World’s Largest Spherical Photo (18-Gigapixel Awesomeness) (techcrunch.com)

non blog-spam version here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1003255

My quick math tells me that this is the equivalent of an 11x zoom (cheap binoculars, or a consumer camera's zoom) over typical human visual resolution (~1 arc second) -- in every direction, simultaneously. Very cool.