Jumping around the world
Ever see that movie “Jumper”?
I didn’t think it was the worst movie in the world; it had a 16% TomatoMeter reading on Rotten Tomatoes, which still put it miles ahead of Catwoman and Babylon A.D. In any case, the premise is neat– the movie focuses on a group of gifted individuals who have the ability to teleport (”jump”) anywhere in the world at will.
It’s now pretty easy to be an armchair Jumper with the “Jump to” feature. I placed the “Jump to place” bar in the upper right-hand corner of the page. You can type in pretty much any kind of address in the bar; it uses Google’s reverse-geolocation functionality to jump you to the right place in the world. For example, you can type anything from “Egypt” to “Hawaii” to “Sydney” to a particular address in the world. Based on what you type, it will try to guess whether what you typed is a country or a city and jump you to that place automatically.
Have fun!