Google Map Fiction on Reflection

Even though the assignment was fairly straightforward, I wanted to do something cool with it. I wanted to make whoever sees it go "Wow, that was pretty damn cool." I was inspired when making it, I tried to make direct references when I could to the surrounding area when I was writing the poem. To be honest, I had fun making it. It's very easy to use, there is next to no learning curve and apart from a few glitches it works well. The part I thought was most cool was in the final product, I made the icon for the clue sheet Jigsaw's head and the little pop up that comes up when you click it looks like a speech bubble so it looks like the head is speaking to you. When I was making the clues I thought I found many similarities with Jigsaw from the Saw movies. While I have never seen them, I've heard he kidnaps people and forces them to solve his puzzles, so I thought I'd adopt him as a kind of mascot and I ended up creating a kind of scavenger hunt. Instead of wagering your life though (somehow I didn't think you'd appreciate that) I wagered your ego, if you can solve the clues then you are smarter than an undergraduate arts student. That sounds like a good concept for a TV show... I digress though. One final thing on the Google Map project is that I like where Google is going with the integration of their site into the internet, the site is like a swiss army knife now. It has so many apps, programs and utilities and it is just a search engine. It is paving the way for cloud computing, an emerging trend and something that I think will become HUGE in the next five to ten years. The ideas are there, the technology can't be too far behind.