Fantasy F1: Australia
Another Fantasy Formula One season starts this weekend. I’m sticking with Yahoo!’s Fantasy Grand Prix as it was good last season. The form of the drivers is unknown at the moment due to all the rule changes so I am going on the most recent tests and have selected the following:
- Alonso
- Barrichello
- Button
- Brawn F1
Obviously all the selections are made before qualifying. All my eggs are in one basket, but I am hoping Brawn F1 can carry their stunning tests to race day. Fingers crossed.
Formula One: 2009 season
Hurrah, the new F1 season starts this weekend. The rule changes are going to make it a good one and the BBC here in the UK have the coverage back so no more adverts. FULL UNINTERRUPTED RACING 
. And everything will be one BBC iPlayer so you can watch the race when you want online. Brilliant stuff.
The first race of the season is in at Albert Park in Melbourne. Here is a Google Street View capture of the track on a normal day:
Street View is still stunning
Street View has taken over my internet time this weekend . It really is stunning. Found myself in France on a mountain road today. Virtual holidays here we come.
The Stig on Street View
LOL. Top Gear’s ‘The Stig’ has been spotted in the BBC Centre on Street View:
Google Street View UK
I am truly fascinated by the brilliantness of Google Street View in the UK that has recently been made live. The quality of the images is amazing. I really want to know how many photos are stitched together to cover just the handful of cities in the UK. How do they get lined up so perfectly? How much storage space do they take up? Fascinating stuff.
Anyway, here is a warm welcome from someone in Edinburgh 
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Google Maps Gems
Still my favourite application on the internet, Google Maps has thrown up some more gems. ‘Time’ had a great article highlighting some of the best ones. Here is my favourite; Where Planes Go To Die (zoom out for full effect):
Google Maps is unique. There is so much data that I reckon people will be finding odd and interesting landmarks for years to come. Once ‘maps’ has been exhausted then people still have Street View to trawl through. I can still lose hours at a time to Maps, Street View and Earth. This is what the internet is about .
How not to take a chicane..
Augusto Farfus shows us what happens when you get a narrow twsty circuit like Pau wrong..
The £1,300,000,000,000 bank job
This article is sobering reading. Obviously, we are screwed here in the UK. The most disturbing part is that this £1.3trn paid to bail out banks represents the value of the UK economy for a whole year.
The article is also interesting reading because it shows the whole RBS pension story last week was a smokescreen for more disturbing news. Like something straight out The Thick Of It I imagine.
To get some kind of grasp on that number above imagine this: If someone was to give you £1 every second it would take 41,195 years to receive £1.3trn.
