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Anybody remember this?
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/

The jet engine for keeping beer cold.

All the time

..like this one. IIRC it was even on /. a few years ago.

I'm reminded of the fellow that came up with star wars asciimation....who also built a jet powered beer cooling device. The intro speaks for itself: "What follows is my story about a shed, a warm beer and a home made jet engine."

I'm reminded of the fellow that came up with star wars asciimation....who also built a jet powered beer cooling device. The intro speaks for itself: "What follows is my story about a shed, a warm beer and a home made jet engine."

Just thought you should know about this: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/diejarjar.html. Besides that, the site has about half of Episode 4.

Then what would we have to give this guy?

Episode 4 in Ascii-mation

Adapt the jet engine beer cooler system that guy in NZ did a few years back. You could probably cool a whole mess of kegs for the above mentioned BBQ. And it would make you even more likely to end up on the Man Show. Beer, BBQ, and summer, that's what it's all about...

I will only watch this when it gets re-released as an ASCIImation - the special effects are so much better in ASCII.

I'm surprised nobody has pointed yet this ASCII art Episode IV animation:

Ep IV

this?

Do you think they would accept Ascii Star Wars?

Rus

See also the jet-powered beer cooler.

Why do I remember that? <sigh>

And boy, are my fingers tired!

NO WAY!!! use a turbine engine!

I guess you haven't seen the "Die Jar-Jar!" skit, already implemented by the same guy responsible for all this asciimation in the first place. It's available here. Or for those who don't trust html links: http://asciimation.co.nz/diejarjar.html

World's first Jet powered Beer Cooler

This deserves a /. story all by itself:

Current project: Jet Engine

World's first Jet powered Beer Cooler

This deserves a /. story all by itself:

Current project: Jet Engine

Judging by this page, Jar-Jar wouldn't make it thru Ep1. Hard to be sure thought, as it looks like the site is in the prossess of getting slashdottet.

If you were drinking so much you need jet power to cool at a rate equal to your consumption, you're perception may be so reduced, as well.

I still prefer old school. ASCII as Art.

The Female Form
Cinema

Please note : this is

not flamebait or trolling!

Well, if Anonymous Coward says so, it must be true.

Well, I'm willing to yield that you're not trolling, but for some reason have ignored the approximately three hundred previous posts on the subject...

I honestly just want to know - why would you want to boot Linux on an XBox?

It will vary from person to person. Here is just a handful of the many, many possible reasons why. You might not agree with all of them, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that the person who believes in them agrees with it.

1. Because you can. Geeks like pushing things to their limits. I'm sure many of the geeks involved love their X-Boxes and just want to mess with them because they can. The same reason people put jumping hydralics on their cars, the same reason people put neon tubes in their computer cases, the same reason people recreate Star Wars in ASCII, the same reason people climb mountains. It's a challenge in an area they know. It's a chance to match wits, indirectly, against Microsoft's presumably smart security people. People often set strange challenges for themselves, let them enjoy themselves.

2. It tweaks Microsoft. Some geeks just love the opportunity to thumb their noses at Microsoft and this is a chance. You get to do something Microsoft really doesn't want you to do. You get a box valued at something like $300 for $200, subsidized by Microsoft. That gives some people a kick. It's not harmful (in the way, say, vandalizing Microsoft's property would), so what's the harm?

3. For some specialized tasks it's a suitable box. Sure, you can build a similarlly powered box for a similar price, but you'd be hard pressed to build a box with a stereo component form factor and as quiet as the X-Box. It would make a good network media player for videos and music. It would make a good station for running things like MAME or other emulators. It's not an awesome deal (and as technology continues to advance, it will be less of a deal), but for now it's a pretty good deal.

4. To play illegally copied games. Sure it's illegal, and I'm sure you would never do something like that. But some people don't care and want to.

For all the hype in the media about running Linux on an XBox, why isn't there similar press about running Linux on, say, a Nintendo Cube (or, does that one already run Linux? or Unix?) I believe that Playstation already runs Linux... right?

Indeed, Sony did release a version of Linux for the Playstation 2. The initial rumors were announced on Slashdot, the initial announcement made it onto Slashdot, and the ship date got announced on Slashdot. We got an in depth review, and an annoucement of a new distribution for PS2 Linux. That seems to have been reasonably well covered. Why no more announcements? Well, given that Sony handed the community a working version, there wasn't as much incentive to spend time hacking on it. Also, it was much harder to port given the lack of a hard drive. Notably, Sony's Linux for PS2 includes a hard drive.

Linux on the Gamecube? People are interested. The lack of a hard dr

Also the home of the jet powered beer cooler a story of old-school engineering endeavour to warm the cockles of your heart

... he who made Star Wars origami or the guy who recreated Episode IV using ascii animation.

Tor

Not that there's anything wrong with Asciimation but I'm not sure if the masses would accept this sort of thing. Hey, and besides, your TV would need screen font anti-alaising! This thing should have sound too, it'd be really cool then...

Liquid nitrogen to cool beer? Blegh!

Everyone knows that you use a jet engine to cool your beer :).

Quake is nothing... try Star Wars (in stunning asciimation, no less)

This is old news, but it's been updated recently, and it might bring back that BBS feel: Star Wars in ASCII.

Here's a simple AWK script to play the ASCII movie. Requires usleep. Play in an xterm and rezise it to cut off the bottom of the previous frame.

#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
BEGIN {
delay = 1000000 / 15;
while (getline > 0) {
mult = $1 + 0;
for(i=0; i<13; i++) { getline; print; }
system(sprintf("usleep %d", delay*mult));
}
}

To get the text file, download the .jar and use unzip to get data/sw1.txt out of it.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ - star wars in ascii

for the copying impaired

Star wars in ASCII

...a DVD->ANSI Animation converter. How cool would that be?

It'd solve a lot of those bandwidth problems... much like this site which was posted a while ago.

You wouldn't need a player if it's ANSI animation either, "cat" and "type" could become the hottest media players around.

unfortunately, i don't think we'll see the end of cheezey-flashy flash. however, refusing to use flash because of the bad flash content out there is like refusing to use the web because of the bad html out there(like, most geocities pages, or you can look at the crap code FrontPage spits out to see some real garbage). For the most part, we've moved on from telnet and ASCII art (though admitedly there's been some interesting and really good (a little treat for you slightly scary natalie portman fans) ASCII art made over the years). i don't think people who could afford flash and would be good at it should be turned off from it because of the crap some people have made though. it'll only get better as the geeks who can really push it to it's potential do so.

Indeed! Long live Asciimation! :)

I just know there's a kiwi out there itching to make a hybrid of this case and this jet-powered beer cooler. There should be plenty of room for that monster in the shed or garage.

When you have ASCII Star Wars?

There is a place, a wonderful place, where you can watch Jar Jar die over and over again. Experience the magic of ASCIImation HERE...

I'd use Jet engines for much better purposes.

Though I've seen this on Slashdot before, I think this is still one of the neatest ways to cool beer and maybe adapt to your overclocked CPU.

As Jet power has been used as a beer cooler, why not go against the recommendation therein and apply the technology to CPU cooling. Certainly would give the neighbours something to complain about.

Lots of neat Star Wars ASCII art is available at this site for the curious... :)

The mission uses less fuel, since overcoming the first half can be done with a reusable balloon.

With the advantages of the balloon, it should be less of a problem as to where the launch site is, thus eliminating the need to ship everything to the deep south

We can finally paint a space vehicle red and white and have an onboard beer-cooler, potentially powered By the engines if we get the Kiwis onboard.

It saves on having to pay NASA for payload capacity to run our countless zero-G experiments

The X prize is potentially more than the entire gov't-funded budget.

Hell, this is exactly what I want to do with an Engineering degree!

Check out his links at the bottom, specifically how he built his engine He didn't build the engine to cool beer, he did it just for the hack; just because he could. IMHO, this is even better.

Not that the beer page wasn't funny or anything...

Asciimation, it's a better distribution medium since it consumes far less bandwith.
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I'm a raving evangelista, but you really don't need Sorenson for low resolution paper cutouts like South Park. Each character only has a half dozen moving parts and 3 poses (front, side, rear). A Flash animation could do it with BETTER image quality, lower file size, and of course wider compatibility.

Compare to AYB.swf -- Flash works freaking great for animation. Lastly, compare to the classic Star Wars ASCIImation. If you want to talk about "2 Much Time" -- just watching that one for a couple minutes makes me feel like the world's biggest slacker. Imagine the amount of brain drain it took to make the damn thing.

Can't reach the original site or the mirror? If you haven't seen it before, you might want to try the Ascimation version.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

Equally nuts, I'd say.

You must have seen that Java applet and Java script that runs an ASCII version of the whole Star Wars films.

Episode IV can be found here
The Death of Jar Jar can be found here (Very popular I imagine)

It would be great for Lucas to endore it, if only for it to gain a wider audience. It really is a work of art in itself.

I know its not strictly a parody, more someones warped sense of humour, but it made me laugh.