Google Maps movie locations

On Total Film, They have compiled a list of cool movie locations from Street View in Google Maps. I've visiting some for myself below can you guess which film these 3 buildings are from...


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McLean I want my detonators. This is Nakotomi Plaza in L.A and was used for one of my favourite films - Die Hard. In reality it’s the just plain Fox Plaza, home of Fox Studios who made the film.


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This is the headquarters of OCP from the film Robocop. Its an odd looking building with the windows facing the ground and is in fact the City Hall in Dallas, Texas.


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This one is easy and another classic. Its the firehouse from Ghostbusters. In reality, its the Tribeca firehouse and is still operational.

Twoogle

Check this out Twoogle is a tool that provides the best of both worlds, this lets you search both Google and Twitter at the same time.

This is great if like me you have been looking at cameras to buy as mine unfortunately went Kaput at Belmont a couple of weeks ago.

Once on the homepage you enter your search term e.g. Canon Ixus 980IS. Twoogle will provide results in a split-screen format, with Twitter search listings on the left and Google on the right.

The Google search will return the usual best place to buy a digital camera and all the reviews etc, whilst the Twitter search will tell you what people are saying about the Canon Ixus 980IS right now, Nice!

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UPDATE

Following on from 'find out what people are saying about something' theme as mentioned in Twoogle posting. I've found there are several web services that offer this feature.

Topic Hawk is one service that I found that looks useful and provides feedback on the topic you search, live index updates are from recent Tweets, Google News articles, recent blog postings and YouTube Videos.

Another one that uses a real-time search is Scoopler.com which has a more slick look to it. This is a real-time search engine that will aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, a bit like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events. Live Topic Hawk Scoopler will index live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more.

http://www.scoopler.com
http://topichawk.com/

Cotswold Bike Ride 17/05/09

Cotswold Bike Ride 09, originally uploaded by davstar8.

Today I took part in the 19th Cotswold Bike Ride in aid of British Heart Foundation. This a 40 mile ride that takes you through many Cotswolds villages including Whittington, Brockhampton, Temple Guiting, Didbrook, Winchcombe, Greton, Alstone, Dixton and Gotherington.

I last did this about 10 years ago on a mountain bike and the route hasn't changed since then. Today I was on my racer so was less painful going up hills. It is a very scenic ride but unfortunately today it rained very heavily for the first hour and then the wind picked up to make it worse. It was really nice to warm up with a cup of tea and some classic bourbon and custard cream biscuits half way around the course. Tres Bon!

Belmont Golf Weekend

Countdown to Papa Bouba

Super slow-motion surfing

I stumbled upon this video via Wired artical that Toby tweeted. The video is in HD for extra quality and is a trailer for the BBC2 series called South Pacific, the clip features surfer Dylan Longbottom in a 12-foot monster barrel wave.

Trainers

Been checking what trainers are around to buy, preferably there would be a good deal to be had online as I know my size in most makes. I stumbled accross these grey Nikes with a London theme with River Thames snaking on the side. They look fairly plain but these are ultra collectible and cost a staggering £800.00!

Taylor Made

Yesterday was a good day for golf, I played 18 holes at Brickhampton Court Golf Complex in the inaugural Jugglers Golf Society competition (organised by the Brown Jug). The format was 5 teams of 4-balls and players of all levels. Our team came third but we were probably all playing off a slightly higher handicap than we should have been so we could have been placed higher but for me insisting we play off lower handicaps. Overall though this did not stop us getting 2 x longest drives prizes and a nearest pin prize so we walked away with pride intact.

I hit one of our longest drives on the 8th hole this was helped by some new technology I have recently invested in - the new TaylorMade Burner 09 which was on deal at American Golf. Having used the same driver for over 7 years now this club upgrade was well overdue.

Golf banter from yesterday 'you hit that further than I go on holiday'. Check it out...