Street View Club.

You're never gonna come and do this in DC are you? I'd hoped you were up for trying to cover important parts of major cities. I mean, how kickass are the street views in DC? You can't walk half a block without finding a memorial or statue or iconic building. But no, you seem to only be interested in cities where you can document a good segment of streets without getting abducted and waterboarded by the federal government. Its all part of the experience! Oh, hey, if we ever actually get that state voting rights deal we should replace "Taxation without representation" on our license plates with "I'll waterboard you motherf*&ker".

12 more cities added to the street view list, none of them useful to me.

* Albany and Schenectady, NY
* Boise, ID
* Juneau, AK
* Kansas City, MO (home of the railway station!)
* Manchester, NH
* Milwaukee, WI
* Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), NC
* San Antonio, TX
* Salt Lake City, UT

• Google LatLong: A dozen more cities in Street View

The Plague Is Back.

"Honestly, the Plague!"

Now, I'm not saying that 13 squirrel deaths is on par with the black death, I just always assumed that the plague was something we didn't really have to worry about.  You know, ever since we stopped eating rats and flinging shit in the street.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Plague kills monkey at Denver Zoo

Go Get Your Thinkin Cap.

Wow, I thought I was up to date with all the cool Google Betas out there. But check out GapMinder, its a nice flash implementation of various world statistics by country over time. There's both chart and map views along with temporal animations. You can highlight nations to track over time, select color and size symbology and zoom in on interesting trends. Lots of options make for lots of interesting results. Go play.

• Goolgle: GapMinder