Penny Hero (dot) Net » firefox http://www.pennyhero.net Thrilling heroics at an affordable price. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:08:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Firefox crop circle on google maps and google earth FINALLY !! http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/11/29/firefox-crop-circle-on-google-maps-and-google-earth-finally/ http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/11/29/firefox-crop-circle-on-google-maps-and-google-earth-finally/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:56:39 +0000 emily http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/11/29/firefox-crop-circle-on-google-maps-and-google-earth-finally/ At last at last at last!

We’re finally imortalized on Google Maps and Google Earth!

Here’s the Digg story, a direct link to the google map (I’m the little dot on the far right in the picture of us near the trucks), and a article about the crop circle being in Google Earth!

I’m so stoked. I’m risking persecution by blogging at work while my bosses are down here because this is just THAT exciting!

btw, here’s the article that talks about the circle project and the the documentary that documented it all!

]]> http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/11/29/firefox-crop-circle-on-google-maps-and-google-earth-finally/feed/ 1 I was quoted in the Crop-circle correction! http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/17/i-was-quoted-in-the-crop-circle-correction/ http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/17/i-was-quoted-in-the-crop-circle-correction/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:13:34 +0000 emily http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/17/i-was-quoted-in-the-crop-circle-correction/ I’m sort of proud of this. Just wanted to let you know that some “reporters” actually do listen to people who write to them to inform them that no oats were “abused.”

I suppose he was trying to be funny, but his articles are syndicated as “news” so I didn’t really look too closely at his “humor”. Serves me right for being knee-jerky, I guess, because he quoted my note in its entirety. At least I was polite, or that would have been embarassing. :)

Here’s a direct link to the corrected article.

]]> http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/17/i-was-quoted-in-the-crop-circle-correction/feed/ 0 Firefox crop circle finished!! http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/15/firefox-crop-circle-finished/ http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/15/firefox-crop-circle-finished/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:37:56 +0000 emily http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/15/firefox-crop-circle-finished/ First, let’s resolve some FAQs:

No aliens were harmed in the making of this crop circle.

No farmers or land owners were harmed in the making of this crop circle. (we had PERMISSION!)

No, we were not really abducted by aliens and forced to act as their personal slaves to promote some alternative browsing lifestyle. We did this of our own free will because we love Firefox!

YES there were GIRLS involved! (like me and Beth!)

Rumor has it that the original idea came from a girl John sat next to on a plane in the not-so-distant past and in a not-so-distant place. The idea spread like a hot hot hot conspiracy theory through the interweb and through our humanoid geeky hearts. It was like wildfire through an oat field! A wild fireFOX spreading through an oat field!

Anyway, it’s true! It’s real! It’s finished! And I was THERE! (I still can’t believe it)

Here are some links to Important Stuff related to the circle:

I’ll add more links as I find them:
Firefox on Technorati <--all over the place!
all over the place on google search!
Firefox Tales!

We Got Slashdotted!

]]> http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/15/firefox-crop-circle-finished/feed/ 3 Firefox Crop Circle (part one) http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/12/firefox-crop-circle-part-one/ http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/12/firefox-crop-circle-part-one/#comments Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:11:19 +0000 emily http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/08/12/firefox-crop-circle-part-one/ Crushing oats with 2x4s in both 2am freezing cold temperatures and broad-daylight HOT SUN is… really NOT how I expected to spend a weekend evar in my life. I’m sunburned for the first time since I moved from hawaii, and I’ve got OATS. hehheheh.

WE MADE A FIREFOX CROP CIRCLE! Helicoptors, small airplanes, and GOOGLE!

Everyone got really great photos from the air. I can’t upload any of my photos yet because I left my cable at home. That’s why this is part one of… who knows how many.

Anyway, for starters, check out the firefox flicks video about OSCON where the Mozilla crew hooked up with the OSU crew and started the real work to make this happen.

Anyway, I took some oats as proof I was there, and I got to be the one filmed knocking down the very last of the design. woo hoo!

More will probably show up on other places online. Links to follow as soon as people start posting and digging and blogging.

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