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Evan J. Lushing ’04 and Gregory R. Atwan ’05 are planning to make a career out of an activity college students nationwide use as fodder for amusement—surfing the Facebook. This spring, the duo aims to release a facetious guidebook for the popular social networking Web site created by Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006. The book, Lushing said, will feature joke pieces, satires, urban legends, and “fictional and fanciful” anecdotes. “The book is like a Facebook...
...declined to comment further over the weekend. In 2001, St. Martin’s commissioned a report about Let’s Go that panned the series as “young,” “commercial,” “beginner’s guidebook,” with “frivolous, silly” humor. The report, which was based on four San Francisco focus groups, suggested that Let’s Go discontinue its guides and reopen with a different brand name. “It is extremely difficult to change...
...agreements between ancient kings and merchants carved in clay; just a few rooms away can be seen beautiful Korans and other incredible works of medieval art in stone, ceramic and wood. Many of the displays are not labeled or are identified confusingly (and rarely in English). The museum's guidebook is dense and difficult to use, but one presses on regardless, spellbound by the archaeological wealth on show...
...growing number of itinerant Samaritans like Yates. With leading market-research firm Euromonitor International touting this niche's growth potential, particularly among single travelers, Voluntourism.org's newsletter now boasts nearly 1,900 trade subscribers, up from a mere 30 in March 2005. Lonely Planet published its first volunteer-travel guidebook in June--which was good timing, considering that a recent Travelocity poll found that almost twice as many vacationers (11%) planned to volunteer this year...
...guidebook to Paris lists the top 10 best places to kiss in the “City of Love,” including Pont Neuf, the Musée Rodin, Montmarte, and the Eiffel Tower. Apparently the writers forgot to mention the Luxembourg Garden. And the line outside my local crêperie stand. Even the moving sidewalk in the Châtelet metro station...