The Armadillo & the SECC
This is the Armadillo in Glasgow. Oh all right, it's really the Clyde Auditorium, but everyone calls it the Armadillo. It was designed to be a 3,000 seat extension to the boxy beige building to the north - the Scottish…
Live Local Update
As reported by both the Google Earth Blog and Ogle Earth, Microsoft has provided an awesome update to the UK satellite imagery on their Live Local service. (I still can't work the zoom tool unfortunately, has anyone else noticed that…
Gulliver Park
This is Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. The figure you see is an enormous fibreglass model of Lemuel Gulliver trapped by the Lilliputians, and the ropes that tie him to the ground form part of a children's adventure playground. Children…
Giant Rock
This is Giant Rock in the Mojave desert, California, which is (wait for it)... the largest free-standing rock in the world. Er, right. But wait, there's more! George Van Tassel (the dude that built the Integratron) carved a small room…
Big Brother 7 UK
Update: For anyone who watched the first episode, can I just say... Oh. My. God. I really do despair. Oh blimey. Is it that time of year again already? This year, they've gone and hidden 100 golden tickets in special…
Bill Clinton’s House
One of our readers, Morgan, lives in Chappaqua, New York, and he'd heard that Bill Clinton (the 42nd President of the United States) lives here too. So Morgan took a little wander with Google Maps, and when he found a…
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