I'm Posty McPosterson today

[supercheesegirl]

This cracked me right up this morning:

Go to google.com.

Click on Maps.

Click on Get Directions.

From: New York, New York.

To: Paris, France.

Then, read line #23.

(It also works if you do it backwards, Paris to NY, but then you get it in kilometers.)

Comments

[tisana.livejournal.com]

OK, that's cute.
Are they being funny, or do you suppose that's just how any large body of water will come up?

[handmadedark.livejournal.com]

I just plugged in Venice and that's a swim too.

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait...wasn't Google maps the one that if you searched for the Moon, and did the satellite option, and zoomed in really close, you'd see a cartoony cheese? Or was that another map thing?

They must have fun working there, either way. ;)

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Maybe try San Francisco, CA to Tokyo, Japan?

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I guess it only works with the Atlantic.

[theemdash]

*snort*

[honkie-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Seconded. =)

[unique-unknown.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha! That's awesome!

[lilacgrrl.livejournal.com]

and it works to ireland and london! but no directions to australia

i <3 google

[ee-max.livejournal.com]

I find it amusing that they thought it was a shorter trip to drive all the way up to Quincy, MA before plunging into the Atlantic Ocean for the 3,462 mile swim.

[igorxa.livejournal.com]

this is why internets make me happy.

[(Anonymous)]

Google Maps (and all the map services) work by having a big database with routes and start and end points. So, someone added the route from Boston to France via swimming, and so trans-Atlantic requests find it and use it. Even if you wanted to go from, say, Florida to Venice.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you, mysterious mystery commenter. That's interesting.

[cavergrrl.livejournal.com]

hehehe. That's too funny! Thanks for posting that!