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Unemotional Baggage
bagged!

You’d send your luggage ahead — if only telling those shipping services apart weren’t as difficult as finding your black rolly on the carousel. Here’s the best of what’s out there.

First …
What you can’t send: weapons, flammables, pets. (Duh.) Bags traveling overseas must include a copy of your passport, list of contents, and sometimes your itinerary.

Advance Warning
You should send seven to ten days in advance for international (customs slows things), 24-48 hours ahead for domestic. So pack ahead. Though Luggage Express (866-744-7224) books pickups until 4 p.m. EST the day before.

Kid Gloves
LuggageFree (800-361-6871) arranges specific pickup times (vs. the typical 1-5 p.m. window), wraps bags in protective plastic, and notifies you of arrival by phone or e-mail. Luggage Forward (866-416-7447) allows you to track bags via PDA or cell and insures for up to $10,000.

Light Packer?
The Luggage Club (877-231-5131) quotes shipping fees by weight and service level. Use delayed ground (three to five days) if possible: Priority overnight is way pricier.

Old Reliable
For a (relatively) cheap option, go to the source: FedEx (800-463-3339) charges based on bag weight, dimensions, and destination zip code; online tracking is easy. (Most services use them anyway.)

Happier trails to you.

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OneWebDay - celebrate online life today. (in Cyberculture Events)
MOO MiniCards - putting the Web in your pocket. (in Business Cards & Stationery)
ReFrederator - wabbits, spinach, and putty tats. (in Animation Downloads)
Pruned
The screenshotEncarta Dictionary defines "to prune" as "to cut branches away from a plant to encourage fuller growth." And encouraged growth is exactly what you get on this lush, enthusiastic blog on landscape architecture. Its creator, Alexander Trevi, clearly knows how to tend his online garden. Under his careful green thumb, wind tunnels, precision farming, sunken monuments, and Martian dust devils blow, race, and settle just beautifully. On any day, you may encounter musings on Dubai, thoughts on the possibility of a bioengineered zoo in Toronto, or a post "all atwitter" over Chicago's old main post office becoming an indoor cemetery. We love wandering through Pruned's maze of topics and images, and we're not the only ones. In April, one reader left a comment that just skirted incoherence, but still managed to express the pleasures of wandering through this site: "Discovering universe wonder through your site, never stop to amaze me. Those are magnificat findings!" (in Design Arts)
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Ahmadinejad.ir - the president speaks. (in Iran > Government Officials)
Easy123Art.com - what's your number? (in Painting Supplies)

 

 

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Ticket to Fly

Even if you plan on changing your name to your husband's, book honeymoon airline tickets in your maiden name. This way, your airline documents will match your passport, driver's license, birth certificate, or other identification necessary at airport checkpoints. This will also make for a smooth passage through customs when traveling abroad. Save your married name for your next trip, when all documents have been updated


 


Portfolio in the Whole

When meeting with a photographer, be sure to view an album from one entire wedding, not just the best shots from the most beautiful weddings he has ever photographed. If you review one of these "best of" portfolios, you won't get a realistic idea of the photographer's ability nor will you see the finished product that you're most likely to wind up with.

 

The season of skin-showing has thankfully given way to a fall full of awesomely oversize attire (save skinny jeans), but you don’t want to actually give in to voluminousness … really.

Nike and Apple joined to create the ultimate motivator — Nike+. People are already jogging with their iPods and Nike footwear all the time — so why not sync them up?

Nike+ comes with a sensor that fits inside hot new Nike shoes and a receiver that connects to your iPod nano. Together, these ingenious pieces track every move you make — distance, pace, calories, and time. You can download Sport iMixes (music made to move you) and hear voice feedback (hello, Lance!) at every interval.

Then connect your iPod to your computer and launch nikeplus.com. You’ll see shiny graphs of your runs, set goals (i.e., “Must burn 1,000 calories in four weeks”) and do challenges with friends around the globe.

Like they always say (and always mean) … just do it!


To learn more and get started, go to nikeplus.com.


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Pure Protein
yummy!

Sweet Tooth: Go ahead. You know you want to.

Conscience: Don’t do it. There’s nothing in there that’s good for you. Plus, you know what they say: Once on the lips, forever on the hips.

Sweet Tooth: Oh, come on. It can’t be that bad.

Conscience: Remember your new skinny jeans?

Sweet Tooth: Wait a sec. There must be a smidge of fiber in that apple pie.

Chomp.

Before you start to wallow in regret, know this: There’s a way to please both your cravings and your conscience: The Protein Bakery.

Just like the name implies, each cookie or brownie is packed with protein — at least six grams. They’re also made with fiber, rolled oat flour, organic brown sugar, and other high-quality ingredients, so these little powerhouses can really flex some muscle.

But it’s the scrumptious flavors like classic chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal cranberry, and chocolate cherry that are the icing on the cake. (Well, so to speak.)

That ought to keep both voices happy. No matter how you slice it.


Available online at proteinbakery.com.