Download your free "Endless War" Yellow Mobius Strip Ribbons

[Ian David]

From Freewayblogger.com

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Endless War



I made this sign out of a mattress box. It measured about seven-by fifteen feet and was visible to all lanes of traffic on the 580 by the Richmond/San Rafael bridge. The sign took less than an hour to make and cost about fifty cents in materials. Using a hammer and nails it took less than a minute to post and stayed up for two days.


Download Your Own Endless War Ribbon Here (PDF)
http://www.freewayblogger.com/images_index/endless.pdf



(This image should be considered as part of the public domain. Feel free to use it on T-Shirts, bumperstickers, or any other commercial or private endeavor. Go Wild. )

posted by Freewayblogger at 10:15 AM

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[Donkeykick]

1. Your pictures...

are not showing up.

[lonestarnot]

2. Hey que paso con su photografias? No esta.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Yo puedo verlas perfectamente - ya tiene Ud. problemas?

EDIT: Typo.

[lonestarnot]

4. Si no puedo que ver.

[lonestarnot]

5. IanDB1, upload to photobucket and post properties from there. If you

need help I will help you as I am here for a while. Posting between laundry loads. LOL

[Ian David]

6. It seems to be working for me. n/t

[lonestarnot]

7. Just boxes with red x's in the middle for me.

[Forrest Greene]

8. Are You Sure That's A Mobius Strip?

The image does get across the idea of "Endless War," but I think it's not actually a Mobius strip, which has a half-twist in it. This defines a Mobius strip, which is a paradoxically one-sided, one-dimensional figure. Try running an imaginary finger along one without lifting & you'll see what I mean: the half-twist causes a funny little dimensional flip. Try running the same finger along the yellow ribbon shown — no twist = two sides.

See http://snipurl.com/10oz4 for a classic Mobius strip by M.C. Escher, or Google 'Mobius strip."

Always been a fun Impossible Figure. 'Scuse me, I'm going to go have a drink from my Klein bottle now.

[karlrschneider]

9. You'll be needing a REAL long straw for that thar' Klein bottle!

:D

[Forrest Greene]

10. One-Sided, One-Dimensional

Are two of the characteristic of a Mobius strip, & are also characteristics of American foreign policy. Go figure! These Mobius strips sure are something! Darn good eatin', too.

[karlrschneider]

11. Better than everlasting gobstoppers!

:silly:

[Ian David]

12. Freewayblogger calls it one. He's wrong, but that's not my fault. n/t

[BrewerJohn]

13. It's the symbol for infinity

which probably is recognizable to more people anyway.

Go FWB!

[Forrest Greene]

14. Oh, No One Mentioned "Fault"

Just wanted to call the thing by its right name. I thought it did fine as a symbol of endless war even before BrewerJohn mentioned it's a symbol of Infinity, too, which just serves to make it ever so much more so.