Archive for November 29th, 2006

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

Firefox Crop Circle

Wednesday, 29th November 2006 by Alex

All of a sudden there’s an absolutely enormous Firefox Logo Crop Circle carved into this field in Oregon, where previously there was nothing! Are aliens telling us their browser preferences? Or has Internet Explorer finally been eradicated from the Internet?

In fact this 67 metre wide icon was created by the Oregon State University Linux Users Group to celebrate the launch of Firefox version 2, and to the south of the logo you can see that they’ve also arranged their vehicles spell out “FX2“.

You can read more about the project at the Oregon State University site, and congratulations to Jon Hicks - who is now the designer of the world’s largest application icon!

Swiss Flag

by James

Just to the West of the Swiss town of Morges we find the biggest Swiss flag in the world (probably). It’s about 80 metres square and has been painted on a roof.

Out faithful reader ChrisW (who suggested this sight) very kindly offered to head down and investigate what goes on at the giant flag building. So he went cycling 25km out of his way to snap this shot of the disappointingly dull “Friderici Transports” - a logistics company.

Many Thanks: ChrisW & HeatherW

Gigantic B2 Stealth Bomber

by Alex

Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visable on Google Earth or Google Maps.

Here on Tenerife there’s an absolutely gigantic shape on the landscape, which looks very like a B2 Stealth Bomber. Just a coincidental arrangement of images, or the accidental discovery of a super-secret B2 Invisibility Cloak?

Via haha.nu (Thanks Rob W & Gudlyf)