[link] oooooh fascinating!
I don't remember where I got this from, but it describes itself as an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. It appears to use some sort of plugin; I'm guessing flash.
Re: google vis-news
(Indeed, I'd not noticed that there were other options, although playing with which country and/or all countries, or which subsets of news was fun)