Landsat Story Map

This is pretty fun - the Landsat Thematic Bands Web Mapping Application gives you on-the-fly image processing so you can explore the world in different Landsat 8 band combinations.

Confused? Have a read! More about it here via Spatial Reserves.

Now if they could just add-in a band-ratio or band-index for simple snow and ice mapping!

Time Zones explained!

A brief history of time zones by the BBC is a nice interactive visualization of how time is organized on Earth.

Google Street View Hyperlapse

This has been around for a while now, but Hyperlapse somehow merges Google Street View frames into cool mini movies. The web version has some limitations, but the source code is available on Gitub.

Solar Windows

The Future is Clear shows that we can convert regular windows into photovoltaic cells and thus create solar skyscrapers and solar cities!

Population Change in Europe

This is quite impressive: Where the population of Europe is growing - and where it's declining by the Berliner Morgenpost. I would love to see an interpretation / explanation for some of these very obvious spatial patterns - some appear to be related to urbanization, others perhaps to immigration? For the techno-geeks: here's a tutorial that describes how this map was created.

Via Map Mania

AIDSVu

AIDSVu is extremely-well done: you can view the data as absolute or relative amounts, apply various demographic filters, and view the data at the city, county, and state level. All that's missing is a way to get the underlying data!

Wave Energy

I cannot imagine wave energy will ever amount to anything significant, but there seems to be some progress with Hawaii actually connecting a wave energy device to its power grid.