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Couple of Christmas bits to get ya in the spirit: We have a link to
Planet Christmas as well as the tech details and even
some danger. This thing
features 96,790 miniature Christmas lights, 7.2 miles of wire to connect everything, 110 strobe lights, the 8' inflatable snowmen, handled by 425 computer controlled circuits. A slightly
less ambitious project was submitted by apago. This project lets winamp
control christmas lights, complete with schematics for the serial interface
and source code for the plugin.
Actually, it really helps me when people put these things up. I use them as navpoints.
Dancin Santa
Does that mean all the lights turn blue during crashes?
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
All this talk of finding new ways of being flashy and new during the holidays and so little talk of the important birthday celebrated on December 25. Really, would it kill you to pay some respect to the very important individual whose birth is celebrated yearly on that one day of the year?
I mean honestly, you all give each other gifts but I, the birthday boy, don't get so much as a card from you!
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
Imagine a Rudolph cluster of those!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Don't forget:
/etc/passwd > list
:-)
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus town
cat
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
santa claus town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad || good
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Merry Xmas, everyone!
$6.21 is the number of the beast before sales tax. Meh.
/. doesn't like > signs.. ;)
/etc/passwd >list
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus <north pole >town
cat
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice >giftlist
santa claus <north pole >town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Top 10 things I wanted for Christmas ... but didn't get :(
;)
/dev/null that gives - and not takes
1. triple caffeinated penguin mints
2. semis@slashdot.org
3. A Hemos action figurine
4. "Fear the Penguin" T-Shirt signed by bill.
5. one of them things from fufme.com
6. a new hotmail exploit on Bugtraq
7. my shell to say "Merry Christmas - jackass" when I logged in
8. "slashdot me, baby" boxers.
9. a
10. A Picachu voodoo doll
$6.21 is the number of the beast before sales tax. Meh.
Now we know whose been clicking on all those X10 pop-ups....
there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
Rather than connect my lights to my speaker, I connected a tubelight starter to a bunch of 230V bulbs, and kept the starter in front of my woofer.
The starter naturally causes strobing through thermostatic effect, but the speaker caused extra vibrations, which made the contacts touch, and separate with the beat. The result, lights to the music while the music was on, and plain old blinking while the music was off.
Just had to be careful that no one touched those bare 230V wires.
Oh, yeah, encased the whole thing my lego police station.
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Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.
Today is one of the most astronomically, planetary, and mythologically important days of the year, and yet I have heard no one mention the fact that today is the Winter Solstace... the Shortest day of the year in the Norther Hemisphere and the Longest in the Southern.
The Winter Solstace was one of the most important days of the year for the Celts, Germans, Normans, and other European pagans. As a matter of fact, there is significant evidence that Christmas Day was placed where it is now in the calendar in order to supplant the pagan solstace festivals.
So, in honor of the Solstace, I'd like to propose a few changes!
Let's hang sausages from the trees this year instead of garland or glass balls, in remembrance of the ancient warriors who strung the entrails of animals and their enemies (if they were good in battle) all around the ice-covered forest.
Let's build some ripping big bonfires in order to warm the body and get the blood to boiling.
Let's see some virgins 'sacrificed' (nudge nudge, wink wink, if you know what I mean) live on the internet!
Let's also bring out all the old Solstace carols that time has forgot, like these old favorites:
-"Oh, Come all ye Pagans!"
-"Deck the halls with well-tanned Goatskins!"
-"It's beginning to look a lot like Samhain" (A little out of season, but still in the spirit)
And
"Let's all Dance Naked 'Round the Old Bonfire"
Any excuse for a party, right?
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Nice to see PlanetChristmas gets the wonderful gift of a /.ing this year.
Everytime you look at porn a devil gets their horns.
Mozilla's a nice operating system, but it needs a better browser.
You've slashdotted Christmas.
Only kick I get out of xmass is making the kids behave by saying "Now Behave Otherwise Santa Will Eat One Of His Reindeer." Well it works till the 25th
well i do it every year, and most everyone has probably seen it, but this is a scientific article (dont worry, it's hilarious-- from the online "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) into the existence of a santa claus./ 02R/02R055.html
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http://www.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~asheiduk/pgg