Maybe the headline is a little superlative… but, wow. Google Maps is really, really cool. Even better, it’s cool in a useful way. They made it easy to zero in on the area you want (even using the keyboard if you wish), and then, when you search, it searches in that area! The visuals are great.
I’m a fan of bad stuff. Almost every year, I go to the Smithee Awards to enjoy some really bad films. So, I was pleased to find out about the sci-fi writers who collectively wrote a bad book in order to prove that a publisher was just a vanity publisher. The book is called Atlanta Nights, and you can conveniently buy a copy or download the PDF. I’ve read a couple of pages and it’s really quite awful, but it is awful enough to be entertaining. While looking at some of the slashdot discussion of this, I also discovered