Google Maps Street View

A lobby group called Privacy International (PI) wants to Google Maps Street View shutdown. I think it is stupid if folks expect privacy on streets. Where else would you expect to see ETs or pretty girls flashing (or rather almost flashing) their wares. Anyway, street view is fun. I too feature on Street View if you happen to be looking for 1444 Charleston Rd, Mountain View, California.


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Here is a screen shot if someday they decide to take down these images.



You can find the top 15 Google Street View Sightings here.

Word Clouds

I came across a tool (or as the website calls it, a toy) called Wordle today which allows you to create word clouds. The size of a word in the visualization is proportional to the word frequency in the input text. On my website, apart from 'Android' and 'iPhone', I realized I use 'Really' a lot :-). Here is the wordle for my website.

This will look great on a t-shirt. You can create one for yourself here.