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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!"
NERD ALERT!
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?
They want royalties for playing their songs out in public. Oh sweet costume by the way.
apparently not, considering how the site is down.
it is now safe to take off your tin foil hat.
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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.
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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"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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I didn't want to do my homework today anyway. :-)
No, the guy in the article strapped a cardboard box around his neck, wrote 'ipod' on it plus some silver foil to represent the buttons, then proceeded to get his server slashdotted :)
*really* slow news day today... They don't come lamer than this.
Which button calls your parents to come pick you up??
...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
Well that would do it. The morron put up full-sized 4megapixel images then used "img size=" to resize it. Just resized the images down so I should be able to survive now.
Interesting, but I like the girls costume better ;-] RECOUNT!
...and if she existed.
Damn, do they have the movie clip of where he fell over, struggled for a good five minutes trying to get up, then gave a fervent cry about why he could not have come as a walkman?
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.
He'd better be careful; I've been hearing a lot about iPod killers lately.
Sailors. Oh man!
No one actually cares.
And to think that all this time, I thought the candy was an indirect gift to dentists.
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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.
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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.
/. 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.
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.
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/., 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
I'm a little concerned about this gentleman's health. He apparently states that he's a third of five children on his page. I've always considered myself half of two children, a third of three children, a fourth of four children, etc... My sister on the other hand is counted as 2 adults when trying to board the airplane and is requested to purchase a second ticket due to the additional seating requirements.
To be a third of five children, that would make him roughly 1 2/3's children.
I would recommend this gentleman contacts a surgeon for a consultation to cut back on his extra appendages otherwise he'll obviously need to wear costumes for the rest of his life.