Google Maps Streetview

doesn't let anyone know of his movements imo

except 'to the kebab place and back'

these street view things are almost always nuts for us, for whatever reason.

hat tip max, u r a true mensch of ilx

^ that is a compliment iirc

darragh i know what "mensch" means

that one would look awes even w/o the glitch

very nostalgic for switzerland right now

ha i was reprimanded for misunderstanding it previously max, is all

i believe i referred to a child-rapist defending bishop as a mensch before i was corrected

very nostalgic for switzerland right now

lol breaking character

i believe i referred to a child-rapist defending bishop as a mensch before i was corrected

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 17:12 (1 minute ago)

haha

hahahahaha

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Ratzinger becomes Pope on board I Love Everything on Apr 8, 2010

THE VATICAN has again hit back in strong terms at those criticising the Catholic Church over its handling of the sexual abuse of children by priests.

In an interview yesterday a senior Vatican figure, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, said criticism of the Holy See over the issue was “truly incomprehensible”.

“What we are dealing with now is a cultural battle: the pope embodies moral truths which people don’t accept and for that reason the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as arms against the church,” he told the Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano.

Cardinal Sodano, who at the weekend said the church would not be distracted by “idle gossip”, in an apparent reference to the child abuse scandal, again defended the record of the pope and bishops on the issue.

“It was not the fault of Jesus if he was betrayed by Judas. Nor is it the fault of a bishop if one of his priests sullies himself with grave crimes. And certainly, it is not the responsibility of the pontiff,” he said.

“The Christian community correctly feels itself injured when people try to involve it as a whole in grave and painful incidents concerning some priests, thus transforming individual guilt and responsibility into collective guilt with a manipulation that is truly incomprehensible.”

this guy is quite the mensch, if i understand the term correctly.

idnuttc

looool

:D

could see my red face from google maps after i was taken aside and given a quiet word after that post.

probably time to rescreen 'the apartment'

this will put a whole new complexion on it

God-like apparition on Google StreetView‎ - Stuff.co.nz
all 1227 news articles »

jesus....

not all of those baout this but anyway

looooool

welcome to the big leagues son

the big leagues of "stuff.co.nz"

lily allin - This summers biggest hit?

LOL I was just reading the tech section of the Age (proper Melb broadsheet paper) and this is mentioned! I'm like "oh lol doo doo wait Max R3ad I know that name hahah wtf".

So yeah, legit papers reporting this even over here. And this is where it started? You guys.

haaaaa!

fuckin guys

http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/brad_hirschfield/2010/10/god_and_google.html

One of my editors forwards a Macks Reed story to the writing staff probably once every month or so (October's entry was about Clarence Thomas.)

Each time, I get that same feeling I got when my boss saddled up to me one day and asked, "Tre, do you know what a sockpuppet is?"

aw thats nice to hear

This image, captured by the Street View feature of ubiquitous searcher (a fact about Google which may hint at the search engine itself is increasingly God-like, if not actually God) has been interpreted by thousands as a glimpse of God captured on camera

hmm

From: Andrew Johnston <astrosand✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧>
Subject: http://gawker.com/5667404/did-google-street-view-find-god-above-a-swiss-lake
To: Max Read <✧✧✧@gaw✧✧✧.c✧✧>

fake,gay and photo choped

display name potential there

America's next top media critic

photo choped

Man loses seven stone after seeing himself on Google Street View

Bob Mewse, 56, weighed 21 stone 3lb after years of feeding his sweet tooth with cakes and biscuits.

He was so horrified a year ago when he saw himself on Google Street View – a mapping service that uses a 360-degree camera to record images – that he decided to start losing weight.

Mr Mewse lost a third of his body weight after drastic changes to his diet and a strict regime of exercise. He now weighs 14 stone (89kg)

germany, the land of the ghostly floating boxes

- "You've got plenty of square feet in here, utilities are paid, new flooring and a new refrigerator were just put in last January… One of the prettiest little houses you're going to find here in Topeka."
- "Sounds great! So, uh, why is the rent so much cheaper than the other houses we've looked at?"
- "Well, your across-the-street neighbors …"

shudder

Virtual road trip!

I always expected that was going to be one of Google's next applications, yeah. But maybe it's way too much network traffic even for their infrastructure.

http://robotflaneur.com/

nothing you couldn't already do, but still fun

random teleporting flaneur. following actual routes - with faster refreshing - would be much better.

I prefer this to the Virtual Road Trip thing above which pretty much does what you want, because:
1. moving between adjacent streetview feels slow and clunky, which saps the joy out of following a route
2. if I'm looking at an unfamiliar city, I don't know which bits are interesting to look at, so I don't want to pick the route myself - I'm quite happy to zap randomly between unknown locations, some of which are central and may contain glimpses of famous landmarks (possibly not from the usual angle) and some of which are pleasingly off the beaten tourist track

I just had a pleasing teleport around SF, which I visited for 4 days in 1999, so it's a good combination of mostly unfamiliar + a little bit of "hey I think we went down the next street across" for me

(but setting the refresh time might be good, though at least you can pause if you get an interesting one, and skip if you don't)

pressing 'x' to stop teleportation wasn't working for me
also, I got stuck on that thing where the camera pans whenever the pointer moves, and couldn't get out of it. (I guess I just don't know the trick; to get out of it I'd left click, which would zoom me in, then I'd have to zoom out etc)

http://www.mapcrunch.com pretty good for random teleport fun

they really need to get the car out at night, as an option for selected locations

Well, as long as they stay in the city.