Charles Ingram, a former British Army major, won £1,000,000 after his wife (planted in the audience) coughed to signify each correct answer. Unlike Larson, his winnings were rescinded.
Author here. That quote should read "...how the hell am I getting these [whales] out of this park?" Thanks for catching that.
I went through and read the rest of the article to double check for other mix-ups, but this was the only one I found. Whale sharks are technically classified as "fish," hence my use of the word to refer to them throughout. Thanks for reading!
I just scanned the article, it seems correct now in its use of shark/fish/whale/etc designators.
It's a confusing situation with both belugas (who are whales, and therefore mammals, and not fish despite their appearance) and whale-sharks (who are sharks, and therefore fish, but not related to whales despite their name). Add to that things like fish-tanks and so on, and you got a lot of room for confusion, so it pays to double-check everything!
I can't say with absolute certainty that it's called this across the entire country, but in my part of Sweden it's called "spunnet socker", which translates to "spun sugar". Certainly seems more appetizing than beard or hair at least. :)
She confirms she worked on the Indigo Magic Desktop (mainly designing icons), but says she can't recall the exact scope of her work: "It was LONG ago but I will see if I can dig it up...sorry not to be able to summon this up!"
The SGI icons gave much better feedback with animations when you clicked on them, they had quaint drop shadows, let you know if they were open already and showed if they were links or not. They had so much going for them. Someone, e.g. at Canonical, should revisit this aspect of the SGI desktop and ask Susan Kare to apply her touch to something new yet derived from the SGI work. Just having her name to an Ubuntu desktop would win over design snobs who don't see whatever you get on Linux as 'design worthy'.
Do keep me updated as I still believe everything SGI was the best ever. Thanks!
Apple commissioned eight two-dimensional sculptures for its R&D campus front lawn in 1993. Officially, the "icon garden" fulfilled an agreement to have art in Apple's front park (and paid homage to Susan Kare). Shortly after Steve Jobs returned in 1997, he stripped the garden.
As for where the icons ended up: it's anyone's guess! There really isn't any conclusive info on this, and most people fall back on one of three non-definitive theories:
a) They were scrapped.
b) They're archived somewhere.
c) Chuck Norris.
The answer is d, all of the above. I saw a few still hanging around 1 Infinite Loop last time I was there (September, but no pics, so it didn't happen), and apparently Dogcow is in a Cupertino garage, according to WWDC 2013's Stump the Experts. Also, Chuck Norris.
To clarify, one of the panelists on Stump the Experts said they have (just Dogcow? I don't remember) in their garage, which they used to answer a question about how many pixels are on one of the statues.
1966 coupe, with the 200 sprint, because that was the car I bought when I was 16 (although I didn't get to drive it until I was 17, because I had to fix it up).
I'm a bit to young to have been driving the original mustangs but I am a Ford guy. If I were to get a mustang it would have to be manual no doubt. The 302 Boss has always appealed to me. I typically don't buy flashy stuff but in the case of the mustang I would go all out with the classic baby blue with black stripes or orange/red with black stripes.
Charles Ingram, a former British Army major, won £1,000,000 after his wife (planted in the audience) coughed to signify each correct answer. Unlike Larson, his winnings were rescinded.