Gadling

It’s the weekend– time to pour yourself a stiff drink and kick back with some Gadlinks. Here are our favorite stories from today…

• New York lawmaker demands bland food in New York restaurants.
• Brief, inspiring dispatch from Vagablogging writer Ted Beatie who is volunteering in Haiti.
• The Arctic: The harshest work environment in the world.
• Our favorite web comic Toothpaste for Dinner on backpacking across Indonesia.
• Ever wanted to quit your job to travel the world? “Every day,” you answer. Bootsnall tells why it’s not as crazy an idea as you think.

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It’s time once again to take a look at what piqued our interest in the travel world today…

• Who’s really winning the battle for gay rights in Uganda?
• World Hum’s latest essay, written by Jill Robinson, tells of how the Chilean earthquake impacted her kayaking trip several thousand miles north.
• Leif Pettersen crunches the numbers and thinks you’d be richer and happier if you dumped your car.
• Great article and photos from Bootsnall about the best cities in the world for architecture.
• Wonderful story about former Chinese sweatshop workers finding something approaching prosperity. (Gadling on third-world sweatshops here.)

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Start the week off right with Gadlinks, our daily look at what’s going on in the world of travel…

• Libya pours on the charm.
• Bootsnall lists the Six Travel Types You Love to Hate. But hey, what’s wrong with the “giggling, guzzling gap year student”?
• Huge poker tournament in Berlin robbed by six masked men with assault rifles and machetes.
• Is this the most handsome man in China? For the sake of Chinese women, I hope not.
• How do you steal 1,700 pairs of shoes in Korea?

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Time once again to welcome the weekend with a freshly-baked loaf of Gadlinks, your go-to source for what’s going on in the world of travel today…

• World Hum‘s Eva Holland holds the third annual (and “always arbitrary and thoroughly biased”) Travel Movie Awards..
• Why hostels can be a great place to bring your kids.
• A (mostly) anti-Japan screed from an expat who’s lived there for several years. Worth a look even if you disagree. [HT: Marginal Revolution]
• Are the aftershocks in Chile ever going to stop? Biggest ones yet hit today.
• Still, Slate’s Anne Applebaum sees reasons for optimism in Chile.

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Didn’t get enough travel-related news and views on Gadling today? Check out what’s happening in the rest of the blogosphere right now…

• Three large aftershocks today in Chile, one of them measuring as high as 6.3 on the Richter Scale.
• Twenty-six-foot waves strike a cruise ship off the coast of France; two dead.
• Hostel owners, take note. Here’s how to make your hostel stand out from all the rest.
• Awesome photo of F-15s flying over Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany.
• Some pretty good last-minute spring break deals for students.

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