The Ultimate Gaming Table

Johnzo writes: "Wow. Dude's built himself a super-deluxe custom gaming table, with built-in coasters, dice pits, a sound system, lamps for each player, glass inlays for handouts, books and paper storage, an elevated miniatures battlefield, privacy screens for each player, and (best of all) an under-table tube network using hollow gravity-fed balls to deliver secret messages to players. The only way this could possibly be cooler is if he used pneumatics to deliver the messages."

Slashdot effect / bad neighbor?

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, the slashdot effect has incinerated yet another poor innocent server.

Slashdot might consider warning / hosting cached images of pages that arent designed to handle major traffic.

If I built a cool backyard widget and told a few friends, I might be a tad disconcerted when CNN tells a half-million people to check out my house.

Re:Wow.

[javajames27]

You had a table? What about sleeping bags, pillows, an old tape deck playing cheezy soundtracks, and dice amuk due to the random monster attacks of your cat? Tables - Bah I say!

Re:Link..

[spencerogden]

Interesting, so he just took the actual page down, the pictures are still there...

Re:Pnuematic

[kin_korn_karn]

I'm thinking the gravity balls make noise, and that kind of cuts out the secrecy aspect of it, right?

Re:Slashdot effect / bad neighbor?

[_xeno_]

Finally! Someone who agrees with me!

I am so sick and tired of Slashdot editors whining that "it's in the FAQ" - yeah, I know, but those seem like lazy excuses that boils down to "this'd be kinda difficult and we're way too lazy to attempt it."

Besides, I think all they really need to do is just e-mail the webmaster of the site they're linking too. If it's a big web site, then yes, go ahead, link directly to it. If it's got ads, then link to it. If it's obviously some hobbyist's webpage, then contact them first!

Although, this is the Internet, so apparently being polite is passe. *sigh*

Oh, and it's nice to see that Slashcode now removes all HTML entities, so I can't put a nice accent in over the e. Thanks.