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Google Maps in Japan Sucks

August 28, 2008 – 9:31 am

Don’t get me wrong, Google Maps finds my apartment just fine. Observe these directions: Yes, it is telling me to walk half the distance to my destination in the wrong direction, take the train just one stop and then get out and walk half the distance to my destination again. Even though Google Maps acknowledges I can walk there it stubbornly refuses to map a walking route, instead it offers a giant swooshing arrow.

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Beware Google Maps

February 12, 2008 – 8:33 pm

http://www.youtube.com/v/fPgV6-gnQaE&rel=1

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Evil Can Still be Kind of Funny

May 31, 2007 – 11:55 pm

Ignoring the arguments about whether Google is as good as they claim to be, one has to admit that they have a sense of humor. My brother showed me a couple of other cases of slightly evil and very evil being kind of funny.

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Improve Your Stalking with Google Maps

March 14, 2007 – 3:40 pm

A couple of days ago I was on the NY Post website for some reason and I bumped into something that creeped me out. All a stalker needs to do is keep track of their favorite celebrity for a few months to build up some patterns and blamo!

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