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Linux Enhances Shakespeare

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

marXian writes "Opening in Norwich UK this week and subsequently visiting Cambridge is makb3th from theatre company pirateutopia.org. The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more to set the piece (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) on an off-shore data haven." Allright, pick your jaw up off the floor ;)

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  1. (2*B) OR (NOT(2*B)) by GQuon · · Score: 5, Funny

    If ((2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))){
    answer="yes";
    }
    else{
    answer="no";
    }

    printf(be);

    >a.out
    >yes

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    Irene KHAAAAAAN!
  2. Choice of pager by Migrant+Programmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more

    Come on now, don't you know all the cool geeks are using less these days?

    --
    Bitchslapped. Neat.
  3. MacBeth, not Hamlet by Jan-Pascal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go re-read your Shakespeare. The "to be or not to be" quote is from Hamlet, not from MacBeth.

  4. Not so fast! by paiute · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in - the US Congress today extended copyright protection back to "three business days before the Earth coalesced from the formless void", so the laywer representing the descendants of the Bard will be calling on these IP pirates and terrorists this afternoon with the mother of all cease-and-desist orders.

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    If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
  5. Public Domain by ispivey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's straight up public domain, with no strings attached. Not abandonware, certainly, because there's no copyright on it.

    Ever wonder what theater these days would be like if Shakespeare's plays were protected under copyright by a control-minded estate like that of Kurt Cobain? I imagine the content would stay truer to the originals, but I'm a big fan of the creative and nutty derivative works Shakespeare has inspired over the years.

  6. Re:Context is everything. by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, I'll give it a shot:

    -+-+-+-+

    SEYTON: The server, my lord, is dead!

    MACBETH: It should have died hereafter;
    There would have been bandwidth for such requests.
    Page after page after page
    Creeps in this petty pace from client to client
    To the last tag of a slashdotted site,
    and all our access logs have lighted admins
    to way to budget denials. Out, out router activity light!
    The web's but a dancing banner ad, a poor merchandiser
    that struts and frets his hour upon the screen
    and then is heard no more: it is an offer
    made by an idiot, full of grandiose promises,
    signifying nothing.

    --
    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  7. Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Could someone translate that to English for us?"

    You mean *from* English poetry into American prose, right? :)

    I can see it now:

    Yo! What's wit dis damn spot?

    KFG