It would seem that someone has spent a lot of time and money to create this lake, in the shape of an extremely happy looking man! I’m not sure what he’s got to be so happy about though. I mean, this guy’s manhood isn’t a patch on the Cerne Abbas Giant

Anyway, I haven’t got the slightest clue why somebody went to all this effort. Has anyone got any ideas?

Thanks to whoever these guys got this location from in the first place (they seem to have a bad habit of neglecting to include any attribution you see).

Update: This image has now been removed by Google. I wonder if Kevin requested that it be removed, or if Google decided to do it themselves?

Staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Kevin Bankston has been caught by Google’s Street View camera having a cigarette on his way to work – a habit he’s been trying to conceal from his family. Here’s a picture of him for comparison.

In a brilliant case of history repeating itself, it turns out that Kevin was actually previously caught having a sneaky smoke back in 2005, this time by Amazon’s A9 service!

For more Street View sightings, check out our brand new forum, and you can read the full story of Kevin’s misfortune at Wired.

This is the fantastic Cerne Abbas Giant, a 55 metre (180 foot) high chalk figure carved into a hillside near the village of Cerne Abbas, England. In his right hand the giant holds a 36.5 metre long club, and of course it’s impossible to miss that the Cerne Abbas Giant is, uh.. giant in every way.

Like many chalk figures carved into the English countryside, the Cerne Abbas giant is often thought of as an ancient creation – however, its history can’t actually be traced back further than the late 17th century – making it (a relatively sprightly) 400 years old.

As for the Giant’s purpose, Wikipedia says:

for hundreds of years it was local custom to erect a maypole within the earthwork about which childless couples would dance to promote fertility and even today childless couples are known to visit the site in order to copulate in the hope that they might have a child.

Now that would have been an interesting find!

Thanks to PapaPenguin, Fred Bobardo, and Anthony Houghton.

Update: As correctly pointed out by Matthijs in the comments, it turns out this is actually Gauntlet, which is beside X-Coaster. Unfortunately X-Coaster is brand new, and doesn’t yet appear in the Google images.

This is the X-Coaster at Magic Spring and Crystal Falls theme park in Arkansas, where a dozen riders spent half an hour hanging upside down on Sunday — 150 feet above the ground.

Apparently a power cut shut down the attraction, and once the city Fire Department had rescued the stranded thrill-seekers, one person was treated for, rather unsurprisingly, a sore neck.

Thanks to the Metro.

Despite Google’s best efforts, someone has finally managed to spam Google Earth with a Viagra advert!

Well I guess it had to happen sooner or later…

Thanks to Mark.