Google maps is great but don’t rely on it if you are not strong swimmer. If you ask for directions from the USA to Europe, Google suggests that you swim across the Atlantic Ocean :)
Here is an example (New York to Paris).

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I love South Park character generators and I stumbled on another one today, it has quite a few more options than the one I posted about last November.
Here is my commando version of Stanley searching for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Make your own South Park character here.

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This is the trailer for GTA IV which was released last night.

CVG have posted an exhaustive study of the trailer where they have analyzed it right down to the signposts and pigeons. It’s an interesting read, have a look at it here.
The release for GTA IV is October 16 this year.

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I like the one by Asimov the best.
1. “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” - Pablo Picasso.
2. “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” - Isaac Asimov.
3. “Maybe computer science should be in the College of Theology.” - R. S. Barton, software engineer.
4. “A hacker does for love [...]

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China and Russia are planning a joint mission to Mars with a launch date in May 2009. The mission will use a Russian booster to send a Chinese satellite and a Russian probe dubbed “Phobos explorer” to the red planet. After a 10 month journey the plan is for the Chinese satellite to enter Martian [...]

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To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Yahoo Mail, Yahoo have announced that all users will get free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. This will certainly be great news to their 250 million current users and may even convert some Gmail (2.8GB and growing) fans.
Webmail services have come a long way in the [...]

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The Pope has told a gathering in Rome that Hell is real and a place where sinners do really burn in everlasting fire.
Hell “really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more”.
He doesn’t say where we can find this place, but presumably it is somewhere beneath the “real” flat earth.
What [...]

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Here are the new posters of Optimus and Megatron from the upcoming Transformers movie. Whilst I don’t have high expectations for the movie, I do think the posters are pretty cool.

click on the posters for higher res.

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Geeks have known this for a long time but the rest of the world are just beginning to notice that geeks are sexy. The Mingle2 blog has posted their top ten reasons on why geeks are so tremendously desirable :)
1 You’re probably very smart.
2 It’s hip to be geek. Everyone is familiar with the stereotype [...]

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Tolkien’s son has completed the last novel that his father was working on when he died in 1971. The new novel called The Children of Húrin will be released worldwide on 17 April, which is 89 years after Tolkien first started on the unfinished work.
The book is certain to be a huge hit and it [...]

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Seriously, what were they thinking?

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Mark Brownlow has an amusing what-if? on his blog about “If Ancient Rome had the Internet…”
The destruction of Pompeii in 79AD is the most viewed video at YouTube. The first comment is…”OMG so cool! Volcanos ROCK!”
made me laugh, a lot.
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