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tero! 48531 11 May 2013 05:49 · Member since September 2010

tero! 48531 wrote:

GratefulFan wrote:

This is a thread for anything interesting or neat found on the Internet. Kind of a randomness thread, but for Internet stuff.

A site where you're presented with random Google street views to explore before guessing where they are in the world. You get points. Try to beat my 8822. Shouldn't be hard since I guessed a point in the UK which was actually Australia. LOL. My closest was 242 km off in Sweden. I also was within 1000 km in Mexico and in the area of South Korea.

I played this for a few dozen times, and started getting the same sites again... How random can it be? :p

My closet guess for a large Brazilian city was a mere 1.6 kilometres off (6,000 points), while Veracruz taxi got me 8 kilometres from the target (5,000 points).

I had on more go at the game, got the same site in São Paulo, and followed the signs to find the location within 0.013 kilometres... And only got 6,478 points for my 15 minute effort!

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thomasquinn 32989 11 May 2013 07:31 · Member since July 2006

No surprises here: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.62&soc=-7.59

Also, most historians agree that Stalin wasn't particularly leftist in his economic views, certainly less so than Lenin or Trotsky (see the concept "state capitalism"; Lenin made use of it in 1921 (NEP) but quickly abandoned it, Stalin reintroduced the concept). The relative economic centrism of Hitler can easily be explained by the fact that he didn't particularly care for economics as anything other than a means to an end (this in reference to the graph of famous leaders in GratefulFan's post).

@ tero!

I got really lucky with one: the center of a town in Brittany that I'd been to once. So that was just a matter of zooming in on the map to the point of insanity. I actually got to 0.066 kilometres on that one!

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Bohardy 11 May 2013 07:36 · Member since July 2001

13,131 to beat.

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Bohardy 11 May 2013 08:05 · Member since July 2001

Can't see me beating 28,212 any time soon, so might leave it there. Knew this would be a time-waster for me.

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Bohardy 11 May 2013 08:08 · Member since July 2001

Bohardy wrote: Can't see me beating 28,212 any time soon, so might leave it there. Knew this would be a time-waster for me.

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waunakonor 11 May 2013 09:41 · Member since February 2012

Well, so far we're all leftists, not surprised at all by that, but one of us appears to lean authoritarian. Clearly, he's a diabolical dictator in some third world country.

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Chief Mouse 11 May 2013 09:58 · Member since March 2013

waunakonor wrote: Well, so far we're all leftists, not surprised at all by that, but one of us appears to lean authoritarian. Clearly, he's a diabolical dictator in some third world country.

Obviously.

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tero! 48531 11 May 2013 11:45 · Member since September 2010

Bohardy wrote:

Can't see me beating 28,212 any time soon, so might leave it there. Knew this would be a time-waster for me.

It's a time waster once you realise there's only a hundred(?) places, and you can zoom in on the map on the results page... It's only a matter of time to get at least 32,000 points.

And to think that I went through all that effort to deduce where it was possible to turn into the locations shown on the screen, when I could have just looked it up and memorised it after my previous guess!

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GratefulFan 13 May 2013 11:36 · Member since October 2009

tero! 48531 wrote:
It's a time waster once you realise there's only a hundred(?) places, and you can zoom in on the map on the results page... It's only a matter of time to get at least 32,000 points.

Yeah sorry about that. In a fit of pique I had f*&^*^ Australia removed, along with anything that started with an 'A', anything that rhymed with any syllable of f*&^*^ Australia, anything within 5000 km of f*&^*^ Australia, and anything had more than three vowels because like f*&^*^ Australia that's just pretentious. :P

For something consistently challenging see http://whereonthebluemarble.com/ where you earn points for identifying/locating satellite pictures of earth. It's timed as well.

Speaking of space and earth, Astronaut Chris Hadfield who has commanded the International Space Station since late December is due to return to earth today and has made a bit of music history with the first video recorded in space. It's a cover of Bowie's Space Oddity and is somehow this great combination of interesting, corny and moving.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KaOC9danxNo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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GratefulFan 13 May 2013 11:45 · Member since October 2009

And if you don't care much for space, you can always put your face on your pet.

http://www.petswitch.com/

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Holly2003 13 May 2013 14:16 · Member since May 2003

http://www.gizoogle.net/

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waunakonor 13 May 2013 14:52 · Member since February 2012

Holly2003 wrote:
http://www.gizoogle.net/

Hilarious!

From the Wikipizzle page on Queen (Band):

Biatchz earliest works was hyped up by progressive rock, hard rock n' heavy metal yo, but tha crew gradually ventured tha fuck into mo' conventionizzle n' radio-friendly works, incorporatin mo' diverse n' innovatizzle stylez up in they music.

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waunakonor 13 May 2013 15:08 · Member since February 2012

I'm just reading through Queen's Wikipizzle's page right now. Great stuff.

"In 1968, turntablist Brian May, a hustla at Londonz Imperial College, n' basehead Slim Tim Staffell decided ta form a funky-ass band. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka!"

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GratefulFan 15 May 2013 13:03 · Member since October 2009

I thought this was kind of interesting. It's a 'hate map' of the United States based on various keywords in tweets that you can choose from menus at the top. The consistency of the hot spots of the Midwest and South and into the Northeast is striking. It's fascinating to contemplate what it's reflecting. Maybe bits of urban life, history, circumstance, media consumption or infectious bad habits creating artificial norms of communication.

http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html

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waunakonor 15 May 2013 20:35 · Member since February 2012

http://fontbomb.ilex.ca/

Go to this site and drag the link you are given up to your bookmarks bar. Then, go over to Serious Discussion, go to any page of the thread entitled "The truth Queen/"Fanthology"/etc don't want you to know about Queen II," click on the appropriate bookmark, and have fun.

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