Eric Fischer has created maps of locations of photographs taken by tourists and residents. On flickr.

This guy took a look at the mapping information for all the pictures in major cities around the world, as posted to Flickr and Picassa. Then he looked at when the pictures were taken. If they were all taken within a short period of time (like a week or so) the person was considered a tourist. If they were taken months apart, the person was considered a resident. Residents' pictures were plotted with blue dots, and tourists' were plotted with red dots. You can see where the tourist destinations are in each city, and also where the local hot spots are.

I zoomed in on the super high resolution picture for Washington DC, and see a handful of images were taken in my backyard. I didn't know where they came from but then saw in my Picassa account over the last couple years, I've mapped a few pictures to my back yard. I'm confused though because I wasn't sure how public I had made them when I posted them.

Anyway, I think this is really cool information. These "maps" show where different types of people like to spend their time taking pictures.

That is VERY cool glatt, thanks for sharing.

joyo kanji
 

nothing current or exciting, but I found this by accident and it made me smile...
goodnewsblog.com

Yarr! Discover ye pirate name!

http://gangstaname.com/names/pirate


I be High Pitched Gwyn

Comprehensive craft websites

http://www.allfreecrafts.com/

http://karenswhimsy.com/

25 odd ball Knock off products

Super robot transformer Tomas the tank engine would have covered all bases for the boys a couple of years ago.

Super robot transforming Titanic, probably still.

Steve, don't eat it! is some of the best writing on the interwebz. At least I think so, and I'm the only one I listen to, so...

Bad link?

....or could be that I need a restart...

Is this what came up

I know I'm EVIL but here it is.

At first this doesn't seem very interesting. But, like a lot of things, once ya start playing with it, it gets more interesting. It's a census-info-derived map of who is moving where. How many. And which direction. For every county in the United States.

Very cool

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Imo, it should be called wallyworldweirdness.com.

litttle poo man

Some of these are pretty funny.

I'm just waiting until I see someone I know. (ditto for text from last night)

The CSI Effect
 

An info-graphic: CSI vs. Reality

World's stupidest inventions

Pick your favorite - there are some real winners

Aussie History
 

This is even stupider.

Or maybe it's nukular.

The decade in pictures.

wow. That's really high resolution. And I'm amazed at how busy it is. If I were a local, I'd be annoyed at all those tourists walking back and forth getting their pictures taken.

I head some horns honking a short while ago. :D

I had the sound turned off. I'll have to listen.

This guy, Sergey Larenkov, makes these amazing images. He's got dozens of them on his livejournal page. He takes a historic old photo and then goes to the location and takes a photo of the same spot today. Then he photoshops them together to have a blending of the old and the new in the same image. It's kind of like seeing the ghosts of history. I really like the effect.

Wow, extremely cool. No offense, glatt, but your chosen example doesn't really do his style justice, IMHO. It looks like he just split the picture down the middle. See below for a better shot of his blending skills:

What amazes me is how he goes out and gets a shot today that matches so closely the original. I don't have any idea how he could do that. Obviously, you need to take the original picture with you when you go out with your camera, but you need to be in the exact right spot, at the right height, with the camera using the correct focal length lens.

ThisOldHouse.com has Home Inspection Nightmares AKA American Ingenuity/Insanity.

I admit I've done one thing in my attic that might wind up here but in general it makes me feel good about the condition of my old house.

Two examples (from the site, not my house:) ), showing a car radiator/floor heater and some crazy pipework:

WatchThatPage.com

Awesome free site that emails you updates on websites. I never was a fan of RSS and this site is simple but still very configurable. Works great to monitor craigslist searches.

Make your own eco friendly lamps
 

Skysidhe, those SunJars are crap. I gave out a half dozen of them for Christmas, a couple years ago, and they all failed almost immediately.:(

Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago

Stupid unicorns. Grrrrrrrrr.

Yes but she was such a slut, National Geographic has to say who's your daddy, by checking Y chromosomes. :haha:

humm

too bad
:(

but,I actually came looking for the night sky link. That bright star in the sky? That's Jupiter. I need to confirm.

Jupiter is never "bright". It's probably Venus.

Saturn?

This is what the eastern sky will look like around 2 am EST 8/29/10
I think you are looking at Jupiter because it has really been bright the past few nights, along with the full moon.

Yep! Thanks :)

Yep! Yep! That's it!

I found PBS.org and Hubble-site.org before finding Neave again.

We've all seen high speed photography. The droplets. The bullet through the apple. The popped balloon.

This guy combines two of them.

She's hot...but all she serves is beer.

bad link

Apparently Gromitspapa's link expired, since leenco12 tried it last night.:eyebrow:

http://www.themomi.org/museum/mfa/Montage.html

The Museum of Musical Instruments. The Guitar.

For all you "easterners" here is a link to an Oregon cultural icon.

Grant McOmie started doing his "Grant's Getaways" several years ago on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
His weekly TV segments were 10 - 20 min long and covered all kinds of places, people and strange things in Oregon.
Once you hear his voice, you'll recognize it forever.

There was almost a public up-rising back in 2008 (?) when Grant and OPB came to a parting-of-the-ways.
He was so popular and a major fund-raiser for public broadcasting.

Now (Hooray !!!) Grant's Getaways are being broadcast again,
but on the local TV (KGW), and many segments are available,
but the more recent are usually very short (2 - 3 min)

To know what Oregon is really like, I invite you to these links.

Enjoy

http://home.comcast.net/~vonholdt/test/clock_slide/index.htm

I don't like this. I can just feel the seconds passing by.

That's almost as bad as those cat-clocks with the eyes that shift
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
back-and-forth
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !

haha, I agree!

Didn't Pete post something like that earlier?

NYC click through map of neighborhoods :)

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/