I had stumble upon this great CG short movie today, it could be an answer to the Stephen Hawking question:

watch the video: Three Legged Legs™ ||| Humans

(Found on Protozoo.com)
This is a wonderfull timeline visualization tool, it graphically show the time and date when an event occur.
From the site:

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information

The event data can be loaded from XML or JSON. Clicking on an event show a box with event’s detail. It is even possible to distort the time in certain period, for example “zooming in” some days richer of events.
This an example of good javascript use, I wish we could see more of that.

Timeline in action:

This is the best harddisk add I ever seen!
Get Perpendicular!

This is my first post, hope will not the last.