eon alpha release. ALSO: the emacs demoscene?

This is the beginning of a DAILY blog series that will probably last about a week. I'll be building a new Pod along with three satellite nodes, all running Debian. Along the way, I'll document and photograph every single step of its construction in what will become known as the "POD HOWTO". I'll have photos up within the next 48 hours…

Also: is anyone interested in running an emacs 4k demoscene competition?

The rules:

• Your entry must consist of a single foo.tar.gz file less than or equal to 4096 bytes in length.
• The gz file should uncompress into a directory ./foo with your files in it.
• The files may be anything whatsoever (audio, images, emacs lisp files).
• Your program must compile without errors or warnings, and must run in a recent GNU Emacs 23.x (i.e. emacs-from-CVS).
• Your program can (require) only those libraries that come with GNU Emacs 23.x
• You must include a README file with your name and email address, and any relevant copyright/license information (this is important because we want to archive the entries and winners, etc, sort of like the international interactive fiction contest.)
• You must include a file "foo-demo.el" that starts your demo when loaded.

There is already one entry from Ryan Yeske:

http://rcy.ath.cx/~rcy/elisp/hacks/rain.el