Swine Flu: Watch it happen interpipes 2.0 style!

On this link find an interactive, real-time updated map that marks out all cases of swine flu around the world. Zoom out for the whole planet or zoom in to a single city.

Fascinating, voyeuristic and more than a little morbid. Watch out for the flags with no dots, cos when you do You See Dead People..All The Time. Here's the link again, just in case.


UPDATE: Ok, i'll admit it, I'm beginning to like Twitter. Via a tweet from the esteemed Kevin Depew of smart financial site Minyanville, check out this report written by Roche back in 2008 about how it expects a pandemic to develop, the NON-preparedness of most world governments and its anti-flu treatments.

A most impressive map of the Amazon rainforest

A couple of weeks ago IKN ran this post with a chart that shows just how much (read 'how little') of the Amazon rainforest is protected by its host countries. Well now the people behind the study RAISG, have released their truly fabulous interactive zoom-in detailed map of the whole region, it's protected areas, its indigenous territories etc etc

Click to enlarge (it gets very big)

The above map is a screenshot from the site, but you should really go to the link right here and have a play for yourself. It really is everything you've ever wanted to know about the Amazon rainforest but were too afraid to ask and you can zoom in and out, change parameters, look in close detail and all the rest. A highly recommended website and superb source material.