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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."
...some people have a little too much technical know-how combined with too much time on their hands. And where's the penile mod? What good is a druken Santa that isn't a child-lusting perv?
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"I saw Mommy slashdotting Santa Claus, underneath the mistletoe last night..."
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A mirror of the story can be found here.
A mirror of the video can be found here.
So I went browsing the isles of Wal*Mart and see if there were any good hackable items to be had there.
Yarrrr, sailing the treacherous Isles O' Wal-Mart... Harpoons at the ready, lads - thar she blows! Arrr, that's a fine shot, me hearties - ye got 'er right in the Nascar logo! Now heave to and bring her aboard!
Looked easy enough to trace... and all the smarts appeared to be in Santa's left shoe.
This sentence struck me as really funny for some reason.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
I couldn't get it to load but while trying I thought of a few fun things for him to say:
"No kids, I don't really exist and all your toys were made in China."
"Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night!"
"Anyone seen my whiskey flask?"
"Remember kids, be good and don't pee on Santa's lap."
"Where are all the good lookin' Ho Ho Ho's?"
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
It says right there:
(please do not link directly to video)
Did you miss that?
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.
"He sees you when you're sleeping,
He sees when you're awake,
He knows when you've been bad or good
And when you masturbate"
Those were the words when I was a kid, anyway.
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
Apparently around 40 of them have already been sighted:
a s-run-amok-nz.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18122005/80/drunken-sant
Drunken Santas run amok in NZ
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.
Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas.
Buy Santa. Hack Santa. Return Santa.
To WalMart: Please, for the sake of the children, check those return Santas before putting them back out on the sales floor!
From what I gather, the head can just spin around endlessly... Am I the only one thinking "Exorcist Santa"???
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Who's the first to install Linux on Santa?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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.
He knows when your are sleeping,
He knows when you're on the can,
He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
You better not breathe, you better not move,
You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude.
Santa Claus is gunning you down!
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.
Oops! That wasnt programmed in the Santa. It was a bug .
You know, you've left the rest of us just hoping, for your sake, that there was no overlapping time period of when you began pleasuring yourself and when you stopped believing in Santa.
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth