If you haven't downloaded Google Earth yet, I highly recommend it. This thing is so cool! Explore the globe from your desktop. If you live in a heavily populated area (which I do not), you can zoom in on your house. I could almost take a dip in my friend's swimming pool halfway across the country. Are those solar panels in working order?
You can add nifty placemarks, labels and image overlays. I've only just begun so I'm sure there are lots of other cool things you can do with it that I've yet to discover. In a future entry (yes, on Peterson again) I'll show you a little of what I've done with it.
I ♥ Google.