I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords

So: my semester is done. I think it came out well, though we'll wait for the grades to say for sure. Since the end of the semester, I have:

• Gotten all 120 stars in Super Mario Galaxy (plus another 10 as Luigi)
  
• Recorded a full length album with Black Joe Lewis
  
• Taken pictures of our new house, which is now framed
  
• Caught up on all my emails and feeds, and all the other work I'd been shirking during crunch time
  
• Made a couple other changes (???)

Now, the wife and I are preparing for a vacation in sunny old London, starting late next week. Lo and behold, Google Maps has taken it up another couple notches since last I looked, and is now totally usable as a one-stop vacation planner:

• You can create your own maps with placemarks, shapes & notes, and collaborate on them with other people
  
• You can turn on a Wikipedia layer that shows geo-located wikipedia links for anything on the map area
  
• Not to mention all the other layers that you can turn on now in Google Maps, for restaurants, coffee shops, etc.

Here's the neighborhood we're starting in. Any suggestions?

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Food vs. nutrition: Michael Pollan @ Google

This is a fantastic video lecture by Michael Pollan (who wrote the Omnivore's Dilemma).