Google has launched a new beta feature of Google Maps. After they purchased Keyhole Systems, they added the ability to search via satellite imagery. Very fun.

So I lost the better part of a productive afternoon checking out various places around the country like national monuments, different areas in big cities, and other places I have visited.

Then I noticed something odd. As I was meandering my way, via satellite images, around Washington D.C., I noticed the Capital Building is purposely blurred out. All the areas around it are in focus, but not the block the Capital Building is on.

The reasoning: Could a nut job now use satellite images from Google to plot… who knows what?

If that is the case, then why is the White House not blurred out, or the Pentagon, or… Area 51?