Tag Archives: google maps

The BBC’s new Dimensions website uses the size of important places and events in modern and ancient history as well as science, and superimposes the dimensions over any location on planet Earth. Doing so provides some perspective on events and places that most of us (or all of us in some cases) will never get to see first-hand, much like ...

If you don’t live in the Gulf area, it’s hard to really grasp the massive impact of the BP oil spill. You can look at all the satellite imagery and superimposed splotches on maps all you want, but to really understand the magnitude of this disaster, I had to use If It Was My Home. If It Was My Home ...

Even though your identity and location remain anonymous when using the actual Chatroulette service, the CR site actually employs the use of IPs to assist in connecting random individuals. Using the power of IP location technology and mashing it all up with Google Maps, Chatroulette Map grabs a screenshot of the user and pastes their mug on the map based ...

The MapEnvelop project prints your current location inside of your letter’s envelope. A postcard might be able to project a certain image or feel of the general area in which you are, but it’s sort of decieving since it’s not really an exact science. Especially if you throw a few alien robots into the scene. The MapEnvelop on the other ...

Shot on the streets of Italy, this image very well might reveal a multitude of possibilities.� Could it be intelligent life? Or maybe some sort of smoke monster? Congratulations to those of you analyzing this photo for half-an-hour. You’ve likely been staring at bird shit. Link [via]

Imagine if we could actually see the cursors being used by everyone checking out Google Maps. The world would be flooded with flags and cursors. Just completely flooded. 4chan would make sure of that. But since we can’t see every single cursor, we’ll have to settle for just a single spectacle. The Computer Mouse Cursor Bench, officaly called the Urban ...

A globe-trotting Twitter user discovered this Google Street View image of a bunch of nerds LARPing it up for the cameras. They’re prepared for dragon slaying, princess slaying and immortality, but are they prepared for eternal embarrassment? Next, on “LARPing to the Oldies”. I live right across the PA border, but I haven’t seen anything like this around here. Those ...