The Adventures of Curious George

Does anyone know why Google Maps blurs the area near the Egyptian border with Palestine and Israel? Image from google maps, red line added for emphasis. Is it a political requirement by some government? Is it blurred that way on whatever satellite/fly-over imagery Google gets? Whatever the case, it's the same on terraserver , down to the exact location of the blurring-line. Not only did I not find an explanation for this during a quick google search, the websites I found about "What's blurred out on Google Maps," like this one , don't to include it. On a somewhat unrelated note, I wouldn't have noticed this without looking at the nearby water. It's interesting; I find it easier to see larger ocean waves in the blurred area, sort of like low-pass filtering in lots of applications.

This guy reminds me of many of the thoughts I had before recently getting more and more jaded to the idea of military action. He writes about "cruise-missile liberalism," into which I suppose I've been slipping recently, and insists that people should be nice to each other, among other things. http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/ That said, he doesn't give me a satisfactory answer to "What do you do when peaceful Libyan protesters, walking down the street with signs, get mowed down, day after day, by automatic weapons, under the orders of the 'leader' of the country, and then some other Libyans ask for help in dealing with this horrific criminal." :/ Edit: this article mentions a few likely reasons America keeps involving itself in wars. Excerpted: "It is as if the president has big red button on his desk, and then his aides come in and say, "There's something really nasty happening to some unfortunate people, Mr. President, but if you pus...