Showing posts with label geography fail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography fail. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2011

Chelsea USA

Google Maps has been acting up lately, at least for me. One result was this map, improbably superimposing Chelsea over the entire United States, creating a fun alternate reality in which the Hotel Gansevoort is located on the outskirts of Guadalajara:

Monday, February 7, 2011

Somebody at Slate Thinks Green Bay is in Florida

...and doesn't know how to spell Pittsburgh.  From this morning's Slatest newsletter roundup of the day's top stories:

Green Bay Packers Triumph at Super Bowl
The Florida team took down the Pittsburg Steelers 31-25.

Both errors have since been corrected on the site, but fortunately the newsletter made it to my inbox in its original, much more amusing form.  To be fair, I'm sure this is someone working very early in the morning for very little money.  Still funny, though.