Online

Nicaragua, Cost Rica Still Butting Heads Over Google Maps Border Error

Nicaragua scoffed at an organisation of American States (OAS) condemnation regarding their Google Maps border incursion this weekend, and why shouldn’t they? Even Reuters was calling the measure a “toothless exhortation.” Coming soon: Google War?


November 5, 2010
Online

How Google Maps Led To An Accidental Invasion

Recently a Nicaraguan military commander invaded a Costa Rican territory and ordered troops to take down a Costa Rican flag and replace it with Nicaragua’s. He went through all this trouble because of an error on Google Maps.


August 11, 2010

Someone Built The Perfect Green House In A Perfect Paradise

Playa Carate, Peninsula de Osa, Costa Rica. Five per cent of the world biodiversity is in this place, a perfect paradise on Earth. Somehow, someone built this house in it. Loaded with green technology, it’s not only pretty but 100 per cent self-sufficient.


July 23, 2010
Science

This Is How People Live In A Real-Life Ewoks Village

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Two years ago I told you about Bellavista, the stunning treehouse community in Costa Rica’s forests that looks like the Ewoks’ village in Endor. They just upgraded it with 7.2mbps 3G access, and now they run 100 per cent on solar power.