<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Ode to Joy on a Printer : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>61130</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61130/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ode to Joy on a Printer]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was looking for a video for Ode to Joy on YouTube to post for FAF*.  I was hoping for a Clockwork Orange tie in too, but what I found was this video.  And it is so much more.<br/><br/>As brief as I can be, when printers print they whine.  That whining is, after a fashion, a series of notes.  Print the right thing and you can play music.<br/><br/>So someone down at HP did.  This is supposedly a self test Easter Egg on HP Scanjet printers and this is how you <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.eeggs.com/items/557.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">make it happen</a>.<br/><br/><br/>*4th Movement of Beethoven's <b>9th</b> Symphony.  But you knew that, right?]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>417</score><crdate>5/8/2008 8:23:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T20:23:55+01:00</atomdate></link><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/technology/l/61130/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (6)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/technology/l/61130-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/technology/l/61130-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/technology/l/61130-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/technology/l/61130/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><comment><id>254646</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61130/1/xml_widget.rss#q7</url><title><![CDATA[palmieres @ 5/9/2008 3:44:02 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I'd like to see what was printed.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/9/2008 3:44:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-09T15:44:02+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>254242</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61130/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[Kevertje @ 5/9/2008 3:06:05 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Here's another one, this one's playing 'F&#252;r Elise'<br/><br/><table width='100%'><tr valign='top'><td><p align='center'><object width="425" height="350"><embed width="425" height="350" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6438700334710473669&hl=en"> </embed></object><noembed><a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6438700334710473669' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a></noembed></p></td><td><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br/>google_ad_client = "pub-7980396607107658";<br/>google_ad_width = 120;<br/>google_ad_height = 240;<br/>google_ad_format = "120x240_as";<br/>google_ad_type = "text";<br/>google_ad_channel = track_tag;<br/>google_color_border = color_3;<br/>google_color_bg = color_3;<br/>google_color_link = color_1;<br/>google_color_url = color_2;<br/>google_color_text = color_4;<br/>//--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></td></tr></table><br/><br/>I wonder what it is with scanners and Beethoven.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/9/2008 3:06:05 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-09T03:06:05+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>254160</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61130/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[Sputum @ 5/8/2008 10:56:34 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[That was exceptionally geeky.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/8/2008 10:56:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T22:56:34+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>254130</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61130/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[dollyllama @ 5/8/2008 9:33:23 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[That was pretty damn awesome.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/8/2008 9:33:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T21:33:23+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>254121</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61130/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[sykeo56 @ 5/8/2008 9:12:23 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[::goes to find scanjet 5p::]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/8/2008 9:12:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T21:12:23+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>254106</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61130/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[jhordie @ 5/8/2008 8:35:50 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Well, someone had WAY too much time on their hands but that was great! God I would love to be able to do that at work!! Set it up and not say anything... just let it start &quot;playing&quot;.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/8/2008 8:35:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T20:35:50+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>