From LoveAllThis , a brilliant flowchart of the Beatles song, Hey Jude:

Here’s a fun video:

Ever wonder what it’s like for the dudes who have to drive those Google camera cars around? I think it’s a little something like this…

 
On the other side of the Atlantic, to promote the UK band Editors‘s new album, Sony has produce a new streetview hack, where you have to browse around London to discover hidden things :

This is how it works: a cleverly hacked version of Google Street View allows users to preview tracks from the album in the areas of London that inspired them. As well as being able to move around as you would in the normal Google Street View, there are red arrows to find in nine different London locations (one for each track of the album) that each point to a location off the road – click it to find custom panoramic photographs of the band, shot at night by photographer James Royall.

Here’s a preview video of the game:

From the Wikipedia :

On October 9, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize less than one year after his taking office (in fact, the nominations closed on February 1, about 11 days after Obama took office). While the committee praised his ambitious foreign policy agenda, it acknowledged that he had not yet actually achieved many of the goals that he had set out to accomplish. Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate, commented: “So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act.”

This is pretty amazing news. My Facebook, News and IM streams are flooded with one-liners. I though I’d collect them all:

• “I too would like a Nobel Peace Prize for the thesis I am about to write in the future.” — me
• “it’s a pretty swell booby prize for losing out on the Olympics” – n.d.
• “Surely preventing Sarah Palin from taking over the free world deserves a prize… even if it is a Nobel?” — v.b.
• ““NASA bombs moon”; “Obama wins Nobel Prize” — is today Onion News Day?” — me
• “Barack Obama linked to terrorist Yasser Arafat” — fark via a.a.
• “The Nobel? Really? I mean, cool…but it seems like we have our cart on the wrong side of the horse. Not that it isn’t a very nice cart.” — c.m.
• “...thinks they might as well have given him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Chemistry (we’ve all seen the shirtless photos), Physics and Economics as well. Oh and made him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath” — r.d.
• “Nobel Committee Rewards Obama For Not Being Bush” — f.n.
• “I just want to point out that the Nobel Committee made its decision BEFORE Miley Cyrus quit Twitter.” — j.h.
• “Obama will win a second Nobel next year if he can restrain himself from reacting to the snark generated by this one.” — m.w.
• “Pretty sure Obama will just trade in his Nobel for a Google Wave invite.” — t.b.
• “The news of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize spreads. Across the miles I can almost HEAR my dad’s eyes rolling.” — p.g.
• “Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize? About time Rakhi Sawant wins an Oscar, then.” — s
• “If you don’t think Obama deserves that Nobel, then you’ve never seen Sasha and Malia fight.” — a.e.
• “Apparently Arizona State has a higher standard than the Nobel Committee. Good thing I never tried to apply there.” — r.m.

• Business Insider has some more.

Oracle Man Larry Ellison gives his two cents about the new Cloud Computing hype:

“Do you think they run on Water vapor? It’s Databases, and Operating Systems, and Memory, and Microprocessors and the Internet! What are you talking about!”

Also see: the 60 Minutes episode where he pitches the Network Computer.