Fata Morgana

[undyingking]

This is simultaneously completely wonderful and completely pointless, I think. Basically it's a Google Maps interface denuded of everything except the text. So you can zoom, drag and all the usual kinds of stuff, but you only see the names of things, not their shapes, terrain, linkages, etc. Hmm, writing it down like that doesn't really convey... well, have a play, zoom in on your home town, see what you think. Anyway, I like it.

The only clue as to its intent is hidden in an HTML comment:

"Seasoned explorers, vehemently insisting on what they had seen, set down mountains and islands on their charts where there was nothing but empty sky ... Expeditions sent out later to verify these new lands sometimes saw the same fata morgana, further confusing the issue. Only by prolonging their arduous journeys, thereby observing a constant recreding [sic] of the image, did they prove that the land was not there at all."

Via info_sthetics, source of lots of strange and interesting things.