links for 2007-05-09

• Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets: Size Matters
  "Why such a threat? It's a matter of scale. With an 8% annual growth since 1980, cruise tourism has increased at almost twice the rate of tourism overall. A record 8.35 million people took cruises worldwide in 2005. By 2010 that number is expected to doub
  (tags: cruise travel ocean weird)
• storySouth / notable short stories of 2006
  A reading list
  (tags: fiction markets writing awards)