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Posted by chrisd on from the slashdotting-our-own-bandwidth dept.

x180 writes "Those goofy hackers over at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego this week have, in a spate of fun, put together a series of Switch ad spoofs for the geeky ones. Writes Rael Dornfest in his blog, 'You've no doubt seen Apple's fabulous Switch campaign commercials. But what of the others? The geeky ones. The scripters. The sysadmins in their server cages. The command-line jockeys. Those through whom the source flows openly.' See the stories of hackers chucking Emacs in favor of Vi, leaving Perl to explore Python, and leaving the familiar home of Unix to play with XP." These, of course, aren't the only switch parodies. Their numbers are Legion.

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  1. Phoenix News Service by carl67lp · · Score: 4, Funny

    We at the Phoenix News Service had a news story in a similar vein: PC Companies Counter "Real People" Campaign With "Real Porn Stars" Campaign

  2. Audio? by HaveBlue34 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well maybe if all the movies didnt sound like the parents from Peanuts I would appreciate the humor a bit more. As it stands maybe they should switch to some film classes.
    HB

  3. Elitest Assholes by Bonker · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-7- 12&res=l

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  4. Sad by yzquxnet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, that was just sad watching those videos. I want to praise them and call them geeks, but honestly, they looked more like DORKS in the video. 2 thumbs down man.

  5. Apple gamers? by WildBeast · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's one about Apple Gamers, it's pretty funny.

    http://www.drunkgamers.com/switch0001.shtml

  6. It's a nice little irony... by bachelor3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that all the movies on the site are in Quicktime, no?

    1. Re:It's a nice little irony... by Ig0r · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not as funny as the fact that they were edited with iMovie on an Apple notebook.

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  7. ultimate switch parody by ceejayoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ultimate "Switch" parody has to be this one - one by Billy G. himself!

  8. Re:Well then... by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, it's an ISO standard. 'Legion' equates to a quantity of 3520. 'Multitudinous' is 1579, 'numerous' a mere 89, and 'sundry' is 567 everywhere except the US (where we think it's 543. it's even worse than our adherence to the imperial measuring system). I hear they'll be quantifying 'myriad', 'voluminous', and 'uncounted' next year. 'Flock', unfortunately, was a fiasco after that incident with the bird-watchers in Paris and the official decision has been put off till 2008.

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  9. Oh, and... by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Funny

    What exactly can you do with a mac that you can't do with a PC? Act all elitest?

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    1. Re:Oh, and... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, if they are as good as that one, we can expect some real zingers!!!

    2. Re:Oh, and... by scrod · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, you'd think they would've thought of that a decade ago or something.

      "Sarcasm is the recourse of a weak mind"

  10. The Blue Screen of Death by Malicious · · Score: 3, Funny
    This is one of my favorites, not because it's a parody, but because it's a brutalization of one of the origional Ads. Makes it more funny in my mind.
    It's also a WMV file

    *mild content warning*
    Punchbaby.com Apple Parody

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    01101001001000000110000101101101001000000110001001 10000101110100011011010110000101101110
  11. Re:Switch time? by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 2, Funny

    this isn't everything2, you don't need to make pointless links in your post.

  12. Actually that's about right by overunderunderdone · · Score: 3, Funny

    3,520 is on the small side but would be enough to be considered a legion. (that is: between 3000 to 6000 infantrymen & another 100 to 200 cavalrymen)
    from dictionary.com