| GratefulFan 09.05.2013 18:04 |
This is a thread for anything interesting or neat found on the Internet. Kind of a randomness thread, but for Internet stuff. A site where you're presented with random Google street views to explore before guessing where they are in the world. You get points. Try to beat my 8822. Shouldn't be hard since I guessed a point in the UK which was actually Australia. LOL. My closest was 242 km off in Sweden. I also was within 1000 km in Mexico and in the area of South Korea. link |
| GratefulFan 09.05.2013 18:19 |
I beat myself with 9155. AGAIN misidentifying an island off the south coast of Australia as the UK. Australia can f-off. Except Zebonka. :) |
| Bohardy 10.05.2013 02:11 |
Amateur. :) Got 11,598 on my first go. This is right up my alley, cheers. Can see me wasting hours on this, as I have done on http://geosense.net/ many a time. |
| thomasquinn 32989 10.05.2013 04:29 |
10911 on my first try (link. But one of the five was a little too easy. When the first thing I see is a truck which advertises it's from Perth, I'm not thinking of Botswana... Credit where credit is due: thank you GratefulFan, you've actually shown me something we both like. |
| GratefulFan 10.05.2013 16:38 |
I had a dismal go at it this morning before work with another Australia fail. I've concluded I'm pretty much going to have to land at a spot with a kangaroo up a eucalyptus tree with a pouch full of koalas wearing Men at Work t-shirts to get Australia. I had a deflating far-but-yet-so-close moment in the same game by guessing a rocky coastal spot in Labrador that was actually a rocky coastal spot in Norway. Knew it looked like an Atlantic inlet, knew it looked like a northern country, knew nothing apparently about what side of the ocean it was on. That's an impressive little knot in Europe bohardy. I thought I was bloody brilliant when I picked the Ukraine for a spot in Hungary. It was Eastern Europe, right? Ha ha. |
| GratefulFan 10.05.2013 16:47 |
This is another one I like. It's called 'The Political Compass Test' and it places you on an economic and social grid that goes beyond the left-right political spectrum. Some historical and current leaders are represented once you get your results page: link link My results follow. It's interesting because I have a screen cap from a go at it about 18 months ago and my numbers were slightly different. I was a -1.50 on the Economic Left/Right then and a -4.05 on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian, so either I've drifted slightly down and to the left since then or I was in a particularly generous mood this morning. link Link is at link for anybody interested in taking the test. You answer a series of questions that take 5 or 10 minutes depending on how hard you have to think about them. |
| Bohardy 10.05.2013 18:35 |
Right. I've no idea how I managed such a score on my first go. Really. I had an obvious Great Barrier Reef scene to start me off. I have no memory of how I got the European ones, but I guess I got lucky, and even if you get the wrong country in that continent, you're never more than a few 100km off (if you're in the right ballpark). But I got Sweden and Canada mixed up and still breached 11,000?! I don't understand it. That was genuinely my first go, and all I did on each scene was spin around a little, never driving anywhere. Since then I've had about 10 attempts, cheated the hell out of it by driving around a little trying to find signs or anything to give me a clue. A few times I've managed to track down the exact location, but still I couldn't beat my original score. Finally, on about my dozenth go, I beat my score. But only just and, again, only by getting lucky in Australia and finding a nearby directional sign that allowed me to find the exact junction depicted. Annoyingly, I got rid of the screen showing my actual performance on that go, so I only have the high score recorded for posterity. I guess an inherent drawback in this game is that there is nothing to stop you driving until you reach an identifiable location, so it's hard to objectively measure performance. There certainly doesn't seem to be any penalty for taking a long time to make your guess, as perhaps there should be (and there is in link Anyway, 12,393 to beat. |
| waunakonor 10.05.2013 18:53 |
Economic Left/Right: -6.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49 link I find it interesting that the former pope is mostly authoritarian and slightly leftist. Also, Obama and Romney are so close together! |
| Bohardy 10.05.2013 18:54 |
I'm almost identical to you on the political spectrum GF. (I would embed the image, but I've no idea how to). |
| waunakonor 10.05.2013 19:01 |
Also, my first go on GeoGuessr was 5776. Go me. |
| Bohardy 10.05.2013 19:31 |
12,823 to beat. Only 'cheated' on one and got particularly lucky as one of the locations was only about 50 miles from me. |
| waunakonor 10.05.2013 20:31 |
Whoops |
| mooghead 11.05.2013 04:26 |
link link |
| tero! 48531 11.05.2013 05:22 |
GratefulFan wrote: This is a thread for anything interesting or neat found on the Internet. Kind of a randomness thread, but for Internet stuff. A site where you're presented with random Google street views to explore before guessing where they are in the world. You get points. Try to beat my 8822. Shouldn't be hard since I guessed a point in the UK which was actually Australia. LOL. My closest was 242 km off in Sweden. I also was within 1000 km in Mexico and in the area of South Korea.I played this for a few dozen times, and started getting the same sites again... How random can it be? :p My closet guess for a large Brazilian city was a mere 1.6 kilometres off (6,000 points), while Veracruz taxi got me 8 kilometres from the target (5,000 points). |
| Chief Mouse 11.05.2013 05:27 |
Economic Left/Right: -2.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.21 http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3586/pcgraphpng.jpg |
| tero! 48531 11.05.2013 05:49 |
tero! 48531 wrote:I had on more go at the game, got the same site in São Paulo, and followed the signs to find the location within 0.013 kilometres... And only got 6,478 points for my 15 minute effort!GratefulFan wrote: This is a thread for anything interesting or neat found on the Internet. Kind of a randomness thread, but for Internet stuff. A site where you're presented with random Google street views to explore before guessing where they are in the world. You get points. Try to beat my 8822. Shouldn't be hard since I guessed a point in the UK which was actually Australia. LOL. My closest was 242 km off in Sweden. I also was within 1000 km in Mexico and in the area of South Korea.I played this for a few dozen times, and started getting the same sites again... How random can it be? :p My closet guess for a large Brazilian city was a mere 1.6 kilometres off (6,000 points), while Veracruz taxi got me 8 kilometres from the target (5,000 points). |
| thomasquinn 32989 11.05.2013 07:31 |
No surprises here: link Also, most historians agree that Stalin wasn't particularly leftist in his economic views, certainly less so than Lenin or Trotsky (see the concept "state capitalism"; Lenin made use of it in 1921 (NEP) but quickly abandoned it, Stalin reintroduced the concept). The relative economic centrism of Hitler can easily be explained by the fact that he didn't particularly care for economics as anything other than a means to an end (this in reference to the graph of famous leaders in GratefulFan's post). @ tero! I got really lucky with one: the center of a town in Brittany that I'd been to once. So that was just a matter of zooming in on the map to the point of insanity. I actually got to 0.066 kilometres on that one! |
| Bohardy 11.05.2013 07:36 |
13,131 to beat. |
| Bohardy 11.05.2013 08:05 |
Can't see me beating 28,212 any time soon, so might leave it there. Knew this would be a time-waster for me. |
| Bohardy 11.05.2013 08:08 |
Bohardy wrote: Can't see me beating 28,212 any time soon, so might leave it there. Knew this would be a time-waster for me. |
| waunakonor 11.05.2013 09:41 |
Well, so far we're all leftists, not surprised at all by that, but one of us appears to lean authoritarian. Clearly, he's a diabolical dictator in some third world country. |
| Chief Mouse 11.05.2013 09:58 |
waunakonor wrote: Well, so far we're all leftists, not surprised at all by that, but one of us appears to lean authoritarian. Clearly, he's a diabolical dictator in some third world country. Obviously. |
| tero! 48531 11.05.2013 11:45 |
Bohardy wrote: Can't see me beating 28,212 any time soon, so might leave it there. Knew this would be a time-waster for me.It's a time waster once you realise there's only a hundred(?) places, and you can zoom in on the map on the results page... It's only a matter of time to get at least 32,000 points. And to think that I went through all that effort to deduce where it was possible to turn into the locations shown on the screen, when I could have just looked it up and memorised it after my previous guess! |
| GratefulFan 13.05.2013 11:36 |
tero! 48531 wrote: It's a time waster once you realise there's only a hundred(?) places, and you can zoom in on the map on the results page... It's only a matter of time to get at least 32,000 points.Yeah sorry about that. In a fit of pique I had f*&^*^ Australia removed, along with anything that started with an 'A', anything that rhymed with any syllable of f*&^*^ Australia, anything within 5000 km of f*&^*^ Australia, and anything had more than three vowels because like f*&^*^ Australia that's just pretentious. :P For something consistently challenging see link where you earn points for identifying/locating satellite pictures of earth. It's timed as well. Speaking of space and earth, Astronaut Chris Hadfield who has commanded the International Space Station since late December is due to return to earth today and has made a bit of music history with the first video recorded in space. It's a cover of Bowie's Space Oddity and is somehow this great combination of interesting, corny and moving. |
| GratefulFan 13.05.2013 11:45 |
And if you don't care much for space, you can always put your face on your pet. link |
| Holly2003 13.05.2013 14:16 |
http://www.gizoogle.net/ |
| waunakonor 13.05.2013 14:52 |
Holly2003 wrote: http://www.gizoogle.net/Hilarious! From the Wikipizzle page on Queen (Band): Biatchz earliest works was hyped up by progressive rock, hard rock n' heavy metal yo, but tha crew gradually ventured tha fuck into mo' conventionizzle n' radio-friendly works, incorporatin mo' diverse n' innovatizzle stylez up in they music. |
| waunakonor 13.05.2013 15:08 |
I'm just reading through Queen's Wikipizzle's page right now. Great stuff. "In 1968, turntablist Brian May, a hustla at Londonz Imperial College, n' basehead Slim Tim Staffell decided ta form a funky-ass band. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka!" |
| GratefulFan 15.05.2013 13:03 |
I thought this was kind of interesting. It's a 'hate map' of the United States based on various keywords in tweets that you can choose from menus at the top. The consistency of the hot spots of the Midwest and South and into the Northeast is striking. It's fascinating to contemplate what it's reflecting. Maybe bits of urban life, history, circumstance, media consumption or infectious bad habits creating artificial norms of communication. link |
| waunakonor 15.05.2013 20:35 |
link Go to this site and drag the link you are given up to your bookmarks bar. Then, go over to Serious Discussion, go to any page of the thread entitled "The truth Queen/"Fanthology"/etc don't want you to know about Queen II," click on the appropriate bookmark, and have fun. |
| GratefulFan 17.05.2013 19:46 |
Have some spare change? Why not help crowdfund the purchase of a video of the mayor of the 5th largest city in North America sweating profusely and smoking crack? link |
| GratefulFan 17.05.2013 19:50 |
I remember this site exists about twice a year. This guy is hit and miss, but when he's on he gets me in hysterical, helpless tears. link |
| inu-liger 17.05.2013 20:18 |
GratefulFan wrote: Have some spare change? Why not help crowdfund the purchase of a video of the mayor of the 5th largest city in North America sweating profusely and smoking crack? linkCheck this video out, GF |
