Linux-Powered Christmas Display Puts Rudolph To Shame

xmas2003 writes "Over at Linux.com, Zonker writes about Alek's Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease. This annual Internet tradition uses a hi/low-tech combo of LAMP'ed Redhat Web Servers, a 7+ year old Thinkpad running Ubuntu for the X10 control, and an old-school webpage design that could be politely described as Web 0.0 — wait until you see the animated cursor — D'OH! The site is free (and totally fun) as it also raises awareness and donations for Celiac Disease — over $70,000 to the University of Maryland. Nifty pictures of the crazy christmas display can be seen on the Christmas Blog (notice Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg in post #220) plus watch videos of it in action with comedic history. Nothing quite says Christmas like a giant, inflatable HULK wearing a Santa Hat... along with three wise men of Elmo, SpongeBob, and Homer Simpson. The Slashdot Effect of turning 21,000 Christmas lights ON & OFF this evening should provide quite a Christmas Eve show to Alek's neighbors... and also the International Space Station."

Comments

The site loads faster than Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Old school rules.

Re:The site loads faster than Slashdot

[IANAAC]

Old school rules.

Maybe. Doesn't mean you know what to do once you're on the page. That page was just painful.

Re:The site loads faster than Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

It's about a technological implementation of extreme tackiness. I say he is right on target with the web site.

'Christmas Blog' appears to link back in time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Annoying tiled background, animated gifs, comic sans, horrible layout - I thought people stopped making websites like this?