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Working iPod Halloween Costume
Jrod1080 writes "I decided to be an iPod for Halloween this year. I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume. I finally found a good use for a tablet PC, and used that for the display. A rewired USB mouse served as the 'Forward,' 'Reverse,' 'Play/Pause' buttons, and a bit of Java code played and displayed the MP3s. Some battery powered speakers provided the sound. It all worked out well, and I even won the costume contest!"
Maybe Apple can place a couple of these iPod "kiosks" in shopping malls, what's the better way to experience iPod mini with a giant iPod?
On a more serious note though, a real scary Halloween custume is Death framed inside a blue-tinted Window.
With so many images on one page, this guy obviously didn't read the Do-Not-Slashdot ACT 1996, here's a coral link just in case.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
NERD ALERT!
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/ipod-costume-02455 5.php
I like this one better
Matt
it seems to me you went as "Guy with Giant iPod around his neck.".
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Not only is this a surprisingly cool costume that uses technology in innvative ways...
But it still looks better any model from creative, virgin, ogg vorbis player, out there!
Ever wondered why that chick in the picture has her legs on the other dude, and not you????
But where does he store the candy?
I hope the money Apple are paying him covers his bandwidth bill.
to Slashdot your server.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
They want royalties for playing their songs out in public. Oh sweet costume by the way.
how does this get on slashdot?
"I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume"
great, so instead of making something that represents an ipod, you strapped a facsimile of an ipod as a necklace. big whoop
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
I could imagine someone saying: 'Hey baby, I can show you how to REALLY use the scroll wheel' Pretty cool idea though.
Bite me. Seriously, I enjoy it.
I hope he has an extended warranty, because he is going to get the crap beaten out of him going out like that.
As the site's dead and mirrordot hasn't pulled a copy of it, I managed to mirror it:u /~jwinick/Halloween2004/
http://rufus.hackish.org/~rufus/www.eecs.umich.ed
I decided to be a web server at University of Michigan for Hallowe'en this year. I didn't want to walk around in a cardboard box, so I used some smouldering rags to provide the smoke and flames effect.
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Yeah, you think for someone who dressed up as a fucking iPod for Halloween he would be geeky enough to have a decent server.
"In other news, local man dressed as an iPod was found inebriated and trying to hump a boombox speaker, after a wild night at a halloween party. The man has been referred for counselling."
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Okay, who's next?
Now the mirror is slashdoted... anybody else got a mirror?
I didn't want to do my homework today anyway. :-)
The actual link is badly dead. Are these pictures from this guy's costume, or is this someone else?
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as we speak, his I.E. history is amassing hundreds of google urls containing the terms "hack", "slashdot", and "metallica"
...if I'm not spending halloween reading Slashdot (read: this won't actually happen), I'm going to dress up as a Slashdotted website.
Hey wait a second, there's still time... I'll go get a T-Shirt and write "Server too busy" on it.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Which button calls your parents to come pick you up??
The reason he won was probebly because of the hot chick Paris he was with!
Id get her this costume if she lets me play with her scroll wheel...
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...Might be dangerous. How often can you 'demonstrate' your costume after appearing to fall foward and burst into flames after a slashdotting?
..he made it into the 'display' of a costume. Of an Apple product. Finally, someone comes out and says that the Emperor has no clothes, that Microsoft's FUD machine can't spin something out of nothing, and that the tablet-PC-using-dork in Starbucks really is just that, a dork. Thank you, for pointing out the retardation of Tablet PCs.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
The server actually belongs to the EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) department at the University of Michigan. You would definitely think they'd be geeky enough to have a decent server. I'm actually a student there and rely on that server for school. I actually ended up on Slashdot when I couldn't get the spec on a project because the server was down.
Yep, Slashdot is destroying productivity as never before.
Not more than you need, just more than you want
http://www.eecs.umich.edu.nyud.net:8090/~jwinick/H alloween2004/
coralized link to eecs server is working.
i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.
makes you wonder how soon before universities forbid people posting sites that "might get linked on slashdot"
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The server may have survived longer if the images had been actually resized. Many are 500KB - 1MB each, html resized to 800x600. I'm trying to make a mirror of the mirror and use true resized images but I'm getting about 500 bytes/sec.
Interesting, but I like the girls costume better ;-] RECOUNT!
lawyers in 3...2...1...
I guess it's not like he could get caught infringing on Apple's trademark. The only way he could get caught would be to post a description and links to pictures on a well known website. He shouldn't get in any troub...oh, nevermind. Good luck.
THE IPOD KILLERS!!
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...I'm going as the iPod Killer. And I KNOW YOUR IP ADDRESS!
I mean its haloween so somehow arn't the costumes supposed to represent something scary?
Or am I missing something and lots of people in this persons neighborhood work for the RIAA?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
No camel toe!
..does the coral cache rather frustratingly mimik the death of the server?
I haven't been keeping up with Foxtrot lately, is this what Jason is going as for Halloween this year?
He'd better be careful; I've been hearing a lot about iPod killers lately.
Sailors. Oh man!
Considering that about half the replies to this thread are from Univ of Michigan Electrical Engineering students, it appears that most Michigan students (at least the EECS) have nothing better to do then read slashdot on the biggest college party night of the year.
It sure is a good thing that I stayed in to read slashdot, so that I could bring the rest of you this insightful comment. Anyone in bursley up for a game of UT2003?
No one actually cares.
I finally found a good use for a tablet PC
You uh.. realize those are for drawing, right? With the pen and all? I thought that was the biggest giveaway, as most people use pens for drawing. But it's a little unsettling that someone who made a working iPod costume is a little behind on the subject of drawing utensils. Far worse that he bought a tablet PC and evidently used it to make toast.
I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
Uh ... you strapped a tablet PC with some white cardboard around your neck. big deal.
I was expected a full iPod suit around your body or something.
I would hardly consider this repugnant aberration to be an ad for Apple...
Don't post a comment to slashdot about idiots using home run web servers when the site is actually hosted on the University of Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department webserver. It makes you look like a tool.
After reading the article, I want to find out more about the St. Paulie girl.
I want a step by step about every part of her costume.
Halloween is the eve of the Catholic "all saints day". Saints are dead people. .. I get the connection to skeletons and ghosts.
But WTF is it with the pumpkins, _random_ costumes, and children begging for high-sugar foods?
I need to know this, because kids here are getting brainwashed by american TV, and picking up some n-th generation version of the custom. Is it OK to play tricks on them?
check out that scuba guy.. lol or mister-t.. i'm dying over here
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The girl on the last photo has a costume that mimics a actually Bavarian so-called "Dirndl". But Bavaria is in the far south of Germany, St. Pauli is a district in Hamburg, which is in the far north of Germany.
Thats a helluva lot of efford for a costume - but I like it!
A working iPod costume? Personally, I don't like strangers pushing my buttons.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Someone called KFI AM 640 earlier saying they were going as an iPod. Forget which show it was.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
Seriously, in college I had discarded movie seats that I pulled from a dumpster and a futon with no frame as my dorm furniture. This guy has a Crate & Barrel rug with Pottery Barn couches & chairs. He must be hosting a pr0n site on those University of Michigan EECS servers also.
Once people were dressing up as ghosts and skeletons, I guess it wasn't that much of a jump to dress up as a Roman senator or iPod or whatever you wanted. The giving of candy was meant to persuade youths not to cause mischief, as in their demand "Trick or treat." Pumpkins ripen in the fall.
It's not a serious holiday. It doesn't mean anything. It's just a day to be macabre and stupid.
I think Red Robot might have beaten him out. (As opposed to merely beating him...)
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Apparently he also ran his web server off the same tablet PC. The tablet PC that is now a steaming pile of plastic.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Now if he made it big enough to be IN the replica, then that would be cool.
This is, well.. sort of dull...
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To see more really cool, ingenious costumes, check out these gems made by Rob Cockerham of cockeyed.com:
Paparazzi costume
Jenga costume
Africa costume
California costume
As usual:
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1082
So here's a programming assignment for (somebody). How about we create a slashdot caching server such that the URL reads:
http://cache.slashdot.org/cache.php?url=www.dfs.co m/bla.html
And the slashdot cache would keep the given website in a cache on a nice fast server for say 30 days until the story dies down, etc.
Thoughts?
Don't get your hopes up too high when someone asks you for your size.
Just thank god that it wasn't this guy again
http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/
We don't give a fuck about the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan
We don't give a fuck about the whole state of Michigan
cuz we're from Ohio
We're from Ohio O H
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We don't give a fuck about the whole state of Michigan cuz we're from Ohio
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LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE TRYING TO GET DRUNK....
DO YOU NEED HELP WITH:
-PICKING A DRINK
-SLIPPING GIRLS ROOFIES
-PISSING YOURSELF
-FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS
roffle haha lol omg haha roffle i hate the lameness filter i love caps blahb blah etc SORRY roffle hello hiry to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads.Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)
What self-respecting Slashdot geek is using IE?
...I played prank on friend of mine in the early 1980s (bear with me, it's just about on topic). He was very fond of taping films off the TV, and had built up a large collection. Me and another friend composed a very official looking letter from the "department of copyright, performance rights and recovery of royalties" (or somesuch) pointing out that his collection was known to us and in breach of the copyright act and that he must pay royalties or else destroy the collection. (When I think of how life has come to imitate art, it doesn't seem so funny now!). Since he worked with my co-conspirator, we saw the results first hand - a very worried phonecall from his wife, him storming home in a rush, hastily gathering all the tapes and rushing them round to his father's house to destroy them. Only when his father read the letter did the penny drop... Big laughs all round. Ahem. ;-)
A short while later this same friend held a fancy dress party. I decided to rub it in a bit and went dressed as a "pirate video" - basically a pirate costume but a large box was made up as a VHS cassette which was worn over. The effect was pretty good, and (even if I say so myself, slightly witty). It didn't do anything - we didn't have the technology then, anyway, what would it do?
More laughs at the party, though me and the perpetrator of the copyright letter got a custard pie in the face for our trouble. Bit of a lame comeback if you ask me....
Perhaps you didn't notice because this is the Apple section.
That is a party for homosexuals. The men are all excellently groomed with short, romanesqe haircuts. Their muscles are toned and they have no shoulder spotting to mar their perfect tans. The bearded man has sculpted his carefully. The man off to the left in the last picture is wearing a diaper and has exposed his fantastic abs as part of his cupid costume.
Most telling of all, the men are ridiculous nerds, yet they are surrounded by gorgeous, underweight women. They're hardly noticing these women.
Yes, if this isn't a party for either homosexuals or the UMich French Club, I'll eat my hat.
I need this box to do my project work and you submitted it to slashdot?!?!
/.ers as it is much too small, put your shit onto caen's boxes
Please don't ever put eecs up to the
Chicago is the font Apple uses on the iPod (but not on the iPod Mini). Back in the day it was the font for all the Mac's menus and dialog boxes, later replaced by Charcoal and--today--Lucida Grande, IIRC. Here is a scan of my iPod's screen so you can see Chicago in all its glory.
There's more info about Apple's fonts on Wikipedia, but for some reason Slashdot won't let me link to it. Here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_fonts
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You're just not in on it yet. Start using it.
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This wiener spent upwards of $1200 on his costume.
:)
Mine cost just over $2.00, as wasn't even original, nut I had wayy more fun!
Here is a pic of a similar costume.
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
Apple should shut him down for sullying their good name.
Not that I give a shit about Apple, but that's pretty hideous.
That was one of the coolest costumes I've ever seen.
*****
Dear Mary,
I yearn for you tragically,
A.T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.
I was going to go as a Wireless router, but I couldn't get the doc to prescribe Viagra for antenna maintenance. :(
Maybe next year.
you should consider learning to read
How is it that the universal insult for engineers the world over is calling someone a 'tool'?
I would have thought that such being an insult would contradict the presumption that tools are useful, for something.
... but then leave surprised at the smoking hot chicks in the photos.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
An iPod halloween costume that's almost as overpriced as real iPods! :D
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
After fellow Slashdotters are done, *someone* is going to have to do a lot of explaining to UMICH's IT department... and convincing as well to keep his account around.
The technology on this just flat out smokes the design execution. This would have been better as a Nomad given the shoddy design of the costume as a whole.
How about you guys? What's her number?
If more people had jpeg2000 readers/plugins as DEFAULT in firefox/ie, then we could all start using it...
I mean, how lazy are ya-all.
Pitty MS wont do it, if anything, they have the power to make their own Wmedia10 style compression for still images, WMS? They could attempt to kill/take over jpeg
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
/. umich.edu thats kiddy stuff The other week we made Georgia Tech's webserver unusable. With a story about an Xbox hacked to run Mac OS. GT has one of the fastest connections in the country and has the southeast region internet hub on campus.
Is it just me or does the girl to the right of the ipod guy (the one dressed as Paris Hilton) look like Sarah Lane from The Screen Savers?
The length to which nerds will go to prove they have a girlfriend to slashdotters
End Communication.
The guy actually plays MICHAEL JACKSON on his ipod costume.....!!! How low can you go.
....hmmmmmm
I'd say he's a wanna be geek/nerd
They drink beer (I assume they drink beer) out of plastic cups.
Where I come from that's a good reason for a public burning.
Paris
Serious. Who taught web design to this moron? All his page is composed of HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES! No wonder it got slashdoted after the first 100 visits or so (wild guess). I'm reading the coral link.
/.
/., thou shalt be damned.
Doesn't he know how to use thumbnails?
Perhaps we should add a guide to
Before posting:
I. Thou shalt not use high resolution images on your webpages.
II. If thou do and link them from
That just looks horrible. And that is what costumes are about. Looks.
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Obviously no one thought the servers required some heavy duty testing. Living in denial being /.d .
At least the server(s) has now been tested and found they cannot cope with a few measly million or so hits over a days period :P
Have the geeks in charge of the server been told why their baby broke? If so, have they gone around and kneecapped ipod guy yet? :)
Simple: the story relates to iPods.
i take it you didn't get laid this halloween, eh?
One more reason to become an Aerospace Engineering major instead of YAEM (Yet Another EECS Major): more reliable web hosting of class documents.
You cant be a geek if you hang out with girls like that girl dressed like Paris Hilton.
Y HELO THER
Flavor Flav called. He wants royalies.
Why should we use JPEG2k when we have PNG?
It's November 1st, don't you get the day off?
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I have never actually used that insult before - I was just repeating it to sound like the original poster. I think the general idea of the insult is that a tool is something that gets used by someone. Of course, as with all insults, it has taken on a more general meaning.
Personally, if she's lying to me that puts her somewhere way down the undesirable list anyway.
And if she is the type to absolve herself of responsibility in the above way, it's going to come out later in the [relationship/dalliance/affair/whatever] and I'll end up writing her off too. Nothing more attractive than a chick who can't follow through with anything she says. [/sarcasm]
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"hey baby, wanna dock?"
YOU'RE one of the bastards taking them off the market! ;)
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Then at least he could have achieved a little respect.
Mercy was given to me by Christ...I must give the same to others.
That was sort of the point. That all the other qualities (sane, hot, intelligent, nice) can exist in one girl, but that she will always have a boyfriend who isn't you.
(I am, of course, being somewhat facetious here, but subjectively it makes a lot of sense.)
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while this seems true, it doesn't matter in the end. you want a gf that you're going to discuss particle physics with or have her bang the shit out of you daily? This is the point. you can easily sacrifice the intelligence criteria and win in the other four categories. in the end this turns out best for both of you. if you wanna talk nerdly, msn your buddy or something. you want a relationship with a hottie, ditch the nerd-speak.
QED
I think he did a fine job, with an idea to take it a step further, and a bit of work that paid off. Can't you all just complement the guy for a job well done?
If you do that, though, you're just gonna get bored and break up with her eventually, or some kind of pain is going to happen because of it that causes you to break up, ad infinitum.
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well i didn't say that you don't fall in love - you just don't need to fall in love with her mind. :) i agree, the sex isn't everything and as the years go by, it isn't anything.
We have a winnah.
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