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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:00AM from the because-you-can dept.

Inigo Montoya writes "Josh McCormick outlines how he has hacked a 5-foot tall, $49.84 Wal*Mart animated dancing and singing Santa into saying and doing things his creator, Gemmy, just hadn't intended him to do. With some outboard electronics hacked into the right places, Josh has made this Santa sound and act like a drunken old mall santa on Christmas Eve. There is also a video too."

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Oh no... (Score:2, Funny)

by drrngrvy ( 873112 ) writes:

It's the anti-santa!
- Re:Oh no... (Score:2, Funny)
  
  by AviLazar ( 741826 ) writes:
  
  There is no anti-santa...he took prestige class levels in Blackgaurd. Since Santa was 20th level, he was able to trade them in, fully.
  - - Re:Oh no... (Score:2, Informative)
      
      by aevan ( 903814 ) writes:
      
      *releases geek cloak
      
      D&D had a 'homebrew' class called the anti-paladin, the evil version of a paladin (or one fallen from grace). It occassioned the magazines and such.
      
      In the 3rd edition of D&D they made it official, but it is now called a 'blackguard', a prestige class (one you can only take after reaching so many levels in a normal class first).
      
      To point: it would be a comment aimed at pencil&paper gamers
      - Re:Oh no... (Score:2)
        
        by WhiplashII ( 542766 ) writes:
        
        We had a fun game where I played an anti-thief. He was a clepto who kept picking locks to sneak inside and hide stuff inside chests, etc. He didn't know where he got all the stuff he was hiding - all his stealing was completely subconcious.
        
        Ah, good times!
        
        Anti-klepto? (Score:2)
        
        by SeanDuggan ( 732224 ) writes:
        
        He didn't know where he got all the stuff he was hiding - all his stealing was completely subconcious.
        Oh, so he was a Kender [wikipedia.org]?
        
        Re:Anti-klepto? (Score:2)
        
        by WhiplashII ( 542766 ) writes:
        
        Wow, I never knew they made something like that - cool! Very similar, in fact, though of course mine predated Kender by quite a bit...
- - Re:Oh no... (Score:3, Insightful)
    
    by Sen.NullProcPntr ( 855073 ) writes:
    
    ah crap... they are already sold out! No drunken santa for the kids this year!
    Wait for the first few trash pickup days after x-mas. 50 bucks is cheap enough for a lot of people to trash it rather than try to store a 5 ft tall corpse.
    Then you have a year to come up with clever things for Santa to say and do.
  - Re:Oh no... (Score:3, Funny)
    
    by mokiejovis ( 540519 ) writes:
    
    This Santa is just another crass example of the War on Christmas (TM)!
    - Re:Oh no... (Score:3, Funny)
      
      by MightyMartian ( 840721 ) writes:
      
      I really wanted to get one for Halloween, rip off all the Santa costume and replace it with a really good devil costume. The thought of the Devil singing "Jingle Bells" along with all those bizarre dance moves just seems soooo right to me.
- - Re:Not quite (Score:2)
    
    by Orgazmus ( 761208 ) writes:
    
    Oh god, I think im going blind!
    Plase, dont click that link. Think about your eyes!
    
    (No naughtyness except for the gross colors)
haha (Score:2, Informative)

by heli_flyer ( 614850 ) writes:

That's actually funnier than I expected...thanks for the laugh!
- around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:haha) (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by beh ( 4759 ) * writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:28AM (#14290584)
  
  Apparently around 40 of them have already been sighted:
  
  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18122005/80/drunken-santa s-run-amok-nz.html [yahoo.com]
  
  Drunken Santas run amok in NZ
  
  WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.
  
  Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas.
  
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  - Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2, Funny)
    
    by B3ryllium ( 571199 ) writes:
    
    oh noes! It's a YULE TIDE!
  - Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:4, Funny)
    
    by Varun Soundararajan ( 744929 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @10:34AM (#14290957) Homepage Journal
    
    Drunken Santas run amok in NZ
    Oops! That wasnt programmed in the Santa. It was a bug .
    
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    - Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
      
      by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes:
      
      ...in a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.
      No; actually, that's a feature.
  - Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
    
    by FauxReal ( 653820 ) writes:
    
    I saw around 40 drunken Santas out in Portland, OR on Friday night. Apparently there were a lot more of them than I actually saw and they were on a city-wide pub crawl.
    - Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
      
      by MsGeek ( 162936 ) writes:
      
      It's a yearly tradition.
  - Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
    
    by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
    
    They do this here in the US too, one of my friends was a santa. They all pick weird names with "santa" in them, he was "Santanista". then they go out and get shitfaced and maraud around town.
Oh, no... (Score:2, Funny)

by GhaleonStrife ( 916215 ) writes:

Put this thing outside on Christmas, singing random anti-Christmas songs, and let the mayhem commence!
- Re:Oh, no... (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by nizo ( 81281 ) * writes:
  
  Even better, how about returning him for a new one? Just imagine how happy some unsuspecting person will be when they hear the new modified Santa they just bought from Walmart. Plus you can keep hacking/returning them until Walmart runs out of Santas or has you thrown in jail.
  - - Re:Won't happen. (Score:2)
      
      by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
      
      When a store has something returned to them, they LEGALLY can't resell it as new. The only options are selling it as used or sending it back to the manufacturer to have it certified as refurbished. I don't know about you but I don't think I've ever seen Walmart sell any used or refurbished items.
      I don't know who told you this but they do it all the time. I've gotten a number of products from wal-mart that had clearly been opened and repackaged. And of course, anyone who's shopped at Fry's Electronics
- - Re:Oh, no... (Score:3, Funny)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    Awww crap, Captain Obvious is back in town? I was getting used to bossing around the younger hotter female cadets too...
    -Lieutienant Obvious
Which just goes to show... (Score:5, Funny)

by Billosaur ( 927319 ) * writes: <wgrother AT optonline DOT net> on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:06AM (#14290458) Journal

...some people have a little too much technical know-how combined with too much time on their hands. And where's the penile mod? What good is a druken Santa that isn't a child-lusting perv?

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- Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by dr_dank ( 472072 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @10:12AM (#14290833) Homepage Journal
  
  And where's the penile mod?
  
  The producers of the new Superman film would sue, claiming prior art.
  
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- Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
  
  by Rakshasa Taisab ( 244699 ) writes:
  
  Santa did try, but he ended up like this [rakshasa.no]. I fear christmas will need to be canceled.
- - Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:3, Insightful)
    
    by skribble ( 98873 ) writes:
    
    Solve, yes...implement, no. The infrastructure needed to actually effect such big far reaching things such as "World Hunger" and "Global Warming" are largely controlled by those interests that profit directly from such things.
    
    Oh yea... Merry Christmas or whatever
  - Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
    
    by Geekboy(Wizard) ( 87906 ) writes:
    
    yes, but that implies that we actually care about world hunger. we say we do, but we don't do shit about it.
  - - Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
      
      by Crayon Kid ( 700279 ) writes:
      
      Dammit people. I was going for "troll".
    - - Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
        
        by stupidfoo ( 836212 ) writes:
        
        see his sig: "i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nice"
New Christmas song... (Score:5, Funny)

by $RANDOMLUSER ( 804576 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:07AM (#14290463)

"I saw Mommy slashdotting Santa Claus, underneath the mistletoe last night..."

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- Re:New Christmas song... (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by mikerubin ( 449692 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:27AM (#14290578)
  
  Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points
  Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points
  Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points !!
  and a happy new sig
  
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  - Re:New Christmas song... (Score:2)
    
    by GweeDo ( 127172 ) writes:
    
    Shouldn't that be:
    So Bring us some Frickin' iPods.
    So Bring us some Frickin' iPods.
    So Bring us some Frickin' iPods right now!
    
    Great song...
What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:2, Funny)

by vm146j2 ( 233075 ) writes:

And remember, not only does he see you when you're sleeping, but he knows if you've been bad or good....
- Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:2)
  
  by millahtime ( 710421 ) writes:
  
  And remember, not only does he see you when you're sleeping, but he knows if you've been bad or good....
  
  So, what your saying is... if you have santa do something bad make sure it's really bad.
  
  What about putting it outside a nunery and have santa make cat calls at the nuns.
- Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by aug24 ( 38229 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:27AM (#14290577) Homepage
  
  "He sees you when you're sleeping,
  He sees when you're awake,
  He knows when you've been bad or good
  And when you masturbate"
  
  Those were the words when I was a kid, anyway.
  
  Justin.
  
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  - Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by Gadgetfreak ( 97865 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @12:04PM (#14291712)
    
    You know, you've left the rest of us just hoping, for your sake, that there was no overlapping time period of when you began pleasuring yourself and when you stopped believing in Santa.
    
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  - - Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:2)
      
      by aug24 ( 38229 ) writes:
      
      Bloody doubt it, I was singing it in the playground before O'Brien wrote his opus ...sonny.
      
      Did it occur to you that it might be older than the show?
      
      J.
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

by ZiakII ( 829432 ) * writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:10AM (#14290476)

A mirror of the story can be found here. [mirrordot.com]

A mirror of the video can be found here. [mirrordot.com]

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- The link is already Coralized... (Score:2)
  
  by brunes69 ( 86786 ) writes:
  
  ... highly unlikely that this will go down.
Yarrr! (Score:5, Funny)

by sczimme ( 603413 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:13AM (#14290489)

So I went browsing the isles of Wal*Mart and see if there were any good hackable items to be had there.

Yarrrr, sailing the treacherous Isles O' Wal-Mart... Harpoons at the ready, lads - thar she blows! Arrr, that's a fine shot, me hearties - ye got 'er right in the Nascar logo! Now heave to and bring her aboard!

Looked easy enough to trace... and all the smarts appeared to be in Santa's left shoe.

This sentence struck me as really funny for some reason.

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Fun Santa phrases... (Score:5, Funny)

by digitaldc ( 879047 ) * writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:13AM (#14290493)

I couldn't get it to load but while trying I thought of a few fun things for him to say:

"No kids, I don't really exist and all your toys were made in China."
"Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night!"
"Anyone seen my whiskey flask?"
"Remember kids, be good and don't pee on Santa's lap."
"Where are all the good lookin' Ho Ho Ho's?"

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- Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by Skye16 ( 685048 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:41AM (#14290660)
  
  I dig the Happy Holidays one.
  
  The loud, obnoxious Christians sure do get their panties in a bunch over that one. And the loud, obnoxious non-Christians do if you try to "change it back".
  
  Personally, I think they're both fucking retarded. So, as I sit in a bar on the winter solstice, drinking a pint of brown ale, I'll salute them both for bringing much merriment to the rest of us. Cheers!
  
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  - Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2, Interesting)
    
    by azosx ( 568180 ) writes:
    
    Yeah you're worries are so much more important than those Christians and non-Christians when the biggest thing you have to decide on Christmas is which bar to park your sad ass at to pay homage to them! Salut!
  - Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by Gryle ( 933382 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @12:14PM (#14291801)
    
    Have a contextually-appropriate celebration of the particular winter event your religious group, if any, should happen to endorse.
    
    There I think that covers just about everything.
    
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    - Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
      
      by RESPAWN ( 153636 ) writes:
      
      I'd mod you up if I had the points. Let's hope somebody else sees this a marks it +1 Funny.
  - - Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
      
      by Skye16 ( 685048 ) writes:
      
      Bah! Have you never been drunken sled riding? It's fucking great!
      
      Cold? Fuck worrying about the cold. Remember how you were when you were a kid? You'd run around outside all day long without a coat on if your mom didn't make you put one on. Why could you stand it then and not now? Because it's all a state of mind! Stop being a crotchety old man and enjoy yourself!!
  - - Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:3, Informative)
      
      by Skye16 ( 685048 ) writes:
      
      Exactly! It's the winter fucking festival. Who cares if you're celebrating that Jesus guy's birthday or not. It's the middle of winter, we're getting bored - enjoy another day of feasting and merriment! Who cares whether you call ir Christmas or not? It doesn't fucking matter! If you really want to make your stance on Christianity known, wear a "I <3 Jesus!" shirt or a "Fuck Jesus!" shirt! Regardless of your attire, though - shut up and have fun! Drinking brews and eating food during the winter f
      - Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
        
        by WhiplashII ( 542766 ) writes:
        
        Add to this that Jesus was actually born in late spring/early summer!
        
        Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:3, Funny)
        
        by RobinH ( 124750 ) writes:
        
        Add to this that Jesus was actually born in late spring/early summer!
        
        So Jesus was Australian, what's your point? :)
      - Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
        
        by (54)T-Dub ( 642521 ) writes:
        
        Slightly off topic but your t-shirt comment reminded me of the newspaper headline in American Dad last night:
        Clever bumper sticker ends abortion debate
  - - Re:PC holiday greetings (Score:4, Insightful)
      
      by Skye16 ( 685048 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @01:54PM (#14292848)
      
      Really, the point is that it doesn't matter what you call it. If you came up to me first and wished me a Merry Christmas, I'd thank you and return it back to you. If I had been the first to approach you, I'd probably wish you a fantastic winter solstice or happy holiday. If some Jewish guy came up and wished me a happy Hannukah (about a week or two ago), I'd wish him the same in return. Not that I know almost anything about Kwanzaa, but if someone wished me a Happy/Merry/Whatever Kwanzaa, I'd thank them and do it in reverse.
      
      See the trend here? If someone wishes you a $HAPPY_HOLIDAY, regardless of what it is, you thank them and do the same in return, regardless of how fucking stupid you may or may not think their religion or holiday is. All the same, though, demanding a business or person adhere to one particular holiday greeting is pretty pathetic, no? Let the people do whatever they want and take it as it is meant: happy whatever holiday you feel like celebrating, whether that is Christmas, Kwanzaa, Yule (as in the winter solstice), or Hannukah. Or, when it so happens to fall here, Ramadan (insert other holidays as applicable - I have no idea what Hindu, Buddhist, etc, etc follows). If someone wishes you Merry Christmas and you're Jewish, accept the well-wishing as it was meant! If someone wishes you a Happy/Merry/Solemn Ramadan, accept that as well! It's someone being polite! Stop being fascists about your season's greetings and go with the spirit in which it was meant!
      
      Happy Holidays = "I hope things rock for you!"
      
      That is why this whole thing is fucking hilarious. My hatred for Christianity runs high, but when someone tells me Merry Christmas, I don't get upset! Why? Because they're wishing me well! Regardless of the religious trappings or cultural overtones, it's the thought that counts, and it's the meaning that should be accepted, not the manner in which it is said!
      
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      - Re:PC holiday greetings (Score:2)
        
        by Skye16 ( 685048 ) writes:
        
        Whoops, forgot the rest.
        
        Merry Christmas = "I hope things rock for you!"
        Merry/Happy Yule = "I hope things rock for you!"
        Happy Hannukah = "I hope things rock for you!"
        Happy Kwanzaa = "I hope things rock for you!" (I have a hard time not typing "Krazy Kwanzaaa". Curse you, Krusty!)
        Merry/Happy/Solemn Ramadan = "I hope things rock for you!"
        
        All different phrases, but they all mean essentially the same thing!
        
        Re:PC holiday greetings (Score:2)
        
        by WormholeFiend ( 674934 ) writes:
        
        you forgot "Io Saturnalia!" [wikipedia.org]
- Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
  
  by o'reor ( 581921 ) writes:
  
  My personal suggestion :
  "I did not have sex with that woman -- Ms. Lewinsky." (Clinton's voice).
  OK, picked it from the hacking of "Billy the big-mouthed bass", previously reported here.
- Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
  
  by fubar1971 ( 641721 ) writes:
  
  How about:
  
  You ain't goin' a sh*t right for a week
  No kid, I don't want any f*ckin' sandwiches!
Uh (Score:4, Funny)

by omeg ( 907329 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:14AM (#14290498)

It says right there:

(please do not link directly to video)

Did you miss that?

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- Re:Uh (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by Emil Brink ( 69213 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:21AM (#14290536) Homepage
  
  The link in the blurb looks cached, to me at least. Here it is again, just in case: http://members.cox.net.nyud.net:8090/jcmccorm/sant a1.mpeg [nyud.net]. I got ~100 KB/s downloading it, which would be surprising from a killed server, so I do think it's a mirror. Aren't those URL:s typical of Corel Cache, or something? Now, if that in fact is a direct link, I'm sorry. :)
  
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  - Re:Uh (Score:2)
    
    by emj ( 15659 ) writes:
    
    Actually it's the whole "nyud.net:8090/" that gives you Coral cache [coralcdn.org].
  - Re:Uh (Score:2)
    
    by petermgreen ( 876956 ) writes:
    
    its a coral cache link so caral cache will be taking the strain from serving it to many clients not the original site.
    
    carefull though because coral doesn't cache files over 50 megs instead redirecting back to the original site.
- Re:Uh...but don't look in its eye! (Score:2)
  
  by digitaldc ( 879047 ) * writes:
  
  ADMINISTRIVIA:
  You may mirror this page and contents in its entirety. (In fact, please do!)
  
  But please do not look directly into the eye of Santa's personality chip, it is scary, black as coal and could cause sudden disillusionment!
  - Re:Uh...but don't look in its eye! (Score:2)
    
    by kzinti ( 9651 ) writes:
    
    Do NOT taunt Happy Fun Santa!
Wishlist (Score:2, Interesting)

by SonicBlue ( 921984 ) writes:

It's like the companies would want the customers to toy with their creations like this. Don't we all just remember what happened to the Furby Baby?
Santa (Score:2, Funny)

by certel ( 849946 ) writes:

Awesome! Just what you can expect from a real Santa!
Santa Hacked? (Score:5, Interesting)

by 8127972 ( 73495 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:24AM (#14290559)

Wonderful. I wonder if this could be considered a DMCA violation? It would be interesting to find out.

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- Re:Santa Hacked? (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by meringuoid ( 568297 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:40AM (#14290649)
  
  I wonder if this could be considered a DMCA violation?
  Couldn't everything?
  
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- pfft... (Score:2)
  
  by Cryptnotic ( 154382 ) * writes:
  
  If it doesn't violate the DMCA, it isn't a good hack.
Oh, I just thought of something EEEEEEVIL... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:30AM (#14290593)

Buy Santa. Hack Santa. Return Santa.

To WalMart: Please, for the sake of the children, check those return Santas before putting them back out on the sales floor!

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- Re:Oh, I just thought of something EEEEEEVIL... (Score:2)
  
  by WebCrapper ( 667046 ) writes:
  
  You know, the fact that he entered it into an art show was interesting, but dear lord, can you imagine some family buying one of these things and having it be drunk? I would PAY to see the reaction of that one.
  
  Imagine the headlines over that one. "Life size Santa toy a drunk"
- Re:Oh, I just thought of something EEEEEEVIL... (Score:4, Interesting)
  
  by crlove ( 857212 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @10:38AM (#14290995) Journal
  
  Had a friend that worked at Walmart. Sadly, Hacked Santa would probably just get tossed into a trash compactor. That's where my friend said most of the perfectly-fine-but-returned TVs, DVD players, PS2s, etc. got sent. And you got fired if you tried to take one before it got tossed in.
  
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Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, Baby... (Score:2, Funny)

by PTS Tech ( 932180 ) writes:

That is just so wrong, on so many levels. Besides, you could just hit a mall and find any number of REAL drunken Santas...
Exorsanta (Score:5, Funny)

by mwvdlee ( 775178 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:38AM (#14290636) Homepage

From what I gather, the head can just spin around endlessly... Am I the only one thinking "Exorcist Santa"???

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- Re:Exorsanta (Score:2)
  
  by CaptMonkeyDLuffy ( 623905 ) writes:
  
  Would the more complicated hack involve a pump system, and a small reservoir of pea soup?
Ok, the race is on ... (Score:4, Funny)

by maxwell demon ( 590494 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:40AM (#14290646) Journal

Who's the first to install Linux on Santa?

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- Re:Ok, the race is on ... (Score:2, Funny)
  
  by orgelspieler ( 865795 ) writes:
  
  Santa switched to Linux [bbspot.com] back in 2002. Red Hat, of course.
- Re:Ok, the race is on ... (Score:2)
  
  by cgreuter ( 82182 ) writes:
  
  Er, seriously, if you look at the cost of the parts the guy used, it really would have been cheaper to use old PC guts instead of a Basic Stamp. The Santa looks big enough to hold a motherboard and hard drive in his bowl full of jelly, so of course you'd want to run Linux on it.
Tramp-O-Claus (Score:2)

by Zog The Undeniable ( 632031 ) writes:

Or Bum-O-Claus, as you might say in the US. Old but good, definitely NSFW [slashdot.org].
Big Mouth Billy Bass in Pain (Score:5, Interesting)

by TheSync ( 5291 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:56AM (#14290750) Journal

I've put together a school of Big Mouth Billy Bass, and have allowed them to describe how painful it is to be caught and placed on a wall. This work has been shown in art galleries in Washington, DC. Link: School of Fish Pain [t11s.com].

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- Re:Big Mouth Billy Bass in Pain (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by Quiet_Desperation ( 858215 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @10:14AM (#14290844)
  
  I'm as far from an animal rights person as you can get, but that's pretty funny. :) I once toyed with turning one into a part of a home automation system. Billy Bass would announce someone at the door or wake me up in the morning or something.
  
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Oh no! It's robot santa! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @10:25AM (#14290900)

He knows when your are sleeping,
He knows when you're on the can,
He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
You better not breathe, you better not move,
You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude.
Santa Claus is gunning you down! [geocities.com]

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Ho ho ho ho (Score:2)

by SpeedBump0619 ( 324581 ) writes:

Am I the only person who keeps thinking:

"YULE TIDE!!!"
Hack A Day (Score:5, Informative)

by CyPlasm ( 89582 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @10:31AM (#14290938) Journal

Hack A Day had this up on their [hackaday.com] site a few days ago here [hackaday.com]. In the comments on that page, there is a link to this really creepy [hauntershangout.com] hack that someone did with one of those Santas.

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guts (Score:2, Interesting)

by louisfreeman ( 595193 ) writes:

The sheer guts of linking to an mpeg straight from the frontpage of slashdot... it is mind bogeling.
Who made this Santa? (Score:2, Funny)

by cciRRus ( 889392 ) writes:

I haven't read the article... but is this Santa made by Sony? ;-)
Way better (Score:2, Interesting)

by jaymz411 ( 536991 ) writes:

This guy turned his santa into a kicking hangman http://www.hauntershangout.com/home/santahangman.a sp [hauntershangout.com]
Seems like a lot of trouble... (Score:4, Informative)

by Belial6 ( 794905 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @12:15PM (#14291812)

Maybe they have changed the models, but the Santa I bought has an audio-in jack. Heck the box even advertised a Kareoke mode. Just plug in a mic, or any alternate audio feed, and you have the same thing.

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There's better (cooler) stuff (Score:2)

by fritz1968 ( 569074 ) writes:

Why is it that someone who makes a drunken santa gets on the Slashdot front page, but this does not:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp [snopes.com]
- Re:There's better (cooler) stuff (Score:2)
  
  by mabu ( 178417 ) writes:
  
  While that might be cooler, it's not really much "hacking." The guy that put together the impressive Christmas light display did so with off-the-shelf equipment and merely followed the manufacturer's instructions. The whole notion of "hacking" is to expand a product's funtionality beyond its original purpose. The Christmas lights, while really impressive, perform exactly how they're supposed to based on the software and hardware the guy bought. And there are better light shows all over the country from
Evil robot Santa (Score:4, Funny)

by Quiet_Desperation ( 858215 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @12:39PM (#14292042)

I can't find ONE evil robot Santa from Futurama reference in this whole thread. For shame!

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Josh McCormick here.... (Score:2)

by AtariDatacenter ( 31657 ) writes:

I figured this story would never hit Slashdot. Hey, nice to see! Now to barrel through all the comments and try not to get my ego too bruised.

BTW, I am working to make a more detailed step-by-step on the instructions.
Another mirror (Score:2)

by smoker2 ( 750216 ) writes:

here [headru.sh]
Warning, 720x480 version ! (divx 1.7 MB)
This Santa is the Halloween Skeleton (Score:2)

by ehiris ( 214677 ) writes:

I was actually wondering the other day if this thing is modular because it is the same as the Halloween skeleton as it moves the same way and has the same height. The only differences are the look and the sounds.

I wouldn't be surprised to see an Easter bunny on the same frame but I think what is more interesting is what people are going to start modifying their Santa to.
Wal-Mart is EVIL (Score:2)

by Archeopteryx ( 4648 ) writes:

I refuse to shop there until they allow unionization efforts without management thuggery.
Talk about doing something the hard way (Score:2)

by Aqua OS X ( 458522 ) writes:

Talk about doing something the hard way. I have one of those Santa's....and it has a 1/4in jack in the back. You can make it say whatever you want it to say.
Imagine... (Score:2)

by merc ( 115854 ) writes:

a beowulf cluster of robot drunk santas...
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)

by NeuroManson ( 214835 ) writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @06:22PM (#14295096) Homepage

Welcome our drunken robot Santa overlords.

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- Re:Wow (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 19, 2005 @09:16AM (#14290512)
  
  thanks a lot for linking directly to the video. Actually, fuck you ya jerks! I'll be forwarding my excess bandwidth bill to Slashdot.
  
  Actually, if you look closely, both links in the submission are to Coral Cache. Kudos to the submitter..
  
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- Re:Wow - Submitter did a good job (Score:2, Informative)
  
  by AtariDatacenter ( 31657 ) writes:
  
  LOL - Good one. If I actually had a bandwidth bill, I would have put advertisements on the top to compensate for it. Many thanks to submitter, BTW, for using Coral Cache!
- Re:Well I know what he wants for x-mas (Score:2)
  
  by TheSpoom ( 715771 ) * writes:
  
  Actually, the server's fine. Links are to the Coral Cache, and the original works fine and fast; I was able to download the video at speeds I would expect from a major ISP's hosting.
- Re:Request ignored (Score:2, Insightful)
  
  by protocol420 ( 758109 ) writes:
  
  Because he would want people to link to it through the Coral Cache, which it has been, to prevent a slashdotting.
- Santa boxing his own ideological shadow, maybe? (Score:2)
  
  by ianscot ( 591483 ) writes:
  
  Or maybe Santa could make a lot of noise about how he's being persecuted -- despite the overwhelming evidence that nobody's out to do away with Santa or Christmas. That'd come standard in the fundie model. Fundies like to talk about how they're being persecuted rather than about flaky stuff like, you know, human fellowship and peace.
  Seriously, I have relatives who are convinced that the multi-language instruction book on a Timex watch is an example of how they're being marginalized by the liberal society

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Santa (Score:2, Funny)

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Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, Baby... (Score:2, Funny)

Exorsanta (Score:5, Funny)

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