continuity of parks

Cornfield Valentine: I Love Donna

On 17 December, 2001, Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite caught this sentiment in a field in Bee County, Texas, about 100 miles south of San Antonio

According to Wired News, Donna was not impressed.

By March of 2006, Massachusetts contractor-turned-realtor-turned-big-idea-guy, Colin Fitz-Gerald, was making headlines and doing radio interviews--and had his new business more or less up and running at RoofShout.com. The plan, it seemed, was to make lots of money by selling rooftop advertising space targeted at the fast-growing satellite imagery audience.

"I'm currently launching RoofShout.com with no money, no real experience running a business on the internet, and no real solid business plan," said Fitz-Gerald. "But I figure there's a lot of blank roofs and a lot of advertising that could go on the roofs."



A roofing company in Northern California seemed slightly more organized.

Meanwhile, off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, construction was already underway on a collection of 300 "man-made islands shaped into the continents of the world." The total cost of the project was estimated at US $1.8 billion. Individual islands were to be sold to "selected private developers" starting at US $6.85 million.


Welcome to The World

Here on Earth, we found ourselves momentarily nostalgic for the days when people looked upward to the sky for guidance--or distraction--rather than downward upon themselves. Then we found this cool gallery of ancient observatories, as seen from above.