I
am a Google user. I know they keep track of me, and use my browsing data to try
to sell me stuff, but I don't care.
When I start my web browser of choice,
my home page of Google pops up to greet me. I see it, and it looks like
the face of an old friend. However much
as I like the search engine, the web browser, and the Android O.S. I am not a fan of Google Maps. To be frank following
Google Maps has gotten me horribly lost on more then one occasion. I detested Google Maps until today. “What could have happened to change my
hardened heart?” one could ask. It
wasn't good directions, for once. It wasn't a new layout or new innovative
design. No this was simply a noble little Easter egg.
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| It's bigger...on the - well, you know the rest. |
Who
am I kidding it is THE MOTHER BLEEPING TARDIS!!!! I kind of feel a little like William
Shakespeare's Juliet “ My only love sprung from my
only hate! Too early seen unknown, and
known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.”
I
know it is kind of weird but damn it is true. I want to hate Google Maps, but
now I can't. There are three things in
my humble opinion that assure us there is a God and he loves us. These are in no particular order: Table Top Role Playing Games, Transformers,
and Doctor Who. To know that one of
those three has made such an impact on the world, that Google puts an Easter
Egg in. It makes me want to have a geekgasm to the point of almost
unconsciousness. They have not invented words to describe how epic Google Maps
have now become. The moment they put the
Autobots’ headquarters or the entrance
to the Underdark I will never
leave. It would be almost to perfect to view with our mortal eyes.
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| This is MY suggestion for the next one. -Ed |
Even though the last two will
probably never happen we still have The Tardis. We can now know what it would be like to
walk around in it in first person. Get a feel for what it might be like to be
The Doctor or a companion. Exploring the
control panel getting to see the heart of the Tardis. Seeing for yourself it is really truly bigger
on the inside then the out. Just talking
about this makes me all giddy, it is really hard to hold back my waves of geekgasms the more and more I gush over this amazing
Easter egg. Some how calling it an
Easter Egg seems to not do it justice though.
I mean this thing can't be contained by something as miniscule and
insignificant as an Easter egg. This is
the T-REX Egg of All Easter eggs my friends.
We all need show it the kind of
respect that it deserves. I am not
saying you need to pledge a blood oath, or sacrifice a fatted calf or goat. You
should however take a few moments of silence and send a thank you prayer to the
Whovians at Google.
For those of you who want to
try this, and I know you do, here is the link: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/
This
link will have all of the instructions and everything you to know to experience this for yourself. I know personally that if this is a preview
of things to come from Google Maps. They may have brought me back into the
fold. Clearly they have a good bead on what the users like and are not afraid
to give us bonus stuff like this. Yeah it may serve no point other then to
waste time, but it is The Tardis and that
my friends is never a waste. So go forth my fellow Whovians spread the
news. The Doctor has taken over Google Maps and reap the benefits.
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