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| | | | Getting Holiday Gift Ideas From New Columbus Sampler | | | | | posted: 11-26-07 3:07 PM GMT | | | | Getting Holiday Gift Ideas From New Columbus Sampler
A new way to get gift and other ideas online has debuted from a unique source. The Santa Maria Experiment exhibit web site has a "community support" page http://thesantamariaexperiment.iwarp.com/community.html that serves as a promotional sampler of the Central Ohio community and what it has to offer, as well as offering up some unique factoids about the area's long history of technological and other types of innovations. During this holiday season, that ever growing list serves as a ready-made shopping guide of gift ideas since each entity listed, which ranges from art galleries, vintage clothing, antique furniture and IT companies to restaurants, tattoo parlors and a video game store, is a link to a web site or web page that provides information about that particular entity. The list has even exposed some business owners on the list to other stores and services that they didn't even know existed.
The overwhelming majority of list entries so far are independent business concerns, there's only one major corporation on the list - Henkels and McCoy which is a major engineering and technology company that runs a computer education operation called Tech Bridge in Columbus. Although the list's main inhabitants are small businesses, the original purpose of the list was to simply feature local companies, providing them the exposure that being on the web site provides, due to its exotic and futuristic theme.
The Santa Maria Experiment exhibit is the latest attraction at the Santa Maria Visitor Education Center downtown at the riverfront, the site of the full scale replica of the Santa Maria. The permanent exhibit's major sponsor's include Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers http://209.240.145.143/ , The Robert Weiler http://www.rweiler.com/ , Company Grandview Chiropractic http://www.cols-yellowpages.com/clients/32569.html , The Columbus Convention Center Drury Inns and Suites http://www.druryhotels.com/properties/columbuscvc.cfm , The Panel Center http://www.panelcenter.com/ , and the High Street Neighborhoods organization http://www.highstreetguide.net/index.htm administeres through the Columbus Jewish Foundation http://www.columbusjewishfoundation.org/ . It concerns the 1994 successful research into optical invisibility that was conducted by researcher Marshall Barnes who used the Santa Maria as the largest target for his tests. The story about his research has made the news on an international level and there is even a Russian translation web site that features the story along with a photo of the Santa Maria appearing to vanish and another test where a black spool of thread appears to be transparent. The spool of thread test was video taped and shown on the Danny! talk show, hosted by Danny Bonoduce back in the late '90s and completely freaked him and his studio audience out. John McGran of The Sun reported on the incident, saying , "Last fall, Barnes stunned a national TV audience with a videotaped experiment involving an ordinary spool of thread. He proved something solid could be made to look transparent when he passed a knitting needle behind the spool - and the metal object could still be seen!" Because of this proven track record of exposure, planned updates and special events, and a promotional campaign that will begin in earnest in January promoting the Santa Maria Experiment as the first demonstration of working invisibility cloaking (a term that Barnes is ready to battle Duke University over), the site is bound to draw a high volume of traffic on a global scale.
In the meantime, the over 40 business and organizations on the list are in a good place to be seen, and will be joined by others who don't want to be invisible, especially during holiday shopping season where more people than ever before are expected to do their shopping online. | | |
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