Today is the deadline for applications from Baltimore and other cities and towns across the U.S. of A. who are vying for Google Fiber to come to their communities.

In case you don't know, Google wants to do a pilot project where they install a 1-gigabit-per-second fiber optic network in a lucky community of up to 500,000 people.

Scores of communities across the U.S. are applying for it, and some have undertaken quirky (or lame) publicity stunts to draw attention to their bids. Google is asking communities and individuals to submit an application for why they think their community deserves the fiber.

The folks behind Baltimore's application to Google have not gone the PR-stunt route, other than naming a volunteer "Google Czar" to shepherd the process.

Here's a video from Google on the project: