Holy Crap

[Treebore]

Its definitely not perfect, it has my current house seven houses down the street and on the wrong side of the road. Still this is incredibly fun to play with.

 

[Jdvn1]

The best is range search. Once when designing a city forrole-playing I needed to get a concept of what kind of city or town would have a population of 20,000. So I looked to 10000..50000 population Michigan ro come up with local cities with populations between 10 and 50 thousand. Worked out nicely.

Wow, cool idea. Didn't think of that one.

 

[Aeolius]

Looks like Safari, my browser of choice, is unsupported. Good thing I don't like Starbucks.

 

[DragonSword]

Oh, Google sold me a _long_ time ago.

Lots of options like in http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
It's a dictionary too! A really good one! And a calculator!
Try typing:
speed of light in furlongs per minute
Or:
speed of sound in yards per hour
Or for something more conventional:
quarts in 2.5 gallons
I used it today because I needed to know
63418 centimeters in feet

I had to use it once to find:
radius of Earth in meters
for a Physics problem I was working

Ouch, numbers hurt my head!

The whole Google is taking over the world thing is pretty scary, though. Soon there'll be people with giant O costumes running around our streets prophesying the end of the world. What? It's a conspiracy, I tells ya!

 

[MonsterMash]

Watch out Americans, we know where you live!

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Watch out Americans, we know where you live!

Cool. Bring beer. All we have is this funny looking water.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Yeah, my american beer comes with a canoe and a condom, what's up with that?.

 

[MaxKaladin]

If you want, I can send you a Gmail invite and you can find out yourself. Want one? If so, send me an email at D_Drader@mail.com.

Uh, I heard some disturbing things about the privacy angle of gmail. Stuff about how they scan your email to profile you for advertising and that they keep even deleted email perpetually -- even if you delete your account.

I admit I've never used gmail, so it could be really cool but the privacy thing disturbs me. I'm also curious how some people end up with dozens of invites to send out and others never got one.

The map thing is really cool. I did notice an odd black block about a quarter mile on a side out in the country where my family hunts, but that's about it.

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

Awesome. I love Google more every day.

As an aside, my hat of Farbucks know no limit. I went into one once to meet a client, and they couldn't sell me coffee. Just plain, 100% Columbian Coffee. Bah. I'm not really into weird, creepy yuppie things like a massively overprised cup of milk with some mutant beans in it. I can get Milk by the gallon for several times cheaper, and real coffee comes in six month supplies for ten bucks.

 

[Kemrain]

barsoomcore, thanks for the link. Given that I give directions for a living, this is downright useful. Google is my God.

"Google, the source of all truth, and also, of all lies."

- Kemrain the Google Whore.