EarthAlbum.com: The Coolest Thing You Will See in 2009

Technology is a wonderful thing. Combinations of the googles and the interwebbings have allowed people to write, talk, chat and video from anywhere in the world. And, share pictures. I don't do a lot of picture sharing, but Flickr is a pretty awesome site in terms of finding new, bizarre things to see.

And now, someone has taken Flickr and combined it with Google Maps/Earth to make Earth Album, which is, as noted in the title, the coolest thing you'll see all year.

Basically, here's how it works: you scroll around the map and find a country you want to see. You click on that country. Whatever part of the country you click on (i.e. the states or what-have-you) will generate pictures from that particular region.

North Carolina, for instance, showed me a picture of a giant cake shaped like a triple stack hamburger. Not technically that relevant to the region, but pretty darn close. And pretty darn cool. So, yeah, enjoy the rest of your week (it'll be spent there if you stop once, I guarantee).