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- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+113I, for one, welcome our new open source overlords.
- aknowles5139, on 10/12/2007, -11/+114@ ALIENDUDE5300: Why diidnt you just link to the site?
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle
Nice crop circle... - bairy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64This is digg.
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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! - neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -7/+51In latest news, scientists are still baffled by the existence of crop circles.
- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44I wonder if the field is now suffering from a memory leakage.
- jsg7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41Ahhh... finally documented proof that intelligent life forms don't use Internet Explorer...
- amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43This and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are reasons I love living in Oregon.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30This 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 - larst, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34This is so nice! To bad they didn't colorize it with flowers :P
- karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+37It 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.
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26No crop circles 2.0 yet? ;)
High-res picture:
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/albums/firefox-crop-circle/mg_5560.jpg - Bigbro69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Obviously it isn't lasting anymore.
- 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 - Rigbymatt, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28Its from this past weekend you fool, google earth uses stock air photography from about a year ago or earlier
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23No, its *the* web browser. There's a difference.
- zerokill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22omg they need to put this in google earth :P
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17firefox parade float?
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19@ KingMoses
We don't like your kind here. You better mosey on out of town. - catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I bet you thought that comment was gonna get dugg up to like +100 didn't you?
- brownb2, on 10/12/2007, -9/+23Just 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 :) - Gman1223, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Stupid Trolls.
- 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!"
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13They tried to make a similar crop-circle after the Microsoft Internet Explorer logo, but the crops refused to bend.
- danc4498, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Thanks for my new desktop wallpaper!
- 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.
- Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"What's this thing on the crops?"
"It's not a bug it's a feature!" - modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13@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. - 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.
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14So...
Why don't get your own field and make your own? It's easy, right? - Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Firefox: Now with 45% more fiber!
- Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12bairy, there's a lot more than 1%.
- mvnicosia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Wait a minute...humans can make crop circles?
- inactive, 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 :) - 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.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Rather "Grass roots gone wild". And I mean it in a good sense.
- 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 - punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18I wonder if you get an error page when going to their planet using IE.
- 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. - polvi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Except there are girls in the photos
- dron55, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15people who can't spell the word fox are idiots.
- 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 - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11or whose, even...
- gengisPhat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Of 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.
- karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Yes, that might have made me think that they were aliens.
- mbrewthx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is right up the road from me, Time for a little field trip.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Man, that rocks my socks. A little obsessive, but still damn cool.
- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Open Source University.
- 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.)
- 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. ;-) - hometoast, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7When "grass roots" goes bad.
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