This is basically telling you to let somebody else run xplanet for you, then download the results every four hours. Pining for my xearth root window of yore, I wrote up how to run xplanet on your local machine, rendering out a nice new version every few seconds. This makes your desktop a useful global clock.<p><a href="http://www.njl.us/rotating-picture-of-the-earth-as-ubuntu-wallp" rel="nofollow">http://www.njl.us/rotating-picture-of-the-earth-as-ubuntu-wa...</a>
those clouds are real[1]. So it can be used to predict weather :)<p>> Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery.<p>Also it's possible to do this automatically in Windows 7 if there is some sort of RSS[2]<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.die.net/earth/" rel="nofollow">http://www.die.net/earth/</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Get-a-Live-Updating-Bing-Wallpaper-Windows-7-Theme/" rel="nofollow">http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Get-a-Live-Updating-Bing-...</a>
this is pretty nice<p>I am pining to be able to properly set a webpage as my background in ubuntu and osx, but its proving annoying (needs to be interactive)<p>feels strange to be begging for a feature that was enabled in windows years ago.