Play along from home (hopefully not while nursing oinky sniffles) with this Google Maps Swine Flu Map. View 2009 Swine Flu (H1N1) Outbreak Map in a larger map Note that for some reason this map defaults to a zoomed Pacific Ocean–click out about halfway to see the map properly.
View Larger Map Looters are digging up Magdelen aka Goat Island. But can you camp there?
or marshmallows in their native habitat.
A Prof Parkman thinks the unique smooth marks on edges of boulders on the Northern California coast were made by mammoths rubbing themselves clean of mud. Also some cool Pleistocene coastline stuff.
I’d always heard that a lot of Boston was landfill, but sheesh I didn’t realize how much. Here’s a big Brit map from 1775. And here’s the present-day google map. Barely recognizable. And here’s a little animation showing the progression of the landfill over the years.
My grandparents lived on this triangle of land in Stonington, Connecticut. We went there for holidays. I would leave the house and head South into their woods, exploring and playing. Being as it was close to Interstate 95, they were, on several occasions, offered large sums of money by oil companies for the lower half [...]
The National Weather Service kindly put the entire GOES satellite picture archive of the 2008 hurricane season into an animation. It is the prettiest thing you’ll ever see. Here’s a link to the intro page; the animation itself is over 100MB and it wouldn’t be polite to link to it directly (or are we beyond [...]
RealPolitics has a sort of interactive map of the US with a conglomeration of polls in various states. This is for the presidential race, btw. If you’ve been paying attention at all. I am going to try to not look at this every couple hours to see if new polls have come it. And how [...]
The border of Ridgewood has been disputed for decades, if not centuries. The most specific the Queens government gets is this map, which differs from this 1940 map which is based in part on the census. The Southwestern border, these days, is clear, as it is the Queens-Brooklyn line. The Eastern edge is generally considered to [...]
The Gnarl Ridge Fire has been burning the area around upper Pollalie Creek, Cloud Cap, and Inspiration Point on Mt. Hood. The old Cooper Spur lodge is intact, last I heard, as well as the Cloud Cap Inn. There are downloadable Google Earth file that will show you the extent of the fire.