If you are rooted you can use AdFree. Without extra flash ads the flash content works well.

If you don't know what Goatse is you don't want to know

Google Earths main benefit is its KML format. Google documents the KML format very well ( http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/topicsinkml.html ). I use google earth with my wireless network scanner ( www.vistumbler.net ). It has allowed me to do some interesting stuff with the wireless data, for example. - We have a wireless database with over 100,000 Access Points. This creates a 75MB kml files of access points. Google maps is unable to load a KML of this size directly. (see our full KML http://www.vistumbler.net/wifidb/ --> Daemon Generated kml) - I have a feature to export signal history to google earth as a 3d/colored/line above the earth (see http://forum.techidiots.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=278&start=0&hilit=Signal+Mapping ) - I have a feature called AutoKML which automatically creates 4 kml files. One of track you have driven, one with active APs, one of Dead APs, And one with the current GPS position. With a "Network Link" google earth updates the changes in the kml file at a specified interval and displays them. I can also specify a view height and current location, so I can make google earth follow my current location (and show me the active APs I am detecting). These are only a few examples of what I use google earth for. I'm sure there are much more creative uses for it.

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/

I noticed that also. Oddly, the Pirate Bay is back in the google results (http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=all&rlz=&=&q=the+pirate+bay&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D)

its transparent to the user... unless you register your ip you do not have the option to disable the redirection for example...a ping of www.google.com gives this with charters dns servers

but when using opendns (without OpenDNS proxy disabled) gives this

notice www.google.com resolved to google.navigation.opendns.com

the difference is that this is opt-out, not opt-in like opendns or other free dns servers

You don't even need to click the ads. When I was using Adbrite for ads on my website I started getting driveby spyware just by visiting my website. It installed right from the ad (i'm guessing by way of flash). I dropped Adbrite and haven't looked back. Eventually google approved my adsense application and I am now using them...no problems since

http://xkcd.com/570/

A friend of mine has a flip phone that you can change the camera from pointing out to pointing in.... I have no idea what kind of phone it is, but here is another one that the camera can be front or back facing ( http://www.mobilewhack.com/images/philip-videophone.jpg )