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Earth Sandwich
yourhotneighbor writes "If you haven't seen Ze Frank's hilarious videoblog, it's worth checking out. A few weeks ago he challenged visitors to create an "Earth Sandwich" where two pieces of bread are placed exactly opposite each other on the globe. Google mashups showing what's on the opposite side of the Earth and a live GeoRSS-based bread gallery were provided. A piece on NPR this Saturday details the concept and a team from New Zealand and Spain completed the challenge. Then on Friday he allowed his show to be written by his viewers who battled out 2,000+ script revisions in a Wiki. Sunday's New York Times describes the results."
What good is that? The only person with a mouth big enough to eat it would be Al Roker.
Got Mustard?
If I have to read or hear the word 'mashup' or any variation of it, ever again, someone is going to pay with their life.
"I've got the whoooole world in my sandwich,
I've got the whoooole world in my sandwich!"
The interesting part of the experiment was that the slices always fell the earth-side down...
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
So that is why when I was a kid I couldn't dig a hole to China. Apparently, you have to live in Chile or Argentina to dig a hole to China. At least a straight hole.
Click Click Bloody Click PANCAKES!
shit sandwich.
That's dude's pretty funny. I wonder, before turning on that video cam, if he eats espresso beans or if he free-bases them ?
Reminds of the fast talking guy who used to pitch Micro Machines.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
How long is this hair? Left or right toe? Do you blog about it? Awww comeeon where's the link dude.
Or some how attach the buttered toast to the back of a cat thus creating the spinning, buttered cat, perpetual motion, anti-gravity machine.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
I'd have to go through Argentina! I knew my uncle was full of &*^% when he told me he was digging to China!
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
Mac: Hey Farva, what's the name of the websites you like where they take $hit from other sites to make something new, like geo-caching with Google Maps?
Farva: You mean a mashup?
Mac: *Offers gun to Anonymous Coward*
I couldn't eat a whole one.
God Be Gone
perhaps you heard it like this
a slice of bread steps onto an elephant, puts a back on his slice of bread, mirror looks in and says:
- big sandwitch, that's one gosh !
Kent Simon Multitheft Auto
Dammit. So when I was little I really should have been trying to dig to Australia instead of China. I'd need to go to Chile to get to China. Maybe that's why I never got anywhere.
In Soviet Russia, joke laughs at you!
When I was young I asked my mother what would happen if I kept digging. She said, "Well, you'd come out in China".
Thanks for 'what if earth were a sandwich' I now know I'd come out in the middle of the ocean, and i'd have to live in Argentina for her to be right.
Then again, if you're the type of person who likes the crusts cut off their sandwiches, then I guess Barr's work takes the... erm, cake.
On the down side of the sandwich, of course, is the fact that it may have have awakened the Devourer of Worlds, Cthulhu. Nothing like a nice sandwich to go with your galactic soup, I always say.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
That sandwich has everything I like in it!
I think you'll find that there are actually several governments on the Earth, and that your use of the singular is incorrect.
I think you'll also find that a vast majority of the Earth's goverments couldn't care less about precision in measurements of the Earth.
But thank you for introducing pedantry into a discussion of Earth sandwiches. Have a nice day.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
This shouldn't really be that hard. Bored Guy at South Pole Research Station gets on sat phone and calls Bored Guy at North Pole Research Station and asks if they have any bread.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
I'm going to be the first Earth sandwich maker in the USA by visiting "French Southern and Antarctic Lands", and Northern Montana. Looking for sponsors for this important trip. Please send money (cash only).