Out of Nowhere

Tropical Storm Humberto suddenly materialized off the coast, and will be visiting us tonight.

Update: He’s gone to the east of us. We’re high and dry.

Further Update: He was officially upgraded to a hurricane. Wow.

North Carolina School Bans US Flag

Students at a North Carolina school are forbidden to wear any item of clothing featuring a flag. Not even the US flag. Not on any patriotic holiday. Not on 9-11.

Update: School district wipes egg from face, rescinds ban.

Google Maps Street View

Google Maps has this new “Street View” feature whereby you can click on a street and get the few from the ground. They have a fleet of vehicles with multiple cameras atop that give 360 views, and they drive these up and down the streets of major cities. They’ve caught some interesting pictures, to the amusement of many (and the consternation of a few), and now folks are raising privacy issues.

Houston has just been added, and the pictures were taken over many, many months, even in one particular neighborhood. If you go around the downtown block where the new Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral is rising, you can see it in many different stages of construction.