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Books! Actual books!

"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"

-- The Wall Street Journal

"Pulls you in like a good sports story"

-- The New York Times Book Review

"Endearingly frank... jubilant... lighthearted and fast-paced"

-- New York Newsday

"A surprisingly touching memoir"

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Snappy and informative"

-- Associated Press

"Effortlessly funny and informative... tender, human, and very wise... A must for anyone who loves Jeopardy!, or has ever seen it, or is breathing."

-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I haven't seen Jeopardy! since I was a kid, and yet I was charmed and amused by Bob Harris's fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful book. Through sheer force of personality, he takes this brainy TV show and makes it funny and easy to relate to."

-- Ira Glass, creator and host, This American Life

"A surprisingly intimate, entertaining book."

-- Orson Scott Card, 4-time Hugo Award winner, author of Ender's Game

"Funny, enlightening -- and just might help you win a million bucks on Jeopardy!"

-- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All

"A masterful job of describing the feel of Jeopardy! in the heat of battle... I knew Bob was a great guy and a fantastic Jeopardy! player. Now I've found that he's also a wonderful writer. I think I'm starting to hate him."

-- Brad Rutter, top money-winner in Jeopardy! history

Books I'm Getting

Who Hates Whom:
Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts,
and Various Things Blowing Up —
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

“Revelatory... Harris's sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating... witty, horrific, and necessary.”

— Boston Globe

"Brave... irreverent... charges into the thick of the globe's myriad simmering wars... hilariously relaxed."

— New York Observer

"Only Bob could make a user’s guide to our increasingly hostile world this absorbing, this breezy, and—ultimately—this hopeful.”

— Ken Jennings, author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING. A gimlet-eyed look at the world we endure that’s also suitable for enjoying with a gimlet.”

— John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

"All three [presidential] candidates should read all three of these [recommended] books, but McCain gets first crack at Bob Harris's "Who Hates Whom“... a lighthearted overview of the insurrections and civil wars in the world today."

— Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought, in the New York Times Book Review

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Travel

Date	Item Title
Thursday, 11 September 2008	Not Quite an Earthshaking Revelation (But Something You Can Help With Anyway)
Wednesday, 10 September 2008	Happy Ramadan -- from Fuddruckers and Krispy Kreme
Thursday, 14 August 2008	Taking Another Lap
Friday, 06 June 2008	Kilimanjaro Calling
Friday, 16 May 2008	Conviction in the Murder of Victor Jara — 35 Years Later
Wednesday, 07 May 2008	Chilean Volcanoes: Pretty Kaboom
Friday, 02 May 2008	Since Battlestar Galactica is on tonight...
Wednesday, 30 April 2008	Third World Politics in a Nutshell
Wednesday, 30 April 2008	Fun Chilean Billboards, part two
Tuesday, 29 April 2008	Fun Chilean Billboards, part one
Thursday, 17 January 2008	Everybody Loves Sand Hooters
Tuesday, 08 January 2008	Fernando's hideaway
Tuesday, 18 December 2007	¡No Mas!
Friday, 14 December 2007	Airport Security in Colombia: Compare and Contrast
Wednesday, 12 December 2007	Colombia: Not the Greatest Tourism Slogan Ever
Thursday, 15 November 2007	Busy in Belfast
Sunday, 14 October 2007	OK, Now You're Just Gloating
Friday, 12 October 2007	They take their left turns seriously in Vancouver
Wednesday, 19 September 2007	More Iceland
Friday, 31 August 2007	Gullfoss, Icelandic Land of Human Sacrifice (Almost)
Thursday, 30 August 2007	More Iceland
Thursday, 30 August 2007	More TMW
Sunday, 19 August 2007	Althings Considered
Wednesday, 15 August 2007	Portland Revisited: It Will Be, I Promise
Tuesday, 14 August 2007	Portland, Oregon
Tuesday, 17 July 2007	Grenada
Monday, 14 May 2007	What "1 vs. 100" looks like in France
Tuesday, 01 May 2007	Fresh Fruit and Cargo Passenger Flights
Tuesday, 01 May 2007	Calvary
Sunday, 22 April 2007	Montserrat
Sunday, 15 April 2007	Sign me right up
Tuesday, 10 April 2007	I now know where I want to retire
Thursday, 05 April 2007	Cities of the dead in Guadeloupe
Monday, 02 April 2007	Suddenly I'm in France
Friday, 30 March 2007	Microsoft arrives at the Cricket World Cup
Wednesday, 28 March 2007	Cricket fans are the best-dressed on earth
Tuesday, 20 March 2007	Finally
Sunday, 18 March 2007	No guts, no glory
Friday, 16 March 2007	I'll have the Goat Water, please
Tuesday, 13 March 2007	Beauty in the West Indies
Monday, 12 March 2007	Sign for today
Saturday, 10 March 2007	The Little-Known History of Fort Tricot, the Best-Defended T-Shirt Shop on Earth
Wednesday, 07 March 2007	Ulp
Monday, 05 March 2007	Warming up in St. V
Sunday, 04 March 2007	Nothing to see here, really, but
Tuesday, 27 February 2007	Great seats!
Sunday, 14 May 2006	Extra bonus Tobagoblogging
Friday, 28 April 2006	Friday Tobagoblogging
Tuesday, 18 April 2006	Trinidad & Tobago
Monday, 27 February 2006	Monday waterpudublogging

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This site's mascot, the pudu (actual species name: pudu pudu) is the world's tiniest deer, a two-foot-tall little ungulate with big wide eyes and a body that resembles a Vienna sausage balanced on four wobbly toothpicks.

Imagine a full-grown deer whose nose is at the height of your shins, peering up at you timidly and hoping you might give it a mulberry leaf to chew. That's a pudu.

Pudus have no natural defenses to speak of. When threatened, pudus usually try to find a log to hide behind or possibly climb. This works about as well as it sounds like. Overall, they're endangered and they look like they know it.

Not surprisingly, pudus are losing their habitat, like lots of wonderful species are. So enjoy them while they're here.

PS -- Pudus aren't really from Peru; they're from Chile and Argentina. But those don't rhyme with "pudu" as well as "Perudu."
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