Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Mountain Venues
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
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Yes people, there really is an absolutely enormous seal in The Hague, Netherlands. Apparently it belongs to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and presumably it’s designed to so utterly terrify the seal hunters that they’re unable to ever again…
With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so today we proudly present – The Top 10 different sports you can actually see people playing on Google Earth! As a bonus, we’ve…
Parking in the Hague has got so difficult that some people are having to take extreme measures – parking on the side of buildings! This is actually the work of artist Theo van Laar, who has continued the car park…
There’s an odd fish-shaped clearing in the forest just outside the Dutch city of Ommen. However, even using my best Google searching abilities, I can’t find any information on whether or not the clearing is a natural phenomena or a…
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…
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…
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
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Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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