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Blinkenlights Reloaded - The Matrix Returns

Posted by timothy on from the but-with-better-dialogue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On the occasion of this year's Chaos Communication Congress some hackers of the German CCC have set up another Blinkenlights installation in Berlin (they use the glass facade of a house as a giant computer screen). It is on the same house as from September 2001 till February 2002 but with similar capabilities to the installation in Paris in September/October 2002. Heise has a story about this (German, here's the Google translation), but actually there's better information on the project website itself."

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  1. Re:Might as well muse on the nature of Slashdottin by damiam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Neither would crash. Since there's not a recursive loop, the /. front page would simply get a little bit more traffic than usual (if it can handle 9/11, it can handle a Fark link). Fark itself would only have to do the redirecting, which is neither CPU- nor bandwidth-intensive.

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    It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
  2. Controllable Christmas Lights ala Blinkenlights by Hulkster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Check out these Christmas Lights - there is not only a Christmas Webcam, but you can also turn the lights ON & OFF ... and pan/zoom the webcam.

    This got Slashdotted last year, but the what's New for 2003 says a "beefed up web server and faster ISP connectivity" - if nothing else, maybe the neighbors need need to see the Blinkenlights courtesy of Slashdot again?!? ;-)