New Year’s Celebrations Around the World
As the stroke of midnight rolled across the world’s time zones, people gathered in private and took to the streets to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, 2013. Fireworks erupted from Sydney to Moscow, and revelers gathered in London, Dakar, New York, Las Vegas, and thousands of other places, raising a glass, keeping warm, making resolutions, and wishing each other a “Happy New Year!”
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This is a classic New York City taxi cab:
This is a classic London hackney carriage:
Within the next few years, this’ll become a New York City taxi:
And this’ll be a London cab:
They’re the same cab.
![The Coolest New Maps of London
This one tracks the location of tweets (in blue) and Flickr photographs (in orange) from around the city. The white dots represent places where both Twitter and Flickr activity occurred. The map was produced by Eric Fischer, who did a series of similar maps with various cities around the world, which can be seen at Flickr.
Read more. [Image: Eric Fischer]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7z8pohbUg1qcokc4o1_1280.png)
The Coolest New Maps of London
This one tracks the location of tweets (in blue) and Flickr photographs (in orange) from around the city. The white dots represent places where both Twitter and Flickr activity occurred. The map was produced by Eric Fischer, who did a series of similar maps with various cities around the world, which can be seen at Flickr.
Read more. [Image: Eric Fischer]
In Focus: The Royal Family Meets the Olympic Flame
These are begging for caption contests. [Images: AP]
Is London Really Going to Erase Banksy’s New Olympics Art?
In cleaning up London’s graffiti for the Olympics city authorities threaten to squelch the work one of its biggest celebrities, the street artist Banksy, but on Monday the secretive graffiti artist showed he wouldn’t be deterred from creating Olympics-related art while the whole world is watching. The new pieces that appeared on Banksy’s website put police, who’ve threatened to remove any graffiti they find, in the position of having to power-wash valuable artwork.
Read more. [Images: Banksy]
![In Focus: The 2012 Olympic Flame’s Trip to London
Torch bearer Mathew Cox and the Jarl vikings in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, on June 10, 2012. The Jarl vikings provided an honor guard during the torch relay on the islands.
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In Focus: The 2012 Olympic Flame’s Trip to London
Torch bearer Mathew Cox and the Jarl vikings in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, on June 10, 2012. The Jarl vikings provided an honor guard during the torch relay on the islands.
See more. [Image: Reuters]
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Here’s today’s Daily GIF!
