What is Digg?218 Comments
- Ransomowris, on 10/11/2007, -6/+208What a painful digg-effect...
- akimbo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+178Hopefully, we can all crash the paintball server, so that this artist can get a good night sleep.
- zweben, on 10/11/2007, -3/+172*sigh*
*starts soldiering paintball gun to USB cable* - LeeJunFan, on 10/11/2007, -9/+125"but with semen instead of paint."
That wouldn't be punishment for her. - Gunsmith, on 10/11/2007, -3/+94not after this he won't
- AKPirate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+88I haven't taken Anatomy and Physiology yet, but I think you are referring to his nose?
- brokenspatula, on 10/11/2007, -0/+80This is gonna be a tough one to mirror!
- jay0312, on 10/11/2007, -1/+79The man has balls.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+83wtf? aren't there enough people shooting at iraqis these days?
- WinterEdge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+75I think the most disturbing part of this exhibit is one of the comments in the chat room.
"Do we get to shoot more if we donate?" - zweben, on 10/11/2007, -3/+64I just want to make the swivel chair spin.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+66Shouldn't this be under "playable web games"?
- canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -4/+62http://wafaabilal.com/ - sorry if this is a double post, my first one didn't seem to take
- PhantomBantam, on 10/11/2007, -1/+58Holy crap, I just saw him run across the room. He genuinely looked frightened. I hope he doesn't get hurt at some point.[edit] he's now at the table with safety glasses. I hope he gets a heads up when high volume sites link.
- miloez, on 10/11/2007, -4/+56one step closer to stabbing people in the face over the internet.
- Hazardc, on 10/11/2007, -17/+66BOOOM HEADDSHOTT!
- Tetragrammaton, on 10/11/2007, -11/+51Crashing the server would be good. Right now, I'm seeing if I can navigate the gun to face away from him and keep it there. It looks like my input is pretty much drowned out by the multitudes, though...
You know, this would be one of the instances where an attack on the server would be entirely justified and defensible. Will anyone step up? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40I wonder if he put a real gun up there if people would still shoot at him.
Sadly someone would. - KamikazeeDriver, on 10/11/2007, -2/+39"What a painful digg-effect..."
hahahha no kidding. I typed, "you just got digged, protect your gonads" - Zorn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+37Would people reflect upon the point and meaning of the work? Killing people at a distance. The place of technology in contemporary war. Your enjoyment in someone else's pain. This work is attempting to show that these issues are precisely at work in the relation of the US and the West to Iraq. Reflect on yourselves.
- TheGoat7, on 10/11/2007, -4/+39WhereAmI:
That is also part of the human experiment - to see what people do to help others. - samfishercell, on 10/11/2007, -5/+40Jack Thompson! Someone CALL JACK THOMPSON!
- Zopmaz, on 10/11/2007, -9/+43From Bash.org:
get up
get on up
get up
get on up
and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances :D-<
* nmp3bot dances :D|-<
* nmp3bot dances :D/-<
i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet - waxoff, on 10/11/2007, -4/+38I always knew you art majors were freaks, but I didn't need to know that. I'll go throw up now.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33That's Indian you ***** moron. Not Iraqi.
- memoid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28apparently his brother actually got killed in 2005 by a US soldier
http://www.metafilter.com/61084/Domestic-Tension - Electrawn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26He has some good sysadmins behind him. Web Server is at Steadfast.net, Handling about 100 simultaneous fine. Digg + BoingBoing may be slight lag. Then its Apache tweak time. :)
- Electrawn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2510:38 PM CDT, 384 Simultaneous. Reached the Memory limit of the server. Various things like chat and log up and down...but everything surviving. 1GB of traffic per 20 minutes. Woot!
The Digg effect is casuing the paintball gun to sound like a machine gun and may be causing Wafaa to breakdown before the server will. What you are missing via the internet is the Sound and Human aspect. I hope he is sane tomorrow. This is both the pinnacle and deveastation of his work. Should make for an interesting youtube video. - daborg, on 10/11/2007, -3/+25It's not a game.
- waxoff, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28For fun.... :-P
- idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -7/+27I wrote a small script that constantly spins the gun to the left.
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
wget -O /dev/null http://wafaabilal.com/forward.php?action=move_left
sleep .5
done;
Feel free to help out :P - Revan01, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Where did he go???
- dignation, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19thank you so much for signing your comment, otherwise I would not know who to block.
- JrGhoull, on 10/11/2007, -7/+23i just took a 100 level art class, and believe u me, there has been crazier things done in the name of art. people have had themselves crucified, have cut off their own genitles, electricute themselves (and this is only the ***** i've heard about in my class). but this is uhhh...what art is all about. personally i think its great. people will have alot to say about it, the piece will get talked about alot, and it'll provolk alot of conversation...which is a large part of what art is all about...just starting the conversation about certain issues...
- gregatron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Does anybody get a red screen when they click fire?
- skyfire1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18You just made PETA ***** their pants.
- Dotcommer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18LOL!!! Man, I hope you weren't serious there... that made me laugh my balls off.
you stupid ***** head. - iceman0113, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19FTA: "ABC news, when they had an interview with an American soldier sitting in a base in Colorado, and she was firing missiles into Iraq (*bang*) after being given information by American soldiers on the ground (*bang*) in Iraq, and when asked if she had any regard of human life, she said "No, these people are bad, and I'm getting very good intelligence from people on the ground.""
Reading that made me realize how little regard people have for human lives. This lady may have killed innocent people and not know about it because they were just telling her to point and shoot. Is this what technology was created for? Destruction and killing our fellow human beings without a second thought? But despite the fact that people are shooting at him, he still has hope for peace.
"At this point, I look forward to when this gun is silent and when all the guns are silent." - otep, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19someone should put Bush and Cheney in a room like this ........
- turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15heaven forbid it only shoots 200fps.
still gonna hurt like balls after 30 times - voyetra8, on 10/11/2007, -11/+26This is one of the most thought provoking performance art I have ever seen. Just wow.
If you find yourself wanting to pull the trigger, ask yourself why.... - mrkyleman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17just wait till hes sleeping and hes pitching a tent.. and someone nails it.. This "art" will be over haha
- Ageroth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14The ones that dont break hurt the most
- GeeksAreSexy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13The guy isn't there now (8:27PM EST), but he's been there for most of the day... and while I didn't shoot him myself, I've seen the gun fire a few times.
- Yout, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I like playing games that let you choose between heroism and villainy. I keep pressing the left button as if I'm trying to wrest a gun out of an assailant's hand.
- Ageroth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13So this goes on 24 hrs a day? What a horrible way to wake up in the morning
I wonder, does he have something to alert him to when the gun is ready to fire? - TheCure, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13What's the relevant difference between Wafaa and the guy at the fair you throw tomatoes at? Longer hours, more pain, less monetary compensation, higher education, race, all of the above?
- hgb5150, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15A) Muzzle velocity on paintball guns is adjustable. His is probably set very low if he's smart.
B) Finally, ordinary guys can compete with the sexy co-eds in making money with a webcam. You could charge people $5 a shot and rake in the dough. - ZWarren69, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16Damnit, if I can't shoot him I will shoot his stuff!
- Electrawn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12@theblt
There are limits in place to prevent "machine gunning" Wafaa's paintball gun. (and not a moment too soon!) :) -
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