Archive for February, 2012


Q&A: What is the Latitude and Longitude of the most interesting place shown on Google Earth?

by Abode of Chaos Question by prbfc: What is the Latitude and Longitude of the most interesting place shown on Google Earth? Google Earth is a great way to explore geography. Have you found some feature of our Earth that you can see using Google Earth that is interesting because of geology or geographic feature? [...]

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Google, Mozilla Back White House 'Do Not Track' Plan

Google News screenshot 3 Image by herzogbr Please see my blog post about this. Google, Mozilla Back White House 'Do Not Track' Plan By Chloe Albanesius Google and Mozilla on Thursday voiced support for the White House's "privacy bill of rights" plan, which includes a call for browser makers to adopt an easy-to-use "do not [...]

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Q&A: How many places can I pin on Google Earth?

by mallix Question by Sidwell: How many places can I pin on Google Earth? I have Google Earth, and I have been happily pinning places I’ve been to and read about. I have about 170 pins, and now Google is not accepting any more pins. Is there a limit? And how do I get rid [...]

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Q&A: Is your Google Earth covered with pixels or lines in areas with nothing to hide?

by Antoon’s Foobar Question by : Is your Google Earth covered with pixels or lines in areas with nothing to hide? My google earth is covered with these lines or pixels, what is this? These are supposed to be satellite images, so why the lines? They are in areas where there is nothing to hide, [...]

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Latest Google Earth News

Google Earth: US Navy Building forms Nazi Swastika In the above video, is the following shape of a Nazi swastika a coincidence? Send your proposed article to The Canadian. Would you like to see other similar articles and critical commentaries in The Canadian National Newspaper? Then, show your support. Read more on Canadian National Newspaper [...]

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Q&A: Which colorway should I buy?

by Steve Rhodes Question by Prince of Maddness: Which colorway should I buy? I’m buying new soccer cleats and I was wondering which one you liked more? Make sure to think about which pops more but mainly try to focus on style. Thanks Number 1- http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.soccerbible.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/football-boots.nike.Mercurial.Superfly_5F00_windchill/SB_5F00_Superfly_5F00_Windchill_5F00_main.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.soccerbible.com/news/football-boots/archive/2011/01/10/nike-mercurial-vapor-superfly-ii-football-boots-windchill-dark-obsidian-chlorine-blue.aspx&usg=__MTXC1n8fCYm8pi9g1j5d8XkP_8Q=&h=397&w=530&sz=72&hl=en&start=0&sig2=z6g3Eb2UfkDWYiG5qlz57g&zoom=1&tbnid=qI8-ad1aTvwEQM:&tbnh=158&tbnw=183&ei=jGFiTuf8LoXZgAfa2KSyCg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dnike%2Bmercurial%2Bvapor%2Bsuperfly%2Bii%2Bwindchill%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26gbv%3D2%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D593%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=146&vpy=247&dur=1233&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=135&ty=130&page=1&ndsp=8&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0 Number 2-http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php%3Fd%3DAQDHScb2ZcbjxlfN%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fecx.images-amazon.com%252Fimages%252FI%252F41vRx0jIOtL.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.facebook.com/notes/Dress7/Order-Now-Nike-Mercurial-Vapor-Superfly-Ii-Fg-Mens-Soccer-Cleats-Bright-Cactus-White-Anthracite-Mens-Shoes-396127-311-7-5/262845007062771&usg=__NF0-uJqjTgoG4fRz9DFKs8GEH3o=&h=365&w=464&sz=25&hl=en&start=14&sig2=0HhGCG2lr3BFm7dyUMb_Tw&zoom=1&tbnid=G5uU9CDIxDBqlM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=165&ei=yWJiToX5CcOBgAewz4iYCg&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=148&vpy=191&dur=1454&hovh=130&hovw=165&tx=122&ty=61&page=2&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:14 Sites like those sell replicas of shoes.. [...]

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Molinari to head Google's DC office

Google News screenshot 1 Image by herzogbr Please see my blog post about this. Molinari to head Google's DC office Former congresswoman Susan Molinari was named head of Google's Washington office on Thursday, increasing the tech giant's government firepower at a time of rising scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators on high-stakes issues that include privacy [...]

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Q&A: Where did my “starred stories” go (Google News)?

by Vince_Lamb Question by Q&A Queen: Where did my “starred stories” go (Google News)? Hello. I am using google chrome and my most important section is the news section. I has the star story function (like bookmarking in Yahoo I guess) and I can do that. But where at one time I had a “starred [...]

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Q&A: Why on earth does Google include “spoof news” in its news search results?

by upyernoz Question by Monk: Why on earth does Google include “spoof news” in its news search results? Am I the only one who wishes Google would turn off ridiculous, useless spoof news (alleged satire) in its news search results… or at least have a preference setting to exclude it? What on earth are they [...]

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Latest Google Earth Live News

Saba Street Via Google Earth Image by Bill on Capitol Hill The condominium complex where I bought my first house, Chandler, Ariz. I lived there from 1985 to 1989.

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