In the images below you can see the development of Lucas Oil from early beginning construction to the nearly done stage. To build the stadium it cost 720 million dollars and surprisingly took little time to build.

Lucas Oil seats over 67,00 fans while boasting a spectacular view of downtown Indianapolis. The stadium, while being a multi-purpose facility, is home to the Colts football team. The surface of the field is made of FieldTurf, which was ranked best field surface in both 2009 and ’10.

It was stated earlier that the stadium is a multi-purpose venue and it truly is. It not only hold NFL and NBA games, but concerts, national conventions, trade shows, IHSAA (Indiana High School Athletic Association) finals, band competitions and countless other events as well. The stadium consists of seven levels and contains more backstage space than any other stadium in the NFL. It contains 7 locker rooms, 11 indoor truck docks, 44,000 square feet of exhibit space and 12 large meeting rooms. If the weather is nice enough the large north facing window can be opened for a breathtaking view of downtown Indy.

So you’re sitting in the nosebleeds and can’t get a good view of the players, well don’t let that stop you. Lucas Oil sports 2 HD video boards more than large enough to see all your favorite players. A cool addition, the 360 degree ribbon board can be seen lighting up all game long advertising and sending the audience messages to “get loud” and “please be quiet, offense at work”. Receiving nearly, if not over, 1 million visitors per year, Lucas Oil is the perfect venue for any event and in this case even Super Bowl XLVI

Lucas Oil stadium replaced the RCA dome in 2008 after the stadium was finished. The stadium was designed by HKS of Dallas, Texas and, as mentioned earlier, cost 720 million dollars to build. Much financing came from the state of Indiana and the city of Indianapolis with an addition of 100 million dollars made by the Colts. The stadium is operated by the Capital Improvements Board pf Managers of Marion County. Since inception of the stadium, it was projected that Lucas Oil”s generated revenue upon completion and opening, would hit or exceed 2.25 billion dollars over the course of ten years and, in addition, create 4,200 new jobs for residents.

Some fun facts about construction

It took 130,00 cubic yards of cast-in-place concrete to build.

16,00 tons of steel was used in construction.

700 pieces of structural precast concrete were used.

1,440 pieces of architectural precast concrete were used

9,100 pieces of exterior glass were used as well.

Thanks to a local judge, The Vancouver Sun and The Province have been ordered to hand over all of their Stanley Cup riot photos to the police, but before they complied, the newspapers in question released these same images to the public.

And that’s just what they did.

In fact, the news service released over 5000 photos to the public, but their reservations in doing so remain:

“We will reluctantly turn over the photos and videos to police, but remain concerned that the production order turns journalists into evidence gatherers for police,” said Harold Munro, The Sun’s deputy managing editor.

“Police should only make such demands on the media as a last resort,” he added. “In this case, they have many thousands of photos and videos from the public that are still being reviewed.”

As indicated, the media outlets released “some 5481″ images to the public, the same ones they will be turning over to the police. While The Vancouver Sun is complying with the judicial ruling, the newspaper’s legal team asks that pictures with innocent citizens in them be destroyed.

While the chaos of the riots made the topic a popular trend, perhaps the most famous item to come from the Vancouver riots was the image of the couple kissing:

No, these are the kinds of images the police are interested in:

And:

Much like Melissa Kellerman’s disappearance, the reason for Paulina Gretzky’s departure from Twitter are uncertain. The Associated Press weighed in, and speculated the elder Gretzky didn’t appreciate his daughter’s “friendly” approach with her Twitter followers. You see, unlike the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, who didn’t really say anything warranting a removal — apparently, Jerry Jones wants his cheerleaders seen and not heard, or, at least, un-tweeted — the younger Gretzky used her now-defunct Twitter account to post images like the one leading this article.

The Big Lead has more of her Twitter pictures, if you’re interested in further investigation.

There may be more to the story than just a dad not wanting his daughter to post such images, however. According to a story quoted by WithLeather.com, a potential business deal may be what motivated her Twitter removal:

Paulina’s Twitter feed has been discontinued, and the Toronto Star is speculating that her father’s involvement in a potential purchase of the Toronto Maple Leafs might have something to do with it.

According to the Star, before shutting down her feed, Paulina tweeted, “Having a nice sit down dinner with my dad about social media..haha #SIKEEE.” She then signed off on Saturday, writing, “Taking a break from Twitter for a bit. Happy Holidays!!! xoxo.”

So, is this a case of a mad dad not wanting his daughter revealing her partying ways on Twitter or is this case of the elder Gretzky trying to protect a business deal by hiding the fun-loving behavior of his daughter? To be honest, both postions make sense, but considering Paulina’s Twitter account survived her previous image postings, one begins to lean towards protecting a business deal.

If you’re interested in seeing a collection of the images we’ll be missing now that Paulina has stopped tweeting, make sure to check out the following slideshow. So long, Paulina. Your liberal approach to showing skin will be missed, especially by the sports blogs, and the Associated Press.

First off, this post is going to address the some of the more unique costumes I’ve come across during this search. Sorry, but the scantily-clad costumes won’t be appearing in this section, but they are coming up, or, at least a comment or two about them. This first stop is simply called “Fantasy Football,” and it’s a creative way to get your Halloween on:

In other news, if you’re interested in making a Google Places Jack-O’-Lantern, there’s a pattern for that. Oh, and for those of you who are thinking of scaring the crap out of your trick-or-treaters, keep this little public service announcement/rage comic in mind:

Such is the case with the Nightmares Fear Factory‘s index of images. What we have is a haunted house in Niagara Falls taking pictures of its visitors right as they are being spooked, and posting them to their Flickr account.

The results, as you can see in the lead image, are simply fantastic. In fact, I’m having a hard time coming up with a more impressive use of Flickr’s service, although, I’m sure someone will correct me if necessary. In Nightmares Fear Factory’s Flickr stream, there are 20 pages of images to pick and choose from, and you won’t be disappointed with any of the offerings. However, to entice you even further, here are a few more examples of what you can expect:

What other Flickr accounts are you most fond of? Is there one that’s even better than Nightmares Fear Factory? Let us know what you think.

The Flickr Android app promises photo sharing, filter enhancement, and the ability to share these creations across multiple social network platforms, which is pretty much what Instagram does for the iPhone crowd. The Android app shared its debut with another Flickr launch, a service called Photo Session. According to the Flickr blog, Photo Session allows users to:

… flip through photos with your friends from anywhere in the world. Just create a Photo Session, invite your friends and browse photos together in real-time. When you move to the next photo it moves for everyone else too. While you’re all browsing, have fun chatting and drawing on your photos using the built-in tools.

Unlike the Instagram imitation, Photo Session is supported by the iOS family, so you can use it on your iPhone and iPad. There’s a video of Photo Session in action, and it too takes some cues from Instagram, especially with the filters and the sharing:

While Flickr boasts 68 million registered users of its own, the platform is likely jealous of Instagram, which has amassed a whopping 10 million users in less than a year since launching.

Is it really jealously that led to the development of the similar application, or did Flickr simply fill a hole the Instagram makers were unwilling or unable to do? Sure, the app comparisons are valid, but if the demand for the application on the Android environment is there, and no one has stepped up to meet it, it sounds like Flickr merely struck while the iron was hot.

Kudos to them for stepping up where Instagram did not. The next question is, will the Flickr Android app be as popular as its iPhone predecessor?

As reported earlier, Blackberry makers RIM offered their hand in assisting the punishment of these individuals. For these gestures of goodwill, RIM had their Blackberry blog hacked. Apparently, Anarchy in the UK is not just a song to enjoy.

It’s a lifestyle to be lived.

What else could be gathered after seeing the insane amount of content, courtesy of the bored and apparently useless youth of London? Speaking of content, as indicated, Reddit.com has been a fount of riot-related images and other materials. The same is true for Buzzfeed and Flickr. In fact, there’s so much riot-related content, to list it all would call for an article the size of a J. R. R. Tolkien novel.

Because of that, this post will only focus on a portion of it. Take, for instance, the lady who actually defied the rioters. The unnamed defender has reached “bad ass” status with the Internet crowd, and the video shows why:

While the videos do a great job of demonstrating the chaos the London Police are dealing with, the images do so much more:

Courtesy of Flickr

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Over at the aforementioned Reddit, we came across this gem, which listed under the following title, which maybe the most fitting thing ever: “Stupid is as stupid does. Idiot London looter shows off on Twitter – then quickly tries to excuse her crime.” What we have is some wunderkind bragging about looting on her Twitter account.

You can tell she’s a super-genius by her awesome use of the Queen’s English:

That Internet’s some powerful stuff, ennit?

Considering her last tweet, there’s little doubt Jenna Major is reconsidering her brilliant actions, especially now that she’s been outed.

Other gems include this next photo, with perhaps the most honest caption, ever:

However, not all of the content focused on the negative. As with just about any period of social unrest, there’s the inevitable cleanup. This makes for good Internet content as well, especially the upcoming piece of Twitter genius:

As for the cleanup, it appears to be going well, thanks to the power of social media:

Sadly, the worst part comes first.

The study is based on the analysis of th top 100 search engine results displayed by Google for a database of about 28 million search terms over a four-month period, Searchmetrics says. The timeframe was February to May.

Video results appeared in over 60% of all searches where universal search results are included in the top 100 listings.  Images (coming in second behind videos) appeared in 30%, followed by shopping results at about 20% and news at around 10%. Judging from the following graph, it looks like Books were ahead of news, before dropping off in April.

“For a few years now Google has been bringing specific shopping, news, image, video, blog and map-based results into the general search listings it presents to searchers as part of what has been termed its ‘universal search’ strategy – it’s intended to help searchers find what they’re looking for more easily,” said Searchmetrics CEO Dr Horst Joepen. “We found that video and images are highly visible in Google searches when compared with other types of universal search content. So it makes sense for marketers to increase the volume of video and image content they’re creating and to optimize it both on their own sites and on third party sites such as YouTube and Flickr.”

“Interesting videos and images aren’t just good for your SEO, they’ll obviously also help make your site more engaging for visitors,” added Dr Joepen.

He says marketers should be thinking about creating things like client testimonials, interviews and product demos for video content.

Google has not made things easy on SEOs over the years. They are always changing so many things, it’s hard to keep up. Add Google’s personalization into the mix, and you never know who’s going to see what in their results for any given query.

Universal search, though surely not its intended reason for existence, has proven to be something of a bone Google has thrown to websites. It’s a shortcut to from page search results. If you can rank well for videos or images, for example, there’s a good chance you will find your way onto the front page of Google’s web results for some searches.

The extension signs into the target Facebook account, scans the available photos, and then allows the user to select which ones they’d like to upload to Picasa. Once the download is complete, users can share the extracted images on their Google+ account. A screenshot shows how the extension presents the images to upload:

I moved over 1000 pics from FB to picasa. It took about four restarts, but it has done it. All photos now have the date stamp of the move date, not the creation date or even the date I uploaded them to FB, so that’s a bit of a pain, and of course, no comments or descriptions. But great little tool. Think I’ll uninstall now since I’m concerned about how much access it has to my data

It’s doubtful Facebook will ever overcome the fears people have about their privacy. If Google+ does reduce Facebook to MySpace status, will it be because the G+ is so much better or because people felt more secure with the service?

Nevertheless, I, too experimented with the “Move Your Photos” extension, and it does work as advertised. Granted, my Facebook account isn’t filled with images — under 100, for instance — but there were no noticeable problems concerning the downloading of my photos, nor was their an issue when they were uploaded to Picasa.

A hat-tip is order to Rick Malins of Google for pointing the Chrome extension out.

In what may come as a surprise, the current most popular camera used at Flickr isn’t exactly a camera. Don’t get me wrong, it has picture-taking capabilities, quite obviously, but it’s not a exclusively a camera, either. Naturally, it’s the iPhone 4, although, the device just recently overtook the Nikon D90. In relation to the surprising aspect of such data, perhaps it shouldn’t be. The iPhone is, without a doubt, one of the most popular personal devices in the United States — still — and because so many people have them, it stands to reason a lot of people would uploading images to popular photo storage services.

What is surprising, however, is the iPhone 4 is the only mobile communication device (I’m not sure “phone” is an appropriate moniker anymore) to make Flickr’s list. No Androids here. Furthermore, when measuring the popular cameraphones used on Flickr, you see Apple products representing four out of the top five brands. In regards to the rapidly-growing Android market, perhaps they will make inroads on later Flickr graphs, but then again, the iPhone 5 will be out soon.

Speaking of graphs, here’s the primary “most popular camera” breakdown. Immediately, you’ll notice iPhone’s overtaking of the Nikon D90 only happened recently. You’ll also see Ashton Kutcher’s second career — well, besides being an incessant Twitter user — represented nicely, as well:

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These graphs show the number of Flickr members who have uploaded at least one photo or video with a particular camera on a given day over the last year.

The graphs are “normalized”, which is a fancy way of saying that they automatically correct for the fact that more people join Flickr each day: the graph moving up or down indicates a change in the camera’s popularity relative to all other cameras used by Flickr members.

The graphs are only accurate to the extent that we can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo or shoot the video (about 2/3rds of the time). That is not usually possible with cameraphones, therefore they are under-represented.

As indicated, not only is the iPhone the most popular camera on Flickr, Apple also rules the mobile device/cameraphone breakdown as well:

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