The Oil Drum

Jamais had another good catch today...
If you have not played with Google Earth yet, it's a fun enough toy.  However, this piece at Nature on the progression of H5N1 Avian Flu in Asia into Europe is really interesting: (link)

here's a link to a geographic plot (called a 'mashup') of the progression over time, which can be found here (a google earth data file): (link)

All of this is referenced by Jamais at WorldChanging here: (link)

Here's a link that details how the file was built: (link)

I don't know how many of you have any experience with GIS/spatial regression and such, but these tools are very powerful if we have the data.  

Of course, this all leads me to start thinking of peak oil applications...talk about thinking outside the, er, box...