Hey moms! Was your child invited to a play date with that neighborhood kids who's always sick? Or did your neighbors -- just fresh from the stomach flu -- invite you to a BBQ? Now you can check out who's sick in your neighborhood with a click of the mouse.

Whoissick.org uses Google maps to record reports of illness in an area. You can punch in your zip code to see who's coughing and sneezing or report your own symptoms. In my own town, it appears there's a case of the sniffles going around, but nothing too serious.

Maybe in a major metropolitan area, this would be more practical. But on a personal level, I just don't know. Obviously, unless there's some sort of major flu outbreak, I'm not going to curtail my activities because some guy across town has a headache. And I can get a lot more information about a bug that's going around by chatting with the other mom's in my daughter's playgroup than online. But the idea is that when you're going into an area where a lot of people have reported symptoms, you can take measures to avoid catching the bug yourself.

(via Lifehacker)