Google Earth
As many of you know, our home is quite remote, and can't be seen from the road. So I was very surprised a few months ago when a young man working on a project to provide hi-speed wireless access throughout the county drove over the hill and up to the house. After verifying he was who he said he was, I got around to asking him what brought him up our road and into the driveway.
It turns out he saw our house on Google Earth, and because of it's elevation and location wanted to talk to us about a small relay station for signals that would be broadcast from the top of Redondo mountain. If that worked out we would be thrilled to have hi-speed access for the first time since we got here. (And perhaps for free). With our dial-up access we don't get to use products such as Google Earth, but obviously the all seeing eye in the sky sees us, even though we are tucked into the canyon wall. We live in interesting times.