Yet Another Reason Not To Pick Your Nose In Public

Big Brother is watching, and he's watching from a panoramic camera positioned atop a VW Beetle, driving around the big cities of America, filming the quotidian goings-on: this according to an piece in the Times Online about Google's latest map feature, Street View.

Not only will Google show you a map of where you're searching for, directions how to get there, and an aerial view; they'll now give you a snapshot at street level (providing the punchbuggy has driven past), displaying scenes like the one below, taken in San Francisco.



Has the human race always been so interested in what other people are doing? Is this Street View feature just another way to satisfy our voyeuristic urges (which somehow are not being satisfied by the myriad reality shows out there)?

Or are we surprised (and charmed) by the unexpected scenes that greet us on otherwise nondescript American streets, playing to the human brain's desire for novelty?

Either way, just think twice about sticking a finger up your nose anywhere outside your own home...