since nobody else is pointing it out

If you haven't seen it, try the Google maps service, featured yesterday in the NY Times here. But before you get too impressed, recognize that the pan-and-scan interface that makes Google Maps so useful is identical to the one used by Keyhole, an outstanding satellite imagery program acquired last October by Google. But if they did buy Keyhole and then incorporate their technology into Google Maps, they did a surprisingly fast and good job. Let's see if Microsoft has the same success buying anti-virus software. I somehow doubt it.