Google offers a dazzling array of products - some of which are rather useful and some of which are free! Picasa (a photo organizer and modifier) is really kinda nifty for those with little patience for traditional photo-finishing programs. But the program I've been playing around with, to my vast glee, is Google Earth.
If you have a supported 3D capable video card (and who doesn't these days?), you can install this nifty little program that downloads a satellite image of the earth and allows you to zoom in to startling precision. For instance, the picture attached to this blog is a screen capture from the program of my high school (upper left) and junior high school (lower right)! I think it's © 2005 Digital Globe, by the way. Anyway, the point is, you can zoom into any part of the world, slant the view, see the topology, you name it! And, in certain areas, usually well-populated industrialized countries, you can get images so detailed you can make out individual people!
You haven't lived until you've flown through the Grand Canyon with Google Earth. Well, ok, maybe it's not that great... But it's wicked cool.
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