photos, fly fishing, food, maps & cycling
Tonight I joined the latest internet bandwagon, creating a public transport map with all the names scrambled into anagrams. There’s a heap more here at boing-boing.
I want to print off a few hundred and give them to visitors at the Commonwealth Games!
In the middle of the political mud-slinging that surrounded the wrongful deportation/detention of Australians mistaken for “illegal” immigrants. I thought I heard someone attempt to resurrect the “Australia Card”.
I trust it won’t go any further than that passing comment, but if it does gather support again, I hope we can take a grown up approach to the issue… something like this masterpiece by eclectech. That should shut them up!
I know, it’s a big call but rainbowprimates.com incorporates unimaginably awful design, the very worst elevator music, a ‘terrorist alert’ indicator and a christian chat room! What more could you want?? This site will leave you utterly speechless. It’s so bad you will almost forget to be outraged at the basic idea of selling monkeys to be dressed up as quasi-babies by empty headed americans.
I admit it, I’m a bit of a map nerd… I just love ’em – the more detail the better. You can learn a lot about a place just by looking at a map. You can learn even more by looking at an aerial photograph, and google maps has got lots of them! So far, the high res images are only in the more populous areas of North America, but striking images can be found over the whole of the continent. In fact, it’s a bit addictive – a bit of a time waster!
If you can’t be bothered with trawling through masses of photos and just want the juicy bits, check out Google Sightseeing, a winderful blog with daily updates of cool things that can be found on google maps. I’ve even had one of my submissions shown!
Oh, and before I go, here are a few of my favourites: the boneyard, the grassy knoll, the hollywood sign and Yazgur’s farm. Cool, eh?
It’s been ages since I posted and this isn’t really news, but it’s fun… Go on, destroy this website!
B3ta regular chthonic (corrected spelling – sorry!) has built a brilliant online version of name that tune. There are only two problems: one is that it uses windoze media player which sucks, the other is that it hilights what sad musical tastes I have. I got 10 out of 10 for Steely Dan and Jethro Tull!
OK, here are a couple of pages which made me laugh: the worst album covers of all time and a car recovery that didn’t go to plan.