappearing as people moved around the net, from company to company.” Here they are, and, hey, the hotel pages are nice; they list places to stay with internet connections.

“This Java applet formats freeway signs for you. You provide the route numbers, town names, exits, and your choice of arrows — and SignMaker draws a sign for you. Since SignMaker uses the authentic ‘freeway font’ (FHWA E(M)), provides over 40 route markers to choose from, and mounts the sign on metal supports against a blue sky, the effect is quite realistic.”

Good subway maps can be really cool. Here’s a page devoted to all things subway. Tube map!

Continuing with yesterday’s time.gov link theme… get your “Personal World Clock” — it lets you add up to 16 cities and shows you the current time in all of them. There are a few other neat-o features here too…

More interesting than it sounds. Nice time links page.

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