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Firefox Crop Circles Prove Intelligent Alien Life
This past weekend, the OSU Linux Users Group descended on a field in Oregon to create a 45,000+ square foot crop circle of Firefox. The photos and write-up are worth checking out.
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Bonus geek points for using an HP graphing calculator and string instead of GPS. Though I'm not quite sure why the farmers would give permission for parts of their crop to be destroyed (even if he/she's an OSS advocate).
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Not implying that this is, but... how hard would it be to make a web gadget that would auto-generate an image of a crop circle based on a simple 2-color bitmap.... (image only, don't want something that hacks into automated tractors)...
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It makes sense that geeks would be the ones making crop circles. Aliens surely have better things to do.
This was probably the most fun I ever had in my life. And now it's on slashdot! It can't get any better!
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I challenge others to come up with other ways to creatively promote the stuff they love. Try and beat this! muahahaha.
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The farmer DID give permission. It says so right in the write up. She seemed really excited to have us and was sad that her husband was out of the state and might not see it before the circle goes away.
... one Washington farmer reported a complete loss after IE enthusiasts recreated a blue screen of death across his soybean field.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
man, talk about beating the magic out something - that's a hell of a lot of pictures.
but I guess sometimes it's just really hard to decide between posting this shot or this one on your website.
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Isn't the tail in the logo supposed to be on fire?
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Look at the size of that thing! It's almost as big as Firefox' memory footprint!
Great pics, especialy the good looking lil geek babe in pic #77. Bonus!
At the moment; viewed 98 times
Close up of tape measure; 73 times
Out of focus closeup of oats; 68 times
Geek guy; 47 times
Well, there you have it guys, you're less interesting than an out of focus picture of oats.
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A significant effect of this is that many third world countries are far more vulnerable to things like drought than they used to be, as their own foodcrops are small to start with, and droughts now for many countries both devastate their revenues - affecting their ability to pay for food imports - and reduce the yields of their already too small food crops. Whereas with mainly food crops, drought would mean reduced exports and revenue, but still leave them with significant food reserves.
There are certainly examples of mismanagement too, such as Zimbabwe, but corruption is rarely a major factor in affecting the levels of food production.
Will all virgins please raise their hands... http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/img_5374_1
Really awesome stunt. Would any MSIE users do something like this to show their enthusiasm for the product? Probably not. This stunt is somewhat the same principle as when geeks on Linux meetings bring their penguins with them in all shapes and sizes. I mean, you don't see MS Windows users arrive with big amounts of glass...