Some silliness with a Squeezebox:
http://hostname:9000/status.txt?p0=display&p1=firstline&p2=secondline&p3=5
Tells the SlimServer at hostname:9000 to send the message in p1 and p2 to the display of the Squeezebox it controls for p3 seconds.
Worth a try if you’re on a friend’s network with a Squeezebox.
Proving that any good piece of software will expand until it reads email, there’s a hacker community around the Squeezebox. You can find plugins that will play PacMan, display Test Match scores, and-of course-read email.
I wrote a simple AppleScript you can start modifying to have fun with this feature.
Start with getLine().
