Everyone Has One

Cool Google Maps is a blog that lists and describes lots of interesting applications of google maps. Many interesting websites are listed here.

This Finger Frenzy may drive you crazy. How fast can you type the alphabet? Plus it plays a annoying tone as you type (so turn down your volume).
I can only get down to about 6.1 seconds.

I’ll give this a qualified up arrow because I like the idea of using google maps as a form of Celebrity Maps. However, many of these addresses must be offices because I don’t see many of the big properties/mansions I was hoping to see.

The good: .be domains are being given out for free (see Free Belgium .be domains) and it is easy to come up with a nice phrase ending in .be. How about
to-be-or-not-to.be
ive-got-to-me.be
thats-how-its-gonna.be
The bad: after one year it will cost 16.5 Euros per year to renew. So get your enjoyment out of it while you can.

The new Sony DRM (digitial rights management) CDs Sony Rootkit – Worst.DRM.Ever – Gizmodo use some fancy technology (rootkits) to hide the software so that you can’t remove it. However, this leaves a huge hole for malware (bad software like spyware) to also use because it also subverts the operating system.
Copy protection (DRM) from Macrovision [...]