I just downloaded Google Earth, which looks like it will be a lot of fun, but, being the geek I am, of course the first thing I did was look at my home, my school, and my work, and... none of them look right. In the satellite photo there's a highway next to my house that has since been moved into a tunnel. The building where I go to school isn't there. Neither is the building where I work. So it's all still very cool (and it makes me want to try to figure out exactly when the pictures were taken -- definitely before Fall of 2003, but beyond that I'm not sure without actually starting to look things up), but the differences between the landscape of two years ago and the landscape now are so startling that it kind of ruins the real-time zoom-in effect for me.

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