Geeky Day Trips

“It all started about a year ago when British Author, Journalist, and Bad Science debunker, Ben Goldacre, – a self confessed, “big fan of nerdy day trips, from Sea Forts to abandoned nuclear bunkers, dead victorian racecourses, and roads that are falling into the ground” – found himself with some spare time in London. Ben tweeted out a request for nerdy places to visit, and being quite a popular chap, he got loads of replies. Fellow geek Jo Brodie started archiving them on her blog using some fancy google-jiggery-pokery and turned them into an alphabetical list.

Inspired by this success, Ben and his cohorts decided to “take this one step further, and try to build a giant, inclusive, user-generated nerd map” and so a special Google map was set up and all the previously mentioned places added. Then they put another call out for more suggestions to be added directly to the map, tweeted with the hashag #nerdytrips or simply left as comments on Ben’s ‘secondary‘ blog and the number of places ballooned to nearly 400 by March.”

Wired