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Microsoft Street Slide
Microsoft's prototype extension of Street View to give a full-street overview is exactly what's needed
Wikipedia: List of auto-antonyms in English
Awful used to mean "full of awe, even better than awesome."
iPhone 4 Case Program
The free cases are now available via a very simple iPhone app. Surprisingly wide selection of cases, I'm probably one of very few people to go for the "tartan effect" case.
Gillian McKeith loses an online argument, backtracks, and then pretends to be someone else
A funny story, but the Boingboing commenters get all out of proportion and seem to think she'll be bankrupted by the "fiasco"
Diffable: only download the deltas
Updates cached Javascript files with diffs rather than downloading the whole thing again.
GlastoTag
Super high-resolution photo from Glastonbury where over 3,000 people have tagged themselves
A Stack of Twits
Simple webapp sends you @replies on Twitter when new Stack Overflow questions appear matching a set of keywords.
YoruFukurou
A terribly-named native Mac Twitter client. Not as slick as Tweetie, but loads of configuration options and custom tabs.
A fluid Hicksdesign
Clever fluid design that adjusts the number of columns based on your screen width
James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.
James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze River in China and is the largest power generating plant in the world. While much of China’s vast countryside is only covered by low-res imagery, Google recently released new…
Posted on 30th July 2010
The Casiquiare canal
We’ve only ever written one other post about Venezuela, so it’s about time we took another trip. We’d like to have crafted a post about the Orinoco River, but sadly there isn’t enough of it in…
Posted on 29th July 2010
The Rideau Canal: From Ottawa to Lake Ontario
The Rideau Canal is a World Heritage Site waterway which connects Canada’s capital Ottawa to the city of Kingston on Lake Ontario. The route consists of a combination of several lakes, numerous rivers and dams, and…
Posted on 27th July 2010
Masonic Temples Around the World
Freemasonry is the world’s largest and oldest fraternity. It’s also sort of hard to define. It’s a fraternal organisation, but it’s also bound up with ideas of morals, charity, and social gatherings.1 For centuries, Masons have…
Posted on 23rd July 2010
New GSS design launched!
After what feels like months of work1, we’ve finally launched our brand new design for Google Sightseeing (14 weeks after we originally planned to launch it, on our 5th birthday). Today we’re very proud to bring…
Posted on 23rd July 2010