Revealing our modern mythology

The coolest thing I've seen this past year is Universe, It's hard to describe, so I'll quote from its own Statement:

Universe presents an immersive environment for navigating the world's contemporary mythology, as found online in global news and information from Daylife. Universe opens with a color-shifting aurora borealis, at the center of which is a moon, and through which thousands of stars slowly move. Each star has a specific counterpart in the physical world — a news story, a quote, an image, a person, a company, a team, a place — and moving the cursor across the star field causes different stars to connect, forming constellations. Any constellation can be selected, making it the center of the universe, and sending everything else into its orbit.

I urge you to delve into this universe, explore, search for the people and topics that interest you, and wonder about all the ways this amazing technology could be used.