MarineTraffic.com

I’m slightly embarrassed to interrupt the flow of the serious academic discussion underway, but I found this a fascinating site.  MarineTraffic.com, with a live GoogleEarth map of marine shipping worldwide.  This distracted me for half an hour when I was supposed to be re-writing a chapter called … The Non-Falsifiable United Nations.  (I now know way more than I should about shipping leaving the West Coast and Hawaii.  And of course it will all be outdated in a few hours.)