Island Chronicle extra: Abandoned Raratonga Sheraton. BoingBoing reader David Calkins points us to elegant photos of colonial waste in the South Pacific, where BoingBoing founder Mark Frauenfelder recently moved with his family:

I was reading the Island Chronicles and came across their passage about the abandoned Sheraton:

"For the last 1000 years, Rarotonga has managed to retain a unique South Pacific culture. But about ten years ago, the Sheraton chain broke ground on the island to build a huge destination resort. When we visited the island in 1994, construction workers were just beginning to build the hotel. We were sure the hotel would ruin this island. ... Fortunately, the Sheraton project went bust when it was about 80% finished. . . The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle. Horses and cattle contentedly graze in the shadows of the unoccupied concrete structures."

Just imagine: Concrete structure over-run with vines. Like Machu Pichu only with modern architecture. Being a bit of an urban explorer, I thought it must be an awesome site - but alas, I won't be flying to the Cooks this year. Fortunately, there's this tool called "Google." I found these great photo albums: Link one, Link two, Link three, Link four.

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New Clie (rumors): super-hot.

Supposedly, this is the form factor of the new Sony Clie, which the company will announce on Friday, a PDA with an integrated camera and "wireless" (Bluetooth? WiFi? GPRS? Low-powered FM?).

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