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http://www.asymco.com/2012/04/02/android-economics/ Google makes more from iPhone services than they do from Android phones.

http://www.mapstd.com/ MapsTD is a tower defense game with maps dynamically generated from Google Maps locations.

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends See the latest daily trends of Google searches.

5/28/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSulycqZH-U Watch John Cage perform live!
http://flickrvision.com/ and Twittervision Both sides use Google Maps to show twitter updates and flickr picture uploads where they occur around the world.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2102559,00.asp Using Google Earth to study data from the US Census.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=376283 A guide to setting up Ubuntu as a wireless router, but should work for most distros and systems with a bit of tweaking.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/tech/google/eric-schmidt-is-the-king-235294.php Um?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liopleurodon It's a magical
http://www.omninerd.com/articles/Internet_Weather_Forecast_Accuracy A study to find the most accurate Internet weather forcast!

http://getsongbird.com/ Songbird is a free, open source MP3 and media player for MacOS X, Windows, and Linux.
http://blog.fortiusone.com/2006/10/11/heat-maps-for-google-maps-aka-geoiq-mashup/ A story about implementing traffic information in a Google map.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA2Qp5DizpE Very cool washer ad. All the animals are laundry items.
http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/cafetour/ MSCT2k6: Microsoft Cafeteria Tour 2006. Employees of Microsoft are visiting and comparing the food in the many different corporate cafeterias in the different Microsoft buildings.

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/07/ipod/index_01.htm The 10 oddest iPod accessories.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/19/google.logo/index.html A story about the guy who draws the different logos for Google.

http://www.stockvault.net/tutorials/photoshop_burning_flesh_effect.php Photoshop tips to make skin look like it is burning.
http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor An article about the problem of marking Yucca Mountain.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sqrt(-1)