Human Clock (Complete with Hands!)

soulsteal writes: "Some people with too much time on their hands have decided to make a clock of, for, and by the people! Humanclock allows for anyone anywhere to set their time zone and view over 1100 pictures of people posing with one of the 1440 minutes available each day. On the geek side, their server is a Radio Shack 2.4mhz TRS-80 Model 100 portable running a port of Aache and PHP." Something seems extremely suspicious about that server ...

It's a JOKE! Yeesh...

[Abcd1234]

Oh dear lord, some people have *no* sense of humour. This isn't a hoax. Hoaxes are, generally speaking, at least marginally believable. There is usually an attempt on the part of the hoaxers to actually convince others that what they are claiming is true. This, OTOH, is *obviously* a JOKE. I mean, come on... 4 gigs on a tape? The webserver powered on 4 "AA" batteries (double coupon day)? Heck, even tim knew it was a joke: "Something seems extremely suspicious about that server..."! OTOH, at least I can now see just how thick some Slashdotters are...

Re:ok dammit

[thefritob]

Actually You can lease the 4:20 spot. The current auction is over at ebay. Here's the link. [ebay.com]

Re:I don't believe it!!!

[kenh]

Did you look at the source code (and I quote):

9999 ' subroutine for reading from packet driver
10000 FD$ = -1
10010 READ FD$
10020 PEEK FD$
10030 POKE FD$
10040 POOP FD$
10050 PUKE FD * 7
10060 IF FD$ = "YUMMYPACKET" THEN 10080
10070 GOTO 10010
10080 FILE$ = FD$
10090 RETURN

Uhm, are there really poop and puke commands in BASIC?

Ken

Re:I call bullshit

[SomeGuyFromCA]

Not only that, "all I/O done through the headphone jack"? Right. Sure.

(And is the plural of "walkman" walkmans or walkmen?)

What about a slashbox?

[Alternity]

That's it... I want a humanclock slashbox :o)

Re:Nice

[Shotgun]

Reminds me of some sage advice once imparted unto me that many here can benefit from.

Do not go straight home from work for the first week of marriage. Hang out, go to a park for an hour, park and read a book, do anything, but do not go straight home to your new wife. If you go straight home, she will expect it to be that way for the rest of the marriage.

Trust me on this one.

Yes, this may seem sexist, but I don't know any guys who flip when their spouse shows up at 6:05 instead of 6.

TRS-80 (Slightly OT)

[Seanasy]

Is just me or does anyone else here read "TRS-80" as "Trash Eighty?" It's just automatic for me now.

From the horses mouth

[huskerdoo]

Well, it looks like it only took three weeks from putting the site up until it got Slashdotted. I've been building the site and taking pictures for the last two months. I haven't had time to write a FAQ for the site yet. But the reason the picture filenames are MD5 hashes is so you can't easily see other times. A lot of people want to just be able to clickity click their way through the entire set of pictures as if it were a p0rn site...and I didn't want that. If you want to see a certain time, you have to wait.

There are some interesting photos on the site. Jimi Hendrix's grave is at 8:15pm, Richard Buckner is at 8:14pm, and there is an entire hours worth of pictures from 1am - 2am that were taken at a Goth party in Pittsburgh. (thanks D33!)

Now I gotta go downtown and reboot the server... (on -> off -> on)

humanclock.com slashbox

[jjsjeff]

Is there someway we could also add a humanclock slashbox? You know I need that right below my 'Oblique Strategy' box.

-Jeff

Funny source

[MattHawk]

Take a look at the page source on one of the pages with a clock picture on it - The web programmer who put the site together was having a little fun (The joke changes every time the page reloads) :)