Links

Many good links will be posted here, I promise! For now, I'll just put the mother of all links:

Google Maps

Well, I didn't do to many of the Onion style links below, so instead here are some interesting Google Maps images:

Someone else is doing this better, and in blog format:
http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/

St. Louis Gateway Arch
Nuclear Weapons test site, Nevada
Burning Man. 18 August 2003
The Boneyard aircraft storage area near Tucson, Arizona (scroll west and southeast. That's a lot of planes...)
Who is Dave?
The White House, Capitol, and Vice President's residence have been obscured, but older images are still available elsewhere. Note that the V.P's residence isn't that huge; they've just pixelated the entire U.S. Naval Observatory, which includes the V.P. residence.

Where's the Sun? The two towers of the George Washington Bridge would seem to disagree.
What season is it?
Alignment issues at Las Vegas, NV Airport
Alignment issues at Phoenix, AZ Airport
Incompatible satellite images

I'm collecting links to news articles about real events from serious media, yet are difficult to distinguish from articles from The Onion.

US court orders treatment to ensure killer is sane enough to be executed
In his judgment on Monday, Judge Roger Wollman said the courts did not need to consider the ultimate result of medicating the prisoner, arguing that its primary interest was having a sane inmate, and that execution was merely an unfortunate bypdroduct of that.
Movie men add special effects to media war
...one of Tinseltown's top art directors has been hired to create a $200,000 (£125,000) set for General Tommy Franks...
Mr Allison's credits include the set for ABC's Good Morning America as well as Hollywood productions for MGM and Disney such as the Kirk and Michael Douglas film It Runs in the Family, due to be released next month.
Does File Trading Fund Terrorism?
But when subcommittee chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) asked [deputy assistant DOJ attorney general] Malcolm for examples of cases where file trading was connected to terrorism, Malcolm said he couldn't give concrete examples. "It would surprise me greatly if the number were not large," Malcolm added.