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Christmas Lights and Google Maps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-a-lighter-note dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "SantaStars.com uses the Google Maps API to show the locations of some great Christmas light displays. Everyone is encouraged to post a picture of their Christmas lights and you can vote for your favorites. Some of the houses are quite elaborate like this house in British Columbia that has 87,625 computer controlled lights synchronized to an FM radio station."

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  1. warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    87,625 computer controlled lights synchronized to an FM radio station.


    Not for epileptics.

  2. New year's resolution by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Funny

    [ ] Quit smoking
    [ ] Help the poor
    [ ] Feed the hungry
    [x] Buy more christmas lights

  3. Google maps lights? by Council · · Score: 3, Funny

    What we need is a christmas lights display that's visible on the zoomed-out Google Maps (hybrid or satellite) simply by virtue of brightness.

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    xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
  4. Re:Disgusting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    9551 Palmer rd, Richmond, BC, Canada It's ok, Alberta still has 4.7 billion barrells of oil left to power our retarded Christmas lights.

  5. Easy one. by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just invent "anti-lights" - christmas lights 180' out of phase with everyone else's christmas lights. The light will cancel out, and the homes will be saved. You'll make a fortune selling them, not to mention going on talk shows. Your only concern will be the rabid scientists with uzis coming after you for breaking the laws of physics. (You're not supposed to be able to set up interference patterns with essentially random non-coherent light sources.)

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    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)