Cool. DCJ's ~ma ray to Laura goes through Debetesse, Sydney Carton, RobertH, and justkim. Five Buffistas with one shot. He wins.

eta: MFNLaw, your test with all lowercase helped me find a place that was still case sensitive. All fixed now. Thanks

more eta: -t, the problem you were having has been fixed. Your ~ma now appears.

I can't access the ~ma map at all from my computer.

Power outage, sj. Should be back now.

It's back, and my name is already on the map. Very cool idea Gus.

I'm going to use this map for world-wide ~ma, unless someone has a better find.

Soooo pretty. What was your source, Gus? I've seen that before, but I can't remember where.

The Nile shows up well. And the difference between North Korea and South Korea is striking.

I stole it from fluffybacon who stole it from somebody else, who also probably stole it. Who knows?

It may be the Ur-image that has existed for all time, its mysterious powers having lately caused the internet to coalesce out of the electron haze around us all, simply so that it might be.

Or maybe its a satellite image from the weather service. We may never know for sure.

Do you have a higher resolution version for zoom-ins?

I found it again here, with credits.

Thanks to your link, I now have the 16384w x 8192h (40MB!) version. I'll chop it up into screen-sized chunks for zooms. I've noticed that gecko/netscape browsers get really slow when the present map is zoomed, probably because they all use the same graphics engine, which doesn't do some of the operating-system dependant things that IE does.