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!
BNT Editors
This post was written by the BNT editors.
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Eva
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http://www.rucksackwanderer.com/ Tim Patterson
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http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com Marilyn Terrell
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http://www.bravenewtraveler.com Nath
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http://www.lemurworks.com/lola Lola Akinmade
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http://www.govisithawaii.com Sheila
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