Here we see that someone has carved the word Lonsdale into the crops of a small field in the Dutch town of Veenendaal.

The name “Lonsdale” could refer to many things; towns, travel agents, accountants, or colleges – but probably the most widely recognised is Lonsdale clothing, a UK brand of sports and fashion wear, particularly aimed at the boxing market.

Sadly, Lonsdale the clothing company had nothing to do with this advert, as it was probably created by right-wing extremists – it seems that here in the Netherlands some of them have adopted Lonsdale branded clothing as their unofficial uniform. Allegedly a carefully placed jacket can leave only “NSDA” showing, which is one letter short of NSDAP, the German acronym for Hitler’s Nazi Party.

It’s comforting then that these particular small-minded idiots appear to be incapable of writing 8 simple letters without getting them upside-down and back-to-front

Thanks: Guardian, Berend & Frans Willemse

The state of Oregon has not just one, but two of the smallest municipal parks in the whole world.

The first, Waldo Park in Salem, is only 3.6 by 6 metres and only contains a plaque, and a giant sequoia. Yes, one of the world’s smallest parks contains an example of the largest type of tree on the face of the planet.

Mill Ends Park in nearby Portland is contained within a circle 61cm across, which sadly makes it almost completely invisible on the Google satellite shot (Look closely however, it’s situated right inbetween the two roads, and appears as a dark spot exactly in the centre of our thumbnail).

The park was created on St. Patrick’s Day 1948 (apparently to serve as “a colony for leprechauns and a location for snail races”), and despite the odds, in 1971 Mill Ends Park was officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s smallest park.

Further reading: The history of Waldo Park and Mill Ends Park at Wikipedia, and our post featuring The World’s Shortest River.

Thanks to John Riggs.

Watch out below! It looks like Thing (you know, the severed hand from the Addams Family) has grown thousands of times in size and is attacking New York City! Run for the hills! Aiiieeeeee!

Hang on, turns out that the monstrous hand is just décor for New York’s Madame Tussauds. Panic over.

Thanks: Mike Fraser

Today’s New York Post features an article on Google Sightseeing with excerpts from our recent book, Off the Map: The Most Amazing Sights on Earth as Seen by Satellite.

If you’ve arrived here today via the article then a very warm welcome to you! We have hundreds more fascinating things to see in our archives, and you can get your daily fix of new sights by subscribing to our RSS feed.

In other news, Google have just announced that to celebrate Australia day they’ve arranged a photography flyover of Sydney harbour, the results of which will be integrated into Google Earth and Google Maps. The best thing about this is that Google have a tracker which enables you to work out when the plane will be overhead… yes Sydneyites, this is finally your chance to be posted on GoogleSightseeing.com!

So if you’re in Sydney this Friday, why not organise yourself and some friends to spell out a message? Virtually anyone who writes a legible message will be guaranteed to be featured on the site – but why not show us some love, and spell out “Google Sightseeing.com”!

Thanks to Google Maps Mania for the tip.

Welcome to the third in a series that has seen competitive homeowners across the globe vying to emulate the affluence of their immediate neighbours – Keeping up with the Joneses Part 3! (Also see part 1 and part 2)

This time we’re in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the residents of Corstorphine appear to have been put under some considerable pressure to become the proud owners of their very own trampoline.

I actually couldn’t believe how many of these things there are – here’s one, and another, and another, and another! In fact the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on! I’d particularly like a shot on one of these ones, just to see if – by leaping from a nearby roof – you could make it all the way to one of next-door’s trampolines…

While we’re on the subject, Wilfred van Breda sent us this link to a barge in Rotterdam harbour, which he claims is owned by a friend and actually has a trampoline on board. Hmmm.

The same vessel actually appears elsewhere in the harbour too. Unless of course, this type of craft comes standard with a trampoline…

Thanks to Wilfred van Breda.