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Human Statue of Liberty at camp Dodge, Iowa. I happened to Stumble onto it..

For whatever reason, an 89 year old photo taken in Iowa is making its way around the internet. Many people who see the picture find it hard to believe it’s real. Mike Vogt, curator for the Gold Star Military Museum at Camp Dodge, says they received dozens of e-mails last week questioning if it’s a doctored image. Vogt says, in fact, it’s a real photo called "The Human Statue of Liberty." The photo was taken in August 1918 by Arthur Mole. Vogt says Mole and another photographer, John D. Thomas, traveled the country taking photos of soldiers who were grouped together to form various "patriotic" patterns. Over 18,000 soldiers were used in the Camp Dodge photo that was taken from an 80 foot high tower. Mole and Thomas went to great lengths to make sure the human statue was proportionally correct. "It’s an interesting exercise in survey and mathematic techniques to have the photographer perched in an 80 foot high tower and have all the soldiers fall in exactly where they needed to be,"

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I happened on this page of Wellington Grey  by accident (series of clicks while browsing, and I forgot how I got there), but could not help but be amused by the page.  Its good, and well thought of.  :)

Take a look.....

Computer scientists are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore a next-generation model for safe and legal electronic commerce that uses Internet bandwidth as a global currency. The application (available for free download) is an enhanced version of a program called Tribler.read more | digg story

I like the way social networking has taken off on the internet. For any social networking site, the revenue generated has mostly been due to advertisements based on traffic, or payment for services rendered. [Buying things on the internet.] Most of us have used peer-to-peer generally for downloading movies, songs, files, etc. [No, I am not broaching any kind of legalities here..] Sometimes they are slow, and sometimes fast. If you pay and opt-in into the system, you have better storage capacities, and participation. Most ISPs charge you on the data traffic that you have used. Here are the folks at Harvard, taking a new look at the way we do business. The way I see it, the implications are huge, and powerful. As in any business strategy, the early birds get the worm. Here's my breakdown of whats going on... [geeks and gearheads, please ...