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Continually updated post on all the necessary long term travel info and gear.

Websites:
CouchSurfing: See the city from a locals point of view, and their living room from the resourceful CouchSurfing site.
Gmail: Best email! Use this for my domain account and @gmail address.
Google Documents: Don’t ever need to use Word on the road again. Google Documents is offering all the editing you’ll need, online from anywhere.

Gear:
Leica Minilux - Leica’s finest point and shoot camera. Great for pros and anyone looking for great film shots out of their pocket.

Transportation:
Mediterranean Ferries - map and list of carries for ferries in the Mediterranean sea.
Kayak - Great airfare search, haven’t tried other search categories.

Destination Research:
BootsnAll Travel Forums - personal experiences in far off lands.
WWOOF - budget travel and work in the worlds most exotic places.

Burning Man is back and soon all of those closet hippies and hipsters from the cubical next door will be packing up their buses with drugs and generators for a couple nights out in the desert. Here are some guides that might help you make it out alive:

Burningman.com’s Required Reading Guide for 2006
Black Rock Rangers Survival Guide
Wikipedia Burning Man article
Google Maps view of Black Rock City
Packing List
Piss Clear: Favorite Black Rock City Newspaper
You’re bringing a bike right?

Berlin has one, so you know the New York City subway system has to have a custom Google Map.

NYC Metro Google Map
Berlin Metro Google Map

Google hacked map of Berlin’s subway system. Public transit planning if the metro wasn’t easy enough.

Berlin Metro Google Map

I dig my Not for Tourists guide, especially when it’s free:

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