Over Thanksgiving, I got really sucked into playing around with the newest iteration of Google Earth, and boy, oh boy is it awesome. Nothing quite matches its arm-chair-travel fabulousness. It’s like a traveler’s day dream machine. The thing that really blew my mind was that mountains are now in 3-D! I spent hours flying around to cool mountainous spots on the globe — places I’ve been and others that I want to visit. Here’s a picture of Telluride, where I lived for four years:
How awesome is that?
Somewhat coincidentally, a couple days later, I came across this article in BoingBoing about how Bahrainis are using Google Earth to rally for equality and against the excesses of the royal family. Nothing quite as cool as Interweb tools empowering people to fight for their rights. Isn’t that what this whole thing was about in the first place?
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