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A Crazy Cambridge Contraption

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-are-weekends-of-fun dept.

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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  1. Isn't it nice when things just... work? by Lisandro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, wait, site's Slashdotted. Never mind!

  2. jolly good show by Stalyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    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
  3. But this IS the contraption! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    The slashdotting was all part of the plan. This story is not about a contraption. Rather, this story is just part of a contraption:


    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.
  4. Their next contraption should be: by TheGuano · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...a DIY steadicam:

    http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/09/1929235.shtm l?tid=188&tid=97