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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!"

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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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?