Incidentally, Google also announced in this blog entry (titled as above) it's new Google Maps feature which gives users to draw lines, polygons, place placemarkers, and upload location specific pictures/videos via Google Maps.
To me this sounds like a great feature to share travelogues to my family and friends -- makes them much more interesting, when I can plot my route and augment them with my videos/photos/commentary.
That's why we're announcing My Maps, a new feature that makes it quick and easy to create your own custom Google Maps just by pointing and clicking. You can add placemarks, draw lines and shapes, and embed text, photos and videos -- all using a simple drag and drop interface. Your map automatically gets a public URL that you can share with your friends and family, or you can also publish your map for inclusion in Google Maps search results. We'll continue to show organic local search results with red pushpins; user-generated results will have blue pushpins. The user-created results include KML as well as maps made through My Maps.
If you're in the Boston area, and have $50.00 to spare, you can visit http://www.skyventurenh.com/ )warning, embedded QT movie) in Nashua, NH, where you can experience body flight in their indoor vertical wind tunnel.
I'm not related to them in any way, but do plan to visit sometime soon. Thought people around here may be interested in that kind of experience as well.
Not exactly the same scenario, but I think this comment by stuffman64 deserves an honorary mention here:
Last year in my apartment, I had a very loud, rowdy group of girls living above me. Basically, they would get all drunk and mean, and any attempt to ask them to politely stop stomping on the floor or whatever they do at 3AM was met with flase promises (5 minutes later they'd be at it again). Even my mack-daddy roommate couldn't seduce them in hopes of somehow convicing them to stop being so damn loud. This kid could pick up any girl he wanted, but we surmised from all the romping and giggling that perhaps they were more interested in eachother when they got so drunk (backed up by the fact that they always came to the door in robes and/or towels).
We tried to figure out a good way to get back at them. We could report them to the main office, but it's kinda a douchebag thing to do as in enails a $100 per person, not to mention that the apartment complex's owners were also douchebags and didn't deserve any more money from anyone. I'd known for a while that they had an unprotected wireless network, and all of their computers had file and print sharing enabled (not to mention that one of them appropriately named their computer "BITCHFACE"). I "stumbled upon" an ebook copy of War and Peace and decided to start printing it on all of their printers one day when I assumed they'd be at class. One of the girls (I assume the one who drives a Mercedes she must have got for graduation) had an HP Laserjet 5 (how the hell she had room for it in the apartment is beyond me), so there is a good chance I got off at least a few hundred pages before it ran out of paper. I'd assume they didn't know how or why it happened, but afterwards, any time they would be loud I'd start printing a bunch of pages of non-acronymized "STFU" pages. They eventually came down on time and told me that if we didn't stop printing, they'd tell the office. Once I reminded them that we could go down to the office to report noise violations @ $100 per person per violation (not to mention possible eviction after the 3rd violation) any time we heard any noise from them, they quickly realized we had the upper hand. After that, we didn't have any more problems with them, and actually started getting along with eachother.
I submitted this later than brian0918, I'm pretty sure, so I'm not grousing about my rejection. This is what I submitted (with additional links I'd included).
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Telegraph and severalother news outlets are reporting on the international deal to build the world's most advanced nuclear fusion reactor that was signed in today. Representatives of the EU, the US, Japan, India, Russia, South Korea and China signed the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) agreement in Paris, finalising the project which aims to develop nuclear fusion as a viable energy source to fossil fuels. According to the ITER consortium, fusion power offers the potential of "environmentally benign, widely applicable and essentially inexhaustible" electricity, properties that they believe will be needed as world energy demands increase while simultaneously greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced,justifying the expensive research project.
...it also amazes me immensely, how a simple 'printout' passes as an 'authentic' document in a variety of situations.
The wide spread use of e-commerce has expedited the adoption of regular printouts as tickets, receipts, passes and other situations I can't think of right now.
Are people so dumb as to not realize, how simple their official 'logos' are to create using an image processing software? Agreed, most of these 'receipts' merely provide a number, which acts as an 'index' in some internal database somewhere.
But this guy does have a point. Merely admitting a person holding a an easily reproducible printout of an 'eticket' or boarding pass is just lame.
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Well so could my underwear, but that doesn't make it true, does it.
The queue starts here folks, please have your $699 ready and don't shove.
To me this sounds like a great feature to share travelogues to my family and friends -- makes them much more interesting, when I can plot my route and augment them with my videos/photos/commentary.
Some of the examples in that blog entry are pretty interesting, e.g.: America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66.
I'm not related to them in any way, but do plan to visit sometime soon. Thought people around here may be interested in that kind of experience as well.
That, and now the Hubble camera. I wish we'd gone with a Canon.
Has Netcraft confirmed this yet?
I haven't RTFA (at work) but I'm guessing this is assuming that they haven't developed signals/travel faster than the speed of light.
Good Seinfeld reference -- don't think anybody else got it.
Sorry, for the trouble folks. That was me, just stepped out to take a leak.
Well, that shouldn't be tough with a With a couple of warp engines tied to his chair.
(Sorry Dr. Hawking, I do respect and admire you inspite of that seemingly crass joke.)
Why?
...Real Men (TM) fabricate their own microprocessors and bootstrapping code.
Some people'll believe anything. LOLz.
I'd reply with a comment but my keyboard's broken.
The Telegraph and several other news outlets are reporting on the international deal to build the world's most advanced nuclear fusion reactor that was signed in today. Representatives of the EU, the US, Japan, India, Russia, South Korea and China signed the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) agreement in Paris, finalising the project which aims to develop nuclear fusion as a viable energy source to fossil fuels. According to the ITER consortium, fusion power offers the potential of "environmentally benign, widely applicable and essentially inexhaustible" electricity, properties that they believe will be needed as world energy demands increase while simultaneously greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced,justifying the expensive research project.
...just like Urinus appears every night in the starry skies.
That's the reason I always use high-quality, industrial-strength bits in all the code I write.
Any word on how we're going to get sharks up there?
Thousands of children arrested for crumbling cookies and drowning them in milk.
That was the sound of Nautilus crashing.
ORLY WTF?
The wide spread use of e-commerce has expedited the adoption of regular printouts as tickets, receipts, passes and other situations I can't think of right now.
Are people so dumb as to not realize, how simple their official 'logos' are to create using an image processing software? Agreed, most of these 'receipts' merely provide a number, which acts as an 'index' in some internal database somewhere.
But this guy does have a point. Merely admitting a person holding a an easily reproducible printout of an 'eticket' or boarding pass is just lame.
Welcome to Hell on Earth 2006.
No, politicians have an excellent grasp of technology.