Blinkenlights @ Chaos Communication Camp 2003

cavac writes "From 07.-10. August, we from the Chaos Computer Club have another Chaos Communication Camp. Please be sure to visit us at the BlinkenArea, a place where we show the newest projects and technology derived of Blinkenlights, the famous installation on Berlin's 'House of the Teacher'."

Das Blinkenlights

[DJPenguin]

ACHTUNG!!!

Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen
der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht
fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands
in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!!

-- UNIX fortune(6)

Sounds like trouble...

[amishgeek]

Im sorry officer! I was just playing pong on that building over there with my mobile phone and I didnt see that car in front of me... What? That guy was playing pong too??!?!?!?

Re:Das Blinkenlights

[jpsst34]

Google:
The machine is not fur gefingerpoken and mittengrabben. Easy snatches if that is jumping work, blowenfusen and corkenpoppen with sharpen-park. Is not fur trades by the dummkopfen. The rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in pockets. Relaxen and vatch blinkenlights!!!

Babelfish: The machine is not fur gefingerpoken and mittengrabben. Easy snatches if that is jumping work, blowenfusen and corkenpoppen with sharpen-park. Is not fur trades by the dummkopfen. The rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in pockets. Relaxen and vatch blinkenlights!!!

I can see it now...

[deman1985]

First this little office building... Next it will be a whole city block... Pretty soon I'll be able to play games from my private jet with my mile-diagonal screen on the ground...

Re:Going camping? Don't forget your 21'' monitor

[Trigun]

I thought all gamers hated campers?

Re:Das Blinkenlights

[arvindn]

There's also a corollary [catb.org]:

This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights.

Blinkenlights is evil.

[Anonymous Coward]

Every 12.4 seconds brief subliminal messages are displayed in the Blinkenlights display. Some, not all, of them were captured using high speed video:

Obey

Marry and Reproduce

Consume
This is exactly how Sarah Conner saw it starting.

Dang

[Toby Studabaker]

8/7-8/10? Dang, I'm gonna miss it 'cos they'll ship me to UK before that!

Euro-English

[Anonymous Coward]

The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as Euro - English (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm.

In the sekond year, the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst place.

Re:I can see it now...

[cavac]

You know, we DO live in the space-age. And the astronouts on ISS are getting bored on their extended missions ;-)

Re:BlnkenWars

[pldms]

Cool. And I'm connected using ipv6. Like the future ... but with ascii animation.