Nick Newcomen really likes Ayn Rand. He believes that if “more people would read her books and take her ideas seriously, the country and world would be a better place – freer, more prosperous and we would have a more optimistic view of the future.”
So what did he do to let the world know?
He drove 12,238 miles, across 30 states, using a GPS logger (Qstarz BT-Q1000X) to “ink” the message. He began his trip in Marshall, Texas, and he turned on the device when he wanted to write a letter and turned off the device between letters. The recorded GPS data was loaded into Google Earth to produce the image above.
“The first word I wrote actually was the word ‘Rand’, then I went up North to do the word ‘Read’ and finished it with ‘Ayn,'” says Newcomen.
Story at Gizmodo, Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message with a GPS ‘Pen’
Thanks to @brainpicker for the lead