Found on the internet

[QUOTE] [b]tero! 48531 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]

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.[/QUOTE]


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).[/QUOTE]

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!

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!

13,131 to beat.

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

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

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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[b]waunakonor wrote: [/b] 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.[/QUOTE]

Obviously.

[QUOTE] [b]Bohardy wrote:[/b]

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

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!

[QUOTE] [b]tero! 48531 wrote:[/b] 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. [/QUOTE] 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.

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

http://www.petswitch.com/

[url=http://www.gizoogle.net/]http://www.gizoogle.net/[/url]

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]
[url=http://www.gizoogle.net/]http://www.gizoogle.net/[/url][/QUOTE]
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.

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!"

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

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.