Inconceivable!

You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

On a more helpful note I think "assured" was what you were looking for.

Wave is about as centralised as XMPP was when there was only one XMPP server to connect to.

We've got a front end dev in our web shop with rendering patches accepted into Gecko. It's a rare sight, and it takes the right kind of developer, but it's not unheard of

TomTom itself will direct you to a point about half a mile away from my house (in the middle of a large town) if you put my postcode into some of its GPS devices.

That's caused problems both for friends and takeaway delivery drivers :(

You're talking about cue dots which are actually used more by the commercial providers (ITV and Channel 4), and now generally only for live programmes (i.e. with unpredictable ad break times) with regional opt-outs (i.e. where a bunch of different people need to know about the ad break starting).

There's even a London in Canada which has a River Thames running through it!

NASA satellites use a collection of pictures from multiple flybys stitched together.

The [Russian] satellite [...] took an image [...] capturing the Earth in a single shot with 121-megapixels.

Think the prices have gone up since you visited. Amy Grant had to pay 25 bucks

I prefer to think of it as a way of reducing redundancy.

The web page doesn't care whether it's being served over HTTP or HTTPS, that's only an issue for the web server. So, the web server configuration can have all the rules and redirections to enforce a particular policy, and the web page will work any time that gets updated, without having to have every link in every page rewritten.