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June 03, 2004
A book for your next flight
I was using Bloglines neat references feature to see who had linked to yesterday's geek item. It turns out that Jim McGee is a Super Geek. More importantly, he had a couple of items in his weblog I found very interesting. First, there was this pointer to a more detailed analysis of the girls are evil proof (the comments are good too). He also had a link to this cool looking book called by Gregory Dicum: Window Seat decodes the sights to be seen on any flight across North America. Broken down by region, this handy little softcover book features 70 aerial photographs; a fold-out map of North America showing major flight paths; profiles of each region covering its landforms, waterways, and cities; tips on spotting major and not-so-major sights; and straightforward, friendly text on cloud shapes, weather patterns, the continent's history, and more. Here's a sample page:
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Just bought it for my wife, who flies to Chicago next week. Thought it might be fun for her to open on the plane... -- Posted by Joe on June 4, 2004 04:21 PM
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