Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/stig_pixellated/
The Loch Ness Stig gets pixellated
Sinister Street View censorship shenanigans
Posted in Bootnotes, 1st February 2010 10:55 GMT
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Those readers who live close to Loch Ness are invited to keep an eye out for circling black Google helicopters, since the Great Satan of Mountain View has inexplicably decided that this recent loch-side sighting of Top Gear's The Stig...
...would benefit from the application [1] of Street View's "Swiss pixellation [2]" filter:
Chilling stuff indeed. As ever, we welcome wild conspiracy theories as to what exactly Google is trying to hide... ®
Links
- http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=57+13'33.82N+4+34'19.81W&sll=57.47745,-4.201562&sspn=0.008433,0.021479&ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=57.226109,-4.572287&panoid=ApPA1rwguy7D-Kl8q6i0bw&cbp=12,127.23,,2,11.82&ll=57.226253,-4.572029&spn=0.013149,0.02944&z=15
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/15/street_view_switzerland/