The PC sent me a link to this site (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf) which offers a little perspective on the world.
If you click on the Now button, you can see (statistically at least) a whole bunch of the crap things that are happening in the world (but at least, presumably, not to you)
Watch those barrels of oil flow - nice to see at least that more bicycles are being made than cars.