BNT’s Best Of The Week 11/10/07

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montaukridiculousIt’s time to wrap up the week now with our favorite links from around the web.

Air travel is an indulgence. Purchasing carbon offsets is one way for eco-conscious fliers to assuage their guilt. But, as Annalee Newitz notes at AlterNet, throwing money at guilt is never a long term solution.

WARNING! The Traveler’s IQ Challenge is highly addictive. My top score is 577,666. If you can beat that, I’ll give you a full refund on this column.

For those thoroughly disillusioned with United States politicians, here’s an uplifting proposal from 2 U.S. Senators who want to revive the GI Bill and guarantee war veterans a college education.

Intelligent Travel
just launched a really cool feature called “Golden Eye” that highlights striking photography from around the world. Aspiring photographers take note: Intelligent Travel is a National Geographic publication, and they’re asking people to contribute their best travel shots!

Finally, Vagabondish dishes out 12 Clever Uses for Your Digital Camera. Digital camera as a makeshift lantern? Heck, I’ve done that.

Enjoy the weekend everyone!


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  • Eva replied on November 10, 2007

    Boooo… I got cut off at level 10 with 419 000+ points. I didn’t enjoy the sassy comments! Obviously I can’t find the Solomon Islands… they’re not actually visible to the naked eye on that map! :P

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  • Tim Patterson replied on November 10, 2007

    Well Eva, you’ll just have to keep trying :)

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  • Marilyn Terrell replied on November 10, 2007

    Thanks Tim for highlighting our new Global Eye feature. I hope lots of BNT readers will send us their best shots! All you have to do is add them to our Flickr pool:
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/intelligent_travel/pool/

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  • Nath replied on November 11, 2007

    Love the new BNT layout, Tim. Awesome look AND great content – Congrats. Nath

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  • Lola Akinmade replied on November 13, 2007

    The new layout looks amazing. Great job guys!

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  • Sheila replied on November 13, 2007

    Wow – I checked out the Global Eye link and those photos are vibrant and stunning. I think I’ll dig through my photos to see if I can find something worth submitting.

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