2009-12-12

car,

Single-seater admobile

20 comments:

  1. I think there are all sorts of cool small vehicles in Europe.

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  2. Looks like a delivery vehicle of some sort. Nice hot pizza perhaps??

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  3. Don and Krise: "Nice hot pizza perhaps?"

    Maybe, but Tui is a travel company. Nice hot travel brochures?

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  4. Damit darf man nicht zu schnell und scharf in die Kurven gehen. Dient wohl eher als Werbung für ein Reisebüro?

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  5. Really strange vehicle, but looks rather friendly:)

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  6. I would like it more without the TUI advertising.

    Hm, the click on the photo downloaded the file ... by design?

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  7. add: firefox on bsd is okay. different browsers on windows download.

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  8. Excellent capture of a unique vehicle.

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  9. Oh it's a cool idea for busy cities!You will never be worried about the traffic!
    Léia

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  10. Their advertisement should read: 'In case there's no parking space it fits through your house door"

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  11. As the TUI add means nothing to me, I like it the way it is! :-)

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  12. I've never seen one of these before! I wonder if they are licensed the same as cars.

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  13. Thanks for the comments.

    Joan Elizabeth: I guess your travel companies must find other surfaces to stick their ads on.

    Frau G: An der Stabilität habe ich auch bezweifelt. Es ist wohl Werbung. Aber was bewahren sie hinten auf?

    joo: Yes, it looks pedestrian-friendly. Should van and pedestrian collide, the van would surely suffer the most damage.

    Martina: What would you paint on your admobile, then?

    Ah ... the download problem. I noticed this a week or so ago. It happened on my own blog and others, such as, I think, yours that use Blogger itself to host the photos (or Picasa Web, it is the same behind the scenes). I saw it in some browsers, but not in others. Curious, I did some experimentation. In the end, I deleted the cache in Firefox and all the cookies from blogspot. After that, things worked as before -- clicking a photo displays the large version in Firefox itself.

    I have no idea why Google started to use cookies like this, or how many of my blog viewers it effects. I hope I do not have to move over all my photos to Flickr or modfiy all my past entries for my viewers to see the larger versions again.

    Gallow: Thanks.

    Cezar and Léia: True, this would be useful in a big city, but the photo is actually taken in the tiny town of Sankt Ingbert.

    Andreea: Then you can lay it on its side and use it as a coffee table?

    JM: You mostly see the name TUI in Germany, but it is the biggest travel firm in Europe and probably sends lots of British and Germans to Portugal.

    Asta: Yes, Italy seems to be the king of small cars in Europe. I wonder which firm made this van. It does not look like it was Fiat.

    Stine in Ontario: They are a rarity over here, too. Hence the photo -- and their value as a surface for ads, I guess.

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  14. Hm, I think any kind of an ad on an "ape" is a sacrilege, ;-).

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  15. Ah, just read all of your comment, I think it's an Ape

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  16. regarding the bug: deleting cookies does nothing for chrome or ie. So far yours is the only blog I encountered (okay, I just tried with five or six others ... I would guess that 99% use blogger/picasa). Let's see if this becomes contagious :-S.

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  17. Martina: regarding the bug: deleting cookies does nothing for chrome or ie. So far yours is the only blog I encountered (okay, I just tried with five or six others ... I would guess that 99% use blogger/picasa). Let's see if this becomes contagious :-S.

    I am guilty of being a bit different here. I wrote a program that generates blog entries automatically from photos on my hard disk. My program set the link on the Piaggo Ape to point to http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sImjdONuKTs/SyCgXjYWt-I/AAAAAAAACAc/Tqk8lhK7ScE/200912063057_1.jpg. The standard web-based editor would have generated a link to http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sImjdONuKTs/SyCgXjYWt-I/AAAAAAAACAc/Tqk8lhK7ScE/s1600-h/200912063057_1.jpg -- the same with “/s1600-h/” in the middle. This looks like it is going to be a JPEG file, but is, in fact, an HTML page. If people find the first link generates a download and only the second shows the image in the browser, then I will have to go through all my entries and add “/s1600-h/”. I was rather hoping that Google would revert to the old behaviour with images and I would not have to do that. Moreover, I use Firefox exclusively, and since I deleted the blogspot cookies, I no longer see the problem myself.

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  18. Seems like I am the only one so far, so ... ;-).

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