Working iPod Halloween Costume 313
Jrod1080 writes "I decided to be an iPod for Halloween this year. I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume. I finally found a good use for a tablet PC, and used that for the display. A rewired USB mouse served as the 'Forward,' 'Reverse,' 'Play/Pause' buttons, and a bit of Java code played and displayed the MP3s. Some battery powered speakers provided the sound. It all worked out well, and I even won the costume contest!"
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
http://rufus.hackish.org/~rufus/www.eecs.umich.ed
Re:Corporate shill (Score:2, Informative)
They conjugate funny on the other side of the pond
is all.
Re:I like this one better... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
coralized link is working (Score:5, Informative)
i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.
Needlessly Slashdotted (Score:3, Informative)
Re:nice costume, but (Score:4, Informative)
you suck (Score:5, Informative)
Please don't ever put eecs up to the
Re:nice costume, but (Score:2, Informative)
- I think you will find you are just inside a jelly [jolt.co.uk].
It would've been even cooler if he'd used Chicago. (Score:2, Informative)
There's more info about Apple's fonts on Wikipedia, but for some reason Slashdot won't let me link to it. Here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_fonts
Re:Why is it called "St. Paulie girl"? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:*cough* (Score:5, Informative)
I'd say rm -rf ~/* under his name and delete the account. A whole lot of us are stuck up here working without access to course websites.
Re:Please explain for us foreigners ... (Score:3, Informative)
What you posted is a commonly held myth. The only connection between the pagan rituals of europe and halloween is that christians dressed up as demons, ghosts out of fun and to mock the formerly held superstitions of Europeans. Some neo-pagans might think they are "reviving" old paganism but what they believe in bares little resemblance to old pagan religions.
Stop blaming christians for the invading germanic tribes wiping out the celts.
Samhaim had nothing to do with people dressing up like red devils with pitch forks or as witches or the dead. http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_sa.htm [religioustolerance.org] Yes, halloween was instituted to make light of various pagan rituals/beliefs.
Bonfires were common among the pagan cultures of northern europe and are not unique to Samhain.
Re:"Finally" found a good use for a tablet PC (Score:3, Informative)
Um, why? Because it's a Microsoft OS? Have you used one?
My TabletPC has been very useful since I bought it in January of 2003. Have I been brainwashed, not realizing that I've actually been taking notes for almost 2 years on an Etch-A-Sketch? Powerful FUD indeed!