Man honors Ayn Rand with Google Earth ad

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The good news: Nick Newcomen spent a month driving 12,000 miles, and using a GPS tracking device as a "pen," created what the Guardian describes as the "world's largest book ad" on Google Earth. Yay, literacy! The bad news: He's a Randroid. Yes, Newcomen's big message, virtually visible from space, is: "Read Ayn Rand." Newcomen got the idea after seeing "some GPS 'penned' shapes and drawings done by others" on Google Earth and decided to "create a 'written' message on a very large scale."

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