Discussion » Outstanding Google-maps joke

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Posted by Saltation, 7th February 2009:
 
maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q...

(basketball court near cliff-edge in Vaucluse, Sydney)
Posted by syl, 7th February 2009:
 
Google took my what?
Posted by arsepuppy, around 8th February 2009:
 
i.gizmodo.com/5141974/googl...
Posted by che, around 8th February 2009:
 
Google to my Adsense?
Posted by Saltation, 9th February 2009:
 
"stole"
the paint has been scrubbed off with varying success. the whole is variously readable by scrunching up your eyes and zooming in and out a few steps. different words differently readable at various zoom/scrunch levels.
Posted by che, 10th February 2009:
 
aha
thanks
i was having problems reading it
Posted by sal, 10th February 2009:
 
would have been much better if he'd turned the 'oo' in google into a cock and balls
Posted by arsepuppy, 10th February 2009:
 
haha!
Posted by arsepuppy, 10th February 2009:
 
(I don't get the Adsense joke...)
Posted by Saltation, 11th February 2009:
 
(google run googlemaps AND google adsense (a means of making money from websites)

so, if they kill your adsense, advertise via their other service :)
)
Posted by Meatwood Flack, 17th February 2009:
 
When I first saw Google Earth I was straight up on my roof, waving my arms around and shouting "Can you see me?". Didn't take too long to realise that if everything else was moving on GE it would be a very different kettle of fish.

How long would I have to lie on my roof before I became a google map. And did Sul ever get in the streetview?
Posted by syl, 17th February 2009:
 
I think my bum can be seen from space.
Posted by che, 21st February 2009:
 
they'd need a very wide angle lens
Posted by Saltation, around 3rd March 2009:
 
you can actually see me on googlemaps (dunno about google earth)

i'm having sunday morning breakfast with the sunday papers on my old roof terrace. you can even recognise which t-shirt i'm wearing.

kinda freaky. kinda funky.