Comments on: The ghost city on Google Maps http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3980 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:43:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Best in Blogs: Scamville, Faketown, TwitterPeek, Oh My http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3980/comment-page-1#comment-7075 Best in Blogs: Scamville, Faketown, TwitterPeek, Oh My Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:09:03 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=3980#comment-7075 [...] from this site,” explains Snarkmarket. “Then you wait until the night of a new moon, tap in A-R-G-L-E-T-O-N, blindfold your­self, and follow the unit’s spoken directions. Follow .... But remember… Argleton is a [...] […] from this site,” explains Snarkmarket. “Then you wait until the night of a new moon, tap in A-R-G-L-E-T-O-N, blindfold your­self, and follow the unit’s spoken directions. Follow .… But remember… Argleton is a […]

]]> By: Tim Carmody http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3980/comment-page-1#comment-6880 Tim Carmody Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:22:45 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=3980#comment-6880 "Argleton looks like a bad OCR scan of your mom." “Argleton looks like a bad OCR scan of your mom.”

]]> By: Robin Sloan http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3980/comment-page-1#comment-6874 Robin Sloan Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:40:16 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=3980#comment-6874 "Your mom looks like a bad OCR scan of Aughton" (You have to say it in a really chavvy accent) “Your mom looks like a bad OCR scan of Aughton”

(You have to say it in a really chavvy accent)

]]> By: Tim Carmody http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3980/comment-page-1#comment-6870 Tim Carmody Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:54:07 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=3980#comment-6870 You know, Argleton looks like a bad OCR scan of Aughton. You know, Argleton looks like a bad OCR scan of Aughton.

]]> By: Matt Penniman http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3980/comment-page-1#comment-6867 Matt Penniman Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:55:21 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=3980#comment-6867 I have a friend who works at Google and he said that every so often, some of their maps files show this kind of error -- usually they've been updated recently, from an unmapped IP address that will sometimes return as "grailgrid.net" on a whois, and sometimes won't return anything at all. They have an independent consultant working on the case, who just started at Google and seems particularly interested in this issue; keeps saying something about "messages from Hugh". I have a friend who works at Google and he said that every so often, some of their maps files show this kind of error — usually they’ve been updated recently, from an unmapped IP address that will sometimes return as “grailgrid.net” on a whois, and sometimes won’t return anything at all. They have an independent consultant working on the case, who just started at Google and seems particularly interested in this issue; keeps saying something about “messages from Hugh”.

]]> By: Andrew http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3980/comment-page-1#comment-6862 Andrew Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:37:06 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=3980#comment-6862 Now that's a fun distributed collaborative art project - find, then document the fake places of Google Maps. Whichever participant never writes back - he/she's the one that found the hole to the next dimension. Now that’s a fun distributed collaborative art project — find, then document the fake places of Google Maps. Whichever participant never writes back — he/she’s the one that found the hole to the next dimension.

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