Divine Caroline links to this interest Google Maps image (above and embedded below) that shows California City, the 3rd largest city (in physical size) in the state of California.
California City was an idealized American dream city incorporated in 1965. It spans over 230 miles and was the future hope of some insane real estate developer that just never came to be. The city is so big in fact that it is technically the 11th largest in the entire US, but despite its size only about 6500 people live there.
If you look below, you can see white lines which show the roads and paths that were meant to carry people to and from their homes. It’s a haunting sight that you can experience virtually in Google Street View.
The pan and scan method (which allows for widescreen formats on full screen) ends up changing the director’s view of the film dramatically. Sometimes, the changes are so much that the full screen version ends up being a completely different film based on what you can see on screen at once. [via]
Kryptos is split into 4 difference sections (K1, K2, K3, and K4). Three of those 4 sections have been decoded but the last section, K4, seems to have the entire code-cracking community scratching their heads. The search for the answer has gotten so insane that some people have scrutinized every single word uttered by Sanborn in hopes that maybe he might slip the answer or that his words have some kind of connection to the answer.
The WIRED article goes quite in depth into how the code was cracked and how the first 3 sections are translated. If you’ve got some time, you might want to read about it. Does anybody know if you can go and see this sculpture? Or is it only reserved for people on the CIA campus?
YooouuuTuuube offers an interesting way to watch YouTube videos. It shows a series of cascading still images that move at the speed of regular videos. The result is both mesmerizing and confusing and also pretty cool to get lost in.
