links for 2009-07-23

When I saw this post about the digression of a banner ad campaign for an online game, I was amused. But I didn't think any more about it until the most recent version of the ad started showing up (via google adsense) on one of our sites. I just blocked the advertiser, but give me a break.

Awesomeness alert. If you're a history and Web 2.0 and wikipedia nut, prepare to waste the next couple of hours. It launched in April. I can't figure out how I missed it.

Attention Google Maps / Google Earth fan-boys (count me in). If you're familiar with layers in Google Earth, this is going to wow you. Next step, add some GPS enabling and you'll have a Google augmented reality super app.

Gist: A list of some dandy online tools. Already digging that highlighter thing.