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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!"
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The reason he won was probebly because of the hot chick Paris he was with!
...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....
Why is this a troll? it's true. Any time someone bashes MS, it's marked as 'informative' or 'funny' But heaven forbid someone bash Apple, or Linux, and they get modded as a 'troll', or 'flamebait'...