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Yes, you can do this! A newish Web site called Campinmygarden.com enables you to connect with folks who’ll let you pitch a tent in their yards for a small fee.
It’s the same online community concept established by sites like Airbnb.com and Couchsurfing.org — only you’ll sleep outside the house, rather than inside.
How Winners Work: The Great HowStuffWorks Contest of ’11
by Josh Clark | December 9, 2011
First, let me say they made me write this. They being the marketing department, the people who make others write about themselves in blog posts about contests that the writer figures into as a prize. Would it be too unsettling to write about myself in third person instead? Let me try that.
Camping in an Old Vacuum Factory Building
by Amanda Arnold | August 31, 2011
OK, so this isn’t exactly camping. After all, there are “luxurious bathrooms” on the premises, according to Treehugger. But this isn’t like sleeping at the Days Inn, either. Your “room” will be a delightfully revamped vintage camper or a cabin. Your “great outdoors” will be the inside of an old vacuum-cleaner factory.
Once again (as with the movie “Salt”), I am late to the party on Inception, but it is still fascinating. The following video goes behind the scenes to explain how they did the Hotel Corridor part of the movie. The video also explains why many movies cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make: Also [...]
The photographs of the world’s largest Cylindrical Aquarium are amazing: AquaDome, the largest Cylindrical Aquarium Elevator The video even more so: The aquarium in the lobby of the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin. A million liters of saltwater, thousands of fish and 13 million Euros spent for the aquarium alone. Opened up 2003. This is [...]
Why Bedbugs Might Take Over the World
by Amanda Arnold | January 26, 2011
Like vampires, bedbugs feed on your blood. And it hurts.
But it’s worse than that. These little blood-sucking beasts have been evolving to resist the pesticides we’ve developed to make them go bye-bye. That’s why they’re in your hotel bed, Mr. and Ms. Traveler.
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