The Apple enthusiast community — cult is such an ugly word — buzzes louder every day anticipating the unveiling of a shiny new amulet. We won’t know exactly what it is until Steve Jobs finishes his conversation with the burning bush and descends from the mountain. But the soothsayers in the valley below have been busy casting yarrow stalks and reading tea leaves. “He who is called Jobs will unveil a tablet computer called the iSlate,” they say: “It will be bigger than an iPhone and smaller than a MacBook. It will revolutionize the way people read books and magazines and watch movies.” “All hail He-who-is-called-Jobs,” the community chants. Read more at Wired+Wireless
We did something the other day that we hadn’t done in ages: we became tourists for a day. Just as the morning sun cast its butter-colored rays across Siem Reap, we caught a tuk-tuk to the temples. With one-day passes in our pockets, we joined the throngs at Angkor (my, how things have changed!). 
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Khmer BBQ on the Bayon Walls
By Karen Coates on February 7, 2010
We did something the other day that we hadn’t done in ages: we became tourists for a day. Just as the morning sun cast its butter-colored rays across Siem Reap, we caught a tuk-tuk to the temples. With one-day passes in our pockets, we joined the throngs at Angkor (my, how things have changed!). More.
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Dinner for 1, w/Phone & Grin
By Karen Coates on February 4, 2010
So you’re a young Khmer guy in the big town of Siem Reap, and you’re out for dinner—alone. But your honey is on the phone, and your grin gives that fact away. You chat and chat with that grin real wide until the fried rice comes to the table. More.
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Small Fish in a Big Soup
By Karen Coates on January 30, 2010
This is not the fish we had for breakfast. This happens to be a fish we had for lunch last year in a village along the Mekong. It was a big meaty snakehead, straight from the river, and our host, Monin, paid a pretty price for it. The fish pictured was not farmed. It had [...]
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