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Blinkenlights Reloaded - The Matrix Returns
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."
First ever faster-than-light Slashdotting, apparently. I wonder if anyone in Berlin suffered from a flicker-induced seizure before the house went completely dark.
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Not quite on topic, especially because it's a different blinkenlights, but this article reminded me of it:
$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 24
Terminal window should be 200x59, with black text on white background for best results.
Some people have way to much time.
Blinkenlights Reloaded
The Matrix returns!
From December 22th, 2003 to January 4th, 2004 there will be a short revival of our Berlin installation: Blinkenlights Reloaded. The building Haus des Lehrers - currently under reconstruction - will be operated as we did it before. A new version of BlinkenPaint lets you create movies and you can play the interactive game Pong and activate your personal loveletters with your mobile phone.
Pong and your loveletters await you when you dial 0190-987654. A call is EUR 1,24 per minute (with every second counted). The income goes to the CCC to cover operational costs so that we can keep Blinkenlights free from ads now and in the future.
Blinkenlights Reloaded uses the technology we have developed for Arcade in Paris last year. That means greyscales. Version 3 of BlinkenPaint supports this as well as our new movie file format BML.
We invite you to send us your animations which we will bring to life on the big screen. And it works like this: [1] create your movies with BlinkenPaint, [2] save them in a text file (BML) and [3] attach it to an e-mail to movies@blinkenlights.de
If the movie is a personal Blinkenlights Loveletter and you want to get a code to activate your movie yourself at any time, send it to loveletters@blinkenlights.de instead.
We are happy to be able to bring Blinkenlights back to life and hope it won't be the last time. For us the first installation was big fun and this time it should no less. If you don't know the first incarnation, check out our documentation video.
We also hope that we won't get flooded by movies. We are going to be quite busy during as there is the Chaos Communication Congress taking place at the same time just next to the building. So things can get lost. But we are willing to have a look at everything we get, but we are just not going to make promises that your movie will run.
Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?
http://www.ripserve.com/perkins/blinkenlights/phot os/1.html
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http://www.adognamedfish.com/gallery/blinkenlight
Well it looks like it has been slashdotted, but you can get some video of it elsewhere... Blinken Lights
since it's already down. I've often wondered what would happen if Slashdot had a link to Fark, and in retaliation Drew linked it right back to Slashdot. Which one would crash first?