haaaaa!
― markers, Saturday, 23 October 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin guys
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 October 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/brad_hirschfield/2010/10/god_and_google.html
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 23 October 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
One of my editors forwards a Macks Reed story to the writing staff probably once every month or so (October's entry was about Clarence Thomas.)
Each time, I get that same feeling I got when my boss saddled up to me one day and asked, "Tre, do you know what a sockpuppet is?"
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 23 October 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
aw thats nice to hear
― max, Sunday, 24 October 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
This image, captured by the Street View feature of ubiquitous searcher (a fact about Google which may hint at the search engine itself is increasingly God-like, if not actually God) has been interpreted by thousands as a glimpse of God captured on camera
― max, Sunday, 24 October 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm
From: Andrew Johnston <astrosand✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧>Subject: http://gawker.com/5667404/did-google-street-view-find-god-above-a-swiss-lakeTo: Max Read <✧✧✧@gaw✧✧✧.c✧✧>
fake,gay and photo choped
― max, Monday, 25 October 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
display name potential there
― I Want to Change My Password... (bnw), Monday, 25 October 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
America's next top media critic
― markers, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
photo choped
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Man loses seven stone after seeing himself on Google Street View
Bob Mewse, 56, weighed 21 stone 3lb after years of feeding his sweet tooth with cakes and biscuits.He was so horrified a year ago when he saw himself on Google Street View – a mapping service that uses a 360-degree camera to record images – that he decided to start losing weight.Mr Mewse lost a third of his body weight after drastic changes to his diet and a strict regime of exercise. He now weighs 14 stone (89kg)
He was so horrified a year ago when he saw himself on Google Street View – a mapping service that uses a 360-degree camera to record images – that he decided to start losing weight.
Mr Mewse lost a third of his body weight after drastic changes to his diet and a strict regime of exercise. He now weighs 14 stone (89kg)
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
germany, the land of the ghostly floating boxes
― circles, Friday, 19 November 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
- "You've got plenty of square feet in here, utilities are paid, new flooring and a new refrigerator were just put in last January… One of the prettiest little houses you're going to find here in Topeka."- "Sounds great! So, uh, why is the rent so much cheaper than the other houses we've looked at?"- "Well, your across-the-street neighbors …"
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 7 April 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
shudder
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Virtual road trip!
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Sunday, 8 May 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I always expected that was going to be one of Google's next applications, yeah. But maybe it's way too much network traffic even for their infrastructure.
― StanM, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://robotflaneur.com/
nothing you couldn't already do, but still fun
― iatee, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
random teleporting flaneur. following actual routes - with faster refreshing - would be much better.
― i love the smell of facepalm in the morning (ledge), Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer this to the Virtual Road Trip thing above which pretty much does what you want, because:1. moving between adjacent streetview feels slow and clunky, which saps the joy out of following a route2. if I'm looking at an unfamiliar city, I don't know which bits are interesting to look at, so I don't want to pick the route myself - I'm quite happy to zap randomly between unknown locations, some of which are central and may contain glimpses of famous landmarks (possibly not from the usual angle) and some of which are pleasingly off the beaten tourist track
I just had a pleasing teleport around SF, which I visited for 4 days in 1999, so it's a good combination of mostly unfamiliar + a little bit of "hey I think we went down the next street across" for me
(but setting the refresh time might be good, though at least you can pause if you get an interesting one, and skip if you don't)
― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 19 June 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
pressing 'x' to stop teleportation wasn't working for mealso, I got stuck on that thing where the camera pans whenever the pointer moves, and couldn't get out of it. (I guess I just don't know the trick; to get out of it I'd left click, which would zoom me in, then I'd have to zoom out etc)
― vmic damone (rip van wanko), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mapcrunch.com pretty good for random teleport fun
― blueski, Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
they really need to get the car out at night, as an option for selected locations
― blueski, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Well, as long as they stay in the city.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
I 'travel' a lot via Google Maps Streetview. Yesterday, I drove down the north coast of Yorkshire to Robin Hood's Bay and then tooled around on the Moors. Later I went from Castellane to Moustiers Ste Marie via the Verdon Gorge.
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol i tweeted something yesterday 2 the effect that if you couldn't go 4 a drive but wanted 2 u could just use google maps in street view mode
― markers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, and I tooled around downtown Aix-en-Provence and the old part of Nice.
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i tried to recreate a vice city style drive around in miami. and realised just how fooking big compared to a video game a real city is.
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
This is one that I plan to use someday on my borderline blog.
When I have time and Wyoming comes back into the rotation...
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I had either this thread or the o_O thread to post this in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopM8uPTl_8
Or maybe I should have posted it in Attention Tuomas - I have Finnish question
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm enjoying this app, which I discovered about 5 minutes ago!
Click on "GO" on the upper right and it kaleidoscopes!
http://rorschmap.com/?lat=41.89002071845417&lng=-87.6522518713623&z=14
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Click here and then move forward.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh my god. I have some friends who must never see that video.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Florida's outrageous color palette has gotten way out of hand.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
That's a cool site, Je55. Check out the Heartland.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
That reminds me, I need to see if my friend has a J I can bum.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
That is really cool, PP.
Do You Want To?
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Why have I never noticed the aeroplane in Russell Squre before?
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
it only showed up a month or two ago.
― ledge, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's flying pretty low for such an urban area, right?
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
It is not flying, it has no shadow.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think you can tell how high it is? only how much higher the camera is (twice as high according to my calculations). typical approach height over london might be 2-4000 feet tho.
― ledge, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
er not feet, metres. i think.
you wouldn't see the shadow because of the height. not in the same frame anyway.
― jed_, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't even thinking right when I said that. Of course, the plane would appear larger in relation to how close it was to the camera, not the other way around.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Ned T Rifle found another one over Tottenham.
http://t.co/Ttidxfv
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
There's something about these I find unsettling to look at, like the thread of shipwreck photos.
― oppet, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
That's one big piano to the left of the Tottenham plane as well.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Old news, but you ain't trippin.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link