tripmine writes “The Orlando Sentinel has a story about a geek who can’t get abundant Christmas light. ‘This Christmas, tech-savvy humans such as Hansen are increasingly building the biggest, most elaborate holiday lights in neighborhoods across Central Florida and all through the country. They typically work in fields such as computer programming, Web development, engineering or audio and visual services and are armed with a technical knowledge that the average person lacks. They trade tips and stories on notice boards and set up

Web sites with step-by-step descriptions of how they installed their lights as well as pictures and videos of the finished product.’” Many cities have neighborhoods where the spectacle takes up blocks at a day, not just individual houses, too, as anyone who’s strolled down Austin’s 37th Street can attest. hyperlinks invited (in comments) to the best / worst light-spectacles you know of.

Read more of that story at Slashdot.

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