In tomorrow’s edition, Die Welt (one of Germany’s most respected papers) grasps for superlatives in their review of Google Earth. They practically outdo Goethe in the florid descriptions of what it all means. Daedalus gets brought into it, as is Icarus, the 1968 student uprisings, Cryptome, some latin, Kim Jong Il, and a folk song by Brahms.

Everybody here reads German, right?