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iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee

Posted by timothy on from the impressive-results dept.

Ant writes "tiles.ice.org is a Web site with a cool art idea as a tribute to Salvador Dali. It is iCE (remember ANSI art, you old school computer users?)'s answer to the old-fashioned quilt party, minus the gathering of elderly women. It's a unique opportunity for collaborative artwork on the net. A huge image, composed of individual 'tiles' is created, one piece at a time. The goal when making a tile is to mesh your work as smoothly as possible with the surrounding tiles, while creating something cool, artistic, and if applicable, on-topic. Check out the finished sample. I love the ants in the quilt tiles!"

138 comments

  1. Grandma... by catbertscousin · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...can I PLEASE use the internet now?

    --
    No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
    1. Re:Grandma... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I couldn't stop laughing when i read that.

  2. the draw! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    remember using "the draw" to create BBS menus?.... those were the days..

    1. Re:the draw! by temojen · · Score: 1

      Yes, and I remember that when I removed all the fancy screens and went text-only, people liked my bbs better. It could be because I was the only BBS in town that still accepted 300bps. Everyone got 45 minutes; why would I care how many bits they get in that time? I didn't have any files sections anyways. TradeWars2002, Baren Realms Elite, a Graffitti wall, and local messaging were enough to keep my line busy almost 24/7.

    2. Re:the draw! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      they should've stuck to ansi gfx, it uses less bandwidth...
      btw, there's a lot of telnet bbs's on the net. even some running on c64 and amiga... which makes sense since you don't need pixel gfx to make a good discussion forum, and for that matter some of the most fun games are ansi/ascii text.
      and personally i got kinda bored of www shit and gfx after a couple years of surfing with netscape, so switched to lynx & links, plus some custom perl scripts and junk. kids probably think i'm crazy, but i started computing on 8-bit machines anyway, and it just feels natural and less gimicky.

    3. Re:the draw! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Most BBS software simply let you choose your ANSI mode:

      [C]olor, [M]ono, or [N]one

      No need to do away with the colored menus for everyone; folks with slow connections would choose None and get a separate set of menus from the others.

  3. If we all cooperate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... we can quilt goatse into it!

    1. Re:If we all cooperate... by jbrader · · Score: 1

      and if we really cooperate we can turn the whole thing into a mosaic of goatse... shudder

      --
      You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
    2. Re:If we all cooperate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, but the person unlucky enough to get that one spot would probably refuse...

  4. Progress made by one person or a group? by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In the history of the world, it has always been the power and vision of one single person that has created progress. This is another way to say that committees accomplish nothing.

    Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night. The individual is the creator of art. Art by committee is soulless.

    1. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by oirtemed · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I dont think the purpose of this is to achieve any new leaps in artistic expression. There is more to working with a group than just "progress" and gains. There is a lot to be said for the fun involved and the ability to share and meld your ideas with the ideas of others. I assume you don't listen to any music, surely that art by committee has no soul. Or books illustrated by people other than the author, or even collaborative writings. Hell, researchers should stop working in teams and just go at it alone....how else will we progress? Now that I think of it, I can't believe I even bit at your flamebait. Oh well.

    2. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by NitroWolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night. The individual is the creator of art. Art by committee is soulless.

      The only people who actually think that "art by comittee is soulless" are the pseudo-intellectuals who don't/can't really apprecaite art, so they critize it to beef up their ego/self-esteem.

      Going by the logic here, a museum is also a "soulless" place, because it is, by definition, art by comittee. A comittee decides what's in the museum and the museum contains a hodge podge of different artists. Thus all art, except stand alone art in the middle of a field, with no one around to view is is "soulless."

      Now how silly is that. Art is created by the artist for their own edification. Art is viewed/consumed by the viewer for their own enjoyment. That's what art is, there's nothing soulless or soulful about it... you get out of art what you put into it, whether you are the viewer or the creator.

    3. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by Headcase88 · · Score: 1

      Art is viewed/consumed by the viewer for their own enjoyment.

      Unfortunately, when too many people try to view an artpiece, the soul of the server that is hosting the art is degraded until it is nothing.

      (It becomes Slashdotted)

      --
      "When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
    4. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by jbrader · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Then by your definition since a movie is made by a team it's not art. I know the argument to this is that a movie has a strong director whos vision shapes the movie but anyone with input changes the final result. e.g. Kubrick made Dr Strnglove but would it have been the same without Peter Sellers or Slim Pickins?

      --
      You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
    5. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by Queer+Boy · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night.

      Folk art is quite different than Fine art. Folk art has a distinct culture behind it whereas Fine art is typically an individual expression (sometimes a statement). Yes, you're right, people remember the individual in Fine art whereas Folk art is about a community.

      Your assertion is that recognition is the inherent drive for art. I always thought it was expression. It's also not art by committee, it's art by community.

      --
      Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.
    6. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by Anne+Honime · · Score: 1

      In the modern history of the occidental world would probably more accurate. Just think how many churches ' wall paintings of the XVth - XVIth century were collaborative work, and the time span needed to actualy build those churches. Yet they offer a tight integration of different archiects visions as well as unity of artistic realisation.

    7. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Morris and Company's quilts and wall hangings would probably qualify as high art, but they were collaborative. This is somewhat later than the religious art, but probably springing from similar sentiments.

    8. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by evilmousse · · Score: 1


      pfeh, tell that to a jam band.

      art and progress is broader than that. there are things that work well done by individuals, and things that don't.

      progress is ESPECIALLY poor word-choice. the singly most complex creation of man (so i've heard) is the space shuttle--so complex no one person could expect to be a professional in it all.

    9. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by wadam · · Score: 1

      How has progress ever been linked to the power and vision of single people. Consider the "scientific revolution" and the shift toward "modernism" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Sure, you could attribute the whole thing to the power and vision of a single person -- Bacon, perhaps, or Newton -- but you would be missing the larger picture. The shift toward a techno-centric world view -- toward an intellectual regime based on some concept of reason -- was a shift perpetrated by a large group of people who included the likes of (as we see in Neal Stevenson's new trilogy) Hooks, Wren, Boyle, Aubry, Hume, Locke, McPherson, Hobbes, Kant, Hagel, and yes, Bacon and Newton too. Science, language, economics all shifted dramatically, and all at the same time, not because any one person had a great master plan, but because a cluster of ideas gained currency from a multitude of sources in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century that allowed for new critical examinations of society as it was, and new speculation on society as it should be.

    10. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by ObjetDart · · Score: 1
      the singly most complex creation of man (so i've heard) is the space shuttle--so complex no one person could expect to be a professional in it all.

      I've heard the same thing said about the source code for Microsoft Windows. 40 million lines and counting, baby!

      --
      I read Usenet for the articles.
    11. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny how you try to argue that progress is made by groups and then go and name a bunch of individuals who are truly outstanding.

      Your post only strengthens the argument that progress is made by the enlightened individual and *not* groups.

    12. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by wadam · · Score: 1

      I don't mention them as individuals inventing progress themselves, but rather as a group of (yes, truly outstanding) people who each contributed, along with innumerable other less memorable people, to a process larger than itself (a process, by the way, which was in part the invention of the notion of progress in the first place).

    13. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The whole "art is for expression" is a very new tendency in art and has only been around for the past century or so - if I'm not mistaken. I imagine the modernists probably had something to do with that.

      Anywho, the driving force behind art over the past thousand years or two has been recognition, boredom and/or cash. Mainly cash to pay for the time you've spent doing pretty things to be recognised for.

      Just sayin'

  5. cool... but not as cool as the Zoomquilt... by Alkivar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt.ph p

    now thats some surreal collaborative art...

    1. Re:cool... but not as cool as the Zoomquilt... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, now that's just damn awesome.

    2. Re:cool... but not as cool as the Zoomquilt... by Archon-X · · Score: 1

      ..snazzy, isn't it. It was also done by an iCE member (and others)

      It cost us almost as much in hotlinking as this /.ing will probably do

    3. Re:cool... but not as cool as the Zoomquilt... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someone should seriously make a screensaver out of that.

    4. Re:cool... but not as cool as the Zoomquilt... by Slothy · · Score: 1

      Actually, iCE did the Zoomquilt, too.

    5. Re:cool... but not as cool as the Zoomquilt... by RichardX · · Score: 1

      Wow!

      I know that (the zoomquilt) is probably old now, but I'd never seen it before, and it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen on the web. I always wanted to do something like that myself, but couldn't really figure out how to juggle the zooming and image swapping to make it seamless.
      Congratulations to everyone at ICE! The dali quilt is really cool too

      --
      Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
  6. Ahh yes... by NitroWolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ahh... I love the thought of posting a site dedicated soley to serving images upon the Slashdot main page. In fact, I can't possibly think of any faster way to completely annihilate a server and it's connection to the internet.

    Like linking to a predominately text site doesn't trash the site, someone thought it would be a good idea to link to a picture site? Like what, you expected people to be able to view any of the pictures before the server turned into a steaming pile of goo?

    Well, I got to see one, nya nya nya!

    1. Re:Ahh yes... by ovanklot · · Score: 1

      Not only that, but it's also the oldest dupe ever... ;)

      {{sPaz}} / iCE

      --
      "Programming is life, the rest is mere details"
  7. iCE member here... by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tiles was a project i beleive started by our dear friend Slothy of iCE who i've worked with on more than one occasion and have known since i was 16 as an iCE member.

    iCE has always been an excellent organization of artists that are extremely talented and have remained friends for a long time now. Tiles is proof of the many great ideas Jon (slothy) has had over the years. Looking at the work in the tiles is pretty interesting and its a lot of fun.

    Nice to see it on slashdot. I know Jon and other iCE members such as myself are frequent readers of slashdot.

    Enjoy!

    1. Re:iCE member here... by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 1

      oops.. Forgot to sign it.

      Rogue Leader [iCE]

    2. Re:iCE member here... by farmy · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually we've been linked to by slashdot on at least 2 other occations that I remember. Sadly we dont have the resources of a CNN, or say, youre local burger stand with a website. The system is yet another in a long line of crap we've managed to beg for. This one is considerably better than the previous servers, its a p3-1000. Sadly it has no drive space, so what you're looking at there is a lot of graphics loaded over NFS (which is another piece of crap EOL'd "SAN" we found in the trash).

      -iCE Admin

    3. Re:iCE member here... by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 1

      Hey Farmy ;) I wonder how it'll handle /. ;) Rogue Leader[iCE]

    4. Re:iCE member here... by napa1m · · Score: 1

      hi RL!

      Tiles is fun, it's been around for a while and there have been some good results. I personally prefer single-piece collaborations for a more cohesive product, but this sort of "exquisite corpse on crack" approach can often be really surreal or hilarious. Keep it up!

      Oh and I used to run that other ANSi / VGA group, CIA (creators of intense art.. stupid acronym i know but i didn't make it up! :)

      -Napalm(CIA)

      --
      ^nA! Creatures in my Head
    5. Re:iCE member here... by MistabewM · · Score: 1

      NAPPY! =)
      Nice to see you again.. its been a while..

      Time for a re-union... lol

      See cain around? =)

      --
      "A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'" - DNA
    6. Re:iCE member here... by NetSerf2000 · · Score: 1

      I dont think that it did...

      I tried to access it and I couldnt :(

      --
      *** I had a .sig, but then I got a life ***
  8. Slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Killing web servers since '97

  9. iCE by sinner0423 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember iCE.. when I was begging for my board to be a distro in the Chicago area at the tender age of 13. RaDMaN from ACiD occasionally reads the slash - and as I understand it, ACiD is still an art group to this very day. I'm glad to see iCE is still around as well.

    Two thumbs up for L337 TheDraw skills.

    1. Re:iCE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Translation anyone?

    2. Re:iCE by Archon-X · · Score: 1

      I'm Senior Staff of iCE.

      Sad to say, ACiDreleased their Last Pack Ever a few months back, leaving iCE to be one of the last remaining 'old school' groups.

      While we still have a lot of inactive members, our current crew still put out fantastic art, every single month.

      I head up the iCE photography Division, releasing photos of an iCE-standard.

      As you can see from the posts here, lots of iCE members are /. readers, and big in the geek world.

      Slothy (Senior Staff) works in the gaming section, farmy being big in the open source / security niches, plus countless others.

      Of interest is SketchCow, and his BBS documentary, which features interviews of old iCE members, and other members from the scene.

  10. ...Yay, old school ansi! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And, at the bottom of all great Ansi Art... Wuzza Grim, Insane, ND, SK, PLT, wT, etc from #ansi w00t!

  11. Re:Ahh no... by shanen · · Score: 1

    I didn't get to see even one. Do they have any metrics for the /. effect as related to the number of posts? (Only 9 when I went to the Web site.)

    --
    Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
  12. Coral Cache by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 2, Informative

    Click here

  13. Old Hat! by femto · · Score: 1
    NTRAK modellers have been doing this same thing for years! The idea is to build a model railway (railroad) module with a standard interface allowing lots of people to band together and build a huge layout.

    Given that hacking draws so much from model railways (Tech Model Railroad Club) perhaps it is valid to say hackers have been quilting for years??

  14. iCE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    former iCE member from '91-92 here... damn i feelz old

  15. You must be kidding. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I remember contributing to tiles.ice.org uhrm, what, 5 to 6 years ago? What suddently makes this NEWS?

    ++fd

  16. Mirror of tiles.ice.org by Python · · Score: 2, Informative
    Please try one of the mirroring sites for tiles.ice.org:

    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html/

    --

    Python

  17. It's never good when... by davidu · · Score: 0

    An art/graphics site is slashdotted on a network you help run...

    At least the site/server caved before the bandwidth bill did. :)

    -davidu

    --

    # Hack the planet, it's important.
  18. Touché ;-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Re:Stop michael now! (Score:0, Troll)
    I guess you're right. (Posted as AC to protect my karma)
  19. Re:Stop michael now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's a stupid argument from an obviously stupid person. Are you related to Michael by chance?

  20. kama free mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html

  21. Re:ungh by Archon-X · · Score: 1

    We're building our new server atm. Actually, it's built, but obviously a week too late :|

  22. Wikipedia nostalgia factor by aardwolf204 · · Score: 1

    The ASCII Art wikipedia story lead me to ZZT, an old fav of mine. Oh the wonders of nostalgic computer games. Wonder if this will play on my Athlon.

    ZZT was an ANSI-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney, later the designer of Unreal.

    Thats the coolest thing about Wikipedia and tabbed browsing. I can start at Ascii Art and end up on Alberto Lleras Camargo in a few clicks. Maybe I should make a plan to read all of Wikipedia and get a story on slashdot like that Bratanica guy.

    And what ASCII related post wouldnt be complete wihtout a link to ascii porn

    --
    Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the /.crowd.May ur days b merry & bright & may al
    1. Re:Wikipedia nostalgia factor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      well damn zzt looks cool. i wonder if there's a unix engine/interpreter/whatnot to run those games. if not, it might make a cool project...

    2. Re:Wikipedia nostalgia factor by aardwolf204 · · Score: 1

      ZZT is badass:

      Although ZZT's graphics were obsolete before it was even created, ZZT managed to become fairly popular because of its integration of a simple but effective object-oriented scripting language known as ZZT-oop. At the time this was groundbreaking as most functionality in prior games had been hard coded. The language allowed extensibility that no other game was able to provide, and allowed a large degree of community involvement that extended far beyond simply creating level terrain with the excellent in-built editor but involved writing programs to make the game run.

      There was an ask slashdot last year about getting kids into programming, wish I had remembered this game, its one of the things that got me into C++ and its OOP goodness.

      --
      Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the /.crowd.May ur days b merry & bright & may al
    3. Re:Wikipedia nostalgia factor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There have been 5304952052 different tries at redoing ZZT in some form, compatible or no. The most successful one, Megazeux, does have Linux versions IIRC.

      Tim Sweeney of Epic did ZZT, and this guy did Megazeux:
      http://www.verylowsodium.com/

    4. Re:Wikipedia nostalgia factor by mrnobo1024 · · Score: 0

      VeLoSo did not create MegaZeux, Greg Janson did. Same first name != same person.

    5. Re:Wikipedia nostalgia factor by keebler · · Score: 1

      ZZT was my first programming experience. I can't believe people are still into it.

      Ah, for the days before Java. When OOP was OOP, and the only variables were boolean.

      --
      My HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE is on DRUGS.
  23. deviantart mosaics by shird · · Score: 1

    Deviantart has had a similar idea in its mosaics category for quite some time. Being possibly the largest community art sites it has some nic emosaics in there.

    --
    I.O.U One Sig.
    1. Re:deviantART mosaics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is actually related to "Exquisite Corpse." An old parlor game that was popular with surrealists. Or the dada... can't remember really.

    2. Re:deviantart mosaics by shird · · Score: 1

      a link to the mosaic section because it is rather hard to find on their un-navigatable and unsearchable site.

      --
      I.O.U One Sig.
    3. Re:deviantart mosaics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That art is teh suck.

  24. Even better... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Like collaborative artwork?

    DeviantART Mosaics

    It's like this, except not ASCII.

  25. HTML-ized for your clicking pleasure by Grym · · Score: 1

    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt.ph p

    1. Re:HTML-ized for your clicking pleasure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Please visit Slashcode bug #981137, which concerns automatically hyperlinking URLs in "Plain Old Text" mode, and add a comment to show your support for a speedy resolution. No progress has been made on this trivial feature request for longer than six months.

      Feel free to repost this wherever appropriate if you think it's a good idea.

  26. Nostalgia to an Extreme by phaln · · Score: 1

    Hearing about phrack yesterday, and about iCE today, makes me yearn for the BBS days again. It's great to hear that these popular groups are still somewhat active, even if some are close to retiring.

    Viva le BBS! :)

    --
    SNACKS ARE AWESOME
    1. Re:Nostalgia to an Extreme by Archon-X · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually, you'll be pleased to know that iCE is much more than somewhat active. We're still releasing our digital art packs monthly, and I've been heading up the Photography Department for almost 12 months now.

      Drop by when we're got getting destroyed ;)

    2. Re:Nostalgia to an Extreme by phaln · · Score: 1

      Beautiful... thanks for the information! I'll make sure to check up a bit more often. ;)

      --
      SNACKS ARE AWESOME
    3. Re:Nostalgia to an Extreme by phiz187 · · Score: 1

      I comissioned some members of iCE to do an ANSI shirt for my group (NYC2600). It came out very well

      FRONT BACK

      MagneticM, and TRiP from iCE collaborated to make these awesome shirts.

      I still have some larges left... phiz >>at>> crimethink.org

      -PHiZ

      --
      Pretend I said something meaningful or insightful here.
    4. Re:Nostalgia to an Extreme by Archon-X · · Score: 1

      that's great!
      how much were you looking at for a shirt + shippnig to au? ;)

  27. Stop michael now!-"/." Fan club. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "What a dweeb. Say, if you don't like /., how about you just go away? "

    Uh huh. And people wonder why "good enough" and mediocrity dominate the world.

    Anyway people "going away" is happening. Is that what you want? Are all the people who actually want slashdot to improve "dweebs"?

    Like I said years ago and I'll say again. Slashdot is a victum of it's own success. The people who actually gave a damn about this place and made it what it was left around 2000.* That mostly leaves those who don't really give a damn about this place, and will live with the mediocrity, and leave with barely a twing of conscious once their apathy has sucked the husk dry. And apparenty managment agrees with the mindset.

    *Don't have to take my word for it. Read some of the old stuff, and compare it to now.

  28. check this oldschool shit out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    telnet velvet.ath.cx

  29. deviantART mosaics by StormShaman · · Score: 1

    This is similar to deviantART mosaics. They don't seem linked to directly on the main page anymore, but they can be found here. A great example of a congruous mosaic is The skin mosaic II.

  30. Stop michael now!-Before he kills "/.". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Simple. Write physical letters to his boss.

    Tell all the web sites out there to put a block in their files. If blocking is suppose to work against spam, then it'll work here.

    Build a better site. Remember Gracenote and what they did to their loyal community? Do something similiar, but learn from this places mistakes.

  31. Re:Stop michael now! by The+Grey+Clone · · Score: 0

    What does Michael have to do with a story about collabrative art that was posted by Timothy?

  32. But... wasn't it timothy that posted this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Or were you just saying this was michaels influence?

  33. This makes me feel old by pojo · · Score: 3, Informative
    Dupe (from July 2001)

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/02/043922 6&tid=152

  34. Re:Stop michael now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    about time it was said! and a D-bag was putting it nice!

  35. Cool! Where's the "download quilt" button? by kiddailey · · Score: 2, Informative


    What this really needs is a download button so I can download the composite quilt and use it as a desktop or something :D

    I guess I'll just have to take a couple screenshots and stitch them together manually...

    ...though I do see that you can buy prints of the quilts thanks to CafePress.

  36. Re:Stop michael now! by quantaman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What a dweeb. Say, if you don't like /., how about you just go away?

    Yeah, because when something good has problems you should just abandon it instead of trying to correct them. Those who post the stories and comments are the reason /. exists, they have a moral right to partake in its direction.

    The main effect of your ranting is to make me rather like "michael", whoever he is. He's certainly an improvement on you.

    Ahh, because the messenger defines the message? Just because the messenger isn't perfect does not change the fact that /. has some serious problems with the degree of professionalism demonstrated by some of the editors. There are times I'm surprised that /. hasn't been sued for libel for some of the inaccurate information they've posted in stories where even RTFA'ing would of informed them otherwise. Hundreds of thousands of geeks come here daily and many are inevitably going to give some degree of credence to what they see on the front page. I'm not asking for the New York Times here but at least some basic proofreading and making sure the facts are vaugly right before they post it for everyone to see would be nice.

    --
    I stole this Sig
  37. Re:Attention Linux Users: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Did you read that on the Internets? I'm sure you downloaded them last night. Oh, out of virtual memory?

  38. you too can be an ANSi poser with ease! by evilmousse · · Score: 1

    there's a very comprehensive image 2 color-ascii sourceforge project that i just happened to use yesterday to make my blog's background, when i failed to find a cool old ANSi menu to turn into my theme (i was thinking like a leet revengebbs theme, but i never find menu themes anymore, only picture art).

    check out img2ascii, with a live demo here (please don't punish their server, you can grab the code and run it locally or choose from other mirrors)

    this is the image i ended up making, the html had too many color tags and ate memory, so i took a screenshot and turned up the compression w/ some contrast adjustments.

    i'm sure purists would disdain, but i'm happy to nonprofessionally excercise a skill i've always envied ^^

    1. Re:you too can be an ANSi poser with ease! by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 1
      please don't punish their server

      Strangely enough, I'm getting a "Punisher" poster displayed instead of my original image. Must be a glitch. Yes. Definitely...

  39. Need new glasses by Clark_Griswold · · Score: 1

    Thought it said Quitting bee.

    Finally, a competition for something I'm actually good at...

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  40. less cool than both by Xzzy · · Score: 1

    I've had something that played on this same idea up for a few years now:

    http://www.tru7h.org/projects/society2/

    Obviously it's a bit crude, and someone had a fetish for pacman ghosts a ways back, but it's going on 3 years of accumulation now.. can't bear to take it down. ;)

    Think it gets like.. 5 hits a month.

    1. Re:less cool than both by psi42 · · Score: 1


      Think it gets like.. 5 hits a month.

      It's about to get 5 hits per second

      If there's anything you've always wanted to say to your server, now would be the time to say it. Hurry, you've precious little time!

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  41. Re:Stop michael now! by shanen · · Score: 1
    Does that mean you're the anonymous coward removing your mask now? If so, the new comment is "I don't argue with fools." I just put them on the foe list and they pretty much disappear.

    That'll teach me for taking a look at -1, but I was hoping for another mirror site, since the link was apparently already /.ed before the first mirror managed to get a copy. If someone wants to complain about the editors, it might be reasonable to suggest that they set up mirrors and include the links before they publish the URL of those wimpy little servers.

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  42. please help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    i am poor eskimo in canada and my igloo motor is broke and i am so poor that i cannot afford to purchase a new one. i hope you understand that times are difficult and would appreciate if you could donate at my paypal account of pleatherpope@gmail.com

    thanks

  43. Re:Cool! Where's the "download quilt" button? by eliphas_levy · · Score: 1

    If you use mozilla/firefox, you can go on the page properties and download it from the "media" tab.

    Or you can just download it from here as I just did that job to you ;)

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  44. Other great quilts by Slothy · · Score: 1
    The "Tribute" quilts were always my favorite. Here are a few links to large versions of the quilts that are hosted on my personal site:

    A Van Gogh Fall/Winter Landscape

    A Tribute to M.C. Escher I invite you to go back to tiles.ice.org and ice.org once the server recovers to enjoy our years of artwork.

  45. Mirror? by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
    The page is down faster than Natalie Portman in hot grits. Anybody got a mirrordot or coral cache of some of the other Top 10 Highest Rated tiles? Some of the thumbnails look really cool, but I can't get to any of them. Thanks.

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  46. Re:Stop michael now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not related, the thing is that this forum lacks any ability to start any of your own threads. So if you want to reach the readers you have to post in an unrelated thread.

    I don't think the orginal poster would have cared to post an unrelated post if it weren't for the influence this site have on the online world as a whole.

    I agree on the problem, but do not think that it's neither possible nor good to do something about it by lowering the standards of slashdot. The sollution, I think, is to create an alternative. Start or find a site to replace slashdot and post insightfull comments there, making it an interesting alternative.

    The alternative sites I've seen so far has been to dead or contentless to make me stay. You will have to change that, focus your activism on getting insightful people to post on other places instead. Why not send a message to those who make great posts on slashdot?

    Sebastian, posting anonymously to save karma.

  47. 1997 Called.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They want their story back. Seriously, I know tiles may be new to you, but the thing's been around forever. Maybe we can rebrand it as "peer-to-peer-ANSI" or something so it's hip with the new kids.

  48. Why Michael should be thrown into a broken CRT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Stop michael Now

    For literally years, the editor michael has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular News for nerds website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
    • inserting biased editorialising [slashdot.org] into story blurbs by putting words in quotes [slashdot.org] to put Democrat-oriented stories into disrepute
    • going off on rants [slashdot.org] in the article text in all caps, screaming and railing against Intel's 64-bit efforts
    • posting stories that have been instantly archived, allowing no one to post, and then not fixing the situation for an hour and a half
    • moderating to -1, Offtopic or -1, Flamebait anyone who contests his idiot behavior
    • modbombing entire threads of dozens of posts to -1, Offtopic
    • applying a bitchslap operation [slashdot.org] to users who disagree with him, setting their karma to Bad or Terrible [slashdot.org] and taking away their ability to ever moderate again
    • abusing his editor position for his personal vendetta [slashdot.org] against his DSL provider, inserting irrelevant [slashdot.org], insolent [slashdot.org] comments in the department line.
    • not explaining his actions
    • hijacking domains [google.com] (and then having the audacity to admonish others for it [slashdot.org])
    • posting blatantly false hoax stories, perpetuating the flow of misinformation (case in point: the tsunami creature story [slashdot.org])
    • posting links to sites that have then been switched to goatse, and then not explain what happened afterwards
    • not editing stories in light of new, overriding information
    • posting stories with broken URLs
    • posting stories in the wrong section
    • posting consecutive dupes - only he, CmdrTaco and timothy have managed to do this

    The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.

    How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:

    • install adblocking software like Privoxy [privoxy.org] to block adverts
    • set your preferences [slashdot.org] to eliminate the slanted crap posted by michael
    • don't put links to Slashdot URLs on your blog; link directly to the URLs that the Slashdot story includes
    • don't post gen
  49. Michael's a HAS-BEEN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Stop michael Now

    For literally years, the editor michael has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular News for nerds website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
    • inserting biased editorialising [slashdot.org] into story blurbs by putting words in quotes [slashdot.org] to put Democrat-oriented stories into disrepute
    • going off on rants [slashdot.org] in the article text in all caps, screaming and railing against Intel's 64-bit efforts
    • posting stories that have been instantly archived, allowing no one to post, and then not fixing the situation for an hour and a half
    • moderating to -1, Offtopic or -1, Flamebait anyone who contests his idiot behavior
    • modbombing entire threads of dozens of posts to -1, Offtopic
    • applying a bitchslap operation [slashdot.org] to users who disagree with him, setting their karma to Bad or Terrible [slashdot.org] and taking away their ability to ever moderate again
    • abusing his editor position for his personal vendetta [slashdot.org] against his DSL provider, inserting irrelevant [slashdot.org], insolent [slashdot.org] comments in the department line.
    • not explaining his actions
    • hijacking domains [google.com] (and then having the audacity to admonish others for it [slashdot.org])
    • posting blatantly false hoax stories, perpetuating the flow of misinformation (case in point: the tsunami creature story [slashdot.org])
    • posting links to sites that have then been switched to goatse, and then not explain what happened afterwards
    • not editing stories in light of new, overriding information
    • posting stories with broken URLs
    • posting stories in the wrong section
    • posting consecutive dupes - only he, CmdrTaco and timothy have managed to do this

    The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.

    How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:

    • install adblocking software like Privoxy [privoxy.org] to block adverts
    • set your preferences [slashdot.org] to eliminate the slanted crap posted by michael
    • don't put links to Slashdot URLs on your blog; link directly to the URLs that the Slashdot story includes
    • don't post gen
  50. Lame... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    "Check out the finished sample. I love the ants in the quilt tiles!"
    • Hmm... Maybe that's cause that's the tile that the submitter of this story worked on? It's a guy named "Ant" and he's got his own
    • blog where his handle is ant and a contributor to that particular quilt on tiles.ice.org is named antaydos.
  51. Re:Cool! Where's the "download quilt" button? by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 1

    maybe right-mouse click on the quilt image and choose save picture/image as... ?

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  52. OT?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Michael didn'e even post it, panties-in-a-bunch-a/c..

    If you don't like, visit your friendly neighborhood preferences.

    Waitaminnit..

    Is that Jon Katz?! Sour grapes?!

  53. Re:Stop michael now! by quantaman · · Score: 1

    Does that mean you're the anonymous coward removing your mask now?

    Sorry, I'm not the poster you're looking for :)

    That'll teach me for taking a look at -1, but I was hoping for another mirror site, since the link was apparently already /.ed before the first mirror managed to get a copy. If someone wants to complain about the editors, it might be reasonable to suggest that they set up mirrors and include the links before they publish the URL of those wimpy little servers.

    That's a reasonable idea, especially for the easily clobbered sites such as the above, the problem is that /. doesn't want to deal with the legal, and more importantly, bandwidth issues of mirroring, there's http://mirrordot.org/ (I haven't really used them but have seen them in comments) though from their front page I wonder if /. might have legal issues with them. I recall some trouble with http://alterslash.org/ along that grounds some time ago but they seem to have changed their page somewhat since then, they could also just link to the google cache (no images although).

    The fact is they have to realize that posting links to small sites without warning just doesn't work for a site of this scale. Before they post these links they really should give the webmaster an advance notice, either to see if something can be arranged to allow for the extra traffic, or to abandon the story altogether. They've resisted advance warning in the past but considering that I cannot recall a single small server that had actual NEWS and not something that could be (and often is;) posted weeks or even months later waiting isn't an option (and gives them more choice on the slow news days). To the abandoning of the story I realize they don't want to drop a story on some cool site because of some wimpy server but the fact is that even if they go ahead and post there still no story on a cool site, just rambling with dead links! Links like this to small sites that die upon impact do nothing but frustrate readers looking for non-existant content and harm the people who run the actual site that was so cool in the first place.

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  54. Re:Stop michael now! by Commander+Trollco · · Score: 0

    For all those who care, let's mail CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) about this -- his email is malda@slashdot.org. Slashdot is deteriorating into something that is apathetic towards its users, making money for plagiarists and doing little if anything about it, and sponsoring a hack like michael.What a whiny bitch.

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  55. Prompted by Netsurfer Digest? by Webs+101 · · Score: 1
    I saw this in Netsurfer Digest yesterday and it's at Slashdot today?

    OK, so maybe NSD isn't always on the leading edge and iCE has been around a while, but the sequence of appearances this weekend couldn't be a coincidence, could it?

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    1. Re:Prompted by Netsurfer Digest? by Webs+101 · · Score: 1
      Sorry - my typing skills flag at 3 a.m....

      URL should be http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/

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  56. How to avoid /.ing small sites? by shanen · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Well, actually there is no easy way to tell in advance whether or not a site would die under the /. effect. The only solution I can think of would be for them to make a local copy of the site, post the link, and wait 10 or 15 minutes to see if the servier has died--at which point they would switch the link to their cached copy with an apology to the webmaster for the crash.

    Well, actually if /. has a zombie network of their own they could try a little DDoS test before the posting. ;-)

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    1. Re:How to avoid /.ing small sites? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 1

      Well, actually if /. has a zombie network of their own they could try a little DDoS test before the posting. ;-)

      Slash DOES have a zombie network.
      It kicks into gear as soon as a story has been posted on the main page.
      If the site holds up, good, if not, the webmaster should take it as an "you better upgrade now" warning.

      The second time the story is posted (apparantly by Michael :P ), either the webadmin will have learnt or he wont.

      thats life :)

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    2. Re:How to avoid /.ing small sites? by shanen · · Score: 1

      Who are you calling a zombie? ;-)

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  57. Not only that... by Civil_Disobedient · · Score: 1

    Even after the groups go, their members are still very much active on the Internet. But yeah, I sure feel like an old fogey sometimes.

    Civil Disobedient
    -= ACiD | iCE =-

  58. Hot Chicks -- That's what ICE should do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I like to go on the internet looking at pictures.

    Hot Blondes

  59. Way way way offtopic while cowering anonymously? by dbIII · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Stop michael Now? He didn't even post this story, it was Timothy.

    How did an offtopic flame from an anonymous coward get modded up so much?

  60. Re:Stop michael now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    Read Michael's account of the censorware.org domain

  61. Re:Stop michael now! by theTerribleRobbo · · Score: 1
    If you agree, reply. If you disagree, reply. Whatever you do, don't just moderate me down without responding first to explain why.

    You do realise that if we post, we can't moderate anyone down, don't you? :P

  62. Cool idea by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 1

    *lol* the scrotum in the middle of the pic. I bet van gogh never thought about scroti as art.

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  63. Nostalgia by DOS-5 · · Score: 1
    That Wikipedia link had a screen shot of TheDraw! So many memories of running a Renegade BBS off our only phone line..

    I also liked how my ANSI animations ran really nicely on a 2400 bps modem but ran too fast on anything higher.

  64. Re:Stop michael now! by DOS-5 · · Score: 1
    going off on rants in the article text in all caps, screaming and railing against Intel's 64-bit efforts

    I really don't think this a valid point seeing how it only happened once and in this specific situation.

  65. Old School by Ratbert42 · · Score: 1
    ...remember ANSI art, you old school computer users?

    ANSI isn't old-school. TTY art is old-school.

  66. Just a Thought by jefu · · Score: 1

    I've thought it might be interesting if ICE took a well known painting (public domain, obviously) (or photograph or something) and used that to preset the edges of the tiles. Then after it is done, look to see if you can detect any remnants of the original in the results. Obviously if the edges are preset some large number of pixels into the tile it will have a greater resemblance than if they only go in a pixel or two. All the better if the participants don't know whats going on.

  67. Re:Stop michael now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    nice! hide the message (i know it was WAY off topic!) but come on, geting rid of the [ost will only make others look deeper into the "whole" issue. i still agree with the first post that he is a D-Bag!and he will alsways be one if he continues to push HIS agenda. i applaud the poster for posting (?)

  68. ANSI Art by lordscarlet · · Score: 1

    For those that still want to see ansi art: http://www.sixteencolors.net/ -- It needs a lot of work, but it's there.

  69. Tile and tile again by oed · · Score: 1

    I've received a few emails about this Slashdot posting because this project is very similar to something we've been doing on SITO.org (once upon a time, OTIS) since the 20th century. A latticework quilt with animation (since 1995): http://sito.org/synergy/hygrid A zoomy quilt (since 1997): http://sito.org/synergy/gridcosm Other one-off grid/quilt projects: http://sito.org/synergy It's a fun medium, but is it news?

  70. Re:Cool! Where's the "download quilt" button? by kiddailey · · Score: 1


    lmao!

    Now don't I feel stupid. I didn't realize it was one image -- as I clicked on the image and it loaded just a single tile's information :)

    /me smacks forehead

  71. Re:Stop michael now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You do realise that if we post, we can't moderate anyone down, don't you? :P

    1) Multiple Slashdot accounts
    2) Proxy server