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Firefox Circle
Oregon State University Linux Users Group website ^ | August 14, 2006

Posted on 08/15/2006 10:50:21 PM PDT by RayChuang88

Does the sudden appearance of a Firefox crop circle imply which browser extraterrestrials prefer? We don't know, but it was still fun to make!

Constructed by local Firefox fans and the same team that created the Firefox mural from cornstarch and kool-aid and launched the Firefox weather balloon, the Firefox Crop Circle project shows that we have so much passion for Firefox that we want it to be visible from space!

Planned in under two weeks and completed in under 24 hours, the crop circle had a final diameter of 220 feet. We constructed the circle in an oat field near Amity, Oregon, where it was completely invisible from the road but unmistakable from the sky. Our team consisted of 12 people, mainly OSU students, and we carefully stomped down oats from 3:30pm Friday afternoon until 2:30am, putting on the finishing touches between 7:30am and 11:00am Saturday, August 12.

(Excerpt) Read more at lug.oregonstate.edu ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Humor; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aliens; cropcircle; firefox; mozilla; ufos; webbrowser
Now this was a very fun and interesting project, to say the least.

However, gawd help us all if one Linda Moulton Howe (who has studied crop circles seriously and reports on them regularly for the Coast to Coast AM radio show) starts asking about this....

1 posted on 08/15/2006 10:50:22 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88

Firefox Rules!

2 posted on 08/16/2006 12:39:55 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America ... Where are you now?")
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3 posted on 08/16/2006 5:16:36 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Cool!


4 posted on 08/16/2006 5:35:42 AM PDT by marvlus
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To: ImpBill

Doing a crop circle for Opera would be, just like the browser, quicker, faster and easier.


5 posted on 08/16/2006 5:40:44 AM PDT by TruBluKentuckian
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To: RayChuang88

Just wait until Microsoft releases their latest browser IE7 with its total lack of customizability, you might see a lot more of those Firefox circles showing up. :)


6 posted on 08/16/2006 6:50:29 AM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: TruBluKentuckian
Doing a crop circle for Opera would be, just like the browser, quicker, faster and easier.

Given that the Opera logo includes the shadow, probably not.

7 posted on 08/16/2006 10:19:25 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Of course, someone on the Slashdot message board commented about a farmer in Washington state complaining about a bunch of Microsoft enthusiasts causing the blue screen of death on his soybean field, until it was determined that the field was flooded with water.
8 posted on 08/16/2006 5:21:56 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: longshadow

Crop circle ping


9 posted on 08/16/2006 5:52:25 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Everything is blasphemy to somebody.)
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To: RayChuang88

That's awesome! Wish I woulda thought of it, haha...


10 posted on 08/17/2006 12:09:09 AM PDT by kyofu
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