A long while ago (right after xkcd posted his Hilbert Curve map) I started doing whois lookups and rendered a real-life internet map based on IP block owners. I never rendered all of the data I retrieved and have subsequently lost the raw data I collected, but here's where I was about 8 hours into the weekend project (warning, 4096x4096 image): http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/325132490_77ae2dac5f_o.pn...