Google just launched streetview in Australia, so I am looking up interesting things.

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sparky said, (155 days ago)

Like the Big Merino - http://tinyurl.com/6aphze

Naturelle Rivera said, (155 days ago)

Streetview creeps me out hardcore. I don't like being that easily googlable.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

I think this is my dad watching the cricket. http://tinyurl.com/5p3gx9

sparky said, (155 days ago)

@sven, It's never really bothered me that much. If you punch my real name in to google I pretty much own the first couple of pages. Except for some actor who's been muscling in on my action lately. The bastard.

Carlocakes said, (155 days ago)

My street isn't on streetview. I made sure of that.

Naturelle Rivera said, (155 days ago)

wtf how do you make sure that your street isnt on it?

Carlocakes said, (155 days ago)

I blocked it.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge - http://tinyurl.com/63sf9t

sparky said, (155 days ago)

Why would you care about having pictures of your street online?

Mrs. Cakes said, (155 days ago)

I have been stalked enough as it is.

Naturelle Rivera said, (155 days ago)

I just don't like it. I didn't mind having like satellite view of my place but it weirds me out that you can see my actual house with our cars and our trash cans ever present on the sidewalk.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

The Big Banana - http://tinyurl.com/5ey2em

Carlocakes said, (155 days ago)

You really can't miss a car with ten million cameras on top of it. I just barricaded my street.

Mrs. Cakes said, (155 days ago)

Cover items in tin foil or something, so it wrecks their shots.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

Tumut 3, the largest power station in the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric scheme. http://tinyurl.com/5gvqqz

sparky said, (155 days ago)

The entrance to the Jenolan Caves reserve. http://tinyurl.com/5qv6qs

artschooled said, (155 days ago)

OMG THE BIG MERINO.

If I had a dollar for every time I've been there, I could buy you all ice cream. It's seriously the most random thing ever.

Be sure to check out the Big Pineapple (although I am not sure they will have it)

sparky said, (155 days ago)

Have you been to the Big Merino recently?

Year before last, they moved it from the old place it was at, to the new service centre overlooking the bypass. Like, literally picked it up, put it on the back of a flatbed truck, and dragged it three hundred metres up the road. That would have been an awesome thing to see.

artschooled said, (155 days ago)

I know! They haven't even finished putting it properly back together. I think some of the concrete fell off and they haven't replaced it yet, the giant merino has some hollow legs still. (I've only seen it at the new service center)

Also on my list of favourites: the giant avocado and the giant prawn. OH AND THE PETROL STATION THAT LOOKS LIKE AYERS ROCK!

sparky said, (155 days ago)

Also, the Big Pineapple - http://tinyurl.com/6y4sxj

I'm pretty amazed by the extent of the coverage they've got up now. My home town (about an hour's drive south of the big merino) is tiny, but they've got photos of pretty much all the streets. Although sadly they don't have anything from Darwin yet.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

I want to make up a list of streetview pictures of all the big things in Australia. But a lot of them are far enough away from roads to make it difficult. I spent, like, an hour earlier tonight trying to find the Big Ant.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

CLEARLY NOT BIG ENOUGH.

artschooled said, (155 days ago)

That's really crazy!!! I got excited because you can finally zoom in close enough to see houses on Google from my mini home town. This has made me so excited, I'm glad you made this conversation! Like, I can even see the corner with all the tranny hookers by my flat- I am so delighted!

cupcakes, really. said, (155 days ago)

nice... last night I was checking out microsoft's bird-view near my house... the apartments a block down look like they came from Galaga.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

@art, that reminded me that a friend of mine just moved in to a new flat not very far away from a brothel near Sydney Uni. So I went and looked it up, and they've totally caught a car leaving via the discrete rear entrance. Winner! http://tinyurl.com/5gaezr

cupcakes, really. said, (155 days ago)

Australia looks like Connecticut.

artschooled said, (155 days ago)

Hahahahahaaha. Sparky, that is awesome. Like, actually awesome. I just looked up this escort service near where I worked that's sign says "Ladies For Gentlemen: Parking In The Rear" and it most definitely has it. I am so happy.

sparky said, (155 days ago)

Two more before I finally go to bed. The Australian Centre For The Moving Image in Melbourne - http://tinyurl.com/6kbgmf

And the most awesome van ever outside Flinders St Station. Seriously, where can I get one of these? http://tinyurl.com/6f7ry2

sparky said, (154 days ago)

Bahah, this is my dad: http://tinyurl.com/62v7db

Seriously.

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