The Null Device
2005/4/20
Google Maps now has a UK edition, in which, rather than consisting only of North America, the globe consists of only the British Isles. The site doesn't have satellite photos yet, though it does seem to have everything else the American site has. Seeing places you've actually been adds quite a bit to the experience.
Head of the Holy Inquisition and arch doctrinal hardliner Cardinal Ratzinger is elected as the next Pope; as white smoke drifts into the Roman sky, one can almost make out the strains of the Imperial March.