Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction
I just love Google maps. It allows you to locate all sorts of stuff.
Google finds what neither the US nor the UN inspectors couldn’t: Weapons of Mass Destruction:
And in Redmond, WA. No surprise where:
Not only do they find these weapons, they will also find an evil genius for you:
If you share my distaste for spammers, Google Maps helps you locate them as well:
(I’ve found several other, but they’re not too family friendly, so I’ll refrain from publishing them)
Comments
Comment from TreeGo on 2005-02-09 01:42
Do I detect an anti-USA bias here?
Comment from Arve on 2005-02-09 01:45
No
Comment from Martin on 2005-02-09 08:39
Truely amazing. Not just that you found the weapons of mass destruction, but Google Maps itself is a good piece of work. Wonder when we will see it in an European version? It’s a little late, but did you know that you can find Saddam Hussein there as well? And Al Qaeda? Or how about secret iraqi chemical weapons? I could really learn to love this! (BTW: Thought you used Opera?)
Comment from Arve on 2005-02-09 08:50
I do indeed use Opera. Just not for Google Maps, since Google Maps uses XSLT — something I’m not too fond of, since it causes accessibility problems.
Comment from paul haine on 2005-02-09 16:01
Curiously, the Delaware Indian Tribal Headquarters houses not only “Weapons of mass destruction” but also My Two Front Teeth as well.
Comment from Arve on 2005-02-10 01:12
There’s more stuff to be found. I was reminded of a 1982 movie with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds
Guess what. Google Maps found that too
Comment from Ghola on 2005-02-10 02:28
I’m sorry to intrude, I just love the Opera Theme of your Firefox. Or I am totally mistaken?
Is this theme available anywhere? I would love that look for my Firefox. I’m really hesitating between Firefox and Opera and I’ve gotten used to the Opera 7.x interface.
So please mail me if you have the time.
Comment from magoo on 2005-02-10 08:27
TreeGo says:
Osama is a democrat — Note item C.
Comment from Arve on 2005-02-10 08:35
I found the Opera skin on this page.
Comment from Robin on 2005-02-10 13:16
Arve - what accessibility problems does XSLT have?
Comment from Chris Hester on 2005-02-10 14:02
What he means is that Google Maps doesn’t support Opera.
Comment from Arve on 2005-02-10 14:06
Robin, let me clarify: I’m not against XSLT as such. XSLT on the server can be used to create rich content pages with remarkable ease. The entire problem is that it is used client side, because it locks users into using the service with a very few select applications.
Let me provide an example: The raw XML output of the driving directions from Tekamah, NE to Beverly Hills, 90210.
You can argue all you want that this is only meant for machine parsing, but how can you accomodate someone who uses a (console based) screen reader, and just wants to get at the actual driving direction?
Comment from Robin on 2005-02-10 16:07
Fair point. I use XSLT server-side to accomplish what I need, never really considered using it client-side. It’s an interesting point though, maybe Google is CPU bound?
Comment from ghola on 2005-02-10 16:52
Thank you Arve!
It’s a great site too.
Comment from ML on 2006-03-23 19:43
I just tried “weapons of mass destruction” on Google maps and it pulled up ‘A: National Geographic Channel’ and ‘B: White House’.
… so that’s why they couldn’t find ‘em! They were in George’s basement all along! LOL!
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