This is a hack that makes your machine appear (to unix traceroute) to be anywhere on the internet. Specifically, you can define a route to append to the real route that any arbitrary host on the internet would see.
Email graphic traceroute Paste an email with full headers (we need the 'Received' lines -- we don't need your email addresses, digg). The app will (we hope) trace the path your email message took as it passed through various servers, on Google maps.
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