Does anybody out there use Facebook? Of course you do, I bet you’re only reading this because there’s nothing new on your wall.

Well now all you Facebookers can join the Google Sightseeing Official Facebook thing!

It doesn’t achieve much, but you joined all those “if 3 billion people join I’ll eat my hat”-type groups and never visited them again, right? It’s all about your friend total baby!

Or rather, in this case - fans!

If you need further convincing that Google Sightseeing needs to be on your favourites list, we’ve recently been ranked the 452nd most popular blog in the whole world! Well, according to those fine ladies and gents over at Bloglines anyway.

This gigantic image of the KFC Colonel was constructed from 65,000 1-foot-square tiles laid out in the Mojave desert.

The advert took six days to construct, and was announced to the public almost exactly a year ago. However the images were not available on the Google Earth default layer until now.

As part of the publicity stunt it was widely claimed that this was “the first logo to be visible from space”. Of course, regular readers (and owners of our book) will be well aware that this is a complete pile of utter nonsense.

For the truth about the first, and largest logo visible from space (or not, depending on how you define “visible” and “space”) see our post on the subject from last year.¹

Thanks to Rhodri Metcalfe Davies.