iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee

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!"

Comments

How to avoid /.ing small sites?

[shanen]

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. ;-)