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Huge Firefox crop circle - aliens do prefer Firefox!
thefoxtales.net — 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 of this, taken from planes and helicopters, are incredible
michelroux- 5417 diggs
- digg it
- ALIENDUDE5300, on 10/12/2007, -179/+4Digg It Here:
http://digg.com/software/Take_Back_the_Field_2- mrmidgetman, on 10/12/2007, -26/+11whats the coordinates for it on google earth?
- Rigbymatt, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27Its from this past weekend you fool, google earth uses stock air photography from about a year ago or earlier
- Hoov, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4Stop Capitalizing Every Goddamned Word In A Sentence. It's A Paragraph For ***** Sake. Learn Some Grammar, It's Hard To Read!
- cloud3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11While google's photography is usually about a year old, I know that they are currently trying to get pictures of this crop circle into google earth/maps.
- emFi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The bugzilla bug for 'there is no Firefox crop circle' ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347226 ) has a link to http://maps.google.com/?q=45.12402N+123.113008W , which I assume is the field in question. (No crop circle visible, though, unsurprisingly.)
- skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Amazing! One stalk of corn for each meg of RAM it takes to run!!!
- aknowles5139, on 10/12/2007, -11/+109@ ALIENDUDE5300: Why diidnt you just link to the site?
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle
Nice crop circle...- neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -7/+49In latest news, scientists are still baffled by the existence of crop circles.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28This is a good reason NOT to link to blogs.. If someone in a year or two clicks this link, and the blog has been deleted, or the story has been deleted, etc etc, the link would be very hard to find (Ignoring people posting the link, but many other blogs link to other blogs, that link to other blogs, that then link to the acctual page).
Sure, the original story's link could go down, if it does it's gone, but theres no point in going though a posisbly unreliable blog, introducing another possible point of failure..
Rigt now it's great, with all the blogs linking to each other, but in a few years, when (I guess inevitibly) lots will have closed down, or been wiped and restarted, the "internet" will be a mess
Hmm.. The article doesn't seem to mention who's field it was..
- Ben - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10or whose, even...
- jsg7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38Ahhh... finally documented proof that intelligent life forms don't use Internet Explorer...
- cyanidenfs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@dbr_onix:
"Finally, Beth contacted Alex, whose family lived near the owners of an oat field in the Amity area. A few phone calls and emails later and permission was secured! We had an unharvested field of oats!"
More:
Without these folks this could not have happened:
* Terry & Monty Woods (Land owners)
* John Imlah (Farmer/adjoining land)
* Gretchen Brunner (adjoining Land owners )
So it was some guy called Alex who's field was used :) - ALIENDUDE5300, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1@aknowles5139
I Dugg The Actual Project Page from OSU, NOT The Fox Tales Page. My Digg Was Specifically for the OSU Project Page:
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle - sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12They tried to make a similar crop-circle after the Microsoft Internet Explorer logo, but the crops refused to bend.
- SalemWin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You right!
- raz3000, on 10/12/2007, -30/+7No, humans prefer Firefox. Aliens prefer Internet Explorer--it makes a lot more sense to them than it does to us.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -28/+7They also use GNU/Linux to power their UFOs and ssh to communicat e with the mothership!!
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -16/+9That was after that Incident when their Win NT system suffered a DoS attack by a human hacker back in '97.
- Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, those were funny!
- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+107I, for one, welcome our new open source overlords.
- Ligang, on 10/12/2007, -35/+6不错,不错.
- karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -26/+6You have obviously been assimilated.
- dasch, on 10/12/2007, -23/+4You mean open source ALIEN overlords!!11!!1
- Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Oh crap what will they do when they find out I play "ufo: alien invasion"?
- duzbin, on 10/12/2007, -18/+7In Soviet Russia Firefox uses the Aliens
- punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -11/+16I wonder if you get an error page when going to their planet using IE.
- amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42This and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are reasons I love living in Oregon.
- mbrewthx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is right up the road from me, Time for a little field trip.
- larst, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34This is so nice! To bad they didn't colorize it with flowers :P
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17firefox parade float?
- KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -46/+6"The photos of this, taken from planes..."
I hope there weren't..... SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!
Haha, see? Me too, guys, right? Hehe.
(...Not that I don't think 'snakes on a plane' is still funny, I'm just wondering aloud how long the funniness can last.)- Bigbro69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Obviously it isn't lasting anymore.
- KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Goes to prove my point; the joke dies once it's under every single comment section on Digg.
- davidyang, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6that is awesome
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -77/+10it's a browser ffs. please. get a life.
- karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36It was very nice of you to take a few valuable seconds out of your incredibly busy and rewarding life to share your opinion. Thank you.
- DagMX, on 10/12/2007, -50/+7I agree totally...all that effort over a browser? they are either:
a)Seriously bored
b)Total losers
c)Major Fanboys.
Now to see if Microsoft will upstage them by doing something for ie7...Like a planet shaped like an e.. - KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -31/+4How about d) All of the above?
- d7415, on 10/12/2007, -23/+2@DagMX: dug, because I want to see them do it.
- bairy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61This is digg.
Population:
90% geeks
9% casual surfers, come once - don't like - never come again surfers
1% idiots (grammer nazis, dupe nazis, people who have nothing nice or constructive to say (you))
Geeks like this stuff because it's brilliant. It shows initative, it takes real organisation and it just looks damn cool. If you don't like it, scroll past the story and move on. Simple! - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18@ KingMoses
We don't like your kind here. You better mosey on out of town. - Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12bairy, there's a lot more than 1%.
- Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Howabout e)
Happen to like firefox.
Wanted to do something so freakin awesome they'd be remembered for it, or at least have major bragging rights.
So what did you hecklers do today? Anything nearly as mindblowingly complex? - modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@jrbrewin, you're the one who needs a life. To quote one of the commenters on the site:
"howz about yooZE gettN a LiFe, scUmBaG, u selF rIghTeouS iDiOT. Yes it b juST a brOwZeR buT U goTTa aDmiT tHaT’s DedicaTIon. GeT oFF uR higH hOrSe or doNT poST aT aLL. SamE goEs foR anYoNE elSe wiTH soMeThiNG neGaTive to saY. How aBouT raMMinG iT anD goInG sOmeWheRe eLse whEre Ur paTheThiC mOrOns aRe waNTed. ThaT’s the pRobLem wiTH soCiety, wE’Re coNsTanTly reMinDed thaT weez B sUrrOunDed by iDioTs wHo alWayS haVe 2 sHarE thEir iGnoRaNCE. thE iNtErNet maKes it eZieR 4 mOrOns liKe yOuRseLf tO exPreSS yoR stUpIdIty. YOU ***** OFF!!"
And I think that's all that needs to be said. - punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think the dupe and grammar nazi's need their own category, along with the fake nazis too.
- BESTenemy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11At least they used the cool picture for the front page. If instead they started off with this one http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-circle/pict0013 I would've been appalled.
- karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Yes, that might have made me think that they were aliens.
- YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14"We are coming you you LIVE from the scene where a crop circle has appeared.... this just in.... I look bad-ass in these headphones!"
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24No crop circles 2.0 yet? ;)
High-res picture:
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/albums/firefox-crop-circle/mg_5560.jpg- danc4498, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Thanks for my new desktop wallpaper!
- pmuessig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4is it just me or does it look like it was sorta done in shag carpeting?
- brownb2, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3No mention of getting the farmer's permission to do this, I'd be pissed if I was him/her.
This type of vandalism doesn't do the Mozilla foundation any favours. All it points out to me is that there is a group of sad nerds with too much time on their hands and no life. I hope they pay that farmer the $$$$ he'd lose from that crop (probably a couple of hundred).- karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1You are obviously a Republican.
- brownb2, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2No just British and someone who gets annoyed at other peoples' disregard for private property.
- RailroadSnake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Yes, no mention at all:
"With the idea, the enthusiasm, and the commitment in place, the next thing we needed was to find a field and contact the owner for permission. At first, we simply asked people visiting the Mozilla booth if they had a field or knew anyone in the area who did. Even at OSCON, where you wouldn't expect to find too many farmers, we had a few leads right away, which showed how close we were to making the project work.
Finally, Beth contacted Alex, whose family lived near the owners of an oat field in the Amity area. A few phone calls and emails later and permission was secured! We had an unharvested field of oats! "
--http://lug.oregonstate.edu/wiki/Grain - karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1:::snort:::
- brownb2, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22Just read one of the linked pages
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle
They did actually obtain permission.... so my rant is redundant :) - coconutice, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2you obviously didn't read :P
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5brownb2 apologized. It would be nice of Diggers not to mod down the apology. Be nice! Reply nicely to graceful manners.
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -30/+1Compared to other crop circles, the technique used on this one is pretty lame. It's just like a badly made "stencil" over the crops. The only hype this gets comes from Firefox's logo, admit it.
So, lame crop circle. No digg.- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14So...
Why don't get your own field and make your own? It's easy, right? - LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1@joelito: sure, if you pay for the planehelicopter ;)
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14So...
- Wheezle, on 10/12/2007, -32/+3This is so incredibly sad. It's a web browser. Get over it.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23No, its *the* web browser. There's a difference.
- Kelmon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0@webcrumb
Well, that's going a bit far these days. After IE has annihilated pretty much everyone, with the exception of what was left of Netscape and Opera, then Firefox really was a breath of fresh air. These days, however, you can't move for quality browsers so I don't see Firefox hold that much of an advantage these days. Heck, even IE7 is reasonable and I really hated IE6. Mind you, respect to Firefox for giving the browser industry the kick up the backside that it really needed.
Personally, I'm back on Safari again since I can't live without Inquisitor to search the Net. However, I have a tendency to change my browser like I change my socks and so tend to move between Safari, Camino, Shiira and Flock.
- zerokill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21omg they need to put this in google earth :P
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Given the fact that most of the images on Google maps are at least year old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps , there is still some chance that it will pop up in the next "satellite" edition of Google maps.
Unless you are talking only about marking it as a landmark. - mendigg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The author of clause has mentioned and has opened excellent and a vital topic presently. Clause is written interestingly and the main thing actual. The same theme on Russian sites: http://pivo.in.ua http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Given the fact that most of the images on Google maps are at least year old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps , there is still some chance that it will pop up in the next "satellite" edition of Google maps.
- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41I wonder if the field is now suffering from a memory leakage.
- Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"What's this thing on the crops?"
"It's not a bug it's a feature!"
- Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"What's this thing on the crops?"
- silentdud, on 10/12/2007, -23/+3I have to agree witht he "you guys are ***** loosers." comment. Thats the most concise way I have seen it put.
- affiliate, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4It would be cool to see this on Earth.google.com
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6if this doesn't show you tin foil hat wearers that it's entirely possible for all those other crop circles to have been done by the hands of man then i donno what will.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3yeah i think thsts whats getting these people peeved. its crushes their hopes and dreams of aliens like a pretty delicate butterfly with a fist.
- fabbers, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2I agree with the majority of comments, it's only a web browser!
- Nomad559, on 10/12/2007, -33/+2Firefaux Fanboys are IDIOTS
- dron55, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15people who can't spell the word fox are idiots.
- Kelmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Personally, I'll support any browser that implements standards and doesn't mangle them like IE. It doesn't have to be Firefox but I see as idiots anyone who doesn't comprehend the importance of this. The sooner we get away from having to design web sites twice (once for IE and once for everyone else) and see the end of "you must be using IE to view this site, please upgrade" the better for everyone.
- trieste, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10People who do not know know the meaning of 'faux' are just as bad.
Go use a dik-shun-a-ree
- Vigacmoe, on 10/12/2007, -33/+3Stupid fanboyz..
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I bet you thought that comment was gonna get dugg up to like +100 didn't you?
- Gman1223, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Stupid Trolls.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Man, that rocks my socks. A little obsessive, but still damn cool.
- marmaladeshark, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Don't you mean 'r0xx0rs my s0xx0rs'
- infobeat234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Geeks like this stuff because it's brilliant. It shows initative, it takes real organisation >>and it just looks damn cool. If you don't like it, scroll past the story and move on. >>Simple!
Geeks do this because they have no girlfriends and they needed something to do after they typed:
emerge -U world on their Gentoo boxes.. Let's just be honest with ourselves shall we?
http://www.qqbq.info/sitemap.htm
- hometoast, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7When "grass roots" goes bad.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Rather "Grass roots gone wild". And I mean it in a good sense.
- cwcheang, on 10/12/2007, -21/+2okay good time for a poll.
digg me up if you believe in non-human made crop circles.
otherwise down.
digg should start a section for poll.- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2just for that i hope someone uses goats or miniature ponies or maybe midgets riding miniature ponies to stomp down the field into a crop circle
- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3You forgot about teh unicorns.
- Needle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2So what do i do if i just think your "poll" is stupid...
Don't want to give bad data..
- vaxguru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4If only one of those showed up in 'Signs'...
That would've been sweet =P
Great effort! - skremer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4JokeWallpaper.com had Microsoft crop circles back in 1998:
http://www.jokewallpaper.com/jokepayed2002/html/141.php- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3ah, thats shopped
hmm like the browser
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3ah, thats shopped
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Firefox: Now with 45% more fiber!
- plqplq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0So Bill Gates is an alien as well as all those firefox programmers ?
- dacyac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I heard that Delos D. Harriman just sold the advertising rights for the face of the moon to Bill Gates.
- jonabyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Direct link to picture on image hosting site...the link to the article seems to be down now:
http://www.pixshax.com/mypix.php?image=images/firefox_cropcircle.jpg- philips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The project site has a number of photos http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle
- claco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's nice to see that they actually acquired permission from the crop/land owner.
- TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Silly me... whenever I see "OSU" I think "Ohio State University," being from Columbus, Ohio, so for a split second I was thinking "what the hell were Ohio State students doing in Oregon making crop circles; we have plenty of crops to smash around here... oh wait."
Granted Ohio State has an enrollment of over 50,000 students compared to Oregon State's 19,000, but it's always fun to encounter the various other OSU's out there. It's a reminder to be more mindful of the world *beyond* my backyard. ;-)- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Open Source University.
- stampy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That's funny. Being from Texas I was thinking of Oklahoma State and wondering what they were doing in Oregon.
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Someone contact Google so they can pull whatever strings they need to get the satalite images updated. This needs to be on Google Earth!
- mvnicosia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wait a minute...humans can make crop circles?
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would be nice for the crop-logo to survive till next Google-accessible satellite flight over this zone.
- twoblink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3>>Geeks like this stuff because it's brilliant. It shows initative, it takes real organisation >>and it just looks damn cool. If you don't like it, scroll past the story and move on. >>Simple!
Geeks do this because they have no girlfriends and they needed something to do after they typed:
emerge -U world on their Gentoo boxes.. Let's just be honest with ourselves shall we? - hockey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Looks like there is intelligent life out there after all.
- Exploit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE
- wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Undeniable proof that there are no girls in engineering school
- polvi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Except there are girls in the photos
- tonygarcia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1http://13gb.com/media.php?media_id=1850 seen it already
- Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Fanboy idiots! Let's celebrate the damage and trespassing on those crops. Let's celebrate bringing such attention to a freakin web browser when maybe world peace of a rally in support of AIDS research is in order. This makes me sick!
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If you had read even a few of the comments here, or RTFA, you'd know that they got permission from the farmer/landowner.
But that would've required work, and not been nearly as fun as spouting off your baseless opinions and revealing what a jackass you are. I know we all enjoyed learning something new about you... - Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think I wanna have yo baby
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If you had read even a few of the comments here, or RTFA, you'd know that they got permission from the farmer/landowner.
- rootneg2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Somebody should do this with the Ubuntu logo; I bet you wouldn't even need walkie-talkies for that one...
- tripm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3now the price of my morning oatmeal is gonna rise.
- gengisPhat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Of course aliens prefer Firefox. Haven't you seen Independence Day? If the aliens use IE they could get a virus and we could destroy their mother ship.
- Muncher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Stuff like this makes me wish Opera had a nicer logo.
- Reno582, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Yeah, Opera Kicks so much ass, and gets so little credit for it
Crop Circles, what a waste of time
- Reno582, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Yeah, Opera Kicks so much ass, and gets so little credit for it
- RatTrap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's awesome.
- Zoglog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1College students really do have too much time.
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1We do.
- AnubisAscended, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Hallowed are the Firefox Users. (original quote was from Season Nine of Stargate SG-1 ("Hallowed are the Ori."))
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