V interesting. I've been looking at this too. There were a few deficiencies in the google implementation that bugged me. (1) You have to click on icons to read the info, I think the wikipedia layer should be browsable and ideally include photos. (2) No way to filter to certain articles (e.g. WWII battles) and (3) No date filter - as you've spotted. Tweet me @mbrenig if you want to talk more.

Lego's very close to my heart - so I had to check they still sold bins of bricks. V glad you're right!

Boxes of bricks: http://creative.lego.com/en-us/products/Default.aspx#5749

Lego City: http://city.lego.com/en-us/Products/Default.aspx

Can you share general numbers on this? I'm interested in which quotas you're spending money on the most.

This is for yesterday.

Resource Used Free Billable Charge

CPU Time: $0.10/CPU hour 46.03 6.50 39.53 $3.96

Bandwidth Out: $0.12/GByte 2.54 1.00 1.54 $0.19

Bandwidth In: $0.10/GByte 0.76 1.00 0.00 $0.00

Stored Data: $0.005/GByte-day 750.78 1.00 749.78 $3.75

Recipients Emailed: $0.0001/Email 0.00 2,000.00 0.00 $0.00

Total: $7.90

Thank you.

Yes!

You might notice that I created my twitter account just for this show-and-tell. I didn't want to put my email address, and I don't have a blog right now, so twitter seemed like a good compromise.

That's right. Here's the big reveal: http://twitter.com/emilepetrone/status/24005757704

Thanks again to Emile for patiently drawing the letters!

The dynamics is all coming from Rob Hawkes' code (available on github)... writing your own text is just a bit of fun I added on top.

If you want to reuse it - go for it! What have you got in mind!?