NO NO NO! Christmas light privileges should be taken away from this person
Twitter user @insomnic sent out a tweet a few minutes ago with a link that makes me want to kill people. OK not really kill them, but this person should have their Christmas light privileges should be taken away from them. Before I share the link, let me explain what this most annoying holiday site is,
three Christmas webcams for a live view of over 20,000 Christmas lights and also CONTROL them – heck, you can even inflate (or deflate) the giant Elmo, Frosty, Santa, and Homer Simpson – D’OH!
Because that’s not enough, you also will have to put up with a Santa cursor that you can change the size of, I suggest trying Hulk’in mode. Best yet, you can send text messages to change views and control things. This is truely insane, and possibly one of the worst laid out web pages I’ve ever seen. Graphic designers and web monkeys, please be prepare your barf bags.
Now, please enjoy Alek’s CONTROLLABLE Christmas Lights.
What would possess someone to do this? A love of crispy fried chicken and charity. Alek is competing in the Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease contest put on by KFC. So there is a good cause here, but it still makes me want to curl up in a ball under my desk and cry with fear like a little girl.
At about the same time, Twitter user @scpi showed me this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8290192083117426204
Seems the creator of these lights is Carson Williams, internet fame brought him so much attention he started his own business, Cosnar Lights, where him and his wife do custom Christmas light installations.
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Comments
Insomnic
I have to say… as irritating as the site is, controlling the guys lights is kinda fun.
In case you want to run your own lightshow, here is the page for the software Carson created: http://www.lightorama.com/
There’s also a bunch of videos of where the program has been used to setup synced light shows and so forth. It’s crazy.
alek
The concept of not only seeing, but actually controlling someone’s Christmas Lights via the Internet is a bit over-the-top.
So the web design is too … we’re talking Web0.0 … but HEY, did you notice it is W3C compliant!
I got a chuckle out of your post and you can come out from underneath your desk Mike.
Happy Holidays,
alek (Griswold wanna-be dude with the lights)