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Hacking Santa
Inigo Montoya writes "Josh McCormick outlines how he has hacked a 5-foot tall, $49.84 Wal*Mart animated dancing and singing Santa into saying and doing things his creator, Gemmy, just hadn't intended him to do. With some outboard electronics hacked into the right places, Josh has made this Santa sound and act like a drunken old mall santa on Christmas Eve.
There is also a video too."
That's actually funnier than I expected...thanks for the laugh!
A mirror of the story can be found here.
A mirror of the video can be found here.
The link in the blurb looks cached, to me at least. Here it is again, just in case: http://members.cox.net.nyud.net:8090/jcmccorm/sant a1.mpeg. I got ~100 KB/s downloading it, which would be surprising from a killed server, so I do think it's a mirror. Aren't those URL:s typical of Corel Cache, or something? Now, if that in fact is a direct link, I'm sorry. :)
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Hack A Day had this up on their site a few days ago here. In the comments on that page, there is a link to this really creepy hack that someone did with one of those Santas.
*releases geek cloak
D&D had a 'homebrew' class called the anti-paladin, the evil version of a paladin (or one fallen from grace). It occassioned the magazines and such.
In the 3rd edition of D&D they made it official, but it is now called a 'blackguard', a prestige class (one you can only take after reaching so many levels in a normal class first).
To point: it would be a comment aimed at pencil&paper gamers
Exactly! It's the winter fucking festival. Who cares if you're celebrating that Jesus guy's birthday or not. It's the middle of winter, we're getting bored - enjoy another day of feasting and merriment! Who cares whether you call ir Christmas or not? It doesn't fucking matter! If you really want to make your stance on Christianity known, wear a "I <3 Jesus!" shirt or a "Fuck Jesus!" shirt! Regardless of your attire, though - shut up and have fun! Drinking brews and eating food during the winter festival is no time to discuss theological or political philosophies. In fact, the only philosophy you should be discussing is whether or not you can use burnt toast and quantum physics in an attempt to achieve immortality. And you should only be discussing THAT philosophy after you've had 8 or 9 pints and probably aren't in the condition to talk about anything more coherent.
Maybe they have changed the models, but the Santa I bought has an audio-in jack. Heck the box even advertised a Kareoke mode. Just plug in a mic, or any alternate audio feed, and you have the same thing.
LOL - Good one. If I actually had a bandwidth bill, I would have put advertisements on the top to compensate for it. Many thanks to submitter, BTW, for using Coral Cache!