I don't usually respond to something like this. But looking at it made me really wonder. I bounced around on several sites finally finding one that actually gave the web source for the photo they were using. So I typed in the url and found the actual photo. The sad part in all of this is that most of the postings on the web have taken this picture out of context. It's not exactly photoshopped. I imagine that the author of this "rumor" (though I really want to say hoax) cropped the image for ease of viewing.
However, the cropping removed the edge of the Rover, removing the base of scale. To make this picture small enough to get around the web quickly, only a small portion of the area was shown zoomed in. With the loss of scale, one could easily imagine that what they're looking at is small sandstone outcroppings. They're not. To see what I'm talking about visit the Photojournal at JPL. If you have Photoshop, get the jpg or tif image offered on the right side of the page. Open it and look around the left side of the image towards the bottom. You'll have to zoom in around 400% to come close.
Some of you might say that the rock color doesn't match the rocks near it. It actually does. Take your Magnetic Lasso tool around the human looking image, copy it and paste it to a new layer. Drag the new layer over the rock a ways down and you'll see that the color does indeed match.
I would love it if NASA would just take Spirit back over to that section and get really close to this rock. Might be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Possible Life on Mars? - Not in this photo
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Google it if you really want to
My contract at LegalZoom has been terminated. They've decided to switch to .NET with the bulk of the web site already being completed and moving out of Sharepoint. They've got a talented HTML person (*waves at Beth*) already so I became superfluous. My only quibble is that they did exactly as I thought they would. "Don't come in. The contract is over." Oh well.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Today is brought to you by the letters D-I-G-G
I learned a new word today: diggbait. This seems to be a term to describe a page or blogpost that is reactionary, ill-researched, and has industry catch phrases that either excite people or scare them. So far I've typically run into this diggbait on pages that describe the most searched word for the day or that tell you about another company playing big brother and spying on your usage. Is this diggbait a good or bad thing I wonder?
Monday, October 15, 2007
Getting graphic
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Current Projects
For the last 8 months, I've been working at Legalzoom.com. The site has been launched and the HTML team is going through errors and cleaning things up that were leftover from the old control site. While I've been devoting most of my time to that project, I've had time to work on a couple of others.
Pea in the Podcast
I redesigned the front end code for this web site and made it a bit more, well, expectant-motherish. I got my design ideas from shopping in the baby department at Target. I reminisced about my daughter being that age, wondering where the time had gone.
Theresa Smith's Discovery Toys Site
I resurfaced my mother's home page for her Discovery Toys venture. Unfortunately, my mother is still using Netscape Composer to edit pages. So the final result on her live site won't look as nice as the version below. *sigh*
I've been getting involved more and more on Etsy, and trying to get some product together so that I can start to sell there. I've plenty of designs coming together and I'm so excited to be getting ready to finally execute them.
Ok Dean, I've posted =).
