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Crushing Experience

Posted by Hemos on from the odd-web-experiences dept.

sp00 writes "The Tsunamii.Net Crush Server is currently online live from the Millbank Gallery in London! Watch as the webserver counts itself down before it activates the industrial crusher attached to it, bearing 150-tonnes of brute force onto itself and terminating its existence. Check out the details on the Tsunamii.Net website or visit the webserver directly at http://195.195.81.5."

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  1. /. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    /. will crush it first.

    (-1 redundent to the other 300 posts saying the same thing)

  2. cool.. by Suppafly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats a cool idea.. I've often had similar ideas while running the cardboard box crusher at work.. It'd be nice if the webserver had more info than just a counter tho.

    1. Re:cool.. by cscx · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't tell me you work in a box factory!

  3. A positive application for the /. effect! by unorthod0x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Watch as slashdotters from around the world bring the web server to its knees and save the poor server from extinguishing it's own life!

  4. Yea... by di0s · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...it's got to be running Linux, because if it was running IIS on Windows, the 150 ton hand of the BSA audit department would crush it in no time.

  5. Re:art? Hardly. by Ooblek · · Score: 3, Funny
    Nah, its not art. Its "Just Another Useless Thing To Do With The Internet (tm)"

    At least they could have put a decent picture of the thing there. You can't even see it well.

  6. Save the web server! by Tim+Browse · · Score: 5, Funny

    To save the server, just turn off Javascript in your browser - the clock immediately stops! Hurrah!

    Together, we can rebuild^Wsave it!

    Tim

    1. Re:Save the web server! by wirefarm · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why not hack in to it and change the web page a bit?
      (First adding some ALT tags to those stupid number images...)
      Then, add in some pleading messages from the web server:

      Please don't let them do this.
      I don't want to die.

      I am being made to do this under duress.
      This is just *wrong* - I could be donated to a school.

      That sort of thing...
      See if you can convince enough people that this is a horrible, horrible thing to do, that they protest it and have it stopped.

      Now *that* would be art. ;-)

      Cheers,
      Jim

      --
      -- My Weblog.
  7. Re:Wonder what the heck this is all about? by scott1853 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow that's deep. The last time I was that amazed what when I first heard a wise philosopher state "What if C-A-T really spelled Dog"?.

  8. Re:Save Linux! by cscx · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.... I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."

  9. Whew...it's not Asimovian... by Kaz+Riprock · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could you imagine if this thing had a positronic brain governed by the 3 laws (or any of the modifications)? We'd have a revolution on our hands!

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    Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon