It looks like there is a whole subcategory of videos on YouTube where users attempt to show our universe to scale. That’s actually not half as easy as one would first assume, since the size differences between us, our planet, other planets and the stars and galaxies are quite ridiculous. Here is a very well [...]
Update: As it turns out, my original research was not correct – Temple Emanu-El was located between Powell and Stockton, not Mason and Powell… I’ve made several substantial changes below to reflect this new information — For a city with barely 160 years of history as a dense urban environment, San Francisco has undergone remarkable [...]
Finally had a chance to look at the Google Wave demo from the Google I/O conference a few days ago… Wow. The concept starts out really easy at the beginning of the video, but by about the fifteen minute mark my jaw was on the floor and it stayed there for the next hour. The [...]