Been having fun with this new Google Maps thing. It’s a service where you can look at satellite pictures of the entire world, and pan, zoom in, and zoom out. Some areas have higher quality pictures than others. Check out these classics:

Uluru — low res but still cool (now hi-res!)
Cameron Corner — state borders of South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland meet
Cape Byron — easternmost point on Australian continent
St Lucia — suburb of Kings
Area 51 — nothing to see here
Abu Dhabi — big empty suburbs on the outskirts of the city just waiting for people to build
Chernobyl — deceptively lifelike
Adelaide — the most planned city in the Southern Hemisphere
Canberra — a close second
Superfluous traffic device — in Los Angeles
Almost-as-crazy traffic thing — in Bratislava, Slovakia
Pyramids and suburbia — Cairo, Egypt
Lake Baikal — a lake “bigger than Belgium and almost as dull” (© P.J. O’Rourke)
Lo-res Reykjavik — Iceland, with vast, nondescript plains to the north of the nation’s capital conveniently provided in high quality
Rock-like structure — Gibraltar