Blows against the Empire #2

This is the kind of story that makes your head spin. No end to the use of new technology in ways you'd never imagine.

According to this Boing Boing post, people in Bahrain had enough with the giant palaces built by the royal family and its friends, and have used Google Earth to download satellite photos showing what's behind the walls. The pictures are being distributed as PDFs and printouts and show areas that could support hundreds of families being taken up by one.