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Europe was a quizzical, Asia metaphysical

Sunday, July 24th, 2005 at 11:00 pm

Great flash geography quizzes that are fun and will kick your ass if you aren’t that accurate: “Europe”:http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/country_europe_G2_drag-drop.swf and “Asia”:http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/country_Asia_G2_drag-drop.html. I got 71% on Europe and 66% on Asia. _A sad state of affairs_. [["via":http://www.robotwisdom]]

San Francisco Bay Trail

Sunday, July 20th, 2003 at 2:00 pm

The San Francisco Bay Trail is an incredibly ambitious public works project which hopes to create a multi-use trail that will encompass the entire Bay Area from San Jose in the South, up through Marin County, around the Delta to Vallejo in the North, and then back down along the East Bay. After completion, the [...]

Name That Nation-State

Sunday, April 13th, 2003 at 2:45 pm

A good flash-based geography quiz on North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The Central Asian *istans of the former Soviet Union kicked my ass. I fared ok (~80%), but was mad at myself for not knowing more. The gray matter is indeed leaking out somewhere. By the way, what percentage of Americans do [...]