Finished 9 pixels over the weekend, well actually friday but had a not being able to log on to my blog problem.
The final pixel is a “mystery pixel”, so mysterious even I do not know what it is.

I’ve just spotted a slight flaw in my American place names theory, if this were true as John Earle pointed out that an American inch was 1/2 a British Inch then Americans would all be 3 foot tall or 12 foot tall, or something maybe.

Anyway today’s interesting fact, the largest number with a name is a gogol. If you made a computer program to write out a gogol on a standard PC it would take it approximately 85 years before it would finish.

My first 4 tiles for the Human Pixel Project.

Artist Peter Smuts has had over a thousand artists participate now in the project each doing mono coloured tiles to be made into much larger works of art. I’m only annoyed that I won’t be able to see them in person as they are being shown in Cambridge, USA.

I have noticed recently that almost everyplace in America has a British equivalent. For examples Hollywood is actually in Birmingham, England. There is also a Warwick on Rhode Island and even a Stratford in Connecticut. It is actually a fact (that I just made up) that these places in America are actually an exact replica of their British equivalents. During the early 19th Century when the Americans decided to build all these towns and cities it was decided that it was cheaper to buy up the British plans than design their own.

What the American builders hadn’t realised though was that an America inch is approximately twice as large as a British inch. Which is why when you go on holiday from Britain to America things seem much larger there than over here. As a result of the larger cities they also had to build larger cars, larger bikes and also larger meals for their larger restaurants.

No pictures from me today, I got this rather fine robot picture through the post yesterday from Bigtime at Robot-A-Day. I swapped 4 robot trading cards for this picture and he even kindly through in some rather cool robot badges.

What I really like about it (apart from the robot) is what he’s painted it on, it looks like its rusty metal and has a really nice sheen to it. Cheers BT.