Gadling

Time once again for Gadlinks, your daily look at the most interesting travel-related items from around the blogosphere…

• Via The Onion, Yellowstone Park is experimenting with a novel program designed to attract more park rangers.
• BootsnAll launches its Travel Writers Platform for aspiring travel writers– head on over there and check it out.
• World Hum‘s Eric Weiner takes on travel snobs.
• Russian leaders less than thrilled with their country’s Olympic performance: “We have 35 people on the hockey team. Let’s go to Red Square and dispatch with them all.”
• Stunning photos of the Chilean earthquake from the always excellent Big Picture photo blog.

Even more Gadlinks here.

Let Gadlinks help you ease your way into the weekend like an old man eases into a warm bath. Now here are some of the links that piqued our interest today…

• Via Boing Boing, the newest in fashion: messenger bags made from old life vests.
• A great photo series from Jan Banning of bureaucrats from around the world sitting at their desks. If you’ve ever lost a passport or needed a visa, these scenes will probably look familiar. [Click “Photo Series” on the left side of the page, then Bureaucratics.]
• Health officials have ordered 14 condoms for every athlete in Vancouver’s Olympic Village– and they’re still running out.
• Bootsnall debunks some common misconceptions about Colombia. (By the way, Kayak often has very affordable airfares from Chicago, New York, and elsewhere to Bogota.)
• Entertaining article from World Hum’s Spud Hilton on the fine art of “place-dropping.” Reminds me of the time I was in Borneo and…

More Gadlinks here.

Hey there, Gadling Nation. Here are a couple links to some interesting travel tidbits from around the web…

• Brave New Traveler offers up 20 suggestions on how backpackers can “pay it forward.”
• According to a recent poll, 43% of Canadians say they’d rather have bacon than sex.
• Rolf Potts shares some thoughts on the best way for introverted travelers to meet people on the road.
• Katherine Mangu-Ward takes a skeptical look at the Travel Promotion Act, which will come up for a vote in the Senate next week.
• An interesting Flickr gallery of old passport photos from famous artists. [HT: World Hum]

More Gadlinks here. And be sure to check out Episode 2 of Gadling’s excellent new Travel Talk TV.

Time to ease your way back into the work-week with Gadlinks, our daily look at the most interesting travel-related links from around the Web…

• The Lufthansa pilot strike appears to be over… for now.
• Bootsnall recommends five South American attractions you’ve probably never heard of. Number 4 sounds particularly intriguing.
• Jeff Pflueger explores whether photographs are taken or made, and he offers some helpful reminders about photography etiquette.
• Great video from Uganda about the world’s loneliest skate park.
• Slate’s Explainer tackles another brain-buster: Why do all national anthems sound the same?

More Gadlinks here.

Time now for Gadlinks, your daily look at what’s piqued our interest in the travel world recently…

• Over at World Hum, Adam Karlin proclaims that New Orleans may have finally “turned the corner.”
• Vagablogging explores a cool-looking new mapping site called Wikiloc.
• Brave New Traveler‘s Christine Garvin speaks up for the introverted traveler.
• In the “enlightened self-interest” department: Are airports becoming nicer?
• New study claims to show that planning a vacation gives the biggest boost to people’s levels of happiness. [via Tyler Cowen]

More Gadlinks here.