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So if you look at the New York skyline on Google Maps or Google Earth, it becomes aparant how some of these images are stitched together from different satellites. In particular, bits of Manhattan seem to have been taken at different angles. So if you zoom down on 50th street and 5th avenue, for instance, part of the map seems to bend upwards in an Escher-like fashion so that it looks like a huge office tower is looming alarmingly over St. Paul’s cathedral. Now I haven’t lived in New York for a while, but I’m fairly sure the buildings are mostly parallel to each other - unless there’s been a wave of postmodern architecture. The effect is actually very disturbing.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 15:19 under Web 2.0