World's most expensive home priced at $155 million

The world's most expensive home with a price tag of $155 million will be built by Timber and real estate baron Tim Blixseth at Yellowstone Club, the members-only, Blixseth-developed residential ski and golf resort near Bozeman, Montana. (Google Maps Satellite view)



Quote from Forbes:

The 10-bedroom Blixseth mansion will sit on 160 acres and come with a private gondola-like chairlift that will whisk residents up to the Yellowstone Club’s private ski slopes. There will also be an indoor/outdoor swimming pool separated by a glass wall that can slide away on warm summer days, as well as a home movie theater--practically a standard feature in super high-end homes. The home will come furnished.

“When someone writes that kind of check, they don’t want to have to worry about knives, forks and spoons,” says Blixseth. “The wine cellar should be stocked.”

Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Florida

Super Bowl XLI (41st Super Bowl), the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) is scheduled to be played on February 4, 2007, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida.

This year's matchup features Colts vs Bears

Click on the Google Maps view of Dolphins Stadium in Miami, Florida - location of Super Bowl XLI for the latest Super Bowl News via Google News RSS Feeds.

Google wants to put Aussies on the Map

On the occasion of Australia Day on January 26th Google is planning to take aerial photos of Sydney.

So here's your chance to make a spectacle of yourself, dress up like WALDO.

The Google Plane is scheduled to fly over the Sydney Opera House around 12.30pm (source: GoogleMapsMania)

Google Maps view of Sydney Opera House

America's Highest Paid College Presidents

Here's a Google Maps Mashup of America's Highest Paid College Presidents as reported by CNN Money.

Happy 58th Republic Day - India

This January 26th India celebrates its 58th Republic Day. Which city in India do you think the official Republic Day Parade (Army and Cultural Parade) is held.

A. Mumbai
B. New Delhi
C. Kolkata
D. Chennai

(view the answer on Google Maps along with India Poised video)

Toilet Paper Capital of America

What city is hailed as the Toilet Paper Capital?
A. Green Bay, Wisconsin
B. Watertown, Massachuesetts
C. Topeka, Kansas
D. Flushing, New York

(view the answer on Google Maps)

Source (MSN Encarta)

Swedes to move half a town

CNN is reporting

The Arctic town of Kiruna (Google Maps View), Sweden's northernmost municipality, is under threat as cracks caused by decades of iron ore mining slowly erode its foundations.

So two years ago the municipal council decided to move more than half of the town from the shadow of Kiirunavaara mountain, site of the world's largest underground mine.

This month it chose the new site for Kiruna's centre, at the base of Luossavaara mountain, about 4 km (2.5 miles) away.

9 year old bypasses airport security at Seattle-Tacoma and Phoenix

A 9 year old manages to get on board a Southwest flight from Seattle-Tacoma to Phoenix with a boarding pass which he found. He again bypasses security at Phoenix to board a Southwest flight to San Antonio. (GoogleMapping his journey).

He is finally arrested in San Antonio before he is about to board a flight to his final destination - Dallas. (more on this story)

Muhammad Ali - Happy 65th Birthday

Here's wishing a happy 65th birthday to Muhammad Ali, boxing's all time great.
(Google Maps View of the Location where Muhammad Ali grew up in Louisville, KY)

Links:
wikipedia
Time 100
Today's Detroit News

India's Giant Leap into Space

India launched (on January 10th, 2007) a 44.4-metre tall four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) into space which for the 1st time carried 4 satellites. (Google Maps view of the Launch site at Sriharikota, India)

Quoting Times of India

The four satellites are — Indigenous 680-kg Cartosat-2, 550-kg space capsule recovery experiment (SRE), 56-kg Lapan-Tubsat, a joint venture between Technical University of Berlin and Indonesian Space Agency, and six-kg Pehuensat-1 of Argentina.

Related: Indian Space Center

Google Maps API updated for India

Street level mapping for India which was previously available at maps.google.com is now available to developers via Google Maps API.

Found this out this morning while updating my "India Sights" Google Maps page at mibazaar.

Martin Luther King Jr. - 78th Birth Anniversary

Martin Luther King Jr. one of the great leaders of American Civil Rights Movement was born on January 15th, 1929.

Google Maps View of his birthplace (501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30312)


Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated on April 4th 1968 at Lorraine Motel, Memphis, TN. (Google Maps View)

Tower of London to have first female Yeoman Warder

Tower of London for the 1st time in 500 years will have a female "Beefeater". Moira Cameron, 42, beat five men to the prestigious position and became the first female ever appointed to the famous ceremonial guard.

The warders, who wear blue and red uniforms and are the subject of countless tourist photos, are known colloquially as Beefeaters because of the rations of meat they were given during medieval times.

more at Yahoo

Google Maps view of Tower of London

World's smallest Country - Principality of Sealand

Principality of Sealand is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea.

Principality of Sealand is located seven miles off the east coast of England (Suffolk) just outside the territorial waters of England. Its located at Latitude:51.894444 Longitude:1.482500 (Source:wikipedia)


Interested in owning a piece of "Principality of Sealand"?. Reuters is reporting that "Principality of Sealand" is up for sale. Apply to Prince Michael of "Principality of Sealand".

Fortune's 100 Best Companies (2007) to work for on Google Maps

I have created a Google Maps Mashup of Fortune's list of 100 best companies to work for (2007).

Google Maps Mashup shows Top 25 Companies, Top 100 Companies and Top 25 paying companies.

Google No.1 Company to work for - Fortune

Fortune magazine is reporting Google to be the No.1 Company to work for.

Google Maps view of Googleplex, Moutainview, California.


Perks of being a Googler (Quoting Fortune)

At Google it always comes back to the food. Google runs 11 free gourmet cafeterias at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, and offers all its employees free gourmet meals.

In addition to its cafés, Google has snack rooms which contain various cereals, candy, nuts, yogurt, carrots, fresh fruit and other snacks, and dozens of different drinks including soda and make-your-own cappuccino. Says co-founder Sergey Brin: "The cafés have always been pretty healthy, but the snacks are not, and the efforts to fix that have been remarkably challenging." Though company lore has it that Brin and co-founder Larry Page believe no worker should be more than 150 feet from a food source, clearly not all food is equal. "A lot of people like their M&Ms. But the easy access is actually what's bad for them," he says.

Of course, when it comes to America's new Best Company to Work For, the food is, well, just the appetizer.

Study for free at MIT

Found this out from Times of India:

You can now join this elite institution and that too for free as the university is making the contents of all 1,800 courses available online by the end of this year. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted from anywhere in the world.

Visit ocw.mit.edu for more details.

Avalanche hits U.S. 40 in Colorado

A major Avalanche hits U.S. 40 near Berthoud Pass, Colorado (Google Maps View).

CNN is reporting:

A massive avalanche -- 200 feet wide and 15 feet deep -- swept across one of Colorado's main recreation routes, burying at least two cars and prompting a search for possible survivors Saturday.

Officials said six people were rescued from two cars, and one person was taken to a hospital by ambulance.

The avalanche rumbled across U.S. 40 in three places near 11,307-foot Berthoud Pass, 50 miles west of Denver, shortly after 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET). The busy freeway leads to the popular Winter Park ski resort.

U.S. 40 will remain closed between Winter Park and Interstate 70 "for the foreseeable future," said Bob Wilson, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.

New York city heroes save a toddler from a 40 feet fall

New York City Heroes Julio Gonzalez, 43, and Pedro Nevarez, 40, saved 3-year-old Timothy Addo dangling from a Bronx apartment building located at 2105 Daly Avenue, Bronx, New York (Google Maps View) on Thursday 12/04.

Quoting Associated Press

Hearing people in the building scream for help as the boy's grip weakened, the men rushed over to position themselves under the fire escape to catch him.

"No one came," Nevarez said. "We knew it was up to us."

The boy tumbled and hit Nevarez in the chest so hard he knocked him off balance, but he bounced into Gonzalez' arms.

Timothy was treated at the hospital for a cut on his forehead.

Homeland Security - Best and Worst Prepared Cities

Homeland Security has come out with a list of cities which are best prepared in emergency communications during a disaster. Here's a look at some of them on Google Maps. The map shows the cities which scored high/low grades in emergency preparedness. New York city where the worst terrorist attack occured does not get high grades.

For a full report click here.

For Google Maps view click here.

Send Greetings via Google Maps

Here's a great new Google Maps Mashups which lets you create greeting messages that are displayed using buildings or other objects that resemble the alphabet from images found on Google Maps. [via]

America's fastest growing states

Google Maps Mashup of America's fastest growing states as mentioned in FORTUNE.