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Aaron Hobson – The Best of Google Street View

By 6000 | 6000 | November 21, 2011

Aaron Hobson has taken some of the best of Google Street View images from around the world and converted them into cinemascapes: …in search of enchanted and remote lands typically only reserved for the eyes of it’s inhabitants, but now are captured on camera by the automated and aesthetically-neutered google street view cars that linger. [...]

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Mental!

By 6000 | 6000 | November 11, 2011

Yesterday’s cricket at Newlands was a bit mental and broke all sort of records. And even those records that it didn’t break, it threatened with physical violence and actual bodily harm. Cricinfo’s chief statistician S Rajesh was watching it all from the safety of Bangalore and produced this wonderful summary of what happened, what didn’t happen and [...]

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Do you want fries with that?

By 6000 | 6000 | November 10, 2011

I’m often asked how close the nearest McDonald’s outlet is. Aren’t we all? Most days, right? Of course, with my Android smartphone in my hand, it’s easy to help the enquirer out – I just use Layar or some similar augmented reality browser (note: first time you use it, you will feel like you’re in [...]

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They’re back…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 8, 2011

Ah – the infamous and immortal words of little Heather O’Rourke playing little Carol-Anne in Poltergeist II. But this is far less spooky. The guys from Silent UK are back – but this time, having been caught and prosecuted in the UK, they’ve gone Stateside! For me, the adventures in London were over, my trump [...]

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Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 8, 2011

This one is for the folks back in Blighty (although some over here may not have seen it, I guess). There are currently issues in Tokwana in Zimbabwe. OK, so there are currently issues everywhere in Zimbabwe, but I am focussing particularly on the heinous events which have recently befallen the Ndlovu family in Tokwana. You know, the [...]

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