Done playing with Google Earth? Try SketchUp, Google's newest free software (there's a $495 version as well), just out of the box. Find out more and download the beta at Google. I haven't tried this, but it looks very cool.

Did you see Peter Cech's injury on Saturday? It looked bad, but it is really bad. The Czech keeper underwent surgery to repair a fractured skull and the docs say he could be out 6 months, maybe longer. That sucks. Cech is one of the top keepers in the game and the game will miss him while he's gone. Let's keep the big guy in our prayers.

Of course, Jose Mourinho had to stir the pot, accusing the striker of targeting Cech (the replays don't bear this out) and Reading of not giving him proper treatment (Reading responded with a detailed timeline that doesn't support this, and suggests that delays and other concerns were the fault of Chelsea's medical staff) and referee Mike Riley (he refutes the charge and points the finger at Chelsea's medical staff). Can we get this guy on medication? He seems to have some strange Tourette's Syndrome that leaves him blurting out controversial, stupid statements left and right.

Meanwhile Arsenal stick watcher Jens Lehman speaks out for Cech and Cudicini and all the fearless keepers in the EPL.

And unlucky Arsenal dropped the match against CSKA Moscow last night 1-0. They were seemingly hard done by a handling call against Thierry Henry, who had scored the equalizer in the 84th minute. I have't seen a good replay, but reports suggest that the call was a work of fiction.

Yesterday, the US population is estimated to have breached the 300 million mark! There used to be a time that people worried about over-population. But this milestone seems to be greeted with the same sort of response as all the news reports on how fat Americans are. We're obsessed with size, not the implications of it, but the fact of it. Brad Knickerbocker takes on the topic in the Christian Science Monitor. He keeps his analysis focused on diversity and growth challenges and ignores discussion of environmental impacts.