Fun with Google Earth and Panoramio

I've been wasting my time again.  This time, on the big grin that is Google Earth with the photo-localisation layer Panoramio.  Here's how it works: you submit a photo to Panoramio and give it a title, caption, and location on the planet.  Then, anyone with Google Earth can link to the GE Panoramio layer and see pins on their globe which click to reveal a photo.  Or you can use it as a regular album with place marking for stuff like holiday snaps, hiking trails... maybe the Dunwich Dynamo?

What's got my inner geek cackling is turning terrain and 3D buildings on, going somewhere famous, and playing spot-the-landmark.  Some of the New York skyline stuff is very eyecatching.

I <3 Aqua teen Hunger Force 4 EVA!

Anyone who can shut down the centre of Boston with a few dumb illuminated signs wins my respect.  It seems that Bostonians come pre-terrorised these days. 

Look out!  It's a... little cube thing flipping the bird!  Better panic!

More fun reportage (and great not-a-bomb) photos here, here, here and gloriously (with big suits taking it All Very Seriously) here.  I can't find a shot of the top cop with latex gloves showing a press conference the Evil Terrorist Sign Thingy, but you'll have to take my word for it, it was a moment of pure broadcast surrealist delight.

And hey, newswires, stop calling it a hoax, cretins.

I want this little bastard on a T-shirt, right now.