This is pretty much awesome.

Google Maps will now show you predicted traffic conditions for a given day and time. Is there somewhere I can sign up to be told about these things without having to stumble upon them?

I wanted to chase some references from "My Botnet is Bigger than Yours," so I started typing the title into the search bar. After getting through "my botnet", Google helpfully suggested "my botnet brings all the feds to my yard". I can't even begin to imagine how that phrase got sufficiently popular to be returned by the suggestion engine...

So the satellite view of Weyburn Terrace used to show a big pile of dirt, which was in fact the state of the complex a couple years ago. They've since updated their imagery with at least two separate data sets, one newer, specifically at a middle stage of the construction of my building, and one older (pre-dirtpile) but higher-resolution. The two ( Read more... )