This Japanese ski resort toilet has everything: a vertiginous, trompe l'oeil mural, a pink toilet that washes your bum, AND an incomprehensible slogan for a brand of tinned coffee! Georgia Max Coffee chose to redesign the toilets of a number of key ski resorts in Japan. The cubicles were fully wrapp...

Ein "Ligapokal" gehört zu jener Unsitte, die ich nur begrenzt nachvollziehen. In England schwächt dieses Überangebot beide Pokalwettbewerbe und in Frankreich wird der Ligaverband die TV-Rechte nicht los. Der französische Ligaverband LFP hat die Rechte neu ausgeschrieben, aber es hat nur einen ei...

  I am an Episcopalian and lately I've been away from church. Its hard to get out in the winter. And yet I am proud of the progressive stance that Episcopalians have taken when it comes to disability and inclusion. The Episcopal Accessibility Network has lots of useful information about disabil...

OK LETS PLAY I HAVE NEVER, ready go. I have never/not the following things: been to a spa - heinous i know, why must i suffer lord, my life just isn’t pampery enough yet, so unfair. i need a tiny japanese lady to walk on my back and slap the back of my calves and finish me off. whatever, i hav...

Boss Bird Is Back In Town By Barnie Day HEADWATERS OF THE DAN—The kingfisher kept his word and came back yesterday. He left out in mid-October—probably to South America. I don’t know for sure. He keeps his secrets, too. I was on our back patio, watching the sun come streaking and flaring over ...

Many of us at the winter office are busy getting ready to take vacations!  We can't get away during the summer - we are busy working hard to make sure you have a great vacation at Migis - waterskiing on Sebago Lake, watching sunsets while sipping cocktails, munching on Lobsters at the Frid...

The news just keeps getting worse for the Girl Scouts. First some jerk started paying for cookies with fake money — now some guy in a ski mask robbed some Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside of a grocery store in Alaska. According to the Juneau Empire, the girls and their troop leader...

Ein “Ligapokal” gehört zu jener Unsitte, die ich nur begrenzt nachvollziehen. In England schwächt dieses Ãœberangebot beide Pokalwettbewerbe und in Frankreich wird der Ligaverband die TV-Rechte nicht los. Der französische Ligaverband LFP hat die Rechte neu ausgeschrieben, aber es hat ...

My latest column has been published in the Malaysia Star . ... Folks from those parts of the world—or even the parts of the United States—that have only known warm climates have a hard time getting a handle on snow, even after a few winters where snow is common. So it occurs to me—...

Why are there radio stations aimed at kids? Dallas Morning News, TXCrunch Gear has an amusing post about plans to transform one New York radio station from a rock format to a pop format. The folks who own the radio station say the new format will provide "young adults" with a venue to "discover...