Google Maps of the Oil Spill

Google is tracking the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Check out this weblink to their map as well as some KML files for Google Earth

Maybe I should work at Google...

I love my job. Well, more precisely, I love being a graduate student in oceanography. I get to do amazingly cool research, and get to go to amazingly cool places as well (even the Arctic! - no pun intended). However, every now-and-then I come across something that causes me to daydream about what it would be like to be in a different field. Today's daydream came courtesy of Google and their Google Lat/Long blog.

Recently they rigged up a Google "Street View" snow mobile to give us a true 3d look at the slopes for the upcoming Winter Olympics. People actually got paid to snow mobile around the slopes for a day!!!

Street View Hits the Slopes at Whistler