We all know that in 1906, a large earthquake, followed by a devastating fire, destroyed about 80% of San Francisco. Fortunately for history, a few days before the quake, someone strapped a camera to the front of a cablecar and created a twelve minute video of Market Street, a video that included sound. It’s really cool to look back in time like this on a very busy city, one that was to be changed forever in just a few days. I find the cars especially fascinating…the way they weave and dart around the horse-drawn wagons and each other reminds me of how people drive in less developed countries these days. Check out the video below.
San Francisco before the 1906 quake (video)
Google is working on a contact lens with electronics embedded that can monitor your glucose level and alert you to troublesome reading via your smartphone or perhaps using LEDs in the lens itself. This isn’t the first ‘smart’ contact lens we’ve seen (see 
Most of us are inundated with credit card offers in our daily mail, that just get redirected to the garbage can. It turns out there’s a way to stop most of them. The big three credit bureaus (TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian) are the ones selling your name and credit details to the credit card companies…so cut this off at the source, and the only offers you’ll be receiving are from credit card companies you already do business with. Go to the