Map hacks: Google Maps is a great tool for visualizing your surroundings or figuring out the quickest way to avoid passing by your ex’s apartment. But some people have taken it further, using the API to create mash-ups with other info sites, resulting in visual maps of free wireless Internet nodes, touring bands’ concert dates and the homes of registered sex offenders. The Google Maps Mania blog updates daily at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com.

Animal cruelty: It’s a fact—the domestic feline spends up to 98 per cent of its life asleep, often on top of the television or directly underfoot. Fortunately, while asleep, cats make terrific storage shelving, as the contributors to Stuff On My Cat have discovered. Look at all the stuff they put on their sleeping cats! From a pile of flip flops to mardi gras beads to a delicious Denny’s style breakfast, see it stacked on cats at www.stuffonmycat.com.

Comments? Michael Citrome