Teehan+Lax Labs developed Hyperlapse, a free tool you can use to make videos out of the pictures from Google Maps. You just enter a route, adjust the viewing angles along the way, and TA-DA, a hyperlapse video of the walk from my apartment to the liquor store. Will there be b... / Continue →

This is a series of posters created by artist Andrew DeGraff that feature the Indiana Jones and Star Wars trilogies retold as maps of characters' movements. You might have noticed how he didn't include the latest Indiana Jones or any of the Star Wars prequels. That's because ... / Continue →

Some peen-loving jokester (God, aren't we all?) in Victoria, Australia managed to draw a really crappy looking wiener on one of the camera lenses of a Google Street View car. As far as wieners go, it's not a very good one. On a scale from 1 to 10 it's like a 2 (is that...supp... / Continue →

Seen here proving he has zero clue what the world actually looks like, artist Samuel Granados creates 3-D maps out of LEGO blocks that show migration data. Oh c'mon -- BIRDS CAN'T READ LEGO! His project is very funny: a 3D cartogram about emigration and inmigration between ... / Continue →

Note: Don't even try reading that, it's only gonna make you squirt. I mean squint. Or do I? I don't even know anymore. Click HERE to see the high-res version. Sorry for the short, quick posts today folks, but by the time you read this I'll be halfway to a top-secret locati... / Continue →

Some Google Streetviewer appears to have left a pair of pliers on top of his camera while out mapping. Oops! Hey it's okay, mapper, just be thankful it wasn't a dildo. God I wish it'd been a dildo. Google Maps Thanks to Fan_Thomas, who once left a chainsaw on the roof of h... / Continue →

PleaseRobMe.com is a website that lists people who have recently left their homes and announced their location on Twitter. So you can go rob them. Or go spread rose petals all over their porch if you're not into the whole robbery thing. The website was created to make an imp... / Continue →

Tired of the Google Street View van catching you soliciting yourself on the corner? Tired of explaining to your wife who the man you were photographed with was? Enter the Anti-Google Street View shirt. Available for $12 (bumper sticker for $5), the shirt guarantees privacy f... / Continue →

I can't believe it took this long. And, who knows, maybe it's happened before. I mean, birds shit on my car all the time. Cats too. And, at least twice this year, a homeless man. Well, from a purely technical standpoint, that was actually IN the car. And speaking of which... / Continue →

Honestly, I bet the old lady ran right into the side of the thing (old ladies are notoriously bad bike riders. *ahem* Grandma -- I saw you hit that bus shelter!). There's a before shot after the jump, but unfortunately the above image has since been removed from Google Maps. ... / Continue →