Gigapan viewing

This got sent around at work. Pretty insane!
checkit.



You can scan, double click and zoom to any section of the crowd. The picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474 megapixel. (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera.)
You can zoom in right to the back rows and see the detail on people's faces! Pretty good for security.. Suppose they didn't want another JFK incident..

Dear Mr President By Pepsi

Dear Mr. President..
You have something to say to the President of the United States? Then you can upload your video to Dear Mr. President, a 'seemingly nice' action coming from Pepsi and R/GA.

Consumers pushing content back to the advertiser
"What does this mean for online video? Well, it means that banner advertising has done what cable did when it went digital, it became a two-way communication avenue. Not only can content be pushed to viewers as it has been doing for years, but now it also allows the consumer, the viewers, to push content back. It allows for dynamic interaction and compilation of user-created content. It gives the people, the consumers, the viewers a voice. More than a voice, it gives them a potentially fully interactive medium with which to reach out to the advertisers. Imagine that, consumers reaching through the internet toward you, telling you what they want to see, hear, buy. Telling you what they like and don’t like and telling you who they are, where they are and what they’re thinking.
Isn’t that what technology is about? Enabling us to do what we couldn’t before, to go beyond what we ever hoped and to connect us all like never before? Sure it might not seem like much but it’s a step forward. It’s a potential way for advertisers to better understand their consumers, to better target their advertising and to better spend that all-important marketing budget."

Google sightseeing

Aliens have been trying to communicate with us puny humans for years now, usually via the confusing medium of drawing circles in Britain’s fields. But a recent trend shows them branching out into more direct forms of communication with actual words being carved into our crops. Of course they haven’t fully developed a grasp of our primitive languages, as seen in this example of childishly rude crop writing just beside Edinburgh Airport.

What, oh mighty alien lifeforms, are you trying to tell us?!

(click for google sightseeing)

And another..
This gigantic image of the KFC Colonel was constructed from 65,000 1-foot-square tiles laid out in the Mojave desert. The ad took six days to construct, and was announced to the public almost exactly a year ago, however the images were not available on the Google Earth until now.

As part of the publicity stunt it was widely claimed that this was “the first logo to be visible from space”.. But it really depends on how you define "visible" and "space".



Also.. Fucking, Austria?