At night, in darkness or with moon, the ocean often seems so wide it's like it might go on forever scrolling out into itself, its body wide and deep enough to cover over every body ever living and still seem as placid from above the same breadth where every summer millions flock to burn away their off hours basking at the edge of immeasurable death.
Scrolling out using the mouse wheel and selecting a yellow-circled base will spawn a player at that base.
Scrolling out into monumentally-horizontal and occasionally vertical compositions, we find hand-printed and collaged armies of women athletes, goddesses, gorgons, amazons, bacchantes, priests, dancers and musicians.
These are thumb-sized cylinders, usually of stone or glass, incised so that when they are rolled on clay, exquisite miniature scenes scroll out.
Figures and inscriptions are carved or cut, so that when the cylinders are rolled on clay, miniature scenes scroll out: ceremonies at temples, feasts at palaces, battles between gods and beasts.
And there is the humorous strip by Isaac Robert Cruikshank, a hand-colored aquatint titled "Going to a Fight" (1819), that scrolls out from a small spool to show a group of citizens rushing by horse, bicycle and foot toward an uproar that seems to involve a stubborn horse and the occupants of the tipped cart it has been pulling.
There weren't many computers around then, and the data scrolled out of the machine as a line in red ink on chart paper – 96ft of it every day – which I'd then spread over a table and examine.
The decanter centrifuge is, in principle, a relatively simple device, although far from simple to manufacture — it's a rotating drum with a screw conveyor in it; clarified liquid decants out of one end while dewatered solids are scrolled out of the other.
The morning had been filled with a slow walking tour of Chiang Mai's old city temple compounds and the midday heat was intensifying. Blue sky scrolled out of sight, and a crowd of bobbing, sweaty brows and tired smiles came into view.
If you place the table anywhere else, the column headers will scroll out of view when you scroll up, and you'll need to use Freeze Panes to keep them constantly displayed.
As the flames lit up the night, a firefighter helped the men from the congregation to get the sacred scrolls out, but nothing else was saved.
