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Randall Munroe is the genius artist behind xkcd, the only webcomic I still keep up with. Excellent funny geekery there. But today’s comic? Today’s comic is a bit of sheer genius.
Without further ado, I present to you the map of the IPv4 address space. In a grid. With location information. [...]

I’ve been playing with Swivel over the last few days. Think of this as social data mining - users can upload whatever data sets they can get into a table format, then graph that data against other data sets in the system, looking for interesting correlations.
It’s a preview version (but really, what Web 2.0 [...]