Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Shufle

ShuffleHere's a cool game. The purpose of it is to play pool-like shots to remove your opponents balls from the shuffle board, without losing all yours in the process.

It's really addictive, and will kill quite a lot of time practising it.

Despite that, I have only hit 51,340 in playing it, and I see from the hall of fame that I've some way to go.

Thanks to the Presurfer.

Google Street Maps

GoogleStreetMapOk, I've got to mention this now. This has been reported all over the place over the last few weeks in blogs etc, but now people are finding funny stuff in it, and that interested me more than the original story.

Over the last year or so, Google has commissioned the vehicle shown above to cruise the streets of large cities and take shots from ground level. It's a very good way of seeing a road or route as it actually looks when you travel around it.

But this is the good part. Because the vehicle takes hundreds of photos in daylight, and is currently confined to large US cities, it captures lots of ordinary people, going about their daily life. Such as the following cases:

Woman caught in thong exposee
The camera obviously caught her in her truck, leaning over, perhaps to grab some groceries, and if you zoom right in, her underwear is on show.
Man caught driving into work late"..the back of our Prius was captured as I was turning into the parking lot at work. From the angle the shadow casts, you can tell that I was probably sneaking into work at around 11AM"
Google Street Man turns hippy
When the man is placed over a certain hippy part of San Fran, he now sports a bandana, and carries a flower.

Thanks to this article at BoingBoing.