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those clouds are real[1]. So it can be used to predict weather :)

> 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.

Also it's possible to do this automatically in Windows 7 if there is some sort of RSS[2]

[1]: http://www.die.net/earth/

[2]: http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Get-a-Live-Updating-Bing-...



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