The Happiest Links On Earth

For your reading enjoyment while we're spending the week with the Mouse, a number of Disneyland related links: From the site MiceAge.com, two oddball stories that have been making the rounds:

• the first on people dumping cremains (aka ashes) inside the Haunted Mansion & Pirates
• the second on why Americans' increasing weight issues are causing problems for It's A Small World

From the site MousePlanet.com:

• a series of articles on The Magic of Business written by Jeff Kober, who does a bang-up job of applying Disney practices to customer service - there's a lot of good stuff here for church leaders as well as business folks
• the wonderful writing of David Koenig (the author of Mouse Tales and a number of other good books on Disney)

And finally, two sites you ought to be reading on a regular basis:

• Disney & animation fans need to check out JimHillMedia.com... esp. his older essay series on films & ride designs
• while Disneyland fans should spend some major time at Yesterland.com... it's a wonderful site about all the things that aren't there anymore - pictures, descriptions, what replaced 'em... sigh. I miss Skull Rock (the picture here is from Yesterland).