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Old 26-October-2005, 09:03 PM
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Old 26-October-2005, 09:29 PM
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Cool.

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Old 26-October-2005, 09:42 PM
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You were ToSeeked, though not here--only to me. I found out about this from a baseball forum I'm on, so now I'm on two frappr maps!
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Old 26-October-2005, 09:54 PM
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Very cool. Though I wasn't sure why they wanted me to shout "OUT"?
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Hmm we appear to be quite clustered.
*waits for the Aussies to WAKE UP ALREADY!!!*
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Old 26-October-2005, 10:16 PM
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You have to use the "Satellite" option to see Bermuda, the plain map doesn't have any detail. "Satellite" is nicer anyway.
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Old 26-October-2005, 10:51 PM
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Very cool. Though I wasn't sure why they wanted me to shout "OUT"?
When I tried to post on my other forum without a shout out, it wouldn't let me. Some people prefer to be slient!
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Old 26-October-2005, 10:59 PM
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It put me in wrong place

Please someone to remove "monique Marseille-en-Beauvaisis, Picardie (France)"?
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Old 26-October-2005, 11:06 PM
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Could you sticky this ToSeek?
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Old 26-October-2005, 11:34 PM
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What I want to know is how it knew exactly where I live? I put in a 5 digit zip and it is spot on. If I put the same zip in the Google Maps, it is off by a few miles. Strange... I am getting a little paranoid.
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Woo-hoo! First antipodean!
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Please someone to remove "monique Marseille-en-Beauvaisis, Picardie (France)"?
I've removed your entry. Feel free to try again.
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Could you sticky this ToSeek?
Good idea - done!
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Old 27-October-2005, 01:39 AM
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I've removed your entry. Feel free to try again.

I think her Cote-de-Azur is her second try.
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I think her Cote-de-Azur is her second try.
Yeah, I saw that after visiting the map.
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Old 27-October-2005, 01:42 AM
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Pretty neat deal, thanks ToSeek.
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It's pretty accurate. There's a giant pin in my neighbor's swimming pool.
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I didn't realize that if I click on the pins, it pops up the person.

I was wondering why I couldn't see AGN Fuel in Newcastle, New South Wales (Australia), until I clicked on his name in the right column. The map moves.
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Old 27-October-2005, 04:38 AM
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Yeah, we're always kept out off the loop down here...!
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Man, this is cool! I'm the only Texan though.

<.< >.>

In other news, according to this, I live in the Baptist Church. Which isn't bad, since the Baptist Church is literally right across my fence. Hmmm. That's still spooky, though.

Someone Up There is telling me something >.<
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OK. What is the big green spot up left of Greenland? Community park? Oil spill? Federally funded "art?"
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I didn't realize that if I click on the pins, it pops up the person.

I was wondering why I couldn't see AGN Fuel in Newcastle, New South Wales (Australia), until I clicked on his name in the right column. The map moves.
You can also double click on the map, and it will centre over where you clicked.
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Well, so far I'm the only Victorian. Come on, you guys! It's getting lonely down here...
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I've put in an approximate and vague pin for myself. It's not where I live (I am obsessively private), but I can be there in a little over an hour in the unlikely circumstance that I ever have to be. I did meet Michael Winner there, once. He was lost. The director with no sense of direction, I thought I was going to die laughing.
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Old 27-October-2005, 11:10 AM
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OK. What is the big green spot up left of Greenland? Community park? Oil spill? Federally funded "art?"
It's probably a national park or something like that. It looks big on the map, but it's probably not all that big, because it's so far north, so it's stretched.
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Old 27-October-2005, 11:17 AM
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You can also double click on the map, and it will centre over where you clicked.
Actually ToSeek, if you change the default positioning of the map to London England the map sits nicely in the same time zone and all countries are included.
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The map is blank for me. What software does it require?

I see that the source page is essentially human-unreadable,
mostly a dense script of some kind, but it doesn't specify
what kind. I know my browser does JavaScript because it
runs the JavaScript I've put in my own web pages.

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you guys seem to move around alot, when I zoom in some of you change position, some of you are in the Irish sea! I think that the software is not quite right, it does say beta I suppose
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Now im in place... just wait for Hu´b
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The map is blank for me. What software does it require?

I see that the source page is essentially human-unreadable,
mostly a dense script of some kind, but it doesn't specify
what kind. I know my browser does JavaScript because it
runs the JavaScript I've put in my own web pages.
What browser do you use? Sometimes permissions for JavaScript are finer grained. E.g. in FireFoox, you must activate JavaScript and check the box to allow JavaScript to change graphics.
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