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Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Lego
slashdoter writes: "What could be better than combining Lego and Monty Python and the search for the holy grail? Well recording it and putting it online of course. Follow the link
and smile." Quicktime or Windows Media. Scary. Needs to be much longer. :)
Nice! It IS a silly place, but very fun.
...this is the new frontier of animation.
How can I play these on my Linux box? Is there a codec for xanim, or do I need a different player?
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
I knew I'd seen this somewhere before...
Give it up.. Me for one is sick of constantly hearing about the WTC every waking hour of the day. First of all, it's offtopic for slashdot - if you want to talk terrorists, go to cnn. /. is precicely the place where posting links to monty python in lego is totally appropriate. Second, the WTC destruction has already been thouroghly discussed here. (also, killing thousands of human beings is obviously horrible, but it not like it doesn't happen every week. We don't stop our lives forever just because bad things happen)
-henrik "feeling like spending some karma" abelsson
Funny, I went to see the MPATHG re-release in the theatre last night, and after the Camelot scene, my friend turned to me and said "I think I liked the Lego one better!"
:P
And yes, this has been here before
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
I know you can't hear it but I clapping VERY loud right now
This
I was really surprised and impressed at some of the thoughtful, probing discussion of the terrorist attacks on Slashdot. Unlike many of the respondents to your post, I really do think the discussion is important.
... well, honestly, I don't care a rat's ass about the Xbox, so I just skip those articles. This astonishing power of indifference is available to you, too: if you are sick of the WTC, or Legos, or Monty Python, or Jon Katz ... don't read the frickin' article! The editors of Slashdot can only suggest topics of discussion; they can't make people care. Geek culture will emerge on its own, in all its quirky multifacted yummy goodness.
However, humor is important too. It reminds us of our humanity, and keeps us sane -- which, in the current rush for military retalitation, is a very important thing. If we can laugh for a moment, we may find our perspective on the serious is a bit more balanced when we return to it.
Neither the serious nor the silly is out of place here. And as for the "attempt to create a geek culture"
No it isn't. This *is* Slashdot. It's geeky stuff that's cool... when the war happens, we'll prbably be discussing all the cool nifty tech that used. That's who we are - people who develop and build stuff (hardware or software) because we think it's cool. You can bitch about trolls and l33t kiddies all you want, but stories like this are why I'm here, and why Mr. Taco and Hemos started the site.
Everything has its place - last week, at my local Rocky Horror show, someone lit a paper plane on fire and threw it into the on-stage tower during "There's a Light". There were plenty of horrible lines and funny ones. Two people got pissed, but they can bite it... the whole point is to slaughter every damn sacred cow, the more tightly held, the better.
That dosen't mean that Slashdotters don't care about recent or upcoming events, or that Rockyites are unfeeling bastards. It just means that we go on doing what we've always done.
Or to put it another way - I don't yell at people for spraying me down with water guns at Rocky, so don't yell at people talking about Monty (SPAM) Python on Slashdot. Don't walk into a LAN party and demand people start playing tennis.
the conclusions from them more lasting, if we post these stories instead of Monty Python crap
If you want a more lasting conclusion, you should have joined the military or gotten involved in politics long before now. Now you're limited to writing senators or joining up as a raw recruit. If these things are important to you, *do* something, don't just yammer about it on the web, mentally masturbating and deluding yourself into thinking that a logical conclusion on a text forum can accomplish anything.
Or, to drive the point home: Why the fuck are you talking to us? Go talk to a Senator, the President, the Prime Minister, NATO, or someone who can do something about the fire in your britches. In the meantime, I'll continue downloading video of little kn-ickets in modular plastic blocks, and enjoying it.
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Evan "Who got far too little sleep last night" E.
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
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/. had stories about the WTC crises when there were things we would do to help, and when there were new developments. But this site is supposed to be "news for nerds", and there's nothing wrong with posting a funny story. If you want to debate the WTC crises, excellent - we do need to talk about this as a society. But /. is not always the place to talk about it.
/. was made for.
This story wasn't posted to save the community or some such thing - it was posted because it is a funny nerdy story, the sort of thing
I'm the stranger...posting to
Just b/c it's not linux compatable dosn't make it bad. Sure I would rather Have it in a Mpeg but it's still worth booting up windows or checking it out at work monday if your Linux pure at home.
Does anyone actually have a Java program designed to control air traffic, or for the operation of a nuclear facility?
I highly enjoyed "Space Race" there. It reminded me of a classic Norman McLaren short.
For something they won't show on Lego.com, check out Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World.
It's pretty funny.
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I believe that both are appropriate for /. The WTC tragedy is most definitely "stuff that matters," where as Monty Python and Legos qualify as "News for Nerds."
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
Hey it's cool... not bitching at you or anything :)
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Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
How darest thou besmirch the holiness that is photorealist animation and its Japanese conceptors! The greatness of that form is infinitely beyond all others, and any likes thineself who should denounce it can repent for that infinite sin by enduring and embracing infinite suffering in life and after! They thou mayest praise the holy Squaresoft and its Master Sakaguchi, who art the true Lord and Saviour in this age, and every age. Amen.
On second thoughts..... let's not log on to slashdot - t'is a silly place!
This is now my favorite clip on the Internet. All I want to know is when the entire movie is going to be released in Lego-vision.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
f you think it's wrong to have to pay to access video files then, heck, I'm sympathetic, but the only way you're going to be able to avoid it is if folks help to support projects like Ogg Tarkin.
Free software is something you give, not something you can take. If the CodeWeavers folks have done good work, there's not a thing in the world wrong with them charging for it.
- jon
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