One Fine Day in Downtown Charlotte, North Carolina

In the Year 2012, Your Soul Will Belong to Google (or Geico)

It's not just NYC, LA, Miami and Denver anymore. It seems Google has just about finished mapping the country and has uploaded a bunch more street views, so even many of you people in the far reaches of flyover America are not immune from the Google Eye. (Not to be confused with the stupid new Geico campaign featuring the googley eyes. DUMB! Martin Agency: call me - you're now too close to the work and can't see what works anymore. Googley eyes might make kids laugh and a couple people might remember that horrific song from the 80s you're now using, but that shit won't sell insurance.)

Here's an area I randomly zoomed in to, somewhere northwest of Amarillo, Texas. Find your home. See if you can see yourself naked in the bedroom window.

Livin' for The City

This shot was likely pre-planned by a Googlite and his girlfriend. "You wanna be famous, baby? I'll be near your house on 44th Ave. at about 10 AM. When you see the car with the funky thing on top, open the passenger door and show me your thong."

Now that the Google vehicles have traversed a few cities and given us street level views of the random and daily happenings of San Francisco, Miami, New York , etc. time to go watch the world here, where viewers with lots of time are compiling the offbeat and the mundane. I've noticed that images from NYC are always blurry when it comes to people on the street, while SF's images are remarkably clear.

All the outcry over "Big Brother" is a little overblown. These aren't live views. Yet. UPDATE: But it's true, as pointed out in the comments, that the criminally-minded now have a service with which to plan their upcoming misdeeds. No more shady stalking and looking suspicious while you map the best route into that home you're going to burglarize, that airport you're going to disrupt, the best grassy knoll near the motorcade route, etc.