It's amusing that even in a piece ostensibly about places to see in Silicon Valley you should see, Scoble can't help but to brag about places you can't really get into yet he got to visit.
A few fun notes about Bucks (I worked there in my last years in school and the first few years afterwards)<p>Jamis's son Tyler won The Amazing Race. When Tyler was graduating high school he wanted to go to Stanford but was having trouble getting in so Jamis rented a billboard on 101 to pump him to the admissions folks (he ended up at UCSC) <a href="http://tylermacniven.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tylermacniven.com/</a> Tyler is an interesting guy in his own right.<p>One year the Village Pub in Woodside was being remodeled so on April 1st Jamis put a "future home of the Woodside Hooters" sign (with the real Hooters logo) on the outside. The town freaked out (you have to know the town of Woodside to appreciate this)<p>Jamis put together the Sand Hill Road Sandbox Derby one year. The rules were pretty much just that your vehicle needed to be gravity powered and had to have brakes. They then lined the sides of Sand Hill with hay bales and sent these home made contraptions down it. The winner was built by some sort of NASA team and looked like an extended tear drop - it flew. Last I checked it was still on the wall at Bucks. Other entries was one made out of bread by Le Boulanger and one made out of a bed including boxspring and mattress with bicycle wheels (which almost won)<p>Bucks' walls are covered with different collected pieces of crap on the walls. Some are real and some are bullshit (The broken James McEnroe racket from Wimbledon is a Billy Jean King model racket?). In the back by the restroom there's a reply from the USSR on an inquiry from Jamis on purchasing Lenin's body . Jamis's wife Margret wanted a new car one year and had to keep a special account off the books so Jamis wouldn't spend her car money on something like an actual Cosmonaut space suit ($30,000 - its on the ceiling).
I thought these were some interesting additions, although it seems like for almost half of them, it's "this company's headquarters are really cool, you have to see it...but you won't be let inside."
One more place to visit in Silicon Valley is definitely the Computer History Museum (<a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerhistory.org/</a>). Have very nice exhibits of all the major artifacts pertaining to computer technology; including a fully working Difference Engine 2: <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/</a>
The biggest surprise to me was the golden spike. I go to Stanford and no one's mentioned that a major piece of American history is on display at Cantor.
Really interesting that pg didn't really cover San Francisco that much.<p>Is it just me or does it seem that SF (besides SOMA and Mission) is becoming less startup-y? Or has this trend been going on for a while?