We all should have seen it coming since they got all buddy-buddy at Macworld. Google picked up @Last Software, owners of SketchUp, today. If Google's done buying companies just for the people (notice how much they shuffled the Blogger staff), that could mean Google Earth's about to get even cooler.

Pardon the stopped-up flow of gossip this morning — technical difficulties as we moved the site from Angelfire to Livejournal. But hey, it's back, it's better than sex ever — and an anony-correspondent does my job with this report on Google goggle-oglers.