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The Google Image Labeler is the most addicting.thing.EVER.

Send help.

If this is your first time playing or if you haven't read them before, PLEASE read the rules first.

The ones I think no one will get, everyone gets, and vice-versa.

Good luck!

This is my 1,000th post to Latitude13 and it seems fitting to link to a page that tells you how not to start a weblog of your own. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

"If attention and validation are what you're looking for, know that you will get neither from blogging. As above, very few people will ever know that your blog (or you, by proxy) exists. The remainder of comments posted to your blog will be sappy treacle, which you won't trust as being sincere anyway."

I trust you guys are totally sincere.

[via Tropic]

1,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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9/11 - The Days After on Flickr.

Urunao, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya...

I was recently invited to spend the day at a fabulous day resort on the beautiful Urunao Beach and was all set to write a glowing review. It is the perfect place to play tourist for a day on Guam. But as I began to gather information about the resort, I wasn't able to get very far because I couldn't find them in the phonebook. I called 411 but the operator could not find a single listing for the resort. I looked them up in the GHRA directory. Nothing. I called Resort's parent company. No answer. I had Google translate their japanese-only website into english to find the contact info. Still nothing. After all that I came to this conclusion: The Resort is not interested in doing business with Guam residents. Boo. So I am not going to write that glowing review because I'd rather recommend businesses who welcome everyone (and don't make me work so hard to spend my money).

I'd like to ask businesses on Guam that don't offer resident incentives or even care about the local dollar--what will you do when the next typhoon hits or something else happens that keeps tourists away for an extended period of time? When all the tourists are gone, who's left? The people who LIVE here, that's who. It really irks me to walk into a shop or restaurant in my hometown and find that EVERYTHING is written in japanese. I understand the desire to make our visitors feel comfortable when they come to Guam, but there is a fine line between catering to tourists and catering exclusively to tourists and you can bet I won't be going back to the place that doesn't even have an english menu. By the way, aside from the airport and train stations I was hard pressed to find anything written in ENGLISH when I visited japan, but I was not put out or discouraged from visiting again. Only the ignorant and arrogant traveller expects every country to speak his language. I'm just saying.

(I wonder if our korean and chinese tourists are as irked as I am when they stumble into one of those japanese-only places.)

Anyway, about Urunao. It is gorgeous. White sand that goes on forever. It's all private property so you shouldn't just drive in and park anywhere. What you can do is park at Ritidian and walk along the beach from there. Or maybe you'll be one of the lucky ducks who receive an invite to a certain solar-powered ranch that is down the beach from the Resort.