Google News Image View, YouTube Video Cited In Court, Google Earth Solar System, Google Docs Readability Stats, iGoogle Skins

I’m in Atlantic City with my wife, celebrating our one-year wedding anniversary, so here’s a post featuring a bunch of items I should have blogged weeks ago.
Google News Launches Image View

Google News launched a very cool image view, letting you track the news visually by looking at a page of images taken from the latest news stories. You see a block of twenty-five images, with headlines next to them, and an arrow to scroll through the list of headlines (you can navigate the list with your keyboard, even). A very cool way of browsing news stories, and a good alternative to the sea of text that is the regular Google News.
Philipp has a lot of detail and criticism of the initial release.
First YouTube Video Used In Court Decision
For the first time (of undoubtably many to come), a judge has cited a YouTube video in rendering his decision. […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg