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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  4. 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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