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Ten Grand Is Buried There (zoom in)

68 points by mattmichielsen 17y ago

sp332 17y ago
There goes Microsoft's "commitment to web standards"...
adamfeldman 17y ago
well done
- mattlanger 17y ago
  Apparently I'm dense; I don't get it. Help plz.
  - blhack 17y ago
    Microsoft is a running a similar contest http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/ http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/
    - mtarnovan 17y ago
      "You'll never find it using tarnished Chrome". Another pathetic marketing idea, one that really only Microsoft would think of.
      - blhack 17y ago
        That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. Does microsoft need to houseclean THAT bad? Really?
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    - andreyf 17y ago
      Does that really say "it's not as stupid as it sounds" on the bottom, there? hah!
      - youngian 17y ago
        Yeah, I misinterpreted that too. The subject they are intending is the idea of telling your friends, not the entire contest. If only they were that self-deprecating...
    - dca 17y ago
      Changing the user agent in Firefox lets you view that page in IE8 mode. I wonder if the clue pages will do that to?
    - Derrek 17y ago
      I always use Firefox, but today I went to the contest site with IE8 on Vista. The message said, "But you'll never find it using Windows Internet Explorer 7". MS couldn't even detect their own "best ever" browser. Very sad.
    - mattlanger 17y ago
      Curious: that link worked when you posted it. Now it's dead.
msie 17y ago
Emphasis on the zoom in.
blhack 17y ago
In case anybody doesn't get the "joke", microsoft recently launched a contest where they "hid" something on the web, but you need IE8 to see it. The former is idiotic, this is cool :) Good job, mozilla team!
- mattlanger 17y ago
  Oh, neat! And how typically Microsoft to engage in browser-specific marketing antics. If only whatever it was that they'd "hid" were the HTML 5.0 and CSS 3 standards.
- vaksel 17y ago
  I don't believe the site is run by mozilla
- polvi 17y ago
  If anyone is interested, here is a more detailed write-up about the crop circle. It was put together by a group of us a few years. If you zoom up really close, you can see us laying in the field nearby. Awesome to see it still getting used. :) http://lug.oregonstate.edu/events/firefox/crop-circle http://lug.oregonstate.edu/events/firefox/crop-circle
  - gojomo 17y ago
    Now, has someone checked to see if $10K had been recently buried at that location?
amix 17y ago
This reminds me of BMW's Checkmate on Audi's ad 1). Brilliant. 1) http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1675-santa-monica-bmws-checkmate http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1675-santa-monica-bmws-ch...
- johnnybgoode 17y ago
  And this in turn reminds me of the "Car of the Year" ads. See http://www.thetalentjungle.com/hospitality_blog/index.php/archive/1/index.php/item/279 http://www.thetalentjungle.com/hospitality_blog/index.php/ar... (I don't think the Bentley one is real, though.).
tigerthink 17y ago
If someone needs a web-based puzzle the python challenge is decent: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
davidw 17y ago
Hey, cool, 'home'. Well, a bit north, but close enough. Here's the Google Maps link: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=45.12363,-123.113662&spn=0.002487,0.006974&z=18 http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=45.12363,... zoomed in.
farkinga 17y ago
First clue from the Twitter feed (@Tengrand_IE8): "If you are already using IE8, please switch off the Compatibility Mode!" This is going to be great. /sarcasm
- pmorici 17y ago
  and prior to that they posted the message "Follow me and join the IE8 Treaure Hunt!" Can they not even spell Treasure correctly?
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idm 17y ago
So, the MS contest is performing useragent analysis to generate custom pages based on your browser. If you use Firefox or Chrome, you get a customized jab at your of browser (e.g. "old Firefox" or "Tarnished Chrome".) ...but if you use Opera, they just call it "that browser."
- branden 17y ago
  I think that's the default for any user agent they don't recognize. For some reason I get "that browser" when I use Firefox on Ubuntu Jaunty.
TallGuyShort 17y ago
I thought this phoenix was lame - the fox is WAY cooler! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5540634/Phoenix-crop-circle-may-predict-end-of-the-world.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5540...
pmorici 17y ago
If you enable the "Develop" menu on the Safari 4 options you can change the user agent to IE8...
ComputerGuru 17y ago
"But you'll never find it using boring Safari. (So get rid of it, or get lost.)" .... "Ditch the web browser you're using. If you try to find the $10,000 with Safari, you'll get nowhere."

sp332 17y ago

There goes Microsoft's "commitment to web standards"...

adamfeldman 17y ago

well done

mattlanger 17y ago
Apparently I'm dense; I don't get it. Help plz.
- blhack 17y ago
  Microsoft is a running a similar contest http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/ http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/
  - mtarnovan 17y ago
    "You'll never find it using tarnished Chrome". Another pathetic marketing idea, one that really only Microsoft would think of.
    - blhack 17y ago
      That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. Does microsoft need to houseclean THAT bad? Really?
  - deleted 17y ago
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  - andreyf 17y ago
    Does that really say "it's not as stupid as it sounds" on the bottom, there? hah!
    - youngian 17y ago
      Yeah, I misinterpreted that too. The subject they are intending is the idea of telling your friends, not the entire contest. If only they were that self-deprecating...
  - dca 17y ago
    Changing the user agent in Firefox lets you view that page in IE8 mode. I wonder if the clue pages will do that to?
  - Derrek 17y ago
    I always use Firefox, but today I went to the contest site with IE8 on Vista. The message said, "But you'll never find it using Windows Internet Explorer 7". MS couldn't even detect their own "best ever" browser. Very sad.
  - mattlanger 17y ago
    Curious: that link worked when you posted it. Now it's dead.

msie 17y ago

Emphasis on the zoom in.

blhack 17y ago

In case anybody doesn't get the "joke", microsoft recently launched a contest where they "hid" something on the web, but you need IE8 to see it. The former is idiotic, this is cool :) Good job, mozilla team!

mattlanger 17y ago
Oh, neat! And how typically Microsoft to engage in browser-specific marketing antics. If only whatever it was that they'd "hid" were the HTML 5.0 and CSS 3 standards.
vaksel 17y ago
I don't believe the site is run by mozilla
polvi 17y ago
If anyone is interested, here is a more detailed write-up about the crop circle. It was put together by a group of us a few years. If you zoom up really close, you can see us laying in the field nearby. Awesome to see it still getting used. :) http://lug.oregonstate.edu/events/firefox/crop-circle http://lug.oregonstate.edu/events/firefox/crop-circle
- gojomo 17y ago
  Now, has someone checked to see if $10K had been recently buried at that location?

amix 17y ago

This reminds me of BMW's Checkmate on Audi's ad 1). Brilliant. 1) http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1675-santa-monica-bmws-checkmate http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1675-santa-monica-bmws-ch...

johnnybgoode 17y ago
And this in turn reminds me of the "Car of the Year" ads. See http://www.thetalentjungle.com/hospitality_blog/index.php/archive/1/index.php/item/279 http://www.thetalentjungle.com/hospitality_blog/index.php/ar... (I don't think the Bentley one is real, though.).

tigerthink 17y ago

If someone needs a web-based puzzle the python challenge is decent: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

davidw 17y ago

Hey, cool, 'home'. Well, a bit north, but close enough. Here's the Google Maps link: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=45.12363,-123.113662&spn=0.002487,0.006974&z=18 http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=45.12363,... zoomed in.

farkinga 17y ago

First clue from the Twitter feed (@Tengrand_IE8): "If you are already using IE8, please switch off the Compatibility Mode!" This is going to be great. /sarcasm

pmorici 17y ago
and prior to that they posted the message "Follow me and join the IE8 Treaure Hunt!" Can they not even spell Treasure correctly?
- deleted 17y ago
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idm 17y ago

So, the MS contest is performing useragent analysis to generate custom pages based on your browser. If you use Firefox or Chrome, you get a customized jab at your of browser (e.g. "old Firefox" or "Tarnished Chrome".) ...but if you use Opera, they just call it "that browser."

branden 17y ago
I think that's the default for any user agent they don't recognize. For some reason I get "that browser" when I use Firefox on Ubuntu Jaunty.

TallGuyShort 17y ago

I thought this phoenix was lame - the fox is WAY cooler! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5540634/Phoenix-crop-circle-may-predict-end-of-the-world.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5540...

pmorici 17y ago

If you enable the "Develop" menu on the Safari 4 options you can change the user agent to IE8...

ComputerGuru 17y ago

"But you'll never find it using boring Safari. (So get rid of it, or get lost.)" .... "Ditch the web browser you're using. If you try to find the $10,000 with Safari, you'll get nowhere."