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A Crazy Cambridge Contraption
lhdentra writes "A few friends and I got bored one weekend and decided to build a contraption. Remember the Honda advert? We think ours is better." This took dedication.
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a high bandwdith server first.
I wanna see the contraption, but the thingy-ma-doo went ka-blooey.
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
That it, describe something that sounds interesting. On the web site, make big the mistake of forgetting to add a nice little PNG or JPG of it so we can see what the big fuss is about. Instead, ask EVERYONE to download between 5 and 12 megs of movie file just to see what it looks like. Oh yes, and host it on a low bandwidth server. If that is not slashdotting-bait, I don't know what is!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Oh, wait, site's Slashdotted. Never mind!
Oh dear
What is it?
I've spontaneously combusted
Well, I am sorry
Oh it's quite all right, I've grown tired of living
Ah, very good then
For the best
Yes indeed
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
Apparently the real end of the contraption took a few days, a few internet posts, a bad internet connection and a slashdotted server.
1. Slashdotter creates site that requires each person to do a 12 meg download to find out what is on it, and submits it to Slashdot.
2. Timothy looks at it, decides it is cool. In the process of looking at it for review, he slashdots the site.
3. "Contraption" story is added to Slashdot. Thousands hit it within seconds, further banging away at some fragile server in the UK.
4. UK server-farms transformers start to smoke. One explodes.
5. Power spike would seem rather small, but it does make its away through an Atlantic cable where it hits an electric relay system near Cleveland, Ohio.
6. Cleveland's vintage "Enron meets East German War Surplus" relay blows out. Cleveland once again has a big blackout. Free TV's for all: loot early and loot often!
7. Ensuing crises causes calls for demands for the resignation of United States energy secretary.
8. Energy sec is good friend of President, so he can't fire him. But he has to do something, so he sacks the Surgeon General.
9. Without a surgeon general, health standards go down, including dental standards.
10. I get a nasty tooth-ache.
Thanks a lot, lhdentra!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/09/1929235.shtm l?tid=188&tid=97
The British can actually say words which comprise more than one syllable
Huh?
Wow. You've raised a perfectly valid point. It's amazing that no-one else in this thread has addressed this issue.
What's it like to be so smart and well informed?
The British can actually say words which comprise more than one syllable
You mean like advertisement?