If you receive an email from the Department of Health telling you not to eat canned pork because of swine flu….
Ignore it…….
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Monopoly City Streets game by Google
Google is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google Maps version of Monopoly. Monopoly City Streets allows users to compete in a live, worldwide version of the popular game, creating the biggest Monopoly tournament ever played. The game is launched today.
On the 9th September, a world of property empire building on an unimaginable scale will be launched! A live worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence.
Own any street in the world. Build humble houses, crazy castles and stupendous skyscrapers to collect rent. Which strategy will you employ? Determined drive? Ingenious daring? Intelligent caution? Will you thrive under the pressure of a fast growing global property empire – or will you crumble? Find out if you’ll thrive, or even survive, in the amazing world of Monopoly City Streets.
I tried to take a look but couldn’t get through. I think it’s overwhelmed today.
Update: The Monopoly City Streets blog says that due to the overwhelming response, it’s uping the firepower and it should be better in a few hours.
Google Holodeck
At this past week’s Google I/O event in San Francisco, Google brought a contraption it calls the “Holodeck,” for event-goers to experience. Basically, it’s a near-360 degree way to view Google Street View in fast motion, high definition video.
I filmed this great toy while I was on vacation in California – I had spent a few days at the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, and found the Holodeck there.
Note: the views in this video are entirely personal, not the Holodeck team’s, and not Google’s. It’s merely a fun representation of what one can do with Google Earth and a few big screens.
Here’s another video:
50 things that are being killed by the internet
The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives – both positive and negative – in the fifteen years since its use became widespread.
Below we have compiled – in no particular order – 50 things that are in the process of being killed off by the web, from products and business models to life experiences and habits. We’ve also thrown in a few things that have suffered the hands of other modern networking gadgets, specifically mobile phones and GPS systems.
Here are a few from the list:
1) The art of polite disagreement
2) Fear that you are the only person unmoved by a celebrity’s death
7) Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase
9) The myth of cat intelligence
11) Music stores
14) Dead time
16) Hoaxes and conspiracy theories
20) Order forms in the back pages of books
40) Undiscovered artists
44) Trust in Nigerian businessmen and princes
50) Your lunchbreak
The complete list with details
Add special effects to your pictures
Eff My Pic Turn your pic into a billboard or other effects
Cartoonizer: Turn your photo into a cartoon.
Water Effect: This is kind of fun. I’m not sure what you can do with it besides post it on the web. It doesn’t move if you just save it as a JPEG or GIF file. But it looks cool here.
More image manipulation tools and here
