I Was Using Google Earth When I Noticed Something Awesome… In Fact, 29 Awesome Things.

Google Earth allows us to explore the world around us in a way that used to be impossible. With the help of satellite imagery and aerial photographs taken by aircraft, Google created a gigantic and interactive map for us to play with. Exploring cities you’ve never visited is fun, but you can also use it to explore where you currently live (“Bob has a swimming pool?”) The most entertaining part of all? Finding hidden secrets, all over the world.

1.) This airplane boneyard (32 08’59.96″ N, 110 50’09.03″W) Tucson, Arizona

2.) A mysterious pattern in the desert (27°22’50.10″N, 33°37’54.62″E) Red Sea Governorate, Egypt

3.) A building complex that’s shaped like a Swastika (32°40’34.19″N 117° 9’27.58″W) Coronado, California, USA

4.) A massive herd of water buffalo (4°17’21.49″ S 31°23’46.46″ E) Kigosi Game Reserve, Tanzania

5.) This random, giant triangle in the middle of Arizona (33.747252, -112.633853) Wittmann, Arizona, USA

6.) “The Badlands Guardian” in the mountains (50° 0’38.20″N 110° 6’48.32″W) Walsh, Alberta, Canada

7.) The shipwrecked SS Ayrfield covered in trees (-33.836379, 151.080506) Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia

8.) A giant Firefox logo in a cornfield (45° 7’25.87″N 123° 6’48.97″W) Dayton, Oregon, USA

9.) A forest in the shape of a guitar (-33.867886, -63.987) Córdoba, Argentina

10.) This lake in the shape of a heart (1.303921, -81.901693) Columbia Station, Ohio, USA

11.) A strange pattern in the middle of a desert (40.452107, 93.742118) China

12.) This giant target in the desert (37.563936, -116.85123) Nevada, USA

13.) A message of love (43.645074, -115.993081) Boise National Forest, Boise, Idaho, USA

14.) An oversized lion in the UK (51.848637, -0.55462) Dunstable LU6 2LD, UK

15.) A giant Turkish flag (35.282902, 33.376891) Kyrenia, Cyprus

16.) Potash ponds in Utah (38°29’0.16″N 109°40’52.80″W) Moab, Utah, USA

17.) A strange pattern in the sand (37.629562, -116.849556) Nevada, USA

18.) This random Coca-Cola logo in the middle of nowhere (-18.529211, -70.249941) Arica, Arica y Parinacota, Chile

19.) Another mysterious symbol in Nevada (37.401573, -116.867808) Nevada, USA

20.) A friendly giant in the hills of Chile (19°56’56.96″S 69°38’1.83″W) Huara, Tarapacá, Chile

21.) A sunken ship (30.541634, 47.825445) Basrah, Iraq

22.) Multiple landing strips in the middle of the desert for no apparent reason (32.663367, -111.487618) Eloy, Arizona, USA

23.) A giant Mattel logo (33.921277, -118.391674) El Segundo, California

24.) UTA Flight 772 Desert Memorial (16.864841, 11.953808) Sahara Desert, southern Ténéré of Niger

25.) This rainbow plane in the US – Cathy Terrace Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , USA ‎

26.) The Barringer meteor crater (35.027185, -111.022388) Winslow, Arizona

27.) A giant pool of hippos bathing (6°53’53.00″ S 31°11’15.40″ E) Katavi National Park, Tanzania

28.) The Grand Prismatic Spring (44.525049, -110.83819) Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

29.) And finally… BATMAN (26.357896, 127.783809) Okinawa, Japan

Apparently, no matter where you go in Nevada, you’re just a stone’s throw away from a giant mysterious shape in the desert. Check out Google Earth yourself, you’re bound to find something cool. If you’d like to look up what we included in this gallery, just search for the coordinates of each. Source: Google Earth via Twisted Sifter Share this with others by clicking below.

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Wisconsin union members protest Walker’s legislation one year removed

http://twitter.com/#!/BobPMilw/status/178525648678162433

Wisconsin labor union activists are protesting the one-year anniversary of Gov. Scott Walker signing legislation that overhauled collective bargaining in the state. Friday, the activists took their displeasure to the state’s capitol, Madison.

Who's up for a little good old fashion Wisconsin protest today? See you at the Capitol!!! #wiunion #wirecall

— Monkeymusings (@pmkwi) March 10, 2012

Here is video of protesters Friday night singing ‘We Shall Overcome’

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/03/10/wisconsin-union-members-protest-walkers-legislation-one-year-removed/

No hope, no spare change: 2008 donors aren’t buying what Obama’s selling

http://twitter.com/#!/Toure/status/209633432110776320

No we can’t! No we can’t!

President Obama is no fundraising slouch, but people who donated $200 or more in 2008 just aren’t that into his reelection campaign.

88% of Obama’s 2008 over-$200 donors are AWOL in 2012. http://t.co/BVsULGK3 #TCOT #RS

— RedState (@RedState) June 4, 2012

Via RedState:

This is one of the more amusing factoids that you’re going to read this morning: “According to a BuzzFeed analysis of campaign finance data, 88% of the people who gave $200 or more in 2008 — 537,806 people — have not yet given that sum this year. And this drop-off isn’t simply an artifact of timing. A full 87% of the people who gave $200 — the sum that triggers an itemized report to the Federal Elections Commission — through April of 2008, 182,078 people, had not contributed by the end of last month.

Door-to-door thingamajig salesmen probably have more repeat buyers than this.

If Obama wanted contributors to re-up, he should have focused less on shovel-ready b.s., more on shovel-ready jobs. And not the “saved or created” kind.

Sure, as RedState’s Moe Lane points out, 2008 contributors are likely to vote for Obama even if he’s not inspiring them to open their wallets. But that doesn’t stop us from enjoying the desperate spin:

Is Obama's donor base abandoning him – or are they just waiting? http://t.co/zoqdY5NZ

— Jan Arild Snoen (@jasnoen) June 4, 2012

Maybe too early to count donors out, but still a good read MT @ZekeJMiller: Obama's 2008 Donors Don't Give In 2012 http://t.co/WKxng2Dn

— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) June 4, 2012

um, ok. @buzzfeed compares Obama's early 2008 fundraising, when he was in PRIMARY BATTLE, w/ his early `12 fundraising; http://t.co/2XEdlLej

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) June 4, 2012

Or maybe, just maybe, Obama’s donors aren’t feeling the hope because they’re all out of change.

Unemployment stood at 4.9% when Iowa Democrats chose him on January 3, 2008. It ticked back up to 8.1% this April.

“Financially, I had more money back then than I do today,” said Greg Holmes, who works in the technology sector in Cedar Park, Texas, and gave $550 last cycle. “I’ll vote for him, but I probably won’t give any money.”

“I don’t have as much money,” said Ann Walling, a retired Episcopal priest from Franklin, Tenn. who donated $1,900 to Obama in ‘08. Money aside though, Walling is still pledging her vote to Obama. “For the most part I’m very happy with him,” she said.

“I’ve had to kind of back off my charity giving,” said Leah Jones, a retired clinical microbiologist from Langdon, Kan., who gave $1,200 last cycle but said she’s been driven to the financial brink by a son’s illness, and hasn’t even paid her income taxes yet.

Job-killing, business-smothering, savings-draining policies aren’t looking so hot now, huh?

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/06/04/no-hope-no-spare-change-2008-donors-arent-buying-what-obamas-selling/

Twitter buzzes over all-black ‘Around the Horn’ panel

http://twitter.com/#!/alexthegreat06/status/186925004280184832

Seems like the panel for Around The Horn is all black today. I'm assuming hockey won't end up being the most well known subject regarding the program.

— Taylor Craig (@TaylorCraig) April 2, 2012

I think this is certainly an initial, round the Horn with Ebony Writers on show today

— Señor Nutt (@KaliKomplex) April 2, 2012

It had been kinda cool seeing an all-black panel on all over Horn.

— Melvin Backman (@MelvinBackman) April 2, 2012

An all-Black "Around the Horn"… Are they getting terminated or are typical the white men in the NCAA Championship game tonight?

— XAVIER LAMONT (@xlcomedy) April 2, 2012

4 black dudes on all over horn, you understand some crazy things is all about to pop-off tonight #RCJH

— Sebastian Bonner Jr (@S_CMB3) April 2, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/04/02/twitter-buzzes-over-all-black-around-the-horn-panel/