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Artist reckons he sent a suitcase filled with GPS equipment around the world in a route tracing out the shape of a head—very very unlikely I say. gulfstream/2440

London, from above, at night. gulfstream/2508

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On Tony Wheeler, the founder of Lonely Planet. gulfstream/1722

The best restaurants in the world. gulfstream/1735

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List of current international border disputes—given that just about every country has one or more, it’s a puzzle that anything gets done. gulfstream/1827

Pretty reference maps. (Printable versions too.) gulfstream/1836

The best places to live, according some calculation. (Only three countries in the top ten: Canada, Australia and Switzerland.) The problem with … gulfstream/1845

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“Anti-travel” through forgotten & useless parts of Russia. (Vissarion profile) gulfstream/2018

Dick Cheney’s “Downtime Suite” requirements. All televisions are to be tuned to Fox News! Can’t the Secret Service leave the lights on after … gulfstream/2033

A whole heap of stuff is being built—somewhat improbably, given its history, climate, prospects—in Dubai. gulfstream/2040

Even Homer’s brain knows that “Money can be exchanged for good and services.” Looks like he’s gonna be able to avoid having to declare this as … gulfstream/2057

Photographs of iconic scenes, with street-vendor postcards and trinkets substituted for the real thing. (Makes more sense when you see it.) gulfstream/2183

What Japanese tourists to NYC want. (“Masafumi Tomoshige, from Saga, was disappointed that he hadn’t seen a car chase.”) Eccentricities aside, … gulfstream/2217

Managua, in Nicaragua, a city of 2 million people, has functioned without formal street addresses since an earthquake over 30 years ago. (Old story, but … gulfstream/2276

“A guide to [London’s] free bus routes.” a.k.a. an official-looking map of the bendy bus routes, where tickets aren’t checked on entry. gulfstream/2302

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