BAR

Randomly written on the side of a hill in spain is the word “BAR“. Perhaps there’s a good pub there? Maybe someone called “Bar” flies a gyrocopter around there (like a spanish Dave)? Who knows!

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Saturday, 2nd July 2005

Bavarian Motor Works

The BMW world headquarters in Munich, Germany is the ‘four-cylinder’ building (which was built top-down), while the famous logo is atop the BMW museum. Over in South Carolina is BMW’s North American home. The rather-cool crescent moon shaped building is…

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Saturday, 2nd July 2005

Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours

The French Grand Prix will be running this weekend at Magny-Cours Formula 1 track and fans are hoping that a few more cars will race than the debacle last month at Indianapolis. There’s no cars on the track in the…

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Friday, 1st July 2005

FAQ Updates

Just a quick heads up to let you know that I’ve updated the FAQ page. You can now learn how to find the moved ‘satellite’ link, use the “z” variable to set a specific zoom level, and also how to…

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Friday, 1st July 2005

Newton’s Rings

Check out these weird coloured rings in Florida (centre of alien activity). Our submitter, Woowoowoo, reckons this is an example of “Newton’s Rings”. Nope we’d never heard of them either, but fortunately Wikipedia had.

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Friday, 1st July 2005
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