Humbled by Largess

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. 

Comments

[sara]

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 :)

[kate Lane]

This is awesome... and I agree, totally has an oddly calming effect. I love this whale. Anne, you rock.

[Peter McGrath]

Lots of screens in Japan and Iceland with pencils pushed through them.

[Hugh]

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?

[Anne]

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.