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rallain | August 25, 2010You know I wander around the intertubes, right? Who doesn't? Anyway, I saw this collection of strange google Earth images. Yeah, it is kind of dumb, but this one made me think:
That article said the image was from TechEBlog, so there is that.
I have no idea what this thing is, but it is clearly tall. How tall? Instead of searching online for info about this structure (that wouldn't be any fun), I figured I could do a quick analysis of the shadow. Here we go. First, I need to make some measurements. It turns out that Tracker Video tool for analysis is also quite excellent to use for…
grrlscientist | December 11, 2009tags: Hickory, North Carolina, street map, city planning, comedy, humor, fucking hilarious
Image: Google Maps [larger view].
This is the Google street map for Hickory, North Carolina. Take a close look at this map and then tell me that the city planner wasn't high on some seriously mind-altering drugs. I'll bet this city requires a PhD for its pizza delivery people and postal workers, and no formal education at all from its city planners (courtesy of my friends at Reddit).