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Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage
nev4 writes "Ireland is celebrating their EU presidency for 2004 with an interactive lightshow over Dublin. The project, Vectorial Elevation, allows people to control the 22 searchlights (154,000 watts, can be seen for a 15km radius) shining over Dublin by submitting a design on the project's website. The designs are queued and a new design is displayed every 14 seconds from dusk to dawn (GMT +1). You can see an aerial view of the city and the current design via live webcam or browse snapshots of previous designs. The tool for submitting deisgns also contains a 3D model of the city that you can pan around or "walk-through". Once you submit your design, you can opt to receive an e-mail when it is being displayed; when I submitted mine there was no one in the queue, so it was displayed immediately."
...and you have the first lifesize Missile Commander game.
No way this will abused at all... I look forward to seeing goatse in all its glory displayed over Dublin.
Residents of Ireland reported seeing lights representing penises and men bending over with apparent gaping holes in the rear over the skies of Dublin. More on this as it becomes available.
The local In-House Astronomer at Univ of Dublin must love this thing...
"We are celebrating our EU presidency for 2004, and all we got is our web cam Slashdotted."
Poor fellows.So if you would stop pointing it at my flat, that would be appreciated.
An annoyed Dublin resident.
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
Can I project my phone number so whole legions hot irish girls will call me, wanting hot passion?
Hate me!
Can somebody say Bat-signal?
while true ; do echo this is my sig; done
Wait until the spammers find out. Then you'll see on the sky:
MAKE MONEY FAST!
URGENT BUISNESS PROPOSAL
Buy \/IAGRA!
And the next spam message will not say any more "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV", but "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL SKY".
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
"All your searchlights are belong to us"
Proudly supporting the Libertarian Party.
In order to avoid the impending slashdot effect, Dublin moved the website to its new home: http://www.DriveOurCityInsane.com/ Apparently the lights are just the first feature. In the future they're going to incorporate music that viewers can upload and play across the city, voice synthesizers to read off posted comments and various other things guaranteed to drive residents nuts. Apparently they got the idea from some guy from the midwest's home project.
Mine would have to be:
(up arrow) (up arrow) (down arrow) (down arrow) (left arrow) (right arrow) (left arrow) (right arrow) B A Start
IANAL, but I play one on
What about submitting the DeCSS source code?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree.
Could some sensitive clod convert these to American Units please ? What does 15km and 154000 watts mean in miles and libraries of congress ?
What an apalling waste of energy. Just think of all the Guinness that could be brewed with that much electricity!
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