The Geography of Beer

How about that for a new geography course - the textbook is already available: The Geography of Beer. Read more about the book on Popular Science.

The Digital Fold

More here: What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong

This takes the cake!

Spherical Concentric Layer Cakes - here's Earth and Jupiter - awesome!

Climate Change Impacts (IPCC)

Here is the long-awaited IPCC Working Group II Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Andy Revkin provides a nice 11-Question FAQ on Dot Earth.

Urban Jungle and Hyperlapse

More 3-D using Google (hmm...is this maybe a trend?)

• Urban Jungle has been around now for a while. Personally I could do without the fake greenery, but the 3-D Google Street View is fun.
• Hyperlapse uses some voodoo to create smooth animated 'drives' using Google Street View.

VeloViewer

Seen on MapBox Mania - this is really cool (albeit pretty useless): VeloViewert
But, the orientation of streets and roads does tell a story about topography and the development of cities.

Google Cube

Google Cube = Google Maps in 3-D! This is only a game right now, but who knows a few years from now we might be the blue rolling balls.