Yesterday, we published an article that mentioned Mozilla's creation of an Oregon crop circle in the shape of the Firefox logo. Someone involved in the project contacted us, appalled at the idea Mozilla had "abused" 45,000 square feet of oats. The representative insists that no oats were harmed in the making of the crop circle.
article, which also perused George W.'s search records, explored orangutan love, made a bad pun about Poles, and accused Microsoft of using LSD: When geek-marketing, anything X-Files can only help. Mozilla recently abused 45,000 square feet of oat crops in Oregon to produce a Firefox logo crop circle. This, it would seem, crossed the line of acceptable elastic uses of the English language, and was not one little bit funny. My apologies. The representative seeks to clear up this matter immediately (edited for spelling, but not for silliness): I would like to inform you of an error in Jason Lee Miller's blurb about the Firefox crop circle. No oats or fields were "abused" at all. We received permission from the landowners and all oats were pressed and flattened with love and care. We made sure to tell everyone that this was a legitimate crop circle with the support of all parties involved, and that no damage was done. The farmers are still planning on harvesting the crops and they enjoyed us being there. Unfortunately, it seems Jason missed that important detail of the project. Some time ago, after a severe
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