Is this the sort of thing you mean ?
http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/3d-object-viewer-36.html

I hadn't come across this guy's work before

Full series here
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/let-it-dough/

Artist's website
http://www.christophniemann.com/index.html

Just for interest here are a couple of the others
ABERAYRON UNION WORKHOUSE
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Princess+Street,+Aberaeron,+&sll=52.242929,-4.255684&sspn=0.009,0.027874&g=Princess+Street,+Aberaeron,+Ceredigion+SA46+0,+United+Kingdom&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Princes+Ave,+Aberaeron,+Dyfed+SA46+0JJ,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.243502,-4.255481&spn=0.001132,0.003484&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.243502,-4.255481&panoid=YEb-uw-rEEODsI9FnPlL6w&cbp=12,101.49,,0,-2.14

HOUSE OF CORRECTION, USK
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=28+bridge+st+,+usk&sll=51.702783,-2.904687&sspn=0.002291,0.006968&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=28+Bridge+St,+Usk,+Gwent+NP15+1BG,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.702224,-2.905691&spn=0.001139,0.003484&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.702154,-2.905821&panoid=1-yO5d2j6SGIG-ohZ2OjhA&cbp=12,328.41,,0,2.81

The Usk House of Correction (Gaol) is no longer there - might be useful to model this
This link is how I found it and it has a nice image of the Blue Plaque shown in the street view

LAST WELSH MARTYR

LAST WELSH MARTYR, ST DAVID LEWIS, 1616-1679

(lastwelshmartyr.blogspot.com)

The old school at Abererch is probably the building at these lat/long co-ords

52.903287, -4.38463
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=52.903287,+-4.38463&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=17.83271,57.084961&ie=UTF8&ll=52.903289,-4.384645&spn=0.001115,0.003484&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.903296,-4.384545&panoid=XrS_JmPSJ8UUqED7Fl4rMw&cbp=12,329.07,,0,-4.21

If they can sort out street view, why is the satellite view still so poor across most of the country

Oli could you blur your number plate on the first pic. Car cloners love authentic reg nos. from write offs

BTW the flashbacks do go away.... at least until the next time

You might also like this colour movie test from 1922

...sorry, couldn't get the embed to work

O.K. look at the faces

Now walk about 6ft or so away from the monitor and look again

Of course, that headline should really be

SUMO SOX EX FOR TRIX WITH TWIX

Do you mean a dovetail joint ? if so, then this is a useful plugin

(www.finewoodworking.com)

direct link
http://thewoodenscrew.blogspot.com/

Can you spot them ?
http://vimeo.com/13340102

I think I got about half of them
We could do a list:
Here's a start -

Singing in the rain ?
Titanic ?
Jaws
Psycho
Fabulous Baker Boys ?
Gold Rush (chaplin)
Taxi
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
?
Snow White
Blues Brothers
Star Wars

While all of the Gizmodo competition entries are usually good. I thought that those in this recent one were of a particularly high standard - and could possibly be some inspiration for some cool renders

http://gizmodo.com/5535294/195-splashing-rippling-wallpapers

Yes, this simple search term prediction drives my schools' filtering/surveillance system nuts

...and just don't talk about the unfortunate 'I'm feeling lucky' placement

I'm a fan of the Pazera video converters suite which converts most things to most other things and also does batch processing
http://www.pazera-software.com/products/vcsuite/

Genius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcXtT3rZcqg&feature=player_embedded

Have a look at Google fusion tables
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tables.html

which does something similar for Gmaps

How is this done ? software ?, make-up ?, genetic manipulation ?

You can obtain a fairly quick and basic effect by using gradient transparency pngs in front of the camera as here
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=23368&p=198149#p198149