Thing 21: Mashups.

Looking through the various mashups were interesting, esp. the ones related to books. I like one that gave you a list of book sales going on in libraries close to you. But the one I really liked, since I am a huge history buff, was conflicthistory.com. It starts with a google map of the globe and a timeline. You can pick a geographic area and a span of years, and it will give you all the various conflicts in that area arranged chronologically. If you want to know more about a specific conflict, you can click on the letter 'i' in the corner which brings you to the beginning of a Wikipedian article. You can read just what is given and that usually is enough but if you want to know more, there is a link to the original wiki article you can follow. Naturally, as with all Wikipedia articles, you would not want to suggest this for use in a research paper but it would be useful to get an overview of what was going on in a certain time period in the various countries across the globe.