Judging by the number of new followers we have, it appears that this has been the week that Twitter finally hit the mainstream, so we thought we'd post another roundup of the best Street View sights…

Yesterday1 was Australia Day, when each January 26th, Australians crack open some beers and toss another shrimp on the barbie to celebrate their arrival on the world's smallest continent all the way back in 1788. Australia…

During WWII, the RAF used the old plaster mine at Fauld, England, as storage for up to 20,000 tons of ammunition. 64 years ago today, on the 27th November 1944, the underground ammunition store blew up.…

Namibia's Skeleton Coast is named so for two different types of skeletons that littered the beaches: whales and ships. Thanks to the end of mass whaling the whale bones are now all gone, but the bones…

The latest imagery update has now arrived on Google Maps, and with it comes this rather sad image of a beached Sperm Whale on the island of Hjelmsøya, which is off the coast of the extreme…

Last week, when we failed to post a new entry one day, we weren't just sitting around barbecuing you know! No, in fact we were writing an article for PC World, the world's largest monthly computer…