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Something silly I made...

A flag (with a bitcoin symbol on it) goes up in my office (http://comparebitcoins.net/) when ever someone makes a bitcoin payment.

You can see the flag in the lower left corner laying down when no payment was made.

Coiner1 -  You are a genius!

Does it fly at half mast when Block chain.Info is down?

I did!  :)



I'm gonna buy a rat.  
You can feed the rat for bitcoin.
He can only be fed once per hour.
If no one feeds him, he will die.

Or, they could feed the rat. 
The worlds first experiment in decentralized rat care.

How about 200+ flags, one for each country? Again, pay for it to fly, or pay for it to come down.

An art display which invited the public to put live goldfish through a food blender did not constitute cruelty to animals, a Danish court has ruled.

The goldfish were placed on display swimming in the blenders, and visitors were told they could press the "on" button if they wanted.

At least one visitor did, killing two goldfish.

Peter Meyer, director of the Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding, 200 kilometres (125 miles) west of Copenhagen, was fined for cruelty to animals after complaints from campaign group Friends of Animals.

But a court in Denmark has now ruled that the fish were not treated cruelly, as they had not faced prolonged suffering.

The fish were killed "instantly" and "humanely", said Judge Preben Bagger.

The court had earlier heard an expert witness from the blenders' maker, Moulinex, that the fish had probably died within one second of the blender being switched on.

A vet also told the court that the fish would have died painlessly.

Mr Meyer will not now have to pay the fine of 2,000 kroner (269 euros) originally imposed by Danish police.

The case only went to court because he refused to pay the police fine. He told the court that artistic freedom was at stake.

"It's a question of principle. An artist has the right to create works which defy our concept of what is right and what is wrong," he told the court in Kolding.

The display featured a total of 10 blenders containing goldfish.

After the complaints, the blenders were unplugged and the exhibit continued without the possibility of killing the fish.

The exhibit was created by Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti, who was apparently trying to test visitors' sense of right and wrong.

Mr Evaristti said at the time he wanted to force people to "do battle with their conscience".

The idea, he said, was to "place people before a dilemma: to choose between life and death."

"It was a protest against what is going on in the world, against this cynicism, this brutality that impregnates the world in which we live," he said.

 

Or, they could feed the rat. 
The worlds first experiment in decentralized rat care.

This just keeps getting more and more interesting... but a little frightening. I dread the day I need to watch a "feed the children" with bitcoin commercial. "If you don't donate just 0.0001 BTC a day to this address, the child will starve to death."