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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A 1969 vision of how the Internet would’ve worked. Not too far off.

Radical. Via the Twitter engineering team’s blog, an animated visual of Twitter’s explosive growth — personnel, code base, and popularity — from April 2006 to January 2010. Icons represent developers, and particles represent files added or modified. It doesn’t cover prototypes or contributions to open source, so it isn’t exactly scientific, but it still goes [...]

Yesterday was gnarly! Lots of images like this could be seen all over town after the rain slammed us between about noon and 2PM. Here’s a look at Park Western, photo by @ErnieII. Word on the street says today will be even worse. :-\

Royal Palms, San Pedro CA. Photo by Steve Fuchs.

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map [...]