Withak has a nice little modification added to the measure tool, it still isn't ready for the stable branch yet. but it's potential is great.
Here we have a screen shot of the Cross Section Profile modification. What this does is where you draw a line to measure distance, this window will show you a cross section of the elevation data.
I got pointed to this on the IRC channel today.. and I had to read both for it to catch on 
First off we have this thread from over a year ago on the World Wind forum. It deals with people trying to find Sydney Australia and getting locations in the US.
Now we have this CNN article about a German tourist going to Sydney Australia to visit his girlfriend. But when he noticed something off on his ticket, he just ignored it... till he almost got on a plane in Portland, Oregon for Sidney, Montana.
Interesting post over at All Points Blog about 98% of all geoblogs are commercially funded. But from the work that Adena did in their post, looks like 77% are not even showing ads. Guess that blows the 98% number out of the water.
But lets think on "Commercially Funded", or actually "Commercially Sponsored" which is what it really would be. To be Commercially Funded/Sponsored, you are getting the funding directly from the interested company in return for talking about said company or displaying their banner on your site. But it is a relationship between you and the sponsor, and either one can pull out of the deal.
I have not seen that on the GIS related blogs I read. Instead you see an ad service such as adsense or yahoo! ads which the service scans the site and picks out keywords to display an ad on the site that closely relates to the content. Other than filtering out ads you don't want shown, the site owner has little say in what ads get shown on the site. There is no connection between you and the company, you are just a medium for them to show the ads.
Now, why have ads at all though? Well, for a blogger like myself, I have domain costs and hosting costs and that is the main reason I have the ads running. Though I liked James Fee's idea for running the ads, he saved them up for a 17" macbook pro.
So, maybe I'll do the same thing then, so here is the deal: Quicker you get me to $2899.00 for a 17" Macbook Pro, quicker I'll take the ads off
Ok, James Fee pinged me a few days back.. thought about not doing it (I hate these kinds of questions.).. but what the hell.
Ok, done the deed... now to ping Daniel, Stephan and what_nick.
Come and get it while it is hot and fresh!
World Wind RC2 is ready for testing this week. And hopefully a full release by the end of the year, or just after the 1st of next year.
Download it here. ~ 15MB in size.
Loads of bug fixes done and some more new features added (I have not kept track so can't tell you what they are yet )
Here is the related wiki page on the 1.4 release.
Update:
Related forum page.
NEW Feature/Fixes IN 1.4
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* Plugin: Movie Recorder (added avi xport)
* Plugin: Place Finder Loader (Supports more geocoders)
* Plugin: Satellite Tracker
* Plugin: Virtal Earth, downloads Microsoft local live data (must be loaded from the plugins menu, then activated by clicking the toolbar icon)
* Plugin: Improved WMS browser with GetCapabilities support
* Data: New NRL data
* Data: WFS placenames and boundaries
* Core: New accurate sunshading
* Core: Support for 3D models
* Core: Atmosphere (Improved with atmospheric scattering)
* Core: Added widget support
* Widget: New scalebar
* Widget: Time controller
* Widget: 3D compass widget
* Installer: Removed background
* Installer: Mars, Moon, SDSS icons removed
* Installer: .Net 2.0 check
* Installer: Added command line tags NODOTNET, /NODX, /NOMDX) to skip detection of .NET, DirectX 9.0c, and Managed DirectX, to skip checks respectively.
