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New York City, LEGO Style

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-your-eyes-bleed dept.

Obiwan Kenobi writes "I know we've done LEGO links to death, but The Brick Apple is in a class all by itself. Between the 5 foot tall Empire State Building, the 50,000 piece Greenwich village or perhaps the best of all: the World Trade Center, from which this quote was taken: 'Actually, sticking together all those little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces would get VERY tedious, and after a while they would really hurt my thumbs. Each floor had over 500 little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces.' Wow."

204 comments

  1. Slashdotted already... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like his web server's made of Lego too.

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    1. Re:Slashdotted already... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why can't people learn to make decent webservers. CmdrTaco, ready to start a webserver school?

    2. Re:Slashdotted already... by LoneIguana · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Why dosen't slashdot mirror these pages. I know it has been suggested before, but here is a novel? approach: Slashdot could cache the page before release, then after a story is released it could ping the server every minute or so to see if it has gone down. If it has, then the cached page could be brought up and people would still have access, if the server comes back up the cache would be removed. The caches would also be purged after a couple days or so, when the main wave has passed.

    3. Re:Slashdotted already... by cliffy2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hah! My server is made out of Duplos.

    4. Re:Slashdotted already... by lpret · · Score: 1

      Or simply link to the Google cache?

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    5. Re:Slashdotted already... by NightSpots · · Score: 5, Informative

      First, there's copyright and common-carrier issues. If you cache pages, you become responsible for their content. Google is realizing this as they get served for DMCA removal requests.

      Second, it's not something a 'ping' will help. It's usually a db / apache tuning issue, where there's too many connections. The server's alive, it just can't connect to the db, or there aren't enough apache processes. To find these types of errors, you'd have to read the responses and grep for errors. This becomes non-trivial, and more often than not, more trouble than its worth given (1).

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    6. Re:Slashdotted already... by paul248 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What if slashdot doesn't have enough bandwidth to host these image-filled pages? They would be much larger than the normal story/comment page views, and we wouldn't want to risk slashdotting slashdot. Even if there is enough bandwidth available, I doubt it's all free.

    7. Re:Slashdotted already... by udippel · · Score: 1

      Yes, well, funny !

      Flame me, but netcraft is of another opinion:

      FreeBSD Apache/1.3.29 7-Dec-2003
      unknown Zeus/3.4 4-Mar-2003

      (hope, the moderator is no FreeBSD-fan. He might damage my good karma ...)

    8. Re:Slashdotted already... by Clever+Pun · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Looks like his web server's made of Lego too.

      Well, this might be a tad too literal, but hey. A Lego Case Mod is still pretty cool, right? :)

    9. Re:Slashdotted already... by hal9k · · Score: 1

      Google won't cache the full-sized images.

    10. Re:Slashdotted already... by bobbozzo · · Score: 1

      I've seen some people post links to sites through Internet Archive's new (beta) cache. ISTM that would be an excellent way to post all links on Slashdot, assuming the IA doesn't mind.

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    11. Re:Slashdotted already... by davebarz · · Score: 1

      There are plenty of cases where the page will not yet have been cached before being linked to by Slashdot.

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    12. Re:Slashdotted already... by eatdave13 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why do people think there's something wrong with a niche website being unable to serve probably over 100,000 in a few hours?

      Of course it's gonna die. Would you hook an OC-3 up to a little website that gets maybe 100 hits a day normally? That's just asanine.

      Then again, his PHP is configured to connect more than his SQL server's max clients, it's not written to catch that error, and he's got errors being written to stdout... eh, it's crap.

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    13. Re:Slashdotted already... by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 1

      So slashdot sends a few houndred thousand hits their way, killing their bandwidth. To compensate, they pull the page down and start charging for access. Slashdot then steals their content and circumvents it. (in addition to causing slashdot to need a lot more disk space and bandwidth)

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    14. Re:Slashdotted already... by Dylan_t_p · · Score: 1

      are you nuts?? IA is the slowest thing on earth already imagine if all of slashdot was using it.....I don't think that one is gonna work

    15. Re:Slashdotted already... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you just want to look at the pictures, you can bypass the PHP and use his gallery.cgi...

      http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/seankenney/

    16. Re:Slashdotted already... by quandrum · · Score: 1

      I was about to say the same thing. Does anybody remeber the lessons of the t-shirt contest?

    17. Re:Slashdotted already... by gumbi+west · · Score: 1

      Isn't the ISP, or some other internet site upstream from a hard hit server suposed to cache pages that are being hit a lot? isn't that part of the way the internet is suposed to work?

    18. Re:Slashdotted already... by raboofje · · Score: 1

      > If you cache pages, you become responsible for their content. At least in Europe, this is not true, since it'd fall under 2000/31/EG article 13, right?

    19. Re:Slashdotted already... by ayjay29 · · Score: 1

      I know we've slashdotted LEGO links to death, but...

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  2. slashdotted by drewbradford · · Score: 0

    mmm... I saw the first page about 30 seconds before the database crashed. Looks cool.

  3. booya by Dragoonkain · · Score: 2, Funny

    lego my ego!

    1. Re:booya by ack154 · · Score: 2, Funny

      No no...

      Lego my SERVER!

  4. That time of the evening... by BSDevil · · Score: 2, Informative

    Been up for about a minute and we're already getting everyone's favourite error:

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /usr/www/users/smkenney/moc.php on line 31

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    1. Re:That time of the evening... by The+Jonas · · Score: 2, Informative

      And a new one...

      MOCpages is undergoing emergency repairs. Please try back at 2:30pm Eastern Time. (19:30 GMT).

      heh.

  5. Your breath smells like beef and cheese by originalTMAN · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was in the new movie Elf. Will Ferrel decorated Macy's with a lego NYC (among other things) in honor of Santa's visit.

    1. Re:Your breath smells like beef and cheese by Aeiri · · Score: 1

      [i]This was in the new movie Elf. Will Ferrel decorated Macy's with a lego NYC (among other things) in honor of Santa's visit.[/i] Then was thrown through it for screaming that Santa was a fake.

  6. Lego and employment by xactoguy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Although something like this may seem stupid or pointless at first, if I was an employer, the fact that someone had actually completed something like this would be a big point towards me hiring them. Something like this not only takes some serious drive and commitment to actually bring to completion, but especially with some of the larger models, there had to be some serious planning going into them, both excellent thigns to look for... and on a complete other note, I'm not an employer, lego rocks, and these are some serious awesome lego creations... wish that I had enough commitment to make something even a tenth as big as some of those :D

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    1. Re:Lego and employment by prockcore · · Score: 5, Funny

      if I was an employer, the fact that someone had actually completed something like this would be a big point towards me hiring them

      Only if you were going to hire them to build shit with lego.

      An obsession like that has got to distract them from working.

    2. Re:Lego and employment by cgranade · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hmm... I would wonder about the man's sense of priority. Though they are cool, 500 pieces for each floor of each building? Plus, how much money would it cost? Don't mean to knock his achievement, but I don't think it yells of employability, either.

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    3. Re:Lego and employment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah? If I was an employer, the fact that someone had actually completed something like this would be a big point towards an undiagnosed mental disorder.

    4. Re:Lego and employment by Xzzy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      > wish that I had enough commitment to make something even a tenth as big as some of those :

      Not a commitment issue so much as a money one. :p

      LEGO bricks are not cheap, doing things like this (and not recycling the peices into other projects) has to be one of the more expensive hobbies you could pick.

      A 2 second google search reported a price of $40 for a box of 500 bricks, and it was one of those random color/piece collection. $40 times the 100+ floors the WTC had?

      That's a lot of disposable income.

    5. Re:Lego and employment by asdfghjklqwertyuiop · · Score: 1

      What kind of place did you grow up in that made you think that this kind of focus and creativity is a symptom of a mental disorder?

    6. Re:Lego and employment by Clever+Pun · · Score: 1

      mebee he gets a special discount for bulk orders?

    7. Re:Lego and employment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      communist russia :)

    8. Re:Lego and employment by asdfghjklqwertyuiop · · Score: 2, Informative

      It is possible to
      order the specific pieces you want, although the prices aren't really any better than the buckets of assorted pieces.

    9. Re:Lego and employment by Bombcar · · Score: 1

      See the links from the bottom of my site: Bricklink is king!

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    10. Re:Lego and employment by kaschei · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ritalin Cures Next Picasso WORCESTER, MA--Area 7-year-old Douglas Castellano's unbridled energy and creativity are no longer a problem thanks to Ritalin, doctors for the child announced Friday. "After years of failed attempts to stop Douglas' uncontrollable bouts of self-expression, we have finally found success with Ritalin," Dr. Irwin Schraeger said. "For the first time in his life, Douglas can actually sit down and not think about lots of things at once." Castellano's parents reported that the cured child no longer tries to draw on everything in sight, calming down enough to show an interest in television.

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    11. Re:Lego and employment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would think that a mental disorder that allows you to obsessively complete a pointless project in time and even enjoy it, is exactly what you need to excel in today's workplace environment. Or do you have a different experience?

    12. Re:Lego and employment by squant0 · · Score: 1
      On his site, he state that Lego has asked him to come to shows that they put on.

      I'm sure that Lego gives this guy a good bit of free stuff, especailly if he lets them use his creations in PR stunts/presentations and whatnot.

    13. Re:Lego and employment by structuredlynx · · Score: 1

      It also should be noted that whoever completes a project like this probally is unemployed and needs a job.

    14. Re:Lego and employment by LearnToSpell · · Score: 1

      Depends how you're picking up the pieces though. You could buy a Rubik's Cube at retail for ten bucks if you wanted. The beauty of Lego is that everybody had some. Garage sales are your friend.

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    15. Re:Lego and employment by mlush · · Score: 1
      Depends how you're picking up the pieces though. You could buy a Rubik's Cube at retail for ten bucks if you wanted. The beauty of Lego is that everybody had some. Garage sales are your friend.

      110 floors at '500 little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces' a go, thats 55000 bricks, I really would not want to have to sort through dustbins of assorted lego to find them, when I could phone up lego get just what I want with at bulk order discount.

    16. Re:Lego and employment by cnaumann · · Score: 2, Informative

      It would cost a lot if you actually had to buy the pieces from LEGO. The cheapest LEGO available is a 2000 piece tub for $20, or 10 cents a piece. Unfortunately, that only contains bricks, not the plates and arches needed to build a WTC model. LEGO has been very slow to offer any bulk packages at all, and even those that are offered are still very limited and very expensive (around 10 cents a piece still, but you get the pieces you want.) At 500 pieces per floor, you are looking at an absolute minimum of about $5500 worth of bricks.

      This is actually much better than it was a few years ago, when bulk packs were not even available. At that time, LEGO seemed genuinely disinterested in and threatened by people building and displaying original modeles built of LEGO. In fact, it went somewhat beyond that. Many people (myself included) have received almost hostile rejection letters when we have contacted LEGO with ideas of pictures of models.

      As much as I enjoyed playing and modeling with LEGO, I have given it up due to the expense and the company's attitude.

    17. Re:Lego and employment by jonadab · · Score: 4, Informative

      > The cheapest LEGO available is a 2000 piece tub for $20, or 10 cents a piece.
      > Unfortunately

      Your mistake was buying them all new. Lego has been around for quite some time,
      and so there are a *lot* of them available in secondhand-toy land. When I was
      a kid, we picked up a big cardboard box of them (must have been two feet long
      by a foot wide at least, and there were maybe three inches deep of legos in
      there) at a garage sale for a couple of bucks. Granted, that's an especially
      good deal, but if you hunt around you should be able to pick up used Legos in
      good condition at well less than the new price. You'll probably still have to
      buy some new if you need specialty pieces in certain colours or whatever, but
      for just plain old ordinary regular-sized bricks that you need in bulk, you
      should be able to pick up quite a few of them used.

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    18. Re:Lego and employment by jafuser · · Score: 1

      I'm currently in the acquistion phase of my LEGO habit, not having built anything spectacular yet. I have accumulated about 30,000 LEGO bricks, 21,000 of which came from purchasing the 1000-piece blue "Creator" tubs which were on sale for under $15 last year at Target. I've been to Target a few times so far this holiday season and they haven't dropped below $19 yet.

      $20 for 1000 is much better than the $40 for 500 price mentioned earlier. Just look for the large blue tubs in the LEGO asile at your favorite discount store.

      I've got a whole tub full of Technic pieces too. I'm thinking of trying to build some kind of binary calculator or other mechanical computational device of sorts with them...

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  7. Aww by butters+the+odd · · Score: 0

    I'm really wanting to see the pictures of the WTC legos :(

    Anyone get in in time to mirror?

  8. Legos of Mass Destruction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    One man's Lego NY is another man's detailed 3D terrorist planning tool. We must be ever vigilant against these evil tools of teror. Ban Lego now!!

    1. Re:Legos of Mass Destruction by milatchi · · Score: 0, Redundant

      I couldn't agree more!

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    2. Re:Legos of Mass Destruction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      The WTC should be safe, though.

    3. Re:Legos of Mass Destruction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uhhhhhhhh.......... they shouldof left the twin towers in peace.......... tasteles..........

    4. Re:Legos of Mass Destruction by daviddennis · · Score: 1

      That's probably why he mentions on the first page of his site that it was started in 1999.

      D

    5. Re:Legos of Mass Destruction by shaitand · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That's true, obviously now that the terrorists no longer have use for this model he's making it public. This way nobody can catch him hiding it and he can avert suspicion.

      *quickly trots out to get a fresh tinfoil hat and crotchguard*

    6. Re:Legos of Mass Destruction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'd like to see his twin towers lego melted into a pile of runny plastic, with the tail end of a lego 747 sticking out of it. Add some firefighters holding tools, and a bunch of lego peons standing around with raised arms... THAT would be funny.

  9. google cache by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Heerrrr ya goo!

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    1. Re:google cache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And that does us WHAT good? Pfffft.

    2. Re:google cache by ack154 · · Score: 2, Informative

      You do realize that all of the links on the Google cache versions still use the same server right? And I'm pretty sure they use the same images from the server too. So if you point to a cached page that the server doesn't have images for, you won't get them. So it's still trying to pull all of these images from that server... you know, the one that isn't working.

  10. TPS Reports? by Ieshan · · Score: 0

    Yes, and it takes obsessive-compulsive disorder. Wheee!

    Boss: Hey Legoman, did you get those TPS reports?
    Legoman: Yes, and I dotted each "i" and even used the new cover!
    Boss: (Drat! Now I've got to harass someone else!) Hey, Peter, have those TPS reports for me?

    Joke. Laugh.

    1. Re:TPS Reports? by eatdave13 · · Score: 1

      Not funny. No.

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  11. Here's a small pic of it by phillymjs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looks pretty good.

    ~Philly

    1. Re:Here's a small pic of it by butters+the+odd · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yeah, I just found that.

      Check out this link for some mirrored full pics of it too.

  12. Here are more direct links... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    all NYC:
    http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cg i?f=43 50

    WTC:
    http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery. cgi?f=43 53

    Empire:
    http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/galle ry.cgi?f=43 495

    Empire2:
    http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gall ery.cgi?f=43 51

    All other:
    http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery. cgi?m=se ankenney

  13. He's a terrorist! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    See for yourself. He depicted Ground Zero in Lego, months before the real attacks.

    Paging John Ashcroft...

    1. Re:He's a terrorist! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      +10, HILARIOUS! Jesus, I laughed out loud.

    2. Re:He's a terrorist! by randum76 · · Score: 1
      How many pics of a demolished Lego project can 1 guy take... Geez

      pics

  14. Really weak mirror by NightSpots · · Score: 4, Informative

    Be kind ...

    Get the zip if you can.

    Otherwise here's the index page, and midtown manhattan.

    If you can put these up elsewhere, that'd be much appreciated.

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    1. Re:Really weak mirror by Clever+Pun · · Score: 1

      Mirrored here - I'm not sure what my school's server can take, though, so please don't hurt it too bad :)

    2. Re:Really weak mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As a slashdotter at pomona.edu, that mirror was really fast. Hope your server doesn't get fried. Thanks for the link.

  15. Would you break the Lego WTC? by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I was a kid I used to love to build giant Lego forts and smash them with lego vehicles. They were one of the few toys you could break and put back together. My Lego men always lived in a state of destruction and war, or reconstruction.

    If I had a giant lego WTC that would seriously mess with me. On one shoulder, a little Lego devil would say "toss a Lego plane into that, you can easily put it back together." And on my other shoulder a little Lego angel would say "Are you f**king kidding me?!"

    What would you do... if no one was looking?

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    1. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'd hire a radical group, through underground contacts, to fly a Lego plane into it, and then I would fabricate stories about Legos of Mass Destruction found far outside of Legoland in a country named Iraq. I would then bomb the shit out of that country, and sacrifice hundreds of Legoland soldier lives in the name of freedom, but truly so the Lego oil barons can have another billion Legobucks to roll around in with their Legohooker girlfriends.

    2. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by lpret · · Score: 1

      I'd kick the Lego angel in the nads, make sure "they" weren't looking, and then see if I could have done a better job. All in the name of preparation of course...

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    3. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Basehart · · Score: 1

      I certainly would not stage the scene with the Lego President hugging the retired Lego Firefighter!

    4. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by TiMac · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Oh relax. It's not like he talked about the little stumpy-legged Lego people burning in the plastic building, or throwing themselves off it and liquidating/melting on the pavement below...THAT would be distasteful.

      Oh, whoops. :-\

      Seriously people, lighten up. Sure, 9/11 was awful for everyone, and we do need to have respect for those that died and those that lost those they loved. But I and everyone *I* know is pretty tired of the whole world going stoic and stony-eyed anytime someone so much as mentions the events or the WTC. We need to be able to recognize events, learn from them, laugh at them (respectfully, of course) when applicable, and move on. This is a case where it is slightly amusing--I was most amused by the concept of little Lego Angels and Devils on the shoulders.

      So please, chill. No one means anything disrespectful (not yet anyway).

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    5. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Theory+of+Everything · · Score: 0

      The site says the lego WTC was "accidentally" knocked over and broken in April 2001.

      Disturbing foreshadowing, or practice?

    6. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      screw the plane, i'm king kong. aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!

    7. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by natefanaro · · Score: 1

      I agree that we do need to lighten up a bit but that may take a while. Doesn't it take like 30-35 years from something tragic to become truly funny?

    8. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      word.

    9. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Clever+Pun · · Score: 2, Funny

      i don't think anything like this will ever be truly funny. i mean, the heisenburg isn't truly funny.

      now dead babie jokes - THOSE are funny. know what the difference is between a pile of dead babies and a ferarri?

      There's not a ferarri in my garage ;)

    10. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by anakin876 · · Score: 1

      do you mean the hindenburg? Everytime you mention that it was full of hydrogen people laugh....of course last I heard it was the highly flammable treatment on the wood superstructure that got the fire going...then the hydrogen caught.

    11. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by general_re · · Score: 4, Funny
      i mean, the heisenburg isn't truly funny.

      Schrodinger thought it was pretty funny - he had this story about a cat he used to tell...

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    12. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Clever+Pun · · Score: 1

      that'd be the one, yes. :-\

      and things can be funny without being TRULY funny - there's sick funny, geek funny, prepubescent funny (boobies! BAHAHAHA!), etc. Truly funny things transcend genres.

    13. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by lisany · · Score: 1

      Are you referencing your comment or the one above it? I feel that if one is going to slander, or "talk shit," if you will, that he or she should take the time to point out to which he or she is referring to.

      For example, if I were to say "This poster has no sense of humor." I would have clarify to the reader so he or she doesn't think that I'm talking about myself (which, my therapist tells me is narcisistic and really messed up when she talks about herself in the third person).

      So please, think of the children!

    14. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Texas+Rose+on+Lava+L · · Score: 5, Funny

      Doesn't it take like 30-35 years from something tragic to become truly funny?

      Only one way to find out...

      Q: Why were the Kennedys so happy about Arnold Schwarzenegger marrying into
      the family?
      A: They're hoping they can create a bullet-proof Kennedy.

      Q: What did Lee Harvey Oswald say to Michael Jordan?
      A: Out the book-depository window, over the sign, through the governor,
      nothing but neck...

      more

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    15. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by KillerHamster · · Score: 1

      Hmm, I'd have called this interesting or insightful. I used to do the same thing all the time - build buildings our of legos or blocks and then have armies of lego soldiers and vehicles destroy them. Just thinking about it makes me wish I had some legos right now. I guess the closest thing to that I still do is build maps for Unreal Tournament.

      Would I fly a Lego plane into a Lego WTC? Definitely, though I'd build both towers first and add dry ice to simulate smoke, and I'd probably use several planes on each building.

    16. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by JudgeFurious · · Score: 1

      True words. Also we shouldn't forget about the very common human tendancy to laugh at inappropriate things simply as a way to deal with them. Challenger jokes after the shuttle blew up come to mind.

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    17. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by lgftsa · · Score: 1

      Recipe for sheathing the metal frame of the airship to form an taut aerodynamic shape resistant to temperature fluctuations due to sunlight:

      * A base skin of cotton canvas
      * A first layer of iron oxide
      * A cellulose butyrate acetate based paint
      * Aluminum powder mixed in to reflect the sunlight

      Recipe for rocket fuel, as used in the Space Shuttle's SRBs:

      * Ammonium Perchlorate (69.9%)
      * Aluminum Powder (16%)
      * Iron Oxide (0.4%)
      * Other - Polymer Binder, Curing Agent, etc. (14%)

      See here among many, many other places.

    18. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by tehanu · · Score: 1

      Tragedies become the legitimate subject of humour (ie. you don't get attacked by those in hearing) if:

      1. Said tragedy/issue didn't really affect your audience. You know the saying, tragedy is when I break a fingernail, comedy is when you fall down an open sewer-hole and die.

      2. Life is so bad eg. under an oppression dictatorship that you find a macabre black humour in your situation. I know people who have survived who are like this. This is a case of life is so crap if you don't laugh you're going to break-down crying and maybe committ suicide.

    19. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by zzendpad · · Score: 1

      nope, only 22.3 years.

    20. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Radish03 · · Score: 1

      Those jokes were as lame as FDR's legs...... .....Too soon?

    21. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Tet · · Score: 1
      Doesn't it take like 30-35 years from something tragic to become truly funny?

      Nope. Q: What does NASA stand for? A: Need Another Seven Astronauts. Heard the day after Challenger. Made me laugh, anyway... In general, finding humour in tragedy is just part of human nature. Unless you're one of those directly affected, then most people will be amused by a well thought out joke, no matter how tragic the incident to which it may refer.

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    22. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah. American outcry and years of referencing this one fucking incident without a single whimper or tear for other recent incidents that cost many more THOUSANDS of lives in other countries? Even perpetrating your own disasters on citizens of other countries using this incident as an excuse? Really fucking distasteful.

      Fuck the WTC. And fuck you.

  16. Little Known Fact by raisinets · · Score: 1, Troll

    The larger Lego structures are actually held together with super-glue on the joints, or else parts of the structure would topple under its own weight! Lego is sturdy enough for your little space ship and fire truck, but not much else. I use DUPLO. J

    1. Re:Little Known Fact by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The larger Lego structures are actually held together with super-glue on the joints, or else parts of the structure would topple under its own weight!

      I don't think so. Lego is pretty tough. I'm sure glue helps keep it together when it is bounced around, but collapse under its own weight? Take 5 or 6 lego bricks and stand on them. They won't break or collapse.

    2. Re:Little Known Fact by Bombcar · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Not true! The Lego structures at Legoland are held together with glue, but that's because they are outdoors. Southern California Lego Train Club builds with no glue! See This picture for an example.

      Some "in construction" pictures available at my website. (Scroll to the bottom).

      Funny thing is, for Duplo you'd need glue. It doesn't stick together as hard as Lego does.

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    3. Re:Little Known Fact by M.+Silver · · Score: 1

      Duplo might be more structurally sound internally, but the bricks don't stick together particularly well. On the one hand, this makes sense, since it's for younger kids. My three-year-old wouldn't be able to take apart some of the Lego bricks. On the other hand, it means that anything non-simple collapses because the bricks won't hold together under their own weight, so it's a bit *more* frustrating than standard Legos would be.

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  17. Biggest Nerd Ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    He spends all his time playing with legos and sells anime DVDs over the internet. How could he get nerdier?

    1. Re:Biggest Nerd Ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe he could post to Slashdot and call someone a nerd?

  18. Okay, for the friggin' whiners... by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Empire State Building

    World Trade Center

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    1. Re:Okay, for the friggin' whiners... by Clever+Pun · · Score: 1

      hehe - http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40 1825 - it's a monkey :)

    2. Re:Okay, for the friggin' whiners... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good lord, the loser appears to have a girlfriend. She's even not totally fugly.

  19. Re:Why? by butters+the+odd · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Oh, just love the flame.

    This whole project was made in rememberance of the tragedy of 9-11-01. I, for one, never even got to see the WTC in person (never been that far north), and that someone was able to painstakingly recreate it in Legos is amazing.

  20. Google Cache of Sections by TheSpoom · · Score: 4, Informative
    Most important bits in Google cache:



    All the images (with the exception of the Greenwich Village... look them up directly on the Google cache if you want) load correctly (they're on a different server than the pages, oddly enough).
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  21. Re:Why? by cehbab · · Score: 1

    why knock lego dude :)

  22. Not that easy... by acehole · · Score: 1

    You'd have copyright and other legal issues to deal with. You can't mirror a page without permission from the original source.

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    1. Re:Not that easy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Actually, they can under the DMCA (yea, they actually did one thing right with the DMCA). Personally, I wish more ISPs, especially the really large ones, just cached all web requests. With a good tree structure, you'd be able to cache a lot of the commonly accessed internet with squid. Then slashdotting and most DoS attacks wouldn't work (at least not against their target). The only major except is dealing with caching dynamic content. The real answer to that is a combination of don't do dynamic content (ie, stick parts of it in javascript/java or use a dynamic generation cache where it doesn't have to be flushed even remotely often) and for things that really need dynamic content (ssl store fronts, web servers, etc) is for some large company (say Yahoo) to have multiple secure front ends to do the transactions for you so there isn't any one main server to DoS. Of course, the latter one isn't always doable (or even preferable), but then there's no real other solution.

    2. Re:Not that easy... by spongman · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Hardly. Web proxies are designed to do exactly this, indeed HTTP/1.1 specifically added support for caching proxies.

      You web browser probably contains a cache of this page, did you (or it) ask permission beforehand? It could even be argued that the absence of a 'Cache-control: no-cache' header, which the content originator could quite easily add if they don't wish their content to be cached, is an implicit permission to mirror the content.

    3. Re:Not that easy... by Flakeloaf · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Naw, what we need to do is create a .torrent file of all of the images on his site, and get his web server to cache that.

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    4. Re:Not that easy... by Aeiri · · Score: 1

      is for some large company (say Yahoo) to have multiple secure front ends to do the transactions for you so there isn't any one main server to DoS.

      This proposal sounds REALLY similar to the structure of Freenet.

  23. Question... by Cyno01 · · Score: 1

    In the few thumbnails that are loading i can maake out lego people, is the whole thing done to that scale? That would be about 1 classic (4x2x3) lego brick equals about 1.5x.75x.5m. If these models were to that scale it would certanly be impressive.

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  24. lazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    NYC - WTC - Empire - Empire2 - bleh

  25. Mirror by utahjazz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a backup of the WTC page in the wayback machine.

    Here's another guy with a lego WTC

    --I prefer the term "Karma Slut"

    1. Re:Mirror by utahjazz · · Score: 1

      Er...I mean the Empire State Building

  26. Ah legos by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
    I've always loved them. I'm a college student now and STILL have a huge box under my bed. But what I've always wanted was legos that could be remote controlled. Mindstorms has come a long way with this. But what I want is for the little figures to move around. And I want technology that makes it so my little lego battlemechs can actually fire missiles in an attempt to hit the lego jets that my friend would be flying via remote control.

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    1. Re:Ah legos by wampus · · Score: 1

      Estes model rocket engines.... 1/2A or whatever the hell they were, would make a decent basis for a Lego SAM. As for a jet, I doubt it, but maybe a Lego airframe with a regular RC plane motor. The technology is here, all that is missing is the creative application of said technology.

    2. Re:Ah legos by Niet3sche · · Score: 5, Informative

      But what I've always wanted was legos that could be remote controlled.
      Aha, but you can. At least, you can if you are willing to build a bit. As part of my CSE X86 series at my undergrad hell-hole, we had to merge forces with all engineering disciplines and build lego robots, controlled through the parallel port. It's actually not as difficult as you would think, and the pinouts are quite freely available. Of course, you'll need a language with low-level hardware access, and an OS without an abstraction layer that will thwart your code.
      Besides that, the rest is reasonably simple - you build the control box, hook the sucker up to your lego creation via an umbilical cord of wires, and viola - you're running via a wire.
      Now, running R/C would be even easier. However, most standard servos that I know of (e.g. Futaba, JR, Hi-Tec) from flying R/C planes aren't likely to be what you're looking for. Rather, you can get high-performance servos for some extra dough, but hey, if it's what you want to do, then go for it. :)
      My personal recommendation on a radio? The Futaba 4-channel digital radio (model number escapes me right now). It's awesome, and you can do flaperons / etc with it, so if you ever want to do R/C flying with fixed-wing craft, you'll be in good shape.
      Hope this helps a bit -

    3. Re:Ah legos by herrvinny · · Score: 1

      Yeah, tell me about it. I have filled bookcases just with my Lego creations, and even though I'm 18, I still get the Lego mail order catalog....

  27. The terrorists have already won :( by gasgesgos · · Score: 3, Funny

    clicking on the World Trade Center,

    results in:
    MOCpages is undergoing emergency repairs. Please try back at 2:30pm Eastern Time. (19:30 GMT).

    The World Trade Center is down. The terrorists have already won :(

  28. Re:Really weak mirror (addendum) by Clever+Pun · · Score: 1

    my mirror is just of the .zip file, which contains the thumbs and html stuff. None of the big jpgs are there, as far as i can tell. just so you know.

  29. Ok, another site for you all to slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now that I've seen it, of course :)

    All of Sean's work

    If you ask nicely, I might put up a mirror :)

  30. Well... by Effofx · · Score: 1

    It's our constant pounding on his server that probably took out the towers...... stop knocking things over ppl

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  31. Tediousness by bkhl · · Score: 1

    Not to knock this impressive project, but I just have to say that when you find yourself putting together thousans of 1x1/1x2 pieces, you should ask yourself if there maybe isn't a better way.

    1. Re:Tediousness by some+old+guy · · Score: 1

      Kinda reminds you of gcc, doesn't it? :)

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  32. This brings to mind one question... by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone got a Godzilla suit?

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    1. Re:This brings to mind one question... by Effofx · · Score: 1

      Or a large Osama suit....

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  33. wtf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    i object, the fact that it is tasteless does not take away from the fact that is true.
    -1 flameblait

    bs. is it funny because it is true. I mean, lego are adepiction of reality in this case.



    in other words, if you cannot find this funny, you must be a relative (im sorry for this rant then) or someone who absolutely has no sense of humor.



    There is such a thing as too soon for a punchline, but i do not beleive this is one of them. It friggin legos.



    but we have to see beyond the crapface, illigitimate stereotypes if what not to to do, some things are funny.



    -a true American

  34. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He has a penetrating insight into this deep matter.

    1. Re:MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yes I plagiarized it from the onion, I went and looked for a link but it's not archived at their site so I just copy-pasted it from a google hit and forgot to give credit. parent's parent copyright the onion 20X6

    2. Re:MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thats O.K, anyone with half a brain could see it was from the Onion. You should still cite, though.

    3. Re:MOD PARENT UP by amRadioHed · · Score: 1

      It's from The Onion, naturally.

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  35. LEGOLAND! by gutier · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Guys ... there is LEGOLAND. Many of the building are already done, and most are larger than 5 feet tall.

  36. Server hurts more by Jebediah21 · · Score: 1

    Apparently the server is hurting more than his fingers ever did: MOCpages is undergoing emergency repairs. Please try back at 2:30pm Eastern Time. (19:30 GMT).

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  37. Great, now all you need is... by NeoGeo64 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great, now all they need to is build a lego Boeing 767, perhaps tape a few firecrackers to it. w00t

    1. Re:Great, now all you need is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      burn amerika burn

  38. New York is swell, but... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Interesting
    does it run Linux?

    Seriously, I've always been more fascinated by things that aren't 'just' lego sculpture. Try this, or this

    As for buildings and 'industrial stuff, This site is pretty nifty, this is rather impressive as buildings go, as well as (w0w) this. And what the hell am I still doing up?

  39. Empire State Building??? by BTWR · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Um... the Toys R' Us in Times Square in manhattan has had a 20-foot tall Empire State Building Model (as well as Chrysler Building, Statue of Liberty and i think another) since they opened in 2001. This 5-foot model, while nice, is not unique nor is it the biggest by far.

    At that TRU, they sell the Statue of Libery as a kit. I think it's like $399.98...

    1. Re:Empire State Building??? by echucker · · Score: 2, Informative

      Liberty is a standard kit in the sculptures series at Lego's Shop at Home store.

    2. Re:Empire State Building??? by BTWR · · Score: 1

      that kit, according to the link you provided is "2 feet, 9 inches." In case you're not American, that's not even a meter.

      You've obviously never been to the Times Square store... :)

    3. Re:Empire State Building??? by echucker · · Score: 1

      Trust me, I know that a meter is 39.37 inches. I also know that the kit goes for $199, not the $399 the parent stated. I'd put my faith in LEGO's description of the kit first.

  40. Re:My first thought. by mirko · · Score: 1

    Do you mean he should rather have built a woman with his legoes ?

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  41. My mother is a professional LEGO builder by Gnavpot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and has been so for something like 20 years. Just to put some weight behind my second hand knowledge. (And of course to brag of a mother with an unusual occupation.)

    I can tell for a fact that almost all structures build by the LEGO company are glued together - including the structures for indoor use.

    Further, the largest ones are internally reinforced by welded steel structures. Sometimes because they have moving parts, and sometimes because they would not be able to carry their own weight (not all LEGO structures are just vertical piles of bricks).

    1. Re:My mother is a professional LEGO builder by Bombcar · · Score: 1

      Yeah, the Lego company cheats.

      Most of the things you'll find on Brickshelf however, are built without glue. And there are some impressive things, too. Search for "bridge," for example.

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  42. MOD PARENT UP by eatdave13 · · Score: 1

    I'm to lazy to see if it's plagarized, but regardless it's funny as hell.

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  43. Re:Slashdotted already... A: bittorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A bittorrent should help ...

    TSK

  44. WTC tower by koekepeer · · Score: 1

    wow. if all girls into lego towers are as cute as the one next to the WTC replicate....

    yep! i think i found myself a new hobby :)

  45. Re:Why? by sarahbau · · Score: 1

    Actually, the lego WTC was started two years before 9/11.

  46. Second time this year.... by WFFS · · Score: 1

    New York has been shut down! First a blackout, now its been slashdotted! They are just not lucky :(

    1. Re:Second time this year.... by mikewas · · Score: 1
      Third time. Don't forget this weekend's blizzard.

      A Nor'Easter rolled over us Friday and then headed out to sea. It merged with another storm coming from the south and it/they came up to dump even more white stuff on yesterday.

      First time I've ever had a storm back up to hit me a second time. Who new they even had a reverse?!

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  47. Re:My first thought. by innerlimit · · Score: 1

    My first thought, he should combine this with the blinkenlights engine, so he can play tetris on it :D

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  48. For reference...... by reality-bytes · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the comments further up, this one really is in bad taste and is somewhat obscene.

    You see the difference?

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  49. Flamebait!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WTF#

    War & Destruction is FUNNY. FUNNY I tell you!

  50. Slashdotting: A haiku by iantri · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh no! It's Slashdot! The server puffs magic smoke KA-BOOM!!! Server gone.

    1. Re:Slashdotting: A haiku by iantri · · Score: 2, Funny
      Leave it up to /. to bung up my formatting..

      Oh no! It's Slashdot!
      The server puffs magic smoke
      KA-BOOM!!! Server gone.

  51. Google cache of WTC pics by PeeweeJD · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:http://www.moc pages.com/moc.php/2

  52. 9/11? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm british, and am continually confused by the whole 9/11 thing. Nothing happened on the 9th of November. :)

  53. Serve WWW content over BT w/ browser plug-in? by monkeyfamily · · Score: 1

    Better yet - we need to make a browser plugin that downloads a torrent of the images & other media on a set of web pages, uses BT to download them to a temp dir & loads them in the browser as they complete. It should keep uploading till it's got at least a 1/1 ratio, or longer if it is the only seed. The server would have a mod that automaticalls torrents up everything below a certain dir and serves the torrent when BT-aware browsers request the index, while serving html and images as usual to normal browsers as long as bandwidth holds out.

  54. been there, done that... by zx-6e · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nothing new here, as you can visit Legoland USA (in San Diego) and you will see NY City as well as other places done in legos.

  55. . . . but that requires the "Tokyo Bikini". . . . by Salgak1 · · Score: 1

    . . .as anyone who's played "XXXenophile" could tell you. . .

  56. WTC Lego destroyed by his friend by CapS · · Score: 1

    I wonder what happened:

    World Trade Center... Built from April 2000 to Feb 2001. Destroyed accidentially by a friend in April 2001. Reconstruction started again in Oct 2001, but has been halted due to space constraints in my apartment.

    When I was a young kid, I built a small racetrack for electric cars on the floor. A friend of mine came over to have a look, and immediately proceeded to trip and fall directly onto the track (didn't even bother to catch himself with his hands), smashing it to bits.

    Why is it that so many great things are destroyed by idiots? Not that I'm bitter or anything. :)

    1. Re:WTC Lego destroyed by his friend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why is it that so many great things are destroyed by idiots?

      I know the secret. Google "person from Porlock" and you will, too.

  57. How about this... by Karpe · · Score: 1

    ...the original Google Search Engine Computer Storage.

  58. way to go, Sean! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hahaha! An official slashdotting...

    --minimike

  59. They are hiring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Second job from the bottom

  60. They are hiring (link this time) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Second job from the bottom
    www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=vac ancies

  61. Something's Missing... by ElGuapoGolf · · Score: 1

    What could be missing? Hrm...

    Maybe it's the little Lego Mayor Bloomberg making raids into the Lego Vanity Fair offices to fine them for their Lego Ashtray.

    Disclaimer: I think you have to follow the NY news media to understand that one.

  62. Lego + NASA by Leebert · · Score: 1

    When I went to go watch the launch of MER-B, the KSC visitor center had a Lego model of the rover.

  63. Re:Missing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You mean 757s you nitwit.

    sheeze. If you're going to troll, at least get the airplane right.

  64. Re:Why? by Rallion · · Score: 0

    It's too bad you never got to see them. The most shocking thing about seeing them fall on TV was thinking about what it felt like to be standing right in front of one, staring up, then thinking about being up on the roof of one, looking down, then thinking about being in either one of those places while it was crumbling. The legos cannot convey the sheer massiveness of one of those towers.

    But hey, they're still damn big and impressive. And insane.

  65. Implement web proxy with bittorrent backend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A better idea would be to implement a web proxy,.. or storage module for squid or something,..

  66. Girlfriend? by sexecutioner · · Score: 1

    Well, it's gotten him some action, She's Hot!

    1. Re:Girlfriend? by trouser · · Score: 1

      True, but the LEGO model she's leaning against is supposed to be 5ft high and it's clearly taller than her. She's a hot midget. I don't think I could go that way.

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    2. Re:Girlfriend? by sexecutioner · · Score: 1

      Good point, but then haven't you always dreamt of having hot sex in a jacoozie with a team of identical midget bitches?? Or is that just me?

    3. Re:Girlfriend? by trouser · · Score: 1

      Identical as in twins or identical as in genetically engineered midget love slaves? It makes all the difference.

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  67. Lego Lago Logo by coyotedata · · Score: 1

    Legoites can count!

  68. Re:Missing? by Future+Shock · · Score: 1

    The planes that hit the WTC were 767s...other planes used on 9/11 may have been 757s, as I believe the one that hit the Pentagon was. I can't recall the one that crashed in Pennsylvania, probably a 757 judging by it's route (not a traditional route for 767s, which usually fly internationally or coast-to-coast only).

  69. Re:Not that easy... Piers Haken again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hi Piers Haken. For being an alleged child rapist and kiddie porner you would know how to be evasive with web proxies.

    Too bad we have your information through your not so well though out credit card orders for questionable material. Fuck, the shit you do would be questionable in India or Russia. Fucking pervert.