Google Maps Advises Transatlantic Swim

Those Google Maps pranksters have built a bit of tomfoolery into their "Get Directions" code. If you were to ask for directions from New York to Paris, for example, you're given astute driving directions to Boston, then told to "swim across the Atlantic Ocean." Assuming you comply, you'll stagger ashore at the Terminal Grand-Bretagne in Le Havre, France, before renting or stealing a car and resuming your trip to Paris. Trans-oceanic instructions for other bodies of water worldwide have yet to be included, but one assumes that traversing the Arctic (on voyages from, say, Detroit to Helsinki) will not be out of the question in future.

New York to Paris [Google Maps]

-- Chris Mohney