Links I found interesting for 11-05-2013

[nwhyte]

• Think Again: European Decline
  @markhleonard and @hanskundnani tackle seven myths, more or less convincingly.
  (tags: eu )
• Intellectual Biography and Niall Ferguson
  Drezner on form.
  (tags: bloggers )
• Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
  "The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of

Comments

[redfiona99]

I'm terrible at the Space game, but thanks for the link. I loved the Dutch safety posters.

[nwhyte]

I think the Space game is very difficult, and young F claimed to have got a good score by simply clicking on the map at random!!!

[pennski]

I got 91 points but was off by more than 1,000 km each time.

Michael Rosen is wonderful!

[pwilkinson]

I suspect that F discovered how to game the game. I tried it twice, doing it seriously, was usually several thousand kilometres out (at least) and got scores of around 100 each time. I then tried another round, not bothering with looking at the photos but just clicking fast at random and going straight on to the next one. I scored 950.

[redfiona99]

Sort of like the Blue Marble but more Earth bound, have you played Geoguesser - http://www.geoguessr.com/

The closest I've managed is ~400 km wrong.