The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has a life size blue whale online. How did they squish this 180 tonne gargantuan mammal onto a website? Well, there's a little thumbnail of the whale inset on a larger window of it's various body regions that are correctly scaled to real life.
Now it mind sound boring but in fact, it's totally calming. Me, I've had him open on a tab on my browser for about a day. Every so often I'll go over and gently drift by to say hi. Go see for youself.
Hah, I saw this title in my RSS feed and thought it was going to refer to the new findings on canadian childhood obesity just released:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070328.OBESITY2828/TPStory/Front
Also interesting, but definitely not calming :)
Posted by: sara | March 28, 2007 at 11:19 AM
This is awesome... and I agree, totally has an oddly calming effect. I love this whale. Anne, you rock.
Posted by: kate Lane | March 28, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Lots of screens in Japan and Iceland with pencils pushed through them.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | March 29, 2007 at 05:41 AM
lovely link - thanks for sharing.
as your friendly neighborhood copyeditor, I do wonder if we are to be humbled by the whale's largeNEss, or by the largessE of the WDCS in dedicating so much bandwidth to the project?
Posted by: Hugh | March 29, 2007 at 02:47 PM
Glad the link is appreciated! As for largess, the Oxford American Dictionary allows for both spellings (with and 'e' and without). Um but I'll give you that I had the wrong meaning in mind. Woopsi-daisy.
Posted by: Anne | April 05, 2007 at 10:10 AM