Big Trapeze

I was about an hour outside of Dallas today on a relatively remote highway, when I passed this car. My apologies for the picture quality, it was taken with my iPhone while I was doing about 50 MPH. It’s a car fitted with a large antenna (possibly a camera, GPS, and more?) and a Google Maps logo. Inside, the driver was keeping one eye on the road, and one eye on a rather large and bulky laptop. I’m guessing Google is working on giving us even better map data (and going away from NAVTEQ?), and maybe even street level views. I’m not joking when I say that sounds like a fun job to me…

Update: Here’s an article from the Dallas Morning News talking about the appearance of these vehicles. This guy must’ve gotten lost

Today is December 21st, 2007–4 days before Christmas. You would hope the news of the day would be uplifting, but instead, CNN.com greeted me with this thoroughly depressing sidebar (I took the liberty to highlight the important points):

I would bet for every “bad” story in the world, there is at least one “good” one to counter-act it. Why is it, then, that we are constantly bombarded with depressing news? Why are the majority of news outlets littered with things to bring us down? In keeping with the Christmas theme, I’ll end this with a quote from one of my favorite Christmas heros–Charlie Brown: Good grief.

Five words: No Country For Old Men