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50 States in 10 minutes

If you are not from the US, and you get more than ten, I would be very impressed. If you are from the US, you should do better than I did.

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Posted in games, website 8:03 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

It goes to x23!

In some places. Someone took the time to dissect the maps.google URL, and then went searching the world to see what was there.

Select a location and switch to satellite view

Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right

Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery

The above shows a rare x23 zoom. It has been noted that you cannot zoom in any further than you can on Google Earth, but atleast this way you don’t have to install anything.

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Posted in hacks, internet, pic, website 3:39 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

From the brilliant minds who brought you beerbelly, may I present: The wine rack! Now while your husband is getting blitzed, you can too. Go from an ‘A’ cup to a ‘C’ cup, and back down again.

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Posted in consumable, humor 2:28 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

What is it?

Flashlight

This week’s winner is Mesdag!

~~Put your guesses in the comments to win our fabulous prize (a militantplatypus sticker). You must be a registered user to enter.~~

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Threadless Sale

$10 t-shirt sale, through March 12th

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Life of a Bullet

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Posted in art, creepy, movie 2:29 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Regina Spektor

That Time

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Posted in music 12:09 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Google Maps

Zoom in

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Posted in pic, website 2:02 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Total Lunar Eclipse - March 3rd, 2007

I missed it here due to clouds (a cloudy day in Seattle?..). If you missed it as well, you missed quite a sight. Not to worry though, There is another one in August.

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Posted in Science, news, pic 10:05 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Monday Morning News

love him or hate him, it’s his birthday

Eco-friendly toxic cleanup is a blast

Olympus Unveils Two New D-SLRs

Good News! Shoot ‘Em Up Video Games Don’t Make Us All Killers!

Report: Best Buy Internal Website, Employees Deceive Customers - the web loves to hate Best Buy

Cassini Imaging Diary

Smith Micro gets patent for JPG stuffing

A billion cell phones sold in 2006

Security

Latest Big Worm Exploits Flaws In Anti-Virus Software

Lenovo Recalls 209,000 Notebook Batteries

DNS Root Servers Attacked

Freeware of the week

Filezilla

News of the Weird

Man wanted for trying to revive father’s corpse -

Pakistani police are hunting a man who dug up his father’s two-year old corpse and took it home in a hijacked ambulance to try to bring him back to life.

Topless wife photo ends man’s pole protest

Josie Medlock, 59, imprisoned two home improvement contract workers and two supervisors in her home in East Dene, England, in December and refused to let them out until they promised to finish her kitchen remodeling by Christmas. A local government mediator worked out a compromise, according to London’s The Sun. [The Sun (London), 12-23-06]

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