New York City, LEGO Style

Obiwan Kenobi writes "I know we've done LEGO links to death, but The Brick Apple is in a class all by itself. Between the 5 foot tall Empire State Building, the 50,000 piece Greenwich village or perhaps the best of all: the World Trade Center, from which this quote was taken: 'Actually, sticking together all those little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces would get VERY tedious, and after a while they would really hurt my thumbs. Each floor had over 500 little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces.' Wow."

Re:Lego and employment

[cgranade]

Hmm... I would wonder about the man's sense of priority. Though they are cool, 500 pieces for each floor of each building? Plus, how much money would it cost? Don't mean to knock his achievement, but I don't think it yells of employability, either.

Re:Slashdotted already...

[paul248]

What if slashdot doesn't have enough bandwidth to host these image-filled pages? They would be much larger than the normal story/comment page views, and we wouldn't want to risk slashdotting slashdot. Even if there is enough bandwidth available, I doubt it's all free.

Re:Would you break the Lego WTC?

[TiMac]

Oh relax. It's not like he talked about the little stumpy-legged Lego people burning in the plastic building, or throwing themselves off it and liquidating/melting on the pavement below...THAT would be distasteful.

Oh, whoops. :-\

Seriously people, lighten up. Sure, 9/11 was awful for everyone, and we do need to have respect for those that died and those that lost those they loved. But I and everyone *I* know is pretty tired of the whole world going stoic and stony-eyed anytime someone so much as mentions the events or the WTC. We need to be able to recognize events, learn from them, laugh at them (respectfully, of course) when applicable, and move on. This is a case where it is slightly amusing--I was most amused by the concept of little Lego Angels and Devils on the shoulders.

So please, chill. No one means anything disrespectful (not yet anyway).

Re:Not that easy...

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, they can under the DMCA (yea, they actually did one thing right with the DMCA). Personally, I wish more ISPs, especially the really large ones, just cached all web requests. With a good tree structure, you'd be able to cache a lot of the commonly accessed internet with squid. Then slashdotting and most DoS attacks wouldn't work (at least not against their target). The only major except is dealing with caching dynamic content. The real answer to that is a combination of don't do dynamic content (ie, stick parts of it in javascript/java or use a dynamic generation cache where it doesn't have to be flushed even remotely often) and for things that really need dynamic content (ssl store fronts, web servers, etc) is for some large company (say Yahoo) to have multiple secure front ends to do the transactions for you so there isn't any one main server to DoS. Of course, the latter one isn't always doable (or even preferable), but then there's no real other solution.

wtf

[Anonymous Coward]

i object, the fact that it is tasteless does not take away from the fact that is true.
-1 flameblait

bs. is it funny because it is true. I mean, lego are adepiction of reality in this case.

in other words, if you cannot find this funny, you must be a relative (im sorry for this rant then) or someone who absolutely has no sense of humor.

There is such a thing as too soon for a punchline, but i do not beleive this is one of them. It friggin legos.

but we have to see beyond the crapface, illigitimate stereotypes if what not to to do, some things are funny.

-a true American

Re:Not that easy...

[spongman]

Hardly. Web proxies are designed to do exactly this, indeed HTTP/1.1 [isi.edu] specifically added support for caching proxies.

You web browser probably contains a cache of this page, did you (or it) ask permission beforehand? It could even be argued that the absence of a 'Cache-control: no-cache' header, which the content originator could quite easily add if they don't wish their content to be cached, is an implicit permission to mirror the content.

Re:Not that easy...

[Flakeloaf]

Naw, what we need to do is create a .torrent file of all of the images on his site, and get his web server to cache that.