The Other Flu Epidemic: Information
The internet has the flu, and we're all red states now.
The internet has the flu, and we're all red states now.
A while back I wrote about "famous album covers as seen on Google Maps":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/11/18/eleven-seminal-album-covers-as-seen-with-google-street-view; it gave the Internet something it craved: something nostalgic packaged in some…
They look like cut-scenes from the next installment of Grand Theft Auto. It’s not. This is Google Earth, reimagined in glorious real-time 3D, available soon on your mobile phone. It’s Google at its finest, another earnest step in the company’s quest…
It's true, guys: We're living in the Golden Age of crowd-sourcing our information. With the recent announcement that the age-old cornerstone of academic fact-finding, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, will "soon be out of print":http://www.reuters.com/ar…
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I suggest heading over to Google Maps right now and selecting the "8-Bit Quest Map" option. Note that, "Your system may not meet the minumum requirements for 8-bit computations." It's worth exploring a bit;…
Until now, I’ve almost exclusively associated hyperbolic fish-eye visuals with the stuff of machine elves and shitty skateboarding videos. But no longer - I’ll be damned if a new hack on Google Maps isn’t already letting me ride out this balmy Friday…
That street on your map app that isn't there is probably not a mistake