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BBtv: Speed Cabling -- competitive ethernet detangling sport.

Posted February 14, 2008 1:05 PM

From Boing Boing:

Xeni visits the first-ever "Cable Untangling Championships" at Machine Project in Los Angeles, where knottiness abounds and speedy-fingered sysadmins pwn the world. "Cabling" is a new sport founded by Steven Schkolne in which competitors must race to detangle bundles of CAT-5 ethernet cables. The person who unravels their wire bundle the fastest at this particular meet wins a spaghetti dinner (hm, perhaps it's all a front for Pastafarianism).

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Re: BBtv: Speed Cabling -- competitive ethernet detangling sport.

02/16/2008 6:37 PM

Perhaps the champ, or runner-up would like to call over here once each month.

Cat5E cabling seems to tangle badly, so easily, and much time is spent trying to untangle the mess.

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