World Globe http://world-globe.forumplug.com Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Why Halo 3 Will Decide the Xbox 360’s Fate http://world-globe.forumplug.com/why-halo-3-will-decide-the-xbox-360s-fate-3/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/why-halo-3-will-decide-the-xbox-360s-fate-3/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:31:54 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/why-halo-3-will-decide-the-xbox-360s-fate-3/ With a blockbuster title that will surely captivate millions across the globe, the Xbox 360 will be the most played video game console for the month of October and should catapult the system to the top of the video game world.

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/why-halo-3-will-decide-the-xbox-360s-fate-3/feed/ PICTURES: Vector art Wallpaper in your Home http://world-globe.forumplug.com/pictures-vector-art-wallpaper-in-your-home-3/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/pictures-vector-art-wallpaper-in-your-home-3/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:31:30 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/pictures-vector-art-wallpaper-in-your-home-3/ A common design style used by web designers and Illustrators across the globe has made it into a real world setting. Take a look at some of these cool examples.

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/pictures-vector-art-wallpaper-in-your-home-3/feed/ Photo Gallery Of Natural Arches and Bridges From Around the World http://world-globe.forumplug.com/photo-gallery-of-natural-arches-and-bridges-from-around-the-world-3/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/photo-gallery-of-natural-arches-and-bridges-from-around-the-world-3/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:31:12 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/photo-gallery-of-natural-arches-and-bridges-from-around-the-world-3/ Collection of hundreds of photographs of naturally formed arches and bridges from 36 states, and 54 countries from all over the globe. Includes brief details and location information with each photograph.

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/photo-gallery-of-natural-arches-and-bridges-from-around-the-world-3/feed/ Game Developer World Map http://world-globe.forumplug.com/game-developer-world-map-4/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/game-developer-world-map-4/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:31:00 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/game-developer-world-map-4/ gamedevmap is a cool, living map and catalog of game development organizations. it shows where game companies are located around the globe. Click on the little red dots to pull up a list of companies and their webpages.

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/game-developer-world-map-4/feed/ Wiring up the ‘Victorian internet’ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/wiring-up-the-victorian-internet-3/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/wiring-up-the-victorian-internet-3/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:30:35 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/wiring-up-the-victorian-internet-3/ The world’s first global communications system for exchanging text messages was not the internet nor the mobile phone. It was the great engineering project undertaken 150 years ago to put wires across the globe.

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/wiring-up-the-victorian-internet-3/feed/ Check out what the world looks like at night - NOW IN 3D http://world-globe.forumplug.com/check-out-what-the-world-looks-like-at-night-now-in-3d-3/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/check-out-what-the-world-looks-like-at-night-now-in-3d-3/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:30:16 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/check-out-what-the-world-looks-like-at-night-now-in-3d-3/ That cool NASA image of the Earth at night has now been texture mapped to a globe with volumetric lighting to make the image even more remarkable to look at. Enjoy!

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/check-out-what-the-world-looks-like-at-night-now-in-3d-3/feed/ How does Google Map the World? http://world-globe.forumplug.com/how-does-google-map-the-world-2/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/how-does-google-map-the-world-2/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:30:00 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/how-does-google-map-the-world-2/ We interviewed engineers at Google and at ?DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google’s satellite photos, and did a little bit of reverse-engineering to figure out how it works.

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/how-does-google-map-the-world-2/feed/ NASA’s World Wind giving google earth a run for its money! http://world-globe.forumplug.com/nasas-world-wind-giving-google-earth-a-run-for-its-money-3/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/nasas-world-wind-giving-google-earth-a-run-for-its-money-3/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:29:47 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/nasas-world-wind-giving-google-earth-a-run-for-its-money-3/ What could be better than google earth? How bout being able to track real time weather, fires, floods, sandstorms all across the globe by the click of the mouse! Also super maps of Saturn, the Moon, EVEN A DEEP SPACE VIEWER! WOW is all I can say. NASA has out done itself with this one, I can’t believe this hasn’t been covered more on digg…

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/nasas-world-wind-giving-google-earth-a-run-for-its-money-3/feed/ Doomsday fears spark lawsuit over Large Hadron Collider http://world-globe.forumplug.com/doomsday-fears-spark-lawsuit-over-large-hadron-collider-3/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/doomsday-fears-spark-lawsuit-over-large-hadron-collider-3/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:29:27 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/doomsday-fears-spark-lawsuit-over-large-hadron-collider-3/ The builders of the world’s biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

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]]> http://world-globe.forumplug.com/doomsday-fears-spark-lawsuit-over-large-hadron-collider-3/feed/ 80-Year-Old Man Walks Around the World for 18 Years http://world-globe.forumplug.com/80-year-old-man-walks-around-the-world-for-18-years-4/ http://world-globe.forumplug.com/80-year-old-man-walks-around-the-world-for-18-years-4/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:29:02 +0000 admin http://world-globe.forumplug.com/80-year-old-man-walks-around-the-world-for-18-years-4/ For the last 18 years, Harry Lee McGinnis has been walking his way around the entire globe, carrying nothing but a backpack and a walking stick.

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