The quarterly technical and planning committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium are held at interesting global locations without fail. Like Athens (Greece, not Georgia) in March, MIT’s Stata Center in June and Darmstadt, Germany in September 2009. I just returned from the December meeting which was held at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember a particularly incisive tweet from last week: “This Google building has butt-warming toilet seats! Midwestern offices NEED this tech.”

That’s how they lure you in. Lo and behold, Current reveals the true intentions of The Google Toilet. Damn. I feel punked.