A Very Cool Map

A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo.

This is pretty neat. The creator explains it:

Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered. 

 And watch as students plagiarize wiki to get C minuses on their history papers.