Weirdness

Pixel Fields

This is an awful lot of fields… scroll around for a bit – there’s thousands! And from all the way up here, it looks like some sort of cool pixel-art. Which might perhaps explain why the farmers chose Pac-Man as…

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Tuesday, 19th April 2005

The White Snake of Baja

Rick Vincent sent us what he describes as ‘The White Snake of Baja‘. Looks like a river, but it is HUGE. You can still see it all the way out here!

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Thursday, 14th April 2005

Trippy Triangle

More strangeness scratched into the earth this trippy triangle thing in the desert north of Vegas. Thanks Chris.

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Wednesday, 13th April 2005

B-Bomb!

No, that’s not the surface of the moon. It’s where the US government has blown-up lots and lots of things at the “Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range” in Nevada, just south-west of Area 51. Also, scroll north and…

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Wednesday, 13th April 2005

Overlap

One of the places on the map where the overlapping satellite images make for a weird perspective is in downtown Dallas. I’ve been staring at this for a while and I can’t get my head around the perspective change. Thanks…

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Friday, 8th April 2005

More Weirdness

More weird patterns and colours here with some pollution controlling algae salt ponds in the San Francisco Bay and some salt pools potash mine run-off pools in the Utah mountains. (Via)

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Thursday, 7th April 2005
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