You know Street View as
the cool Google Maps feature that gives you a peek at your destinations as you map them out.
This week, Street View went off-road – way off, all the way to the Amazon Basin. Instead of
streets, the Street View team photographed
forests, villages, and rivers. The team used more than 50,000 photos to build the
Amazon views, and the scenery is much more beautiful than most streets.
Speaking of places where there are no streets, take a look (and a listen) to this video of a
day in the life of a Solid Rocket
Booster (SRB) during a Space Shuttle launch. The video includes a 720p HD version,
and the audio was cleaned up by Skywalker
Sound to make it sound its finest.
Once a week we post a Fridaygram, which has little to do with developer
announcements and is just for fun. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be
interesting to us nerds. Special congrats to the team at Skywalker Sound for resisting the
urge to add anything to
the SRB video.
