Some interesting tech stuff from the Guardian.

1. Google Earth has partnered with the Prado Art Gallery in Madrid. You can now virtually fly around the gallery and zoom in on your favorite artwork (Bosch, Goya etc). Apparently you can get close enough to see the brush strokes. The video tells it all!

2. The complete 1911 Census for Great Britain is now online - on its first day its had over 700,000 searches performed. Interesting tidbits include:

• David Beckham's Great Grandfather lived in South London as a "scavenger. "
• Kate Moss's great-grandmother Alice, was a widowed mother of five children, working as a mantle maker making fashionable cloaks;
• and Virginia Woolf is recorded under her maiden name of Adeline Virginia Stephen, living at Fitzroy Square, London, aged 29 and lists her occupation as journalist.

Under current legislation, the complete 1911 census was not supposed to be made public until 2011 but somehow this project was approved by government anyhow. The 1921 Census will not go online until 2021, and sadly the 1931 census was destroyed in a fire (not related to the war) while the 1941 census was not conducted because of the war.

3. Finally a link to a satirical article from today's Guardian entitled:

"The change we need : After eight long, tiresome years, President Al Gore won't be missed. Even if he did save the planet"