“It’s like ‘Name that Tune,’ only with food.”

Only with a youth group would you try something like this. The video pretty much speaks for itself.

In honor of the Canadian who took my survey (have you taken my survey yet? It’s fun and painless!), I present McSweeney’s Reasons to Fear Canada.

In case you noticed the two McSweeney’s links in two days, you can thank Jason Kottke. He made an RSS feed for McSweeney’s, which is pretty techie of him (and pretty nice).

It turns out I’m one of the last ones to the satellite imagery bandwagon with my two posts last week. Those were examples of memory mapping, which Google calls a new literary form.

Speaking of Google, they blogged about their own satellite images, pointing to lots of great resources. First up is an airplane graveyard (Wired talks about many of the surprising satellite photos, including a volcano errupting, explosions in Iraq, and an icebreaker trying to dislodge a Russian submarine). A few sites catalog some of the attractions, including this list (with highlights like Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Mount St. Helens, some SR-71 Blackbirds, a blimp, the Mall of America with IKEA in mid-construction, and many more) and the Google Sightseeing blog, which doesn’t have as many attractions, but gives you a little more background info. Some guy also paired up Google Maps and Craigslist, though it takes a while to load (if it worked a little better it could be really cool).

More fun with Google maps, this time around my alma mater, Bethel College. Check it out on Flickr for the tour. It’s a lot more fun when you can actually make out the cars and stuff. This image was clearly where two satellite images came together and the original match-up in Google wasn’t done very well. I tried to align them a little better.

Given the lack of cars in any but the main parking lots, and the incredible amount of green, I’m guessing this was taken during the summer when few students were around. It also appears to be pre-ground breaking for the new dorm.

Check out my old summer stomping ground of Central Kansas from 30,000 feet (it’s probably much higher than that, but it sounds good).

Head over to Flickr for the narrated journey (If you roll over the photo in Flickr little boxes will appear on the photo. Each box has a description.), an idea I stole from blogan (who gives helpful how-to instructions–it’s really easy).

This is all thanks to the satellite imagery from Google Maps. Put in your address and then switch to satellite view. Pretty cool, huh? (And yes, it is Friday) If you zoom straight in from the U.S. view you can go four or five clicks and you’ll see Great Bend, Kansas to the left. Drag it back into view and keep zooming to get this view. (or just type in Great Bend, Kansas)

I posted a few great links today over at Real Magazine, including a healthy Cookie Monster, the Incredible Popeman, and a stickmen-shooting flash game.

I know, I know, I’m an addict. But I’m trying to enable the rest of you. So go check it out.

Wannabe Norseman and perpetual lover of all things from the British Isles, Neal Redman, says ‘meh’ to much of the southern hemisphere in the comments to a friend’s post about visiting Peru. The southern hemisphere was unavailable for comment.

(Sorry Neals, couldn’t resist.)

I think the Mathletes is the best band name ever. If I ever have a band, that’s what it’s going to be called. The t-shirts would rule.

Jaime Hunt has grown tired of her femininely spelled yet masculine sounding name and wants a change. Offer your suggestions.

I have a hard enough time naming fictional characters, so I don’t have much to offer. Though Jaime still hasn’t named her own blog, so I’m not sure she’ll do much better at naming herself.

This from the person who calls his blog “thoughts.”

Well, not me specifically, but my favorite video game did. Need for Speed Underground 2 is the number five best selling video game of 2004. Maybe I’m not as old as I think.