BNT’s Best Of The Week 11/10/07

 Print This Post    10 Nov 2007 in Best Of The Week by Tim Patterson

It’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!

Tim Patterson

BNT contributing editor Tim Patterson travels with a sleeping bag and pup tent strapped to the back of his folding bicycle. His articles and travel guides have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Get Lost Magazine, Tales Of Asia and Traverse Magazine. Check out his personal site Rucksack Wanderer.

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1. 
   Comment by Eva — 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!

2. 
   Comment by Tim Patterson — November 10, 2007

   Well Eva, you’ll just have to keep trying

3. 
   Comment by Marilyn Terrell — 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/i.....avel/pool/

4. 
   Comment by Nath — November 11, 2007

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

5. 
   Comment by Lola Akinmade — November 13, 2007

   The new layout looks amazing. Great job guys!

6. 
   Comment by Sheila — 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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