Alex Nicholson over at BrightestYoungThings got bored and decided to put together a Google map on where the Obama family has eaten since they moved into the White House. As Nicholson writes, “If you tell your boss you are making an ‘Obama Ate Here’ Google Map, and she says it’s a good idea, it’s okay to do it at work.”

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Young & Hungry’s ever-obsessive buds over at Capital Spice have done it again. They’ve invested countless hours, time that they could have used celebrating the golden anniversary of the aluminum can, creating yet another Google map for the benefit of the rest of us slugs. This one surveys the landscape of this winter’s D.C. Restaurant Week.

Aside from the usual rewards of such a map—one click access to phone numbers, addresses, and directions—this baby also shows the sheer reach of this season’s Restaurant Week, which extends north to Frederick (VOLT), west to Herndon (Sake Club), south to Alexandria (Farrah Olivia, among others) and east….well, east only to Northeast (Napa 1015). It almost makes you wonder why Alexandria even bothered to develop one of its own.