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The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card
An anonymous reader writes "CNET reports on the world's most geeky Christmas card, and also the most expensive. The card is made out of a 1st gen iPhone, hacked into a Christmas card using cardboard, paper and glue. The card includes a virtual 'bauble' which uses the iPhone's accelerometer to recreate Christmas decorations that bounce and move with the card. The makers of the card say that because of the iPhone's battery life 'you probably don't want to post it anywhere it will take more than 3 days to arrive.'"
Yes, just pop it right into the mailbox.
Dude, you used an iPhone, that is definitely such a geek thing to do. Because there is nothing else on the planet that could possibly make you a geek more than an iPhone; geeks are cool.
(Fuckwits)
But it is a potentially explosive device
May the Maths Be with you!
Sure beats the hell out of those damn annoying cards that just play music.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The inside writing?
"Imaging a Beowulf cluster of these"
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
But they cut paper and used glue... I bet they had to calculate the proper amounts using a complex model and ensured that the colour scheme was to the recipient's liking. It's not like they just cut paper, spread glue and jammed a phone in the middle like my 2 year old does.......
wait......
Indeed. There's no real skill involved in the making of this "geek card" either. Looking at the title you'd expect to see a story about some geek building the thing from scratch and programming it to do whatever task was required. Instead we get two links about some random app with the Iphone glued to a piece of cardboard. The thing looks like a crafts project for the local elementary school.
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Indeed! And it sounds like it's just duct taped onto the back of the card. Some hack. I'm so inspired I'm gonna "hack" the bottom of a movie theater popcorn container and then when the mood is just right... I'll offer some to my date. Damn, I'm smooth!
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
"Some bloke has made another tedious iPhone app: iWank.
Using the iPhones cool features such as the unique touchscreen and accelerometer, you can literally wank Steve Jobs to orgasm. Simply make the appropriate motion with the iPhone, and see a naked Jobs on the screen. His expression changes according to the speed and rhythm of the motion. To finish the job, simply rub the on screen impression of Jobs' tumescent empurpled member and watch him ejaculate.
There have been rumours of a 'cheat mode', where Jobs can ejaculate in seconds after the user inputs a URL leading to another iPhone PR stunt on some news site. Apple has refused to comment.
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Like I said, I’d be content with... nevermind. Sorry, sir, I’ll get off your lawn.
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By what used to be the definition when the word first entered the English language, "geek" seems to have meant "fool", so the use in the article makes sense -- its just come full circle.