tagged w/ Geocaching
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Looking for a great outdoor activity to do with your family this weekend? Geocaching is becoming wildly popular, and will help sharpen your kids' problem-solving skills, while giving everyone a great outdoor experience.
Geocaching Will Develop Your Kids' Problem-Solving Skills
Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. And it's great fun! Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.
And if you think that sounds straightforward, think again. Finding that hidden treasure may involve scrambling over rock faces, striding out cross-country, even climbing trees.
Over A Million Treasures Hidden On Public Lands Across The World!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4VFeYZTTYs&feature=player_embedded
http://insteading.com/2011/05/28/what-geocaching-can-teach-your-family/Looking for a great outdoor activity to do with your family this weekend? Geocaching... more
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This follows a group of friends through their first few times ever Geocaching. Also, REI Geocaching instructor, Steve Wood makes a very important appearance as their adviser.This follows a group of friends through their first few times ever Geocaching. Also,... more
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A concerned campus worker called the police after spotting a "suspicious object" in a stormwater drain near the base of campus at UC Santa Cruz earlier today.
The Santa Cruz County Bomb Team responded by blocking off the entire entrance, and blasting the object with a water cannon.
Unfortunately, I slept through my classes today, and didn't get to witness the excitement. I got about 3 emails from the campus "CruzAlert" system.
Apparently "Geocaching" is a game where players look for stashed objects (geocaches) using GPS receivers. I bet the person who put the box in the drain is pretty embarrassed!A concerned campus worker called the police after spotting a "suspicious... more
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Hardcore Nine Inch Nails fans got a special treat last week when Trent Reznor and company hid tickets to a private concert all over Los Angeles. More than twenty question marks appeared on a Google Earth map that NIN put out on their tour page. The question marks were labeled with phrases like "Men's room. Behind the mirror. Be discreet," and "Incredibly ugly hat. Last pair of tickets." Quick-thinking fans noted the GPS coordinates of question marks and set off on a treasure hunt, much like geocachers.
At each location there was a hidden white envelope marked with a question mark. Inside, were two tickets to a private invite-only show and directions on how to email and confirm the show's location. The envelopes were hidden in various ways: inside a drain pipe, inside a book on a shelf at Barnes and Noble, and on the base of the triceratops statue at the Natural History Museum, just to name a few. The headstone on the right is where a fan found the tickets labeled "A. Boner". [see link]
Nine Inch Nails has always treated its fans with love, releasing their album, "The Slip", online for free, and hosting other secret shows for members of their fan club. This ticket hunt is not the first stroke of marketing brilliance to come from NIN. Last year, they started an ARG for their album "Year Zero". Way to go to Trent and Nine Inch Nails for keeping the excitement alive for their most loyal fans.
By Annie Tsai// Epic Fu
http://blog.epicfu.com/2008/07/nin-loves-its-fans-and-google.html
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Hardcore Nine Inch Nails fans got a special treat last week when Trent Reznor and... more
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Police are unlikely to fine or lay charges after a suspicious package was discovered to be part of a burgeoning hobby known as geocaching. The incident shut down Riverside Drive and part of the transitway for four hours last week and the bomb squad was called in to destroy the package.
Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunt in which participants use global positioning devices to unearth the whereabouts of hidden parcels that contain items like a logbook and trinkets.
"We had such a positive meeting on Monday night with the geocachers, that we both want to find a solution," said Insp. Tyrus Cameron, who was given a crash course on the game at the gathering.
Police want the containers used to be transparent so that their contents can be easily identified and not misconstrued as a threat to the public.Police are unlikely to fine or lay charges after a suspicious package was discovered... more
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