New Mexico

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Street View

U.S Route 64 is a mostly-unexciting 2,326 mile-long highway that we join as it travels from Taos to Farmington in New Mexico. As we drive through the barren desert, with nothing for miles around, the monotony is broken by the…

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Friday, 23rd January 2009

Street View Update March 08

It’s been just over a month since Google added 12 new US cities to Street View, and yesterday we got new imagery in another 13 cities, and interestingly, a US national park! Here’s some of the highlights, including links straight…

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Monday, 31st March 2008

Events in Google Earth

The cliquey Foo Camp was born out of a joke at O’Reilly that they should create a literal “Foo Bar”. The event is held each year at O’Reilly’s headquarters and during the 2006 event (held during August 25-27, 2006) Google…

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Monday, 8th January 2007

The White Sands National Monument & Missile Range

This is the utterly bizarre, and totally incredible White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, USA. The monument is the southernmost part of a 710 square kilometre (275-square mile) field of startlingly white sand dunes, which are composed of gypsum…

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Wednesday, 12th April 2006

Stonefridge

Welcome to Stonefridge. Yes, this really is a replica of Stonehenge – made entirely from refrigerators. Built using only human-power, the monument is now 2.5 fridges high. Apparently the artist (yes, this is art) needs only 60 more fridges to…

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Friday, 10th February 2006

Keeping up with the Joneses Pt 2

You might remember the communities where to be part of the “in” crowd is to have your own tennis court. That’s all very well but in Cielo Dorado Estates you need your own plane! There’s a private runway running right…

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Friday, 2nd December 2005
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