January 2006: Quicklinks

Gadgets on the Go

Bushnell
bushnell.com

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Travelin’ the Web

VirtualTourist.com
www.virtualtourist.com

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Attraction Update

Disney-MGM Studios, Orlando, Fla.
www.magicalmountain.net

Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Orlando, Fla.
disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=ExpeditionEverestPage

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Seeing the World Through Genre-Coloured Glases:
The Genre Imagination in Advertising

Aflac Insurance, "Horror Movie"
www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=22628

Coca Cola Beat, "Alien"
www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=23531

Mountain Dew, "Let’s Play"
www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=21945

AARP, "Clones"
www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=22054

Old Navy, "School is coming, Lockers"
www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=24187

Hummer H3, "Monsters"
www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=25330

FedEx, "Jenkins, Alien"
www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=13762

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Lestat Sings His Way to Broadway

Lestat
www.lestat.com

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Reviving The Enchanted Forest

WebsitesAmerica.com
websitesamerica.com/websitesamerica/index.htm

Clark’s Elioak Farm
www.clarklandfarm.com

Hampton Hotel’s Save-A-Landmark program
www.hamptonlandmarks.com

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The Genre Traveler‘s Guide to Orlando

Putting Edge
www.putting-edge.com

Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf
www.piratescove.net/location/5

Skull Kingdom
www.skullkingdom.com

Wonder Works
www.wonderworksonline.com

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium
www.ripleysorlando.com

Matrix (nightclub)
www.metropolismatrix.com/matrix

The Cyber Shack Café
www.cybershackcafe.com

Pirate’s Cove Miniature Golf and Pirate’s Island Miniature Golf
www.piratesislandgolf.com

The Orlando Science Center
www.osc.org

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Orlando Genre Dinner Theatre

Medieval Times
www.medievaltimes.com

Pirate’s Dinner Adventure
www.piratesdinneradventure.com

Arabian Nights
www.arabian-nights.com

Sleuth’s Mystery Dinner Shows
sleuths.com

Disney’s Character Dining
www.disney.ca/vacations/disneyworld/II/C/character/index.shtml

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Murder, Mystery and Mayhem

ShadowStalkers
www.shadowstalkers.net

Cedar Point Resorts
resorts.cedarpoint.com/public/murdermystery.cfm

Captain Montague’s Bed & Breakfast
www.bbhost.com/captainmontagues
www.shadowstalkers.net/capt.htm

The Victorian Villa Inn
www.avictorianvilla.com
www.shadowstalkers.net/villa.htm

Ravenwood Castle
ravenwoodcastle.com
www.shadowstalkers.net/raven.htm

Carl Denham’s War of the Worlds
www.shadowstalkers.net/team.htm

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A Trip to Transylvania

Dracula Tour to Transylvania
www.dractour.com

Quest Tours & Adventures
www.romtour.com/drtours.html

Adventure Transylvania
www.adventuretransylvania.com

Transylvania Uncovered
www.beyondtheforest.com

Discover Romania
discoverromania.ro

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Demons to Devour the Sun!

Eclipse Safety Information
www.mcglaun.com/Eclipse/safety.htm

American Paper Optics, Eclipsers
www.3dglassesonline.com/eclipse.html

Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29
newton.physics.metu.edu.tr/~aat/TSE2006/TSE2006.html

NASA Eclipse Home Pages
unearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html

Bogazici University
(Kandilli Observatory & Earthquake Research Institute Astronomy Laboratory)
www.eclipse2006.boun.edu.tr/eclipse_2006eng.html

Explorers Tours
www.explorers.co.uk/astro/libya2006FP.asp

AfricaGuide.com
www.africaguide.com/culture/2006.htm

Navigatour
www.navigatour.com/Solar_eclipse/9distanttour.htm

FLO USA
www.flo-usa.com

TravelQuest
www.tq-international.com/Egypt06/Egypthome.htm

Tropical Sails
www.tropicalsails.com/eclipse

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Pirates, Pirates Everywhere

The Pirates Realm
www.thepiratesrealm.com

Which Pirates of the Caribbean Character Are You?
lucid.lunacy.nu/quiz/pirates.html

No Quarter Given
www.noquartergiven.net

Pirates! Facts & Legend
www.piratesinfo.com

International Talk Like A Pirate Day
www.talklikeapirate.com

Gasparilla, Tampa, Fla.
gasparillapiratefest.com/home.htm

Hampton Blackbeard Festival, Hampton, Va.
www.blackbeardfestival.com

Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
www.fwbchamber.org/programs_events/billy_bowlegs_main.htm

St. Andrews Fall Seafood and Pirate Fest,Panama City Beach, Fla.
www.emeraldcoastevents.com/festivals.htm

Ojai Renaissance & Pirate Faire, Ojai, Calif.
www.goldcoastfestivals.com/piratefaire/piratefestpg1.html

Privateer Day, Fell’s Point, Md.
www.fellspointdevelopment.com/privateerday.html

Pirates in Paradise Festival, Key West, Fla.
piratesinparadise.com

Treasure Island Adventure Golf
www.adventuregolf.co.nz

La Guinguette Pirate
english.pidf.com/page/p-291/art_id-1025/idf-AscIDFSRV0000217/
www.guinguettepirate.com

Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf
www.dells.com/display.php?id=398

Pirate’s Island at Storybook Gardens
www.storybook.london.ca/index.html

Pirates 4D
www.vegas.com/attractions/on_the_strip/pirates.html

The Pirates Museum
www.pirates-of-nassau.com/museum.htm

A Pirates Glossary of Terms
homepage.mac.com/crabola/PirateGlossary/Menu22.html

Evil Stevie’s Pirate Game Pirate Glossary
www.io.com/~sj/PirateTalk.html

YoHoHo! Puzzle Pirates
www.puzzlepirates.com/docs/vocabulary.html

Brethren of the Coast Nautical Glossar
www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Nau.html

Pirates of the Caribbean Fan Trips
potcfantrips.com

On the Trail of the Pirate’s Treasure
www.alexcolonialtours.com/familyfun.html

Captain Billy Baye’s Pirates of the Chesapeake
www.watermarkcruises.com/tours_group_pirate_cruises.shtml

The Pirates & Buccaneers of Charleston
www.piratesofcharleston.com

"Pirate Land" Marigalante in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
vallartaonline.com/tours/marigalante/

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Step Into the Mists of Avalon

Sacred Journeys for Women
www.sacredjourneys.com

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Happenings and Conventions

Nostalgia & Technology: Embracing the New through Art and Design
cfac.byu.edu/moa

Retrofantasma Film Series: Friday the 13th
www.carolinatheatre.org/onscreen/festivals/retrofantasma.htm

Science Fiction Short Film Festival
www.sfhomeworld.org
www.seattlefilm.org

7th Annual Nevermore Horror, Gothic & Fantasy Film Festival
festivals.carolinatheatre.org/nevermore/

MarsCon 16
www.marscon.net

Katsuson 12
www.katsucon.org

Farpoint 2006
www.bcpl.net/~wilsonr/

Boskone 43
www.boskone.org

Potlatch 15
www.potlatch-sf.org

ConDFW V
www.condfw.org

All-Con
www.All-Con.org

Lunacon 2006
www.lunacon.org

I-Con 25
www.iconsf.org

Tekkoshocon 4
www.tekkoshocon.com

Concussion: Eastercon 2006
www.eastercon2006.org

RavenCon 2006
www.ravencon.org

Malice Domestic XVIII
www.malicedomestic.org

Capclave 2006
www.capclave.org

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