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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You’ve all seen the original Google Sightseeing Topless Sunbather already, but did you know that the Hague is in fact completely overrun with naked and semi-naked Dutch men and women? Yes people, it’s time to get your magnifying glasses out,…
Despite looking like one of M.C. Escher‘s impossible creations, Kubuswoning is actually just a very unusual housing block in the Netherlands. Meaning “Cube houses” in English, this Rotterdam landmark was designed by Piet Blom in the early 80s, and is…
After the North Sea flood of 1953 destroyed 4,500 buildings, drowned 10,000 animals and killed 1,835 people, the Netherlands began work on the world’s largest flood protection project, Delta Works (Dutch: Deltawerken). Today Delta Works consists of over 16,500 kilometres…
Imagine having a quiet afternoon’s topless sunbathing on your private, secluded, back patio – and then one day discovering that your nearly naked body has been posted all over the Internet! Whilst this isn’t the first time someone has been…
Check out this fantastic image which, unless I’m very much mistaken, appears to have captured the exact moment someone was utilizing the very latest in interdimensional portal technology! Well, it’s a fantastic image anyway Thanks to Clive!
The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands is: an aperture synthesis interferometer that consists of a linear array of 14 antennas arranged on a 2.7 km East-West line. Um… So, aperture synthesis is when a collection of telescopes are…
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
NASA’s first visitor centre, and one of the world’s largest public collections of space bits is the U.S. Space and…
Exactly 20 years ago today, on the 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from a 27-year…
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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