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Domino Day '02 Ends with a New World Record
Bobson writes "It took 89 people 8 weeks to set up 4000000(4e6) domino pieces for an attempted World Record. The last piece was set at 21:00 CET(Central European Time) by a Backstreet Boy. Jim somebody... Anyhow said piece started of over 90 minutes of an amazing domino avalanche show. It is one of the top hacking feats I've had the privilege to witness. This time Live on TV. I hope tapes (dvds) of it become available.
They even had time delays of more than 5min each, built into the system to allow for advertising intermissions. Some parts of the installation didn't quite work, but overall it was worth seeing. The final tally came to 3847295 pieces fallen. It ended less than an hour ago and you should have seen it."
...what if they made a Beowulf cluster of these?
(dodges lobbed fruit) "Hey!"
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Holy shit, dominos and pron! I know I am not going to be the only one who clicks the 'Erotik' link down the side of the page!
Which raises another point... Why do the Germans even bother with German anymore? I mean I've been to Germany, and everyone there speaks fairly good English. From what I understand it is required learning in public schools or something, so they are already on the right track. Why not just ditch German and get with the program?
watchout!
Chicago2600.net more than a lifestyle, its a survival trait.
The cnn link is the goatse.
Lemme guess... You've got karma to burn, right?
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
Mod parent up as informative, please.
No, I don't really care about this whole story either, but this guy has gone to the trouble of translating it for everyone, and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than the google translation someone else posted, so c'mon, spread the love (mod points) around, people.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
"Porc Américain".
Of course, that's just a guess.