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Using R44 And A PowerBook To Bust Illegal Seawalls
Sylvestre writes "Ken Adelman, founder of TGV and Network Alchemy, is using a digital camera, helicopter, and a Power Book to take a high resolution photograph every 500 feet down the California coast. The goal? Busting people putting up illegal sea walls. The catch so far? One golf course covered the beach with boulders. Also of note: the website has 44 gigs of photos so far, runs on solar power, and is Microsoft Free. Best use of technology I've seen all month!"
I'm assuming any golf course that has "field of boulders" as a hazard is pretty damn hardcore.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Although it is only a week old, the site already has received more than 5,000 hits.
Was the article accepted to be put on slashdot just to up those number of hits a bit more??
which would take up about 99 CD-ROMS' worth of computer memory
Hmm, I hope they don't send the archives using 99 CD's worth... we all know what an environmentally friendly company AOL is with their set of coasters. ;)
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
holy crap, you can see my house!
Meanwhile, in an attempt to one-up Ken's website californiacoastline.org, photographer J. Smiley has published a new web site: jennascoastline.org in which he promises to photograph every 500mm of Jenna Jameson's body. Environmentalists hope they can use this new data to finally settle the "are those real" debate.
44 gigs of images has nothing on some socially impared guys I know.
Slayer help us, there must be something vampiric going one. Watch it, you'll be the next to be sacrified !!!
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I mean, who cares if it has 44 gigs of photos? None of us are going to download that many. Who cares if it runs on solar power? We're not paying for it. And who cares if it's MS free? We wouldn't know the difference if they were using MS for anything.
Are you new to Slashdot? The submitted used mystical incantations to make sure his story got accepted. "Solar power," "44 gigs of photos," and "Microsoft Free" (note the miscapitalization) do the trick every time.
I write in my journal
I like the idea of converting to solar power especially in Ontario.
The size of solar array that I would need is only about four times larger than my property in downtown Toronto.
However, if I stack the panels four high I believe I can fit them all in.
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
I don't know but when i read
No Microsoft products were used in creating this web site.
My first thought when I read this was the disclaimer
No animals were harmed in the making of this film that always appears at the bottom of movie credits.
I stole this Sig
add to that:
"...and is SLASHDOTTED to hell and back."
$400,000 beach house? Where? All the beach houses I'm familliar with around here (pretty much anywhere in CA) start in the low $2 millions.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
You know, you just made my day a bit better. Make's me happy to know that there are people around how know stuff. Thanks for teaching me something new. It's little moments like this that keep me coming back to Slashdot :)
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
"Although it is only a week old, the site already has received more than 5,000 hits. Photographs featured on it recently became evidence in one dispute in Half Moon Bay." More than 5,000 hits? Boy these news sites are sure out of date. =)
When asked why they go through the trouble of reclaiming the sea, the Dutch are said to answer: "We had two choices for expansion: invade Germany or reclaim land from the sea. We took one look at the Germans and decided taking on the sea was much easier" or words to that effect.
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Solar powered web site? No wonder I can't get any response ... it's night time.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
There is a little bit more to this: we could also invade Belgium, to the south, but that would leave us with France as a direct neighbour. Most of us prefer to have Belgium as a buffer zone...
;-)
For the rest, it is all true