As one Mr. Slambone has pointed out, Google has finally added high-res aerial photography for the London region! And from the looks of things, it’s fairly recent, about a year old or so? The Oxford St. bridge is finished (it wasn’t in the Yahoo! Maps beta) and the apartment building they’ve been putting up across from our office downtown is being worked on, so good news! I don’t think SuperCar is in the driveway, though, which is unfortunate. I imagine it’s somewhere in London, so if anyone can find a silver Neon, let me know.

I was going to link to a bunch of people’s houses, but then I said ‘Wait! That’s probably a bad idea!’ and so I didn’t.

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For those of you who a) run Firefox and b) are not blind, you may enjoy a Firefox extension by the name of Piclens.  You know what?  I don’t even think you need Firefox.

Anyways, the extension works with a ton of sites like Flickr, Google Image Search, Facebook, etc. If you’re viewing a collection of photos, you can click a little icon to take you into PicLens Fullscreen Face-Melting mode.  And you end up with something like this:

I love it.  It makes going through people’s Flickr albums a whole lot easier, saving me valuable time, dollars and dolphins.

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I kind of let things go around here, with all the comment spam and whatnot. But, no longer!  I have installed a fancy new Captcha machine that was recommended to me by one Jon Tackabury, developer of such great applications as DisplayFusion and DisplayFusion 2: Still Fusin’.

While I’m going to enjoy not having to manually delete all that spam, I’m going to miss those comments keeping the site fresh.  Maybe I’ll have to post more…

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