Archive for August, 2006

Goggles Flight Sim

In what may be the coolest, albeit not quite as useful as others, use of Google Maps data yet Mark Caswell-Daniels has created a flight simulator where you can fly around several cities using satellite imagery from Google. With a little work you can even fly around your own city.

Aliens prefer Firefox

Ok, not really. But members of the Oregon State University Linux Users Group made a 260 foot crop circle of the Firefox logo.

Even captured, the terrorists won

Talk about news you just can’t get away from. Every news station is saturating their broadcasts and websites with information about the captured terrorists in England that were plotting to blow up 9, or 10 depending on the source, planes between London and several American cities.