The PaperNet

Aaron Straup Cope’s take on Moleskine City Books, only in a community generated wiki / printable profile, reviews, map and embedded QR Code kind of way. Really cool idea.

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YouTube - Pilot’s eye view of a three day trip from Boston to Paris

Wow, pretty cool vid made for his little daughter. Looks like pilots get 1 day in between transatlantic flights. Interesting discussion of scrambled keypad security in the comments.

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The World Is Not Flat (TwinF) | Our Travels, Your Experiences

Trave log of a Seattle couple on a year long trip around the world. They’re asking for suggestions of places to visit, things to see along the way from netizens who visit their site.

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Flight Patterns - Aaron Koblin

Breathtakingly beautiful visualizations of air traffic over the United States. FAA flight data, visualized with Proce55ing, composited with After Effects or MAYA.

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Hotel Puerta America - Madrid

Hotel chock full of design and interactive art in Madrid.

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Live updated map of air traffic over the Bay Area and peninsula

10 minutes delayed, oddly enough

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Newseum

Today’s front page layouts from papers around the world. Awesome.

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The Lightning Field

Installation in Southwestern New Mexico by sculptor Water De Maria. Field of metal poles attracts lightning during the Southwest’s rolling thunderstorms. You can stay in a cabin at the site, but it’s spendy and no photography is allowed! (lame!!!)

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Weird civilian employment website for the US armed forces stationed in Europe

Found on Google via on an old Ric Steeve’s guestbook entry.

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AskMe thread on cottage like places to stay near Monterey

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San Francisco Esperanto club

They meet on saturdays, once a month. Can’t believe this club actually exists. I should attend with my mic in hand!

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Young Eyes on Calcutta

British filmmaker Zana Briski taught childred in the red-light district of Calcutta how to use a camera. “Their snapshots—arresting portraits of their families, each other and the surrounding streets - capture a chaotic world as few outsiders could.”

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From the Practical Nomad, a guide to airline ticket consolidators and “bucket shops”

He’s very adamant about the difference between domestic pricing and international pricing. Distinct systems, don’t use an agent whoe expertise lies in one system to book tickets for the other.

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