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Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Google Street View is in Australia!

Google has just released StreetView for Australia. Check it out... now! It’s fucking awesome.

For those of you who don’t know what StreetView is it’s where the Google people drive around in a van with a multi lens camera on the top taking photos of everything every twenty metres. The result is that you can look at your house on Google Maps!

Here is my last place in Brisbane. They even caught the very lovely but clearly retarded lolly-pop lady who I used to chat to every now and then.


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And here is 98 East St Brompton. Home of the infamous ‘Straight Outta Brompton’ and ‘Hot August Ninth’ parties.


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Shit, Google are even more awesome than I though. You can click and drag those pictures to have a look around.

You know, the odds are pretty high that at least one of us is in these photos. I have an experiment. Find somewhere near where you live, find a nearby newsagent, zoom in on the newspaper board, read the headline, work out the date, remember where you were that day and find yourself. Easy... maybe.

Anyway, I'm off to see who was drinking at the Exeter that day.


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Quick edit: Looks like adelaide was taken around October last year. (zoom in)


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posted by Sam Cox at 03:27

9 Comments:

  • How did you know I was at the Crazy Horse that languid Spring afternoon?

    By Anonymous free before 9pm, At 5 August 2008 08:54  

  • super-cali-freaking-awesome!

    Looks like they have covered everywhere but Darwin...what's the g.o.?

    From now on I will be at home spending endless hours browsing StreetView instead of getting off my fat ass.

    By Anonymous Rayhan, At 5 August 2008 09:12  

  • From the wheelie bin out the front it looks like the Brompton place is inhabited, I was certain that place would be conedemned by now

    By Anonymous Spirit dwarf, At 5 August 2008 15:57  

  • Poor bastards. Enjoy the fucked shower, the freezing toilet and the DDT.

    Wonder if they found that little care package we left in the secret compartment under my fireplace?

    By Blogger Sam Cox, At 6 August 2008 02:26  

  • Longest suburban backyard I've ever seen though; Ben Cousins could unleash a meth-fuelled torpedo punt and not hit the back fence. Remember, he tried it Hot August Ninth?

    By Anonymous straight talk express, At 6 August 2008 22:32  

  • I went past there the other day. Its inhabited by normals now. they have curtains and everything. I wonder if they enjoyed our work on the place; the connection of the telephone; the destruction and removal of multiple doors; the addition of a putting green.

    By Anonymous Camborgy, At 11 August 2008 21:05  

  • ha! We smashed a few doors off, broke open the shed and stole or burnt everything in it, created a makeshift golf course out the back and broke several windows and security screens... and the only thing the landlord complained about come bond time was the blu-tack marks on the walls.

    Not even the shoe marks seven feet up the loungeroom walls after that rockclimbing chick decided to show her talents during HAN.

    But you know, what I'll mainly remember is the asbestos.

    By Blogger Sam Cox, At 12 August 2008 20:38  

  • sam its danny here, what is your email addy?

    Hey mate I quit boeing and hit the jackpot with suncorp...

    By Anonymous danlupi, At 19 August 2008 19:03  

  • Dannyboy! email me at sam.cox.blog AT gmail.com. You should have my real gmail address though.

    Would be great to hear from you man.

    By Blogger Sam Cox, At 22 August 2008 19:56  

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