Morrissey Hacked Into Google Earth
Someone at Google must be a Smiths fan. Apparently, if you “fly” over the latest Google Earth to Salford Lads Club in the UK and enable “3D buildings,” you’ll walk right into Morrissey. Read more »
So, Google made this festive, self-promoting clip starring the most searched people, places and videos from the Internet this year and the Internet is very upset that Rebecca Black is all up in there mixed with Japan’s disaster and the Bin Laden assassination. Read more »
Glenn Beck doesn’t want you to Google because “Google is deeply in bed with the US government” and that’s why all those other countries are banning it, good for them. Lamest attempt to censor the Internet ever, FOX.
Neat! Google Art Project is Street View for museums – tons of them! – so you can sprint through St. Petersburg’s Hermitage, trot around the Tate and then go to MoMA and zoom deep inside the cracks and dabs of Starry Night. Read more »
Google Street View: Antarctica
The latest in Goolge’s un-paved Street View: Antarctica! Penguins (running away)! And an awful lot of blurry-faced people in red jumpsuits poking about. Now, you can do it too without scaring the penguins.
Despite what a German business magazine reported, Google is not buying drones to assist in its global mapping operations…yet. Microdrones did sell a UAV, but to an executive indulging a personal hobby, not directly to the internet juggernaut. Also, it’s more of a remote controlled helicopter than a terrorist-seeking Predator.
Our collective Internet bitching has bullied Google into pulling their fancy backgrounds off the main page early. It was meant to be a 24-hour showcase anyway, but due to a bug, that particular info didn’t show up, hence the WTFs and waaaaas.
Google has just launched a new feature that turns its soothingly minimal title page into a background image of your choice, which is a bitch to turn off. Struggling only makes it worse. But, there’s a way to fix it. Read more »
Google’s Pac-Man Made the World Less Productive
To hype Pac-Man’s 30th birthday, Google recently launched a playable version of the arcade classic using their home page logo and according to a new study, the game was responsible for a loss of almost 5 million man-hours. Luckily, tons of the search engine’s users are stupid and didn’t even know they could play it, staving off the fall of capitalism and possibly Western Civilization itself.
Whether mapping public art or art fairs in NYC or capturing city-bird fauna, the Google Maps interface is infinitely useful. This latest handiness round-up shows you how to map out a great bike route and tons more. See also: armed gangster-types doing business on the streets of Moscow. Nifty. |LifeHacker|
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