Anousheh Ansari Space Blog: On September 18, 2006, just a few days after her 40th birthday, [Ansari] became the first female space tourist, the first female Muslim, and first Iranian in space (wikipedia.org).
In this blog she wirtes about her experiences in space.
The confluence-project attempts to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.