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This made news on metro.co.uk yesterday, and I can see why. I always knew those brits were tweaked…

Flush Tracker allows you to enter the time and location of your most recent toilet visit, and uses Google Maps to let you track your feces as they make their way through your local sewers – with the path the poo has traced highlighted in neon blue, like a kind of scat-fetishist version of Tron.

Watching the travels of your excrement turns out to be a strangely compelling experience, with many Twitter users enthusiastically comparing their turd trajectories. As Times columnist Caitlin Moran wrote: ‘Judging by the response I’m getting, Britain has now ground to a HALT watching plop-journeys on company time. WELL DONE BRITAIN.’

The site, created by toilet cleansers Domestos, actually has a serious purpose – it’s in support of today’s World Toilet Day, highlighting the fact that 2.5billion people around the world don’t have access to proper toilets or sewerage.

At the time of writing, our test poo had sauntered down Kensington High Street through London’s classic Joseph Bazalgette-designed sewer system, then turned left onto Earl’s Court Road before making a sharp right and heading in the direction of Hammersmith, and freedom. (Full disclosure: we did not actually do a poo, we made one up for the purposes of Journalism.)

UPDATE: The imaginary poo has now traveled 7.5 miles and is currently being held near Hounslow at Mogden Sewage Treatment Works.

Now who was it that said Americans are weird?

Ya gottsa love it!

More than 240,000 Germans opted-out of having their homes appear on Google Street View – but not this guy.

The service launched today in 20 German cities, and it wasn’t long before this pre-censored image appeared online, accompanied by text that Google Translate interprets to read, “Somewhere in Germany a Google camera car has photographed this strange situation. We have the address of Google is not anonymous.”

Consider it cultural exchange. As strident as Germany is about its privacy, it’s also the birthplace of the nudist Freikörperkultur (Free Body Culture), so here in puritanical America, we might take for granted lots of Germans hang out naked in their car trunks, and nobody thinks it’s strange.

Wrong! Apparently, it’s almost as unsettling as we’d find it here in the U.S. “Almost” because, you know, most American trunks are filthy.