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Big Berlin Blinkenlichten
karm13 writes "The Chaos Computer Club has made a huge display using the 8 top floors of a house in Berlin with 18 windows each as a present to themselves and Berlin for their 20th birthday.
You can submit animations on the Blinkenlights project page, and even play pong with a mobile phone!"
Why does that remind me of jar jar binks for some reason?
Does anyone else find the term "blinkenlights" extremely annoying? And no, I don't really care that it was in the jargon file ("oooh, the jargon file").
I was marked down redundant for that? Didn't see anyone else express their annoyance, but I'm glad I'm not alone...
hmm...well, i realized...but one cant always win...
Yeah, mod this up. It's not like its in the post or anything.
Ah, go on then. I'll stick up for you. He's right, it's not redundant (maybe offtopic...)
I am a big fan of (most of) the jargon file, but people seem to wave it around as validation of anything they say. I can't help but feel that if it weren't for the jargon file, we wouldn't have as many tossers writing, for example, FUD in every post:
A: I like pine because it's smaller than Mutt
B: Stop spreading FUD
Not very appropriate, but hey! It's in the jargon file.
The jargon file is very interesting, informative and amusing on the whole, but that doesn't mean that to be a true hacker you have to religiously use each entry (in fact, IIRC, I believe the editor suggests that such use is a way of discovering a newbie) And blinkenlights is simply a lame ass joke, the sort of thing I get sent by email all of the time, and delete after a brief glance.
There we go, nomadic, I'll take some of the heat for you. I've never cared too much for karma.