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http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-news-thats-fit-to-print-on-map-new.html

Along similar lines...IMO some of the coolest things that Google can do over the next while involve combinations of data that it's already got (or can easily get access to). Personally (for example) I want to see a house search that lets me specify "show me the houses with [specific characteristics] that are within this area (scribble outline on map), have an expected car commute time of < N_1 minutes, and have an expected bus commute time of < N_2 minutes with no more than 1 bus change".

*crosses fingers*

A conversation about a new visualization architecture for JUNG led to one of my friends and co-conspirators on JUNG to refer me to this:

http://www.zoomatron.com/Images/eye.html

which in conjunction with this news about a recent extended quote from Pennsylvania's Senator Rick Santorum:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-10172006-728120.html

inspired me to suggest that I wish I knew how to create such an image of the Eye of Sauron over Iraq...which led to him producing this:

http://papergrapefruit.com/sauron.html

This totally rocks. In several ways. Go check it out if you are (a) a LoTR fan, (b) amused by clever political commentary, and/or (c) interested in nice hacks.