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Benny Goldman
09/25/09

In reply to The Secrets of Time Square's Ridiculous Billboards
Derr... not for nothin, but I wrote up that same little fact like a year ago. Still love you Red. [gizmodo.com]

The sign's modules are split into three sections, low-, medium- and high-resolution grids based on their distance from the street. (Why waste pixels for objects way high up?) The top, as you probably guessed, has the largest pixels, at 24mm, while the middle has 12mm and the bottom has 10mm.
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deanbmmv
09/24/09

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And I thought the secret of Time Square was it's kind of a trapezoid shape not square.
And it's not bigger on the inside.
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lankysob
09/24/09

In reply to The Secrets of Time Square's Ridiculous Billboards
Now I remember why I jumped off the Engadget ship and onto the Gizmodo ship many moons ago: Giz doesn't create videos with 18 second opening sequences that give its' readers seizures.

Nice informative piece (with a pretty cool HUD) otherwise.
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Benguin
09/24/09

@lankysob: Oh good, I was afraid that I was the only one who thought that was obnoxiously long.
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Cairnage
09/24/09

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I thought that here at Gizmodo we despised Engadget?
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ilovexspin
09/24/09

@Cairnage: don't think we do. someone wrote "Engadget" in legos on the GizGallery lego wall and I told a staff member and he said it was OKAY. IMO IT WAS NOT OKAY.
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Anonymoose
09/24/09

@Cairnage: i used to read/post only on engadget, but then suddenly it would always freeze at my work place, so i started coming here. at first i missed engadget like a mother misses her kids who she sold to the circus. i preferred the writing and the comments at engadget over this place.

but then the more time i spent here, the more community-oriented it felt. i can only remember maybe three posters over there that i liked, but now that i've spent more time here, i can actually think of several. sure, i've been posting here for a while now and that certainly lends to my memory, but still. and then i got a pretty good sense of the editors here and their style of writing and found that, yeah, this blog has some great stuff and some great humorous writing.

with that being said, engadget is still a great blog and guess what, so is this. luckily the editors here and at engadget are just slightly more mature than us commenters, so they're able to support each other instead of saying the other sucks like we do. there's room for both blogs, and i'm happy about that. and plus, i seem to get banned here once every two months, so i can always go back to engadget.
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Anonymoose
09/24/09

@Anonymoose: that reply was way too long. i'm not emo, i swear. what? no, i didn't just cut myself, my forearm sweats blood because i'm a MAN. oh, this world is just too beautiful!

*sobs into my black-fingernail polished hands*
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BeautifulAgony
11/25/08

In reply to Panasonic Pwnd On Their Own Times Square TV
First, I am reasonably sure the advertising was paid for and not some geurilla hack.

Second, as much as I support environmental awareness, it seems that a great deal of the environmental activist and animal rights organizations are horribly hypocritical, petty, subversive and dangerous. The methods they employ and the tactics they endorse do more to harm their causes because they drive corporations away from supporting them and most people don't want to be associated with these mentally unstable whackjobs.

You wanna recycle, not eat meat and be kind to animals? Be my guest, but seriously, get the fuck away from my prime rib and 8" patent leather maryjane platforms.

Ok, sorry... done now.
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rimshot515
11/25/08

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Unfortunately, tampering with another person's property to get your point across probably isn't the best way to make the people on your side of the argument look good.

Oh wait, environmentalists have never looked good.

My bad.
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nutbastard
11/25/08

@rimshot515:

i'm pretty sure they just paid for the adspace, dude. if this was a hack it'd be a bigger story.
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Acerbus Letalis
11/25/08

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Oh snap!
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OMG! Ponies!
11/25/08

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If Panny really wanted some decent PR, they could underwrite the Gizmodo Gallery. At the very least, they could provide the contractors necessary to install their behemoth.
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Trowble (XBL/PSN)
11/13/08

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I don't care much, since I sure as hell won't take the R train out to Times Square around 7 or 8pm, stand around for 5 or 6 hours, just to see the ball drop among a horde of people. I'll do the same thing I do every year, drink at home, watch the ball drop on TV, and get back to my Honeymooners Marathon, then go out to the bar for more drinks. It's genius!
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Kaiser-Machead
11/13/08

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): You know, that actually IS genius.
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LittleJon
11/12/08

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What is it with this whole ball dropping thing? Does anyone know how and why this got started?
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Kaiser-Machead
11/13/08

@LittleJon: Um......nah I won't bother :X
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HawaiianActor
11/15/08

@LittleJon: puberty
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Kaiser-Machead
11/12/08

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Great Fuller's ghost!
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pdok
11/12/08

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This sounds like a great thing to add to NYC's deficit spending! Way to go, and enjoy all your new toll bridges...
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qbrad
11/12/08

@pdok: I too agree with you. However, I'm not so sure NYC foots the bill on this. The Fireworks are Macy's. The Thanksgiving Day Parade is Macy's. I don't know if the ball is Macy's, but I do think it's a sponsor's and not partially mine.
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