The YouTube River flows into the Google Ocean

Article today on Techcrunch.com about how Google will incorporate YouTube into it's new social networking initiatives.

YouTube River Diverted Into The Google Social Ocean As Well, accompanied by this metaphorical graphic:

Can anyone identify the location of this satellite image?

HT to Hunter

Korea At Night

Fifty years ago today, the Korean peninsula was formally divided into North and South. How's that been working out for them? Below is a satellite image of the peninsula at night... I'm sure the North Korean astronomers, when they can drag themselves from their starvation stupor to look into their telescopes, get a terrific view of the stars without all that light pollution...



From the National Geographic Map of the Day.

Thanks, Marilyn.

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Where In The World Is This?

It is an island... somewhere on the planet Earth:



If you can identify it, visit Where On Google Earth? and post your guess.

Gary Arndt is a world traveler, and every 2-3 days he posts a new contest to identify a location from Google Earth.


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Foolish Pangea

Google Earth Blog has preserved the 2008 Google Earth April Fools Joke. "Well, it turns out there is an April Fools Joke in Google Earth today after all! If you turn on the "Geographic Web" layer and then zoom all the way out (38000+ miles away from Earth) the Earth's continents merge into the theoretical Pangea (the way the continents may have appeared hundreds of millions of years ago)."

Unfortunately, they only kept the joke up for one day. April 1. I'm glad someone saved it.

via The Map Room