This will be great for Netflix customers who are also Mac users. Right now we cannot Watch Instantly, but this gadget will make it possible!!

Is anyone else from around Philadelphia feeling disappointed by the actual facts of the matter?

Note that the quote comes from CharlesTOWN (apparently a place in Massachusetts), not CharlesTON, South Carolina. We Southerners aren't to blame for ALL the ignorance in this world!

Not surprising: the wise city-dweller avoids talking with strangers and suspects everyone of a scam.

In London especially, the skunk dealers, newspaper pushers, Scientologists and advertisements are incredibly invasive. To survive your pedestrian journey, you must ignore as many of these hindrances as possible.

I think the gender issue may have to do with the fact that women are even LESS likely to want to get in a conversation with a random dude on the street--most of the encounters I've had like that were quite creepy.

Loved it--thanks for posting!!

#4--Crazy, you too! (see my above comment)

I'm remembering now that those skulls were among the best lit, so it was possible to take a halfway decent photo of them without a flash (flash photography being forbidden).

Strangely, I posted a very similar photo of the SAME TWO SKULLS (!!!!!) on my blog back in October:

http://www.agentdanger.net/interzone/2007/10/paris-paris-qes.html

Considering the fact that there are MILLIONS of skeletons stacked in the catacombs, that's pretty bizarre! (The National Geographic photo definitely looks better, with whitish light instead of yellow.)

Anyway, yes, the Catacombs are incredible--particularly the morbid French poetry posted on the walls, reminding the visitor that life is short.