Current location to "home"
So today, Google delighted all the Android 1.6 “Donut” users by releasing the Google Maps with Navigation app. Of course, this was downloaded immediately onto the phone. This evening at home, while playing with the app, I requested directions from my current location to “home” and what you see in the below image is what it did! Fantastic! :)
So I was doing some more Stumbling (www.stumbleupon.com) this morning, and found some amazing photos.
Trying to rope up the tug
Impressive Storm Sewer System / Saitama, Japan
Amazing Penthouse Pool
Elephant and Boy
This is an old video, but still makes be laugh! Will it get me to Aldershot? LOL
I saw this on the Gizmodo blog that I read. They where sort of making fun of it, but I think this is great. I really want one 
So, on December 11, 2008 NBC announced that they were passing on the US version of Top Gear. This is sad, but in a way this is good news too. I seriously never believed that this show would work in the same format on US Network Television. You just simply cannot do the same stuff that you can in the UK on OTA TV.
Example in point: I’m sitting here watching S12E05 of Top Gear (BBC). Jeremy Clasrkson is doing the usual “intro for The Stig” bit right before a timed lap by the “tame racing driver”. And, I quote, he says, “Some people say that one of his eyes is a testie (testicle)”.
So, let’s examine this, shall we? OK, Top Gear is presented on BBC 2 in the UK. The BBC is government supported by funds collected through the TV License Program(me), so this is a government supported operation. This is one good thing about the show being on the Beeb, there are no commercial advertisers that you need to worry about p*ssing off with a bad report on a car.
So, in the US it was looking like it was going to be on network television. Argh! There are advertisers on network TV, now the presenters can’t give an honest oppinon of a crappy car, and sure as heck can’t introduce their racing driver for a timed lap in one of those cars as a man with a testicle for an eye!
I love the BBC format. Leave it as that, and then show it on BBC America just like you do now.
