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jonursenbach
What are all those orange cones on top of buildings? I don't remember seeing those when I was in Paris 5 years ago.
jacobolus
Chimneys (specifically, the venting caps (“chimney pots”) on top of chimneys). Here's a Wikipedia image of similar chimneys in London: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chimney.stack.london.arp.j...
jonursenbach
Huh, interesting. Seeing all of them there is oddly hypnotic.
slippytoad
It's a bizarre world when people need to be told what a chimney pot is.
jonursenbach
Not really. I've never seen anything like it here in the states before.
olalonde
I wonder what that is: http://imgur.com/ATpQj.png
olalonde
Maybe related to the Pi Day ?
Luc
The green cross is the symbol for a pharmacy. 3:14 is the time, not the date, since we'd use 14/3.
olalonde
Isn't a bit strange that the current time = the 3 first digits of Pi and that there is π next to it?
dutchflyboy
Well, that's probably why there's Pi next to to the time.
mseebach
If it was indeed 3:14 it'd be night (afternoon would be 15:14), and there's sunlight in the picture.
Luc
Not everyone in Europe uses the 24h clock, many people use AM/PM on their digital watches.

EDIT: Okay, I give up. In a major procrastination attack, I looked up the street in Google Maps Street View, and the LED sign clearly shows 24h time:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&...

I'll stop short of calling up the pharmacy and asking for the manufacturer of the sign...

EDIT: Amazingly hard to find other clocks in the image! However, on the blog ( http://blog.paris-26-gigapixels.com/en/?p=115 ) we find:

"15:15: The light was so exceptional that we decided to redo the first 2 lines of the shooting. This series of images may be used in assembly later (just in case)."

This seems to be not inconsistent with the picture being taken around 3:14 PM.

mseebach
> I'll stop short of calling up the pharmacy

What kind of hacker are you? :)

pbhjpbhj
How is it being 15h15 not consistent with a clock reading 3:14? They are 1 minute out.

I thought it was one of the Easter Eggs as explained above.

Luc
Not INconsistent :) But yes, it appears to be an easter egg.
pbhjpbhj
"Not INconsistent"

FWIW if I said "how is it not inconsistent" (as you appear to suggest I should) that would suggest I believe it is inconsistent and was asking in what way I'm wrong.

"how is it not consistent" means that I consider a clock in a photo reading 1 minute different to the expected time is entirely consistent with expected observations. I'm asking you in what way my affirmation that this is consistent with expectations is wrong. I could have asked "how is it inconsistent" but that would lack the emphasis and fail to indicate my view of consistency in the situation.

Luc
Right. I thought you had misread my sentence, sorry.

I phrased it this way because I felt saying that it is 'consistent' might give the impression that I see it as some kind of proof of my theory, while 'not inconsistent' suggests it is simply not disproved by the known data (which may not be totally reliable either).

sounddust
It's photoshopped in. There are 10 photoshopped easter eggs on the map, placed there by the developers, and this is one of them. Another example is a fake grafitti drawing of what is assumed to be the dev/photography team photoshopped onto the side of a building.
ximeng
Aagh upside down scrolling.
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simon_kun
The thing that gets me about most of these flash "explore" widgets (including Street View) is that they don't update the URL with the pitch/yaw/zoom/lat/lng information, making the cool stuff you find pretty hard to share around.
Luc
Click the 'Share my position'/'Partager ma position' button at the bottom, among the Twitter and Facebook links, to get a link with coordinates.
mjgoins
This (flash) site has sound. Horrible annoying, and unexpected sound.