Over the past few months I've gotten a little bit sick of the Internet and how it's taking over everyone's lives completely. I've even taken a few weeks to grow a complete dislike for Facebook because of it's ability to let you think you know people, even though you don't.

More specifically, though, I've been annoyed by what Facebook can do with friends you've got in real life. But I'll discuss that in the future, as I kind of want to just show you something today.

Thanks to Diamond Geezer I discovered something that I can't think of an actual need for. He's popped a link onto a page which was developed by the same guy who runs Traintimes.org and other such sites and who develops for a company called My Society.

He took some data which has been released by TfL about the location of tube trains on the Underground system, and has developed some code which puts all of these trains onto a Google Map. It's not that neatly done, being developed as part of Science Hackday, and trains move in straight lines along slightly unrealisitic routes - with some trains running across the middle of "nowhere" to get to the stations they need.

You can look at it here.

Part of me has spent quite a few minutes just staring at the map, watching trains go from station to station - and clicking on them to find out where they're going, and where they've come from. Another part of me has simply sat here wondering why we need to be able to: first of all, know where the trains are (I can't think of *any* reason, since they run every couple of minutes) and second of all why we want to be able to watch them on the Internet.

That's just one of the wonders of the Internet, though, isn't it? Developing the whole... pointlessness of the Internet.