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...send a custom-made postcard, simply snap a picture with your mobile and send it to British-based firm Mobycards, tel: (44-7921) 505050, or as an e-mail from your phone to postcard@mobycards.com if you're signed up with a non-British mobile provider. In the text part of the message, type "Mobycards" followed by the recipient's address and your greeting. Mobycards will then print your picture and message in old-fashioned postcard form and pop it in the mail the same day, as long as you contact Mobycards before 3 p.m. GMT. The service is available...
...This is not a lap dance in Las Vegas, but a revered Balinese custom known as the joged bumbung, or bamboo dance. Yet it is one of hundreds of traditions across the Indonesian archipelago that could be banned under legislation being deliberated by the national parliament. The bill, which is supported by several Muslim parties, would render illegal any behavior or images that might be considered sexually provocative. Women who bare their shoulders or legs, or artists who use nudity in their work, could be prosecuted for indecency and fined up to 2 billion rupiah (about $220,000) or even...
...Jerusalem, it is the Jewish custom to fold written prayers inside the cracks of the Western Wall. Last night, after exit polls in the Israeli elections gave his centrist Kadima Party a slim lead over its rivals, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wedged his prayer between the stones. Translated from Hebrew, it said: "He who prays for my brother and friend I will speak peace...
...Phaidon Design Classics A comprehensive guide to classic design, this three-volume set presents 999 products ranging from a pair of Chinese household scissors from the early 1600s to Michael Graves' 9093 Whistling Kettle commissioned by Alessi in 1985. The set comes in a custom-designed carrying case...
...Through memories, family sayings, and photographs, he recreates daily life: chores, trips to church, the three-mile trek to the schoolhouse, marriages and deaths, and more chores. It?s not easy living in what he calls ?a pioneer community of three hundred people isolated by landscape, language, belief and custom...