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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."
It's like the companies would want the customers to toy with their creations like this. Don't we all just remember what happened to the Furby Baby?
Wonderful. I wonder if this could be considered a DMCA violation? It would be interesting to find out.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
I've put together a school of Big Mouth Billy Bass, and have allowed them to describe how painful it is to be caught and placed on a wall. This work has been shown in art galleries in Washington, DC. Link: School of Fish Pain.
Had a friend that worked at Walmart. Sadly, Hacked Santa would probably just get tossed into a trash compactor. That's where my friend said most of the perfectly-fine-but-returned TVs, DVD players, PS2s, etc. got sent. And you got fired if you tried to take one before it got tossed in.
The sheer guts of linking to an mpeg straight from the frontpage of slashdot... it is mind bogeling.
Yeah you're worries are so much more important than those Christians and non-Christians when the biggest thing you have to decide on Christmas is which bar to park your sad ass at to pay homage to them! Salut!
This guy turned his santa into a kicking hangman http://www.hauntershangout.com/home/santahangman.a sp