A great new video on Youtube references the recent announcement by President Obama that he will reduce the budget by $100M, and gives ua a concrete physical example of how little money that really is. It’s an interesting visualization of the psychological problems the human mind experiences when dealing with huge numbers and the ratios between them.
Randall Hand
Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.