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It's that feeling of joy you get when you are the first to post in a forum or message board... the exhilaration of knowing you were first!

Internet scientists have proven it, ...there's only one post that is the first and it's First Post! No other post comes close to first post, all other posts are a distant second! Now imagine, ...being the first to first post while wearing this First Post t-shirt!

This is the first First Post t-shirt. Accept no second-rate substitutes! The shirt was first posted on After Y2K, and can soon make an appearance on you!

Nitrozac and Snaggy have put this shirt design through grueling tests and have discovered it is readable by the normal naked eye from a distance of 120 feet! So, at a convention or other gathering of geeks, your First Post t-shirt will be the t-shirt first read! If standing in one spot and slowly rotating, your shirt could have a readership coverage of over 45,239 sq. feet!

That's almost as many people as are on Slashdot right now! ;-)

100% preshrunk cotton, with tiny Geek Culture logo on upper back. Available in men's sizes Large only (all others sold out!)

So be the first to post (on your chest) the First Post t-shirt!

Just doing my Job.
Love xxx
Andy.

Primeiro borne para Lula!
It's that feeling of joy you get when you are the first to post in a forum or message board... the exhilaration of knowing you were first!

Internet scientists have proven it, ...there's only one post that is the first and it's First Post! No other post comes close to first post, all other posts are a distant second! Now imagine, ...being the first to first post while wearing this First Post t-shirt!

This is the first First Post t-shirt. Accept no second-rate substitutes! The shirt was first posted on After Y2K, and can soon make an appearance on you!

Nitrozac and Snaggy have put this shirt design through grueling tests and have discovered it is readable by the normal naked eye from a distance of 120 feet! So, at a convention or other gathering of geeks, your First Post t-shirt will be the t-shirt first read! If standing in one spot and slowly rotating, your shirt could have a readership coverage of over 45,239 sq. feet!

That's almost as many people as are on Slashdot right now! ;-)

100% preshrunk cotton, with tiny Geek Culture logo on upper back. Available in men's sizes Large only (all others sold out!)

So be the first to post (on your chest) the First Post t-shirt!

Just doing my Job.
Love xxx
Andy.

Warning: the following is NOT a ThinkGeek promotion, but instead, a self promotion. ;)

Give your geek the ULTIMATE geek gift... a very cool and stylish propeller beanie, from the GeekCulture webstore.

or... him up pick up The Best of the Joy of Tech book, the perfect apres-blow job read.

Warning: the following is NOT a ThinkGeek promotion, but instead, a self promotion. ;)

Give your geek the ULTIMATE geek gift... a very cool and stylish propeller beanie, from the GeekCulture webstore.

or... him up pick up The Best of the Joy of Tech book, the perfect apres-blow job read.

Warning: the following is NOT a ThinkGeek promotion, but instead, a self promotion. ;)

Give your geek the ULTIMATE geek gift... a very cool and stylish propeller beanie, from the GeekCulture webstore.

or... him up pick up The Best of the Joy of Tech book, the perfect apres-blow job read.

Actually, it's called Mac Eye for the Windows Guy.

David Pogue's worst nightmare

My favorite is this one, personally. "Good lord, what did they *do* to him in prison?!" - one of the funniest cartoons ever : )

... is here

FIRST POST!!!!!!!!! Mua ha ha ha ha.

Get yours now! Only $11.50!

at the joy of tech!

What is going to work IMHO is to cultivate the loyalty of a small close circle of followers that will be convinced to help once in a while to donate (not pay, donate)

Like Geek Culture is doing.

Transmeta a Go-Go followed by his encounter with Riker and Geordie... here. :-)

Transmeta a Go-Go followed by his encounter with Riker and Geordie... here. :-)

BTW, I agree that the goatse.cx-o-lantern is the funniest thing in ages -- certainly the funniest since the Steve Ballmer and Ellen Feiss-o-lanterns from last year.

IN Soviet Russia, Cygwin WINs YOU!!!! And All yOur base are belong to muthaficking US!!!


FIRST POST MUTHAFUCKA!!!!!!! MUAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!

Check out www.tomax.com (i know a few people who work there) with a browser without flash. Completely and totally useless.

I think it's things like this that turn off people to flash. I refuse to install the plugin for Mozilla, as a site as bad as this one (without a non-Flash option) doesn't deserve my traffic.

At least some sites offer a more vanilla version of their site.

Yes, this is what the other poster was getting at, and the problem is you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater here just as s/he was saying. After all, there are legitemate uses for flash... nitrozac and homestarrunner cartoons, for example. And pr0n.

I am in fact soon to start work on an animated online series for which I could not come up with a better technology than flash. After all, it allows one to have animation, sound, music, and hyperlinks. I was pretty bummed when I found out Macromedia wanted like $800-$1000 for the tools to make flash cartoons, as I was not sure I would even be able to use them effectively. But I am hoping StarOffice will be enough for this purpose for the $80 it cost.

steve already shot that one down

...and Steve wears a pretty big hat.

Most ask slashdots seem to be "how do i do my homework" or (lately) "how do i do my job". I guess that's what happens when people that don't have any friends and Ann Landers dies.

OT: ain't it the truth!

Re: linux is also communism

Don't forget the plastic wrap! Just have plenty of duct tape and plastic wrap.

Well they could post all the numerous guides they missed. I had a bunch on my website, which I'll cut and paste here for Geek Dating Guide pleasure: Why Geeks Make the Best Boyfriends

"I just Want To Be Friends"

There is also the Geek Dating Flowchart

Why Girls Actually Want Geeks
Why it usually doesn't happen
and the pitfalls of dating a nerd

15+ reasons why geek guys are "not so bad at all".

How To Lose A Geek in 10 Seconds.

And cause Slashdot loves Futurama, quotes here for your reading pleasure (both said by Fry):
"What? Valentine's Day is coming up?!?! Crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again"
"Well she was in love with the part of me that's a slob. I was in love with her with the part of me that's desperate."

And finally, have a date for Valentine's but don't know what to do? Never fear, let old 50's educational movies guide you. From what do to on a date, Do's and Don't of Dating and Beginning Dating to Going Steady and How do you Know It's Love, cheesy acting and horrible plots can show you the way.

It seems like Bill Gates has problems with bathrooms. :-)

Maybe the interview will go like this:

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/4 32.html

Heh. I'm only a slashdot reader because I'm bored.

NOTE FOR THE ORNERY GEEKS AMONG US:

Sarcasm does not translate into plain text!

Just let us know when you order, (there's a comment field, and no, we will not forward your comments to the CIA) and we will wrap your precious beanie in gorgeous aluminum foil, exceeding both the USA and Canadian Paranoid Association Standards.

Note: Gold foil will be a special order.

8(|:-)

Here you go!...

....and no, I won't mention the Computer Angel Snow Globes. ;)

Here you go!...

....and no, I won't mention the Computer Angel Snow Globes. ;)

http://www.geekculture.com/geekculturestore/websto re/prints.html is what I meant to type.

I was thinking of picking up one of the linux anatomy charts that my google search picked up, but apparently they're only available at trade shows.

http://linux.oreilly.com/news/linuxanatomy_0101.ht ml

Sounds like a good mission statement- I hope they have a plan to back up that goal.

How do they intend to keep on-line comics free? By subsidizing the cartoonists? By supplying them with enough free stuff that it's worth putting up their comics with them? By posting to Slashdot so they get a zillion banner views? It's unclear to me.

Comics artists gotta eat, too (and if you've been to a comics convention, you'd see that they gotta eat more than most- I'm talking about me here, too). In the end, there needs to be some correlation between putting content online and money appearing. Just aggregating content and hoping for the coolness to start generating dough sounds a lot like some dot-com business plans.

In the comics project I'm peripherally involved with, the idea is that the online component serves as a marketing tool for the printed magazine (yes, those are still around- for a while, at least). Additionally, the hope is to sell related products via the web site and recoup some money there- I think that's the main business model for The Joy of Tech.

If either of those fail, the online (free) stuff will go away. Thus, it's in the interest of people who like the stuff to buy a t-shirt once in a while, or even just donate some cash. Otherwise, the online comic will remain the province of the subsidized hobbyist who quits once they have a family to support.

I'm not slamming these guys for banding together to promote the art form as a whole- anything anyone does to bolster the sagging comic industry is OK by me. I'm just hoping this is not another "Great idea, we'll put on a show!" concept that will run out of steam once people start wondering where the reward is.

If it was Apple's PayPal donations everyone around here would be happy... or mad, it seems random around here.

Oh, wait, no one here reads Joy of Tech

If it was Apple's PayPal donations everyone around here would be happy... or mad, it seems random around here.

Oh, wait, no one here reads Joy of Tech

I am Canadian. :)

You saw us make the pizza, now get the t-shirts and more!

Man, it must be so cool bing a SuperFan. :-)

The previous URL had an embedded space as a test for the more sleepy admins.

Apparently it came from a geekculture comic.

This may help explain things.

I never would have thought that all those things could be so easily related... but there you have it!

...because Tubes Rock!

For those who haven't seen our classic comic series, we've been running it again on AY2K as a countdown to Episode II.

It starts here...
... A long time ago, in a comic far far away...

For those who haven't seen our classic comic series, we've been running it again on AY2K as a countdown to Episode II.

It starts here...
... A long time ago, in a comic far far away...

What I'd like to do (yes, I do have an iBook!) is remove the white paint, then get an artist to paint some lurid, pinball-backglass-style cartoon art to replace the white. Maybe Bill Gates getting his ass kicked by Linux Lass (yes, I do run Linux!)

Given your comment, I thought you might enjoy this:
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2 92.html "Joy of Tech" It's not just for the cats, though. (I don't have any) I sometimes turn on and muck around with my Athlon box when the room gets too cold.

Don't miss the David Pouge icon courtesy of Nitrozac and Snaggy of geekculture.com.

Geeks are hookin' up left and right over at the Geek Culture Forums. (no login needed)

As predicted last September, here's our comic about this.

EnJoy!

as this shows the exact details of some XP were rather misunderstood

Bill Gates Dart Board Joy of Tech

For relief of tech-related stress, brought about by recent Microsoft settlement offers.