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Peggy is an "open source lighted pegboard design" from Evil Mad Scientist Labs, released to coincide with the anniversary of the Great Boston Mooninite Scare of 2007, when law enforcement mistook lite-brites advertising a cartoon for terrorist paraphernalia and spent $2,000,000 running around, flapping their arms, screaming, and pulling their hair.

Boing Boing 2008

The early bunch of cheezfrens was generally very brite and they attracted some very brite and sum not so brites.

Fred decided - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

Get your lite-brites ready – we have a major anniversary coming up later this week…

1-31-07 2008

Get your lite-brites ready – we have a major anniversary coming up later this week…

Hooray for the Christiansens 2008

I am sure that one who can laugh about brites.org is incapable of any self-parody. sparc

Behe vs Sea Squirts - The Panda's Thumb 2007

Now that lite brites are deemed safe by some of you.

From Hunger Steve Hulett 2007

It's the Orson Wells / Mercury Theater "War Of The Worlds" all over again, except we have light-brites instead of radios, the invaders were "mooninites", and, AFAIK, no one has died.

"It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme." Ann Althouse 2007

According to intelligence sources, the device itself was a circuit board about 15-by-12 inches long, with a character put together by LED light bulbs, almost like the lite-brites that you may remember.

CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2007 2007

You gotta be pretty paranoid if "BOMB!" is the first thing that pops to mind, when you look at these things, which do indeed look like lite brites.

"It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme." Ann Althouse 2007

It was, essentially, a couple lite-brites which had been sitting around in a few major cities FOR WEEKS.

"It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme." Ann Althouse 2007