From: merde	Date: March 29th, 2007 02:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

that makes me so very, very happy.

so does my new commute, which starts on monday. monday!

yes, i really am absurdly excited about this. but you gotta admit, that's a pretty sweet commute. even if with traffic it'll be more like 15 minutes.

	From: mare_in_flames	Date: March 29th, 2007 02:59 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I want to marry the Google Maps people.

Chiefly because I think they would keep me laughing for the rest of my life.

	From: caudelac	Date: March 29th, 2007 03:05 pm (UTC)		(Link)

This apparently works for almost any trans-atlantic locale.

observe.

You cannot, however, get driving directions to Cairo, Bagdhad, Bangkok, or Japan, alas.

	From: merde	Date: March 29th, 2007 03:28 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Antarctica, either. ISAGN.

	From: crisper	Date: March 29th, 2007 03:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Yeah, why wouldn't you just come ashore at Galway and then drive across Ireland?

	From: cdk	Date: March 29th, 2007 03:40 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That's really weird. They have a fixed route for swimming across the atlantic - you can get some awesomely stupid results if you ask them to take you from Halifax to Lisbon - but that fixed route doesn't have much at all to do with the route of the guy who actually did it.

	From: eejitalmuppet	Date: March 29th, 2007 06:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

If you aim for Galway, the Gulf stream will whip you off to the northeast, and you'll actually land at Mallaig in Scotland.

	From: geekwitch	Date: March 29th, 2007 03:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I bet the landing point from the swimming part has to do with trade routes or currents or some such kinda thing (like you'd be swept south due to the whaddayacall it thingey that comes north from Florida.)

Sorry, can't think. Laughing too hard. Plus codeine woo!

I love googlegeeks.

	From: labyrinthyne	Date: March 29th, 2007 03:53 pm (UTC)		(Link)

i don't think it would be as funny if the next step weren't "slight right at..." like swimming across the atlantic ocean is such a direct, plotted mode of transport that you know exactly where you are when you get to the other side. A+.

	From: notshakespeare	Date: March 29th, 2007 05:08 pm (UTC)		(Link)

sweet!

	From: noisefootprint	Date: March 29th, 2007 06:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Via http://www.kottke.org/

	From: yumemisama	Date: March 29th, 2007 07:56 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I decided that I was in love with Google in its multitudinous entirety when I discovered two things:

One, that the 'server timeout' message for Gmail includes the phrase, "cross your fingers and try again".

And two, that you can set the language on Google proper to "Esperanto," "Klingon" and "Elmer Fudd".

Last I heard, the gazillionaires who started it were still single. <.< >.> I am almost tempted to take a trip out to California and see if I can get them to play Guitar Hero with me or something.

	From: jeremym	Date: March 29th, 2007 10:14 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	The real question is..

Why you don't land someplace nearer.. like Plymouth.

	From: jenyum	Date: March 31st, 2007 06:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Well, they do warn you:
These directions are for planning purposes only. You may find that construction projects, traffic, or other events may cause road conditions to differ from the map results.

Google mapped my LJ location for me once:

The Land of Disappointed Children. It was funnier when it was a Holiday Inn Express, where the children were actually disappointed.