Okay, some stuff sitting around in open tabs:

Google has added high-resolution imagery of Turin, Italy, to Google Earth and Google Local, so you can see lots of interesting terrain around the Olympic Games.

British DJ Flavorjenkins wants a job at Google, so to prove he deserves it, he’s showing off a music video he made in Google Earth.

cNet (news.com) has come up with another clever contest using imagery from Google Earth.. funny, I could have sworn that clipping and reposting images from Google Earth on a commercial website was against the terms of use??

The mystery of the flying car in Perth, Australia just won’t go away.

A floating rectangular object near a Perth, Australia parking lot looks a bit like an airborne automobile.

Two new items from the Google blog:

In the third grade the Weekly Reader rounded our eyes to tales of the coming millennium. By 2000, Moller would have flying cars off the ground and into traffic-regulated skies. You could have guessed that a satellite image captured by a Google Earth user had fulfilled that prophecy. But the flying car in the photo published in Britain’s The Register looks nothing like what’s on Moller’s website.

I recently caught wind of a new ArcGIS extension from the developer of KMLer developed by Valery Hronusov Programming, Michael Barsky Mines Institute Ural branch of the Russian Academy of sciences..

Wait till January 31 and see for yourself I guess.

So much news, so much innovation… not sure how I missed this one but on the heels of Google Earth being released for the MAC OS the folks at Sketchup have developed a cool Google earth (gearth) plug-in – recall Sketchup is a CAD program used in 3D design.

Looking a bit deeper at some PR that Microsoft issued last week , part of the project billed at MSRIndia (Microsoft Research India) involves developing a web-based map of India with multi-lingual and community features – the project looks pretty interesting and detailed.

Chris Pendleton pointed this one out to me.

The bright kids in the Googleplex decided to contribute a little something to Steve Jobs’ keynote performance at MacWorld, and announced the release of Google Earth for the Mac OS.

Google has finally released the Mac version of Google Earth, which was reported leaked a little while ago.

I noticed this morning a link on Google’s home page to Google Pack, a collection of “essentials to make your PC just work.”

The official Google blog has been the search advertising company’s way of discussing its business moves and other actions over the course of the previous year.

Google has agreed to make changes to the resolution of images of sites in Israel, after concerns about security against terrorism surfaced.

Some thought it was out, however, it appears it was too good to be true!

No longer must the Cult of Mac look on wistfully while Windows users enjoy playing with Google Earth, as the search advertising company works on developing an Earth for Apple computer users.

America Online, doing exactly what you would expect from a company connected with Time Warner, is airing a special on-demand presentation of “Earth to America!” a star-studded comedy event that aired on TBS Sunday night. The Hollywood names involved are nothing short of phenomenal, all offering a laugh in the name of environmental awareness.