ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER

http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/globegenie/

You know those books - A Rebours is a good example - where the protagonist experiences the world without ever leaving his house? Well, click on the link above and you can be that protagonist!

What I love about it is that it takes you to such uninteresting places...



...and that, out of the billions of people, trucks and houses in the world, you happen to find this woman, this truck, this house...



...and that parts of Kansas could easily pass for Suffolk...



...and that this is what Antarctica looks like (and that somebody from Google Street Maps has actually gone to the Antarctic and taken scene-by-scene photos)...