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BNT’s Best Of The Week 08/02/08

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It’s that time of week, when Ian scours the web to come up with the best links of the blog o’ sphere.

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Hipsters: the deadend of civiilzation? Photos Adbusters

Read my first interview on a Portuguese blog! Uma Malla Pelo Mundo asks me about how I started traveling, the birth of BNT, and my thoughts on green travel.

Good Magazine offers a travel guide with a twist - Beautiful Messes: A Travel Guide to Man-made Disasters.

“We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum,” says Adbusters in Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.

Would you photograph a homeless man without permission? Explore the ethics of photography in this interesting post by Ellen Wilson.

Documentary filmmaker Brook Silva-Braga is interviewed for Nomadic Matt’s website. Also, don’t miss his win free stuff contest.

Have a few (or more) thousand dollars to spend on a weekend? Check out Robin Esrock’s article on the art of glamping.

Lose the ego. Make peace with the present. Awaken. Thornton McCamish examines the Eckhart Tolle’s spiritual teachings.

Enjoy the weekend!

Ian MacKenzie

Ian MacKenzie is the founder and editor of Brave New Traveler. Aside from writing, he spends his time exploring the fundamental nature of existence and wishing he did more backpacking.

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