Another addition to Google Maps that I just discovered today is Google Maps Labs. There’s a bunch of stuff I’ll never activate/use, but the Aerial Imagery is pretty cool. There aren’t a ton of sites covered and available for Aerial views, but the Winchester Mystery House that you see above is incorporated.
From the house’s Wikipedia entry, “The mansion is renowned for its size and utter lack of any master building plan. According to popular belief, Winchester thought the house was haunted by the ghosts of individuals killed by Winchester rifles, and that only continuous construction would appease them.”
Just found that Donnie Darko is available for streaming on Netflix.
I was aware of the film screening Fridays at Midnight at Two Boots Pioneer Theater, but I never caught it. After being turned onto the film long past its two year run there, I’m always kicking myself for not seeing it on a big screen.
Jim Emerson’s review of the film on rogerebert.com is very much worth reading. I can direct you at that, but sadly donniedarko.com has been taken down. It was likely my favorite Flash based site, functioning as a game to explore while turning visitors onto complementary details of the film.
Much like the image overlays in Bing Maps that I wrote about a couple months ago, Google Maps now has the ability to position user generated imagery on their Street View interface.
This is just a quick post to get it out there, so when I’ve got a free few minutes I’ll look for other locations that incorporate this new feature nicely, and will update this post with more imagery.
Locals and Tourists is a Flickr set created by Eric Fischer. It visualizes geotagged images on Flickr that correspond to locations in various cities around the world. Looking at the map, locals are shown as blue dots, tourists as red and the less than positively identified are shown in yellow.
Jori Hulkkonen – I Am Dead (Hercules and Love Affair Remix):
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Aphex Twin is doing a handful of dates in Europe, and has suggested that he’d be playing new, unreleased music. The video below — while shaky — captures the audio from one of those new tracks very nicely. Exciting stuff!
