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ROADSIDE AMERICA (www.roadsideamerica.com) Road warriors Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, and Mike Wilkins are devoted to tracking down every wacky attraction -- no World's Largest Chair or UFO Museum goes unturned. This collection of more than 6,000 points of interest maintains the buzz of the open road by way of a whimsical, multilayered navigation system: Visit cultural curiosities via map or on cross-country ''virtual vacations,'' check out the side-treks database, or follow the self-propelled Travel Brain icon. Boasting amusing text culled from the trio's book, a colorfully tacky postcard motif, hi-res photos, and bizarre video clips (miniature golf in a funeral home!), Roadside America puts the hype in hypertourism. A-


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Posted Jan 10, 1997
 

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