Morning Links: A ‘Tropical Havisham Enigma,’ iPhone Travel Apps and More

• Pico Iyer investigates a “tropical Havisham enigma” in southern Sri Lanka.
• There’s a good reason why airline passengers lost fewer bags in 2008.
• Roger Yu evaluates some iPhone travel applications.
• Gulliver asks: “How will the recession affect green business travel?”
• Forbes lists America’s worst intersections.
• The fine Southwest has to pay for flying those planes that had missed safety checks: $7.5 million.
• The “very unconventional” lodging at Pixel Hotel Linz is spread all over the Austrian city. (via This Just In)
• Finally, here’s a look at the art of yarn bombing—“improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time”—in Vancouver B.C.

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