maps

When I 1st saw this

while reading this article on the wired.com I immediately thought of this song

Its really a map showing the amount of carbon resource consumed, broken down into little boxes - and the similarity of the consumption patterns in such physically different areas of the US was striking to me

NASA's latest version of an earth browser, World Wind, is soon to be released. A Java based version this time around, it should run on all platforms. How fast is another question. But given the feature list and this preview video, I am excited