in which ESRI does not die so much as expire from boredom

I've been loving using Quantum GIS lately.  Wow, look out Manifold.

Listing of Google imagery updates

This blog has a KML file showing areas of imagery update on specific dates:

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2012/06/large_new_update_to_google_earth_im.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleEarthBlog+%28Google+Earth+Blog%29