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The Blues for LEDs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-thats-your-biggest-problem-you're-doing-allright dept.

Corey Burger writes "Seems somebody rolled out of bed on the wrong side today. The Globe and Mail's Ian Johnson delivers up a rant about the ubiquity of the new blue LEDs."

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  1. I concur. Same problem with the sky by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Blue LEDs have a piercing clarity that draws the eye immediately, and which can mesmerize. They shimmer, they twinkle, and they can be incredibly intense for such tiny points of light -- they're really quite beautiful. The problem is they're suddenly everywhere.

    It really pisses me off.

    The Blue sky has a piercing clarity that draws the eye immediately, and which can mesmerize. And at night, the stars shimmer, they twinkle, and they can be incredibly intense for such tiny points of light -- they're really quite beautiful. The problem is they're suddenly everywhere.

    Sorry...I must've rolled out of bed the wrong side too.

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  2. Re:Why by fireman+sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Blue LED howto:

    Part 1 - dimming.

    1. Go to the hardware shop and pick up some masking tape.
    2. Cut a piece sufficiently large to cover the offending LED
    3. Place the tape over the LED
    4. Repeat from step 2 until the LED is sufficiently dim.

    Part 2 - Blocking

    1. Go to the hardware shop and pick up a nice hammer drill and a drill bit of similar diameter as the LED

    2. Turn the device with the LED off.
    3. Drill the shit out of the LED*

    *Or, drill the shit out of your eyes. Therefore, removing the need to block any other blue LEDS that you may have on your "look at me I am a techy" gadgets.

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  3. I wholeheartedly agree by otter42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ian Johnson, I feel your pain. Why, just the other day, my butler Jeeves remarked to me, "Sir, I find myself incapable of sleeping ever since you installed your 100" plasma computer monitor. The blue LED keeps me up all night."

    And I'm regretting giving the cleaning staff new blue-LED-equipped brooms last week. Those hundreds of dancing broom-handles put me in such a dreadful mood. How can I concentrate on exploiting those massively regressive tax-cuts when all those lights keep dancing in my brain?

    Indeed.

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  4. Blue light... so shiny... by yalla · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you ever stood in front of a SUN Fire 6800 cabinet? They have a big sucker of a SUN logo illuminated by those blue LEDs...

    So shiny... Happy happy happy... Must drool and watch... can't resist...

    I'm still waiting for the Octalus-like big mouth with needle-sharp fangs coming out of the cabinet snatching for my head :-)

    Yalla.

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  5. Re:the LEDs are ok... by mog007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    but I swear nothing could make those things less blinding in most of these huge, high-sitting SUVs.

    I have a hammer that disagrees with that statement.

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  6. Re:Why by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ever hook up a stock LED to the power pack taken out of a polaroid camera.... LED went bright, then dim, then exploded hitting me above the eye with a chunk of plastic...

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