Those Internet-controlled Christmas Lights? A hoax.

A hoax involving Christmas and the Internet? We can scarcely believe such a thing is even possible ourselves, but remember that website and webcam some guy in Colorado set up where visitors could switch on or off the Christmas lights on his front lawn? Oh yeah, that was fake (a reporter actually visited Alek Komarnitsky's house and figured out what was really going on). It's not that it couldn't actually be done or anything (X10, anyone?), it's just that he figured it'd be a lot less trouble to take a bunch of photos of home to a create a complicated website to serve up an image to fit the time of day, angle of the webcam, the local weather conditions, and lighting that each visitor to the site would expect to see. Yeah, definitely easier.

[Via Slashdot]