The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt Returns 102
mresolver writes "University of Chicago students have once again emerged from the library after a long winter to participate in the world's largest scavenger hunt. The multiple day event is famous for the working breeder reactor that students managed to build during the 1999 hunt. This year, the official list (PDF) includes a superconductor, working wood refrigerator, hot air balloon made to Montgolfier specifications, one-way funhouse mirror, and a walk-in Kaleidoscope."
Spoilers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spoilers (Score:1)
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Re:Spoilers (Score:3, Funny)
MacGyver (Score:1)
Re:MacGyver (Score:2)
Yes, gentlemen, this is my self-assembled Atari 2600, made from nothing but old hosiery, chewing gum, a banana peel, and a few locks from my very own mullet!
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What? (Score:5, Informative)
Yup, the biggest one we have.
Aaah hahaha! (Score:2)
Re:What? (Score:1)
I know where the book bound in skin is (Score:2)
Skin bound books are pretty common???? (Score:2)
Ill be dammed. Skin bound books are everywhere. The one specifically that I was thinking of was the one mentioned on the second page.
Re:Skin bound books are pretty common???? (Score:2)
The Harvard Law School Library bought its copy of a 1605 practice manual for Spanish lawyers decades ago, for $42.50 from an antiquarian books dealer in New Orleans.
A 1605 practice manual for Spanish lawyers bound in human skin is oddly fitting. In fact, now that I think about it, why aren't all law books bound in human skin?
Re:What? (Score:1)
Re:What? (Score:2)
The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:5, Funny)
2. DNA From a) Bill Gates b) Linus Torvalds c) Larry Ellison
3. 1 Site which can withstand a force 10 slashdot effect (Not a search engine)
4. Someone who can actually write IAAL
5. Used items belonging to the goatse man
6. 3 pounds of lime green duct tape
7. 1 pound of Sillier Putty (tm)
8. 1 Signed Microsoft UAT
9. A travelling salesman who understands non-deterministic polynomial time
10. A girlfriend
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2)
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:4, Funny)
the list.... (Score:2)
"23 In Soviet Russia, Scav hunts you! Get the autograph of the One and Only. What a country! [19861951
points]"
so
I got #1 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I got #1 (Score:4, Funny)
Uh oh, 3D Realms is going to sue you for posting the game's entire source code!
no points. (Score:2)
I could point some other errors. Like that it might be WinMain, that is might be written in C and throw does not work there. the program uses "exit" instead of return. or it returns a error exit code instead of 0 (0 is assumed "ok" mostly for unix programs) .
safer would have been:
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}
But then there is still point 10 in the list. That is the real hard part.
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:1, Funny)
10 PRINT "I OWNZ JOO!"
20 GOTO 10
2) *dons ninja suit*
3) cnn.com?
5) How many points is this worth?
6) There is a lime green type of nuclear duct tape. I have some lying around somewhere....
10) C'mon! These entries are supposed to be possible!
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:1)
Copyright (C) 1997-2006 3D Realms */
They've had plenty of time to revise it...
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2)
Lets not forget a few.... (Score:3, Funny)
B1. Ponies!
B2. Desktop Cold Fusion, the energy of the Future!
B3. Gray Goo.
B4. Profit!
B5. AI Based dust collecting overloards.
B6. A working automobile metaphore.
B7. An actual first post.
B8. An editor who actually reads the articles before posting them.
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2)
4. Someone who can actually write IAAL
Will this guy [slashdot.org] do? :)
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2)
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The 2006 first annual Slashdot scavenger hunt (Score:2)
We have plenty of those, but due to their career choice, they start out with massively negative karma.
They're here, they're just all below your threshold.
How dare they! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How dare they! (Score:2, Interesting)
In reference to the patent you mention, this text is from a New Scientist article on the patent: [newscientist.com]
Re:How dare they! (Score:2)
But that's coo, Slashdot. Mock away. That's what you do best.
Soooo, a patent lawyer making a mokery of the patent system isn't worthy of our ire simply because a child was involved?
Re:How dare they! (Score:2)
Re:How dare they! (Score:2)
I have prior art to this patent [uspto.gov] dating back to 1982 or before that.
We used this mode of swinging in the two swings made of rubber tires hanging next to each other outside of this house [eniro.se], effectively making them into bumper cars. The object was to swing into the other guy until he couldn't take it a
Re:How dare they! (Score:4, Interesting)
As the patented swinging method had been long known in the art, the USPTO invalidated all claims of the patent (as it should have the first time around), rendering it unenforceable. Because a patent with no claims is worthless, its owner allowed it to expire on 5/10/2006 by nonpayment of issue fees.
Re:FYI: Patent 6368227 (Score:1)
Aluminum tubes being used! (Score:2, Funny)
Moving Violations Required? (Score:5, Funny)
[The driver] may not have received no moving violations or convictions or court-ordered supervision.
I really hope that's a typo... I'm not sure how easy it would be to find someone with a prior conviction to send on the road trip.
Re:Moving Violations Required? (Score:1)
Yeah, everything else on the list should be a piece of cake, but where the hell are you going to find someone thats had a moving violation?!
Participation points (Score:4, Funny)
Some advice (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Participation points (Score:2)
Who says it has to be your girlfriend. You're thinking too literally!
Worlds largest egh ? (Score:2, Informative)
this is like the "World Series" where the winners are "World Baseball Champions" when only teams from USA play, most American kids dont even know what the world is [aljazeera.com].
Re:Worlds largest egh ? (Score:1)
It is also like the "Almost correct example using MLB" where the teams are "only from USA" when some people don't even know where Toronto [wikipedia.org] is.
hth, hand
Re:Worlds largest egh ? (Score:2)
You're just looking for something to complain about. Big ol' whiner.
Re:Worlds largest egh ? (Score:2)
And it's not like the UoChi organizers decreed that theirs is the world's biggest scavenger hunt. Even if they did, I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem with not calling it that should someone prove another scavenger hunt to be larger.
Sure, there's some hubris involved with calling the MLB championship the World Series, but when the Series was initiated, it was without a doubt the world championship by default.
Instead of getting your panties all
F***ing (Score:5, Funny)
Poor people of Fucking, Austria (Europe) [wikipedia.org]. As if they didn't have enough tourists stealing their sign. At least it has become harder to steal now:
Re:F***ing (Score:2)
*sniggers*
NOTICE: Item #43 Replaced to Redesign Slashdot (Score:2)
It's a one-shot deal and no further information is available about this update.
Can't believe this hasn't been done (Score:3, Funny)
11. Weapons of Mass Destruction
12. A copy of "Where's Waldo? Special Osama Edition"
12. George Bush's rear end
12a. Tony Blair's puckered lips
g.
Re:Can't believe this hasn't been done (Score:1)
Re:Can't believe this hasn't been done (Score:1)
12. A copy of "Where's Waldo? Special Osama Edition"
12. George Bush's rear end
12a. Tony Blair's puckered lips
Looks like somone needs to check their math again.
Re:Can't believe this hasn't been done (Score:1)
>> 12a. Tony Blair's puckered lips
Why 12 and 12a? Because the two items are pretty much fused together?
Re:Can't believe this hasn't been done (Score:1)
>>>12a. Tony Blair's puckered lips
Why would Tony Blair be kissing Waldo? That's just weird!
Found Itemd that I think is against the rules... (Score:1)
don't the rules state that you cant have any animals...?
I guess you could give her a dead animal... but the bee w
Re:Found Itemd that I think is against the rules.. (Score:1)
thats 3 items that are against the rules...
Re:Found Itemd that I think is against the rules.. (Score:2, Interesting)
OTOH, the story I've heard from judges older than myself is that the original source
Re:Found Itemd that I think is against the rules.. (Score:2)
Nowhere in that line does it say "live pet bee on a string". It could easily be a dead bee on a string. I don't think that a "pet" necessarily implies that the object is alive: think pet rock, etc.
So, find a dead bee, some string, and some Krazy Glue. You've got your pet bee on a string. Macabre? Maybe, but not as much as the book bound in human skin...
Re:Found Itemd that I think is against the rules.. (Score:2)
Actually, according to rule #11 in their official rules [uchicago.edu], "no items should use any living, non-human animals". So I guess a deceased bee (who must ipso-facto be not a bee) is the only option.
Half a bee, philosophically... (Score:1)
But half the bee
has got to be,
vis a vis
its entity - do you see?
But can a bee
be said to be
or not to be
an entire bee
when half the bee
is not a bee
due to some ancient injury?
Singing...
La dee dee, 1 2 3,
Eric the half a bee.
A B C D E F G,
Eric the half a bee.
Is this retched demi-bee,
half asleep upon my knee,
some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the half a bee.
Fiddle dee dum,
Fiddle dee dee,
Eric the half bee.
Ho ho ho,
Tee hee hee,
Eric the half a bee.
I lov
Don't Just Read The Article, See The Movie! (Score:2)
Or if you don't want to pay the money, why not request that Netflix carry it [netflix.com]. Or your local library.
Biggest Scavenged Item Ever (Score:2)
Amulet of Yendor. (Score:2)
7._________ The Amulet of Yendor. [ 1 point ]
Oh, come on, that has got to be worth at least 1,000,000 Zorkmids!