Most kids digging with a shovel on the beach want to know where they'd end up eventually if they just kept on going. If you're were brought up in the Western Hemisphere, your parents probably told you: "If you keep digging that hole, you'll wind up in China." Could it be true? Well, a Brazilian named Luis Felipe has posted a new tweak  of Google Maps that shows where you would end up, if you started digging at any point on the globe. Most American kids, it seems, would actually end up in the Indian Ocean while Australians would re-discover the Atlantic. So where, exactly, do you have to start digging, if you want a cheap Chinese vacation? Hint: You may need to speak Spanish.

Fight for Your ABCs

Many have lamented the lost art of letter writing in the age of e-mail. Well, what about the legions that have lost the ability to spell since the advent of the ever-present automatic spell-check? SPIEGEL ONLINE has found a Web site where you can practice your ABCs on a virtual white board. You know the kind kids stick colorful magnetic letters to? Wannaspell.com  -- a name choice considered perhaps somewhat dubious by grammar mavens -- is according to its creators a "collective way of being creative" and a place to "practice patience and open-mindedness" as well as your spelling. The patience part comes from the fact other users will be constantly stealing your letters away from you as you try to spell a word. The site supports six different languages including English, German and even Russian and Hebrew.