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Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff!
It's been some time since we had a new shirt design for folks to buy,
and it's time to change that. More specific guidelines for the contest
follow, but in short, we're taking design submissions starting
immediately. Winners will get a $75 credit at ThinkGeek, as well as 3 copies of of
their t-shirt design. Winners will be chosen by me.
Technical Specs
- Designs should be for Black or White shirts. Or even better, both!
- No larger than 12" wide by 15" high
- No more than 5 colors (Black & White Count as Colors People!)
- Entries must be either 300 DPI Bitmap (JPG, PNG, Tiff etc), or Vector Format (PS, EPS, PDF)
- I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission. Slashdot's "Green" is 006666 in hex. 0,102,102 in RGB. Entries will not be excluded for failing to use the green, but I like it, and I'm the judge!
- You can try anything: From witty slogans to fancy design.
- Avoid photographs & shadows since they don't print very well at 5 colors.
- Parody is fine, but I'd rather designs be original.
- Email tshirts at cmdrtaco.net, and provide a URL to your design(s). If this isn't possible, you may attach your submission to an email.
- Winners will be selected in a few weeks by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda (Me!) based on their creativity and design.
- There may be more than one winner if there are several good entries! I have permission to select as many as 3 winners if there are many good entries!
- The submittor of each winning design will get $75 credit at ThinkGeek
- 3 Copies of your T-Shirt Design
- Bragging rights at LUGs, CompSci Labs, Cubicle Farms, and Tech Tradeshows around the world.
Finally our lawyer demands that you read the Official Rules. Do it!
A $75 credit at ThinkGeek won't buy one thing!
What fonts is the graphic
Slashdot
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Done with?
Isn't that one 6 too many?
>>>Bragging rights at LUGs, CompSci Labs, Cubicle Farms, and Tech Tradeshows around the world.
Does that mean you'll also hire a personal bodyguard for the mockery and continual muggings?
If so, IM IN!!(snortchuckle)
...the ascii goatse with "I read Slashdot at -1"?
1.)
"Please beat me up take my lunch money! As you can see from the fact that I am wearing this shirt in public, I will not resist"
2.) "Wash me, I have not been out of this guy's mom's basement in months".
I submit the old t-shirt design. The editors won't notice.
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
even the hackathon is giving away 500mb of web storage!
un-l33t AC, owned by many
Yes, and since it's a Slashdot shirt, make sure it's ugly as hell!
er.. Since we're the ones buying the shirts.. shouldn't we be the ones voting for it? Have something like all members get one vote and all Anonymous Cowards can eat poop!
in the bonds, ppka
"The Judge shall be Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda.
Why do I feel like the first place entry will be merely a repost of the second place entry, only with misspellings?
If anyone implements this idea and wins, please send me one of the shirts. I wear a 2XL, but XL would be acceptable.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So I wonder how many variations on 'first post', 'imagine a beowulf cluster of...' and suchlike there shall be...it's inconceivable! (yes, that word does mean that I think it means)
this one's easy:
Im' with the SlashDORK ---->
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
If I did some hardcore vector re-tracing, I'm sure I could make a submission that forces Rob to look at the goatse image and judge it for, uh, artistic merit?
Didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the article posted... had to look at the "official" rules. :)
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
I knew it!!! SCO is sponsoring this contest...
This Contest is for United States residents only.
Aw crap!
Say 10 or so hours design.. works out at maybe 7 bucks an hour!! But I guess given the economy most designers have some free time on their hands ;)
Would a picture of Goatse on the back of the shirt be in (ahem) bad taste (ahem)?
C'mon - plenty of readers here might want to use a *nix based vector tool - ie, sodipodi. It outputs .svg - and it's mature enough that I've never looked back wistfully at Illustrator.
(Yes, it's missing -tons- of features that Illus. has - but it's decidedly useable.
sodipodi homepage
But... Do we have to use GIMP to design it?? :)
Can we see a link to the old shirt? I wasn't even aware there was an official slashdot shirt. That will also let potential designers see what's been done already.
I submitted this design to slashdot, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt (and a $75 gift certificate) :-)
Vote for Pedro
The typeface that Slashdot uses in its current logo is called Coliseo and can be downloaded here... A sample image of the font is here.
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
Submit the same Tshirt design once, wait a couple of hours, submit it again, then wait a few more hours and submit it a third time. They'll forget it was you....
go ahead... mod me down.. you know you want to.
If you're looking here for something insightful or thought provoking, you're probably looking in the wrong place.
Regardless of the design, I think a tshirt with the following on the back would be pretty funny:
click here! [goatse.cx]
Unfortuantely /. doesn't allow the <u> tag, but you get the point.
Karma Whore on
(slashdot.org)
Because yes, I really do think Linux rocks.
Small fonts on karma whore, url and because yes I really do think Linux Rocks. Big green
Then maybe the ASCII goatse
OR
OR
I am releasing these ideas under the open content and dual licensing them with creative commons. Have at um.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Slashdot: (Score:5, Troll)
I want one already!
Trolls /. you) /. Trolls /.FlaimBait/.Karma Whores/.404/.Soviet Russia/. /. Linux Good Micro$oft Bad /.
Karma Whores
Flame Bait
( dont Piss me off or ill
or
or
Oh Anonymous Coward , it's always about the GOAT with you, isn't it?!!!
5 minutes to drop to -1. I'm so surprised!
1) Design slashdot t-shirt ...
2)
3) Karma!
Since this really isn't a chick hangout anyways, how about:
"/. -- not just ascii for my erect penis"
It takes some imagination, but if the slash were longer (well, for me anyways) and the dot a little closer...
Ah,never mind; it's been a long week.
Can you figure out how to make these slashdot tshirts not magically start smelling like body order after 5 to 6 days of use? Oh, and make them out of 100% cotton, too- I don't need slashdot messing with my open sores!
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Here's a suggestion - mirror the entries on /. somewhere so we can all see them (you could even be democratic and put your top choices in a poll and let us vote)
"I trolled at /. and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt"
Slashdot is too U.S. centric, you ins.. :-)
In Soviet Russia t-shirt wears you!
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going for a games.slashdot.org design, done on a t-shirt of the most horrid, offensive, seziure-inducing purple I can find.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
In Soviet Russia The T-Shirt Wears You
Huh?
Games section purple, 3300CC.
"Stop failing the Turing test!" -- Dilbert
What? Do we want to be insulted for poor taste before we get beaten up for wearing these shirts?
This Shade of green on white is quite, ummm, vomitous.
Photos.
We don't need a slashdot tshirt - every web site run by some kid out of his basement has one. What we should have is slashdot boxer shorts, and on the back across the butt it should read "CmdrTaco shot his load here" and maybe the url, I dunno.
Drew, what the fuck have you done with CowboyNeal?
I gave up my
IP rights in
this logo
and all I
got was this
lousy t-shirt.
"You know you want me baby!" - Crow T Robot
then someone taps you on the back, do you have to stop, drop your pants, bend over and well, open wide?
I'm damn sure not buying one that says click here for goatse.cx
I wouldn't do that even under doctors orders.
The preceding post was not a Slashvertisement.
Try http://www.customink.com
Slashdot's "Green" is 006666 in hex. 0,102,102 in RGB.
What is it in CMYK? I'm sure that's what the t-shirt printer will use.
Don't you think that a slashdot membership for a year should be in the prize pack as well?
Shop smart, Shop S-Mart.
You *DO* know that "computer colours" aren't very accurate, right? As in, not at all accurate, due to everybody on the planet having different contrast, brightness and gamma settings on their monitors?
Hell, the green is different from my laptop to my pc. By a longshot. On the mac, it's nearly the intensity of a grass green and blends into white nicely. On the PC, it's more subdued and hides the shadow on the logo.
Get a pantone book and tell us the colour that most closely matches what YOU think the green should look like. Otherwise, you're telling us you want to see the world through our eyes.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
...with hot grits down the pants... ...being poured by a troll... ...telling me why we should make a beowulf of these!
If higher-res versions of the /. story icons were made available it would be very helpful.
Okay, so somebody beat me to the goatse idea...I can't say that I'm surprised...but I can't help thinking that this picture is more in the spirit of the slashdot forums.
You are asking geeks to make a graphic design, I mean all graphic designers I`ve known are such annoying fucks and they understand nothing about the stuff we discuss here, how about asking for a cheerleader website`s visitors to to weld a boat together with their own hands?
./?'
btw Id go for 'Got
/. is too US centric! =)
just love lawyers?
From the official rules "Sponsor does not assume responsibility for any late, misdirected, delayed, lost, incomplete, scrambled or otherwise damaged Entries or for any hardware, software, browser, computer, online, network, electronic, human, telephone or technical malfunctions, difficulties or errors that may occur."
I want a shirt design that incorporates Natalie Portman, Beowulf Clusters, the Goatse Guy, and All Your Base in Soviet Russia.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
You gave us RGB colors in the specs, so I'm assuming you want the entries in RGB color mode? Or am I allowed to submit a design in CMYK, to ensure that the final design gets printed in the colors I had in mind? And on that subject, how fancy can we get within the 5-color rule? Are metallic inks OK? Please let me know what's allowable.
Your fantasies contain the seeds of important concepts.
"To receive additional copies of these Official Rules, or a Prize Winner list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Open Source Development Network, Inc., 47071 Bayside Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538; Attention Slashdot T-Shirt Design Contest. Specify Prize Winner list and/or Official Rules on your request. Replies will be sent after the completion of the Contest." - Official rules
Ah, yes. Requesting rules after the competition ends. Sounds like those slashdot Eds again.
((lambda x ((x))) (lambda x ((x))))
into their local paper as a kid's drawing symbolising "unity"...
Slashdot is NOT some poor homebrew low budget site. /. is owned by a major corporation that is going to make a fortune on these shirts and they expect some chump will design them for a mere $75?
Give the winner 10% of the profit and then you might have something interesting here.
Typical corporate rights grabbing.
I guess I was wrong to think /. wasn't typical.
At the very least only winning entries should loose some rights. Since they received compenstation.
"The last thing I want to do is deal with a bunch of people who want something."
Major Major
Slashdot: 1010001001101110010 geeks can't be wrong.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
On the front it will be this:
# Important Stuff: Please try to keep posts on topic.
# Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads.
# Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
# Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about.
# Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)
I wonder how many ascii art goatse trolls will enter?
Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
Nonono
Slashdot THIS!
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The new design me something so I can have all the money off the effort contest is underway. For your work you get $75 and bragging rights. I get all intellectual property and future profits from your work. Wow what a deal! Maybe everything should be done this way. First person to cure cancer and send it to me, I will then own it of course, gets a free coupon to starbucks. Plus you will get the bragging rights of coming up with the cure for cancer, the ladies will definately overlook the yugo you're driving.
I Have No Torso
You Insensitive Clod!
I win.
Th
Only logos that look good on XXXXL and XXXXXL shirts need be submitted.
Werd, I actually thought this'd get modded up. Must have been the reference to ugly open source software that killed the humor for the open software zealots around here :-)
Blinded by the colour scheme of games.slashdot.org? Now its time to get your own back! The appropriate colour code is "#3300CC" or "051,000,204".
What are the RGB/hex values for the color of the games page purple? My design includes a helpful link to an eye doctor who can perform retinal repair.
"My other T-Shirt is a washed T-Shirt"
for electronically announced and judged t-shirt design competitions.
bezos helped me fill out the paperwork.
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
Computer: 192 dollars
/. modded me as a troll: Priceless
Internet: Free
Mah two cents is free...!
Erghghg! *gurgling*
"I wore this _exact_ shirt last week, but no one noticed..."
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
"This Contest is for United States residents only. Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Void in the U.S. Virgin Islands and U.S. military installations. Employees of the Sponsor, or any of Sponsor's subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotional agencies, or members of any such employee's immediate families or households, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED." One would think in such an international community that perhaps, just perhaps it would be nice to open a simple contest to the rest of the world. I have a fairly good idea why (lawyers cost money, lawyers and researchers check laws in individual countries for the legalities of running a contest/give-a-way/promotion... Slashdot may not have the money to throw around... blah blah blah), but it still would be nice.
That certificate is as good as mine: /| |\ \
/__/ | /. | \__\
_____ _____
/ \___/ \
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|_________|
Beat that! Mess with the best, die like the rest! Sorry folks, contest over, move along...
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
it should be duplicated on the shirt over and over...
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
...but this phrase should be on every Slashdot t-shirt:
"In Soviet Russia, all your base are belong to a Beowulf cluster. Profit!"
UNIX: Find it, fsck it, forget it.
Here are a couple more:
...when the lawyer cost more then T-shirt design, T-shirt winner giveaway, T-shirt printing and total revenue from T-shirt sales: resulting in a massive NET loss.
..when Slashdot advertises banners relating to T-shirt design/printin/sale on a post specifically relating to a "design contest."
now supporting:
cmdrTaco for president '04
michael for oval office intern summer '05
Get me a vial of modafinil instead!
In slashdot green text if you will...
"I submitted a story to slashdot and all I got was this stupid T-shirt."
I was going to design a Slashdot t-shirt, but the DMCA got me first.
IAALS.
On the back:
Kick Me! (-1, Redundant)
*Copy right of this T-Shirt in dispute, see SCO.com for details.
This shirt produced without patents, however Amazon has a few patents pending on the concept of printing T-Shirts.
The preceding post was not a Slashvertisement.
No one else stands a chance :-)
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
That's not slashdot green!
All OS !=
My OS > yours
Convicted Anonymous Coward
And lastly, Anonymous Coward on the Slashdot ( / ) angle with the Billyborg icon as the dot.
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I'm with SlashDORK
This T-shirt wears you.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I'd be more than happy to win the contest if you would kindly provide a link to a vectorized version of your logo. Please tell me you have this.
The following idea is up for grabs.
/. green looks like the one from the Matrix...
I think the
So why not some falling ASCII characters in the background with some unique, slashdotty-style text on the front? (any mention of Unisys, SCO or Microsoft will score a +5 rating bonus).
Drink a lot of purple Kool-Aide(tm)! That'll fix it!
On the front:
My other shirt has buttons.
On the back:
My other ass is smaller.
I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission. Slashdot's "Green" is 006666 in hex. 0,102,102 in RGB.
Dang, I was going to design one in the color scheme of the Games section. Like the pros say, If you're not inducing seizures, you're not doing it right.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
This Contest is for United States residents only. Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
I'm kinda pissed that that I can't enter, but this is CowboyNeal's competition, so we have to play by his rules.
But I'm really curious why residents of Arizona (my state of choice as soon as I get citizenship) aren't eligible. Why?
Design your own shirts, you bottom feeders. :-)
According to the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Pricing and Ethical Guidelines 10th edition (published in 2001), page 340,
t-shirts:
$150-$250 for concept,
$250-$1,000 for design, and
$250-$1400 for complete design.
Fees are for each design; ranges reflect design complexity, size, and number of colors.
Compensate the winners accordingly dudes!
At $2.50 per shirt to produce, and selling at $15 - $20 per shirt, there's no excuse for not to.
By the way, I highly recommend the above book. (includes info on web design, programming, contracts, and negotiation as well)
It seems that pricing is one of the areas people are weakest at.
Web and Software Development a legal guide by Fisman (Nolo) is very good too.
This contest soon to be followed by a FARK: "Photoshop this geek wearing the new SLASHDOT T-Shirt" contest.
I got $75 for this T-shirt design and VA Software (OSDN) lost $3,610,000 last quarter!
;-)
I doubt that would win.
royalties
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
From the official rules:
By submitting your Entry you hereby warrant and represent that all information provided by you as part of the Entry is true, accurate and complete, and that you are the sole creator of the Design, the Design is entirely your original work of authorship and that the Entry was not created at your job, using your employer's equipment or on your employer's time, or in any other manner that would result in your employer claiming intellectual property rights in the Design.
So do your job now, and enter from home tonight...
Whatever.
Next.
A HUUUUGE full-body picture of CmdrTaco...
;-)
but digitally "enhanced"
nope; they were sold off last night in a bid to raise money to support for prosecuting the war on [noun].
:>
might i suggest reading another news site that isn't slashdot?
ed
Instead of just white and black, can I nominate Slashdot-Green?
Avoid photographs & shadows since they don't print very well at 5 colors.
Shadows and photos can print great at 5 colors... even on black shirts. 5 color planes, White, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black.
It requires some knowlege about halftoning, but good screenprintes and designers can make it work very well. Use a yellow screen (to minimize dot gain) with a tight mesh and halftone your color planes accordingly.
ThinkGeek never does this kind of printing, which requires tight registration, but don't think it can't be done well.
Check out this 5 color design, and this 3 color design
.:diatonic:.
After all, who's gonna buy the other guy's t-shirt design when his own design didn't win?
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
I'm in Canada, so steal my design (copyright nakedjames): Slash.
I don't have a TV now, but that's ok. The shows in my mind are almost ALWAYS better...
How about a custom shirt with your user name and your choice of Friend/Foe and Fan/Freak icons? I would love one with Foe and Freak, to scare the other geeks away.
sulli
RTFJ.
----- ----- /| |\ \
/__/ | Goatse | \__\
/ \___/ \
/
| dot cx |
| -(O)- |
| / \ |
|_________|
This story was posted before! See here for the original!
But what would you put on the back?
graspee
/.
We've upped our standards
Now up yours
/.
All your shirts are belong to us!
http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~aakeur21/title.gif
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Any particular reason for this?
everyones favorite two handed site.
I want 2D games back.
Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
Does this seem a bit odd to anyone? I can understand Puerto Rico, but what's the deal w/ the Vermont, Arizona, and Tennessee?
From the rules...
This Contest is for United States residents only.
Your loss, I guess. But I have to wonder, why?
You hereby assign, transfer and convey, and agree to further assign, transfer and convey, to Sponsor any and all your intellectual property rights in the Design.
Slashdot is supposed to be a Linux-centric, Open Source-friendly (owned by open source development network), etc. This is all very nice, but why the fsck is it neccesary to transfer all rights to the t-shirt design to slashdot? Nice going. That's the Open Source spirit.
You can mod me down now, I've said my piece.
instead of a contest to redesign the t-shirt, how about a contest to redesign this website? it hasn't changed in... ever. it was ugly back then, it's ugly now.
As foul/vile/offensive/disgusting/etc. that is, it's most definately on-topic!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Yeah, this is off-topic. Mod as necessary...
:-)
I was watching the news the other day, where some little girl drowned in a lake. The guy that found her was being interviewed, and he was wearing a slashdot shirt.
My first response when I saw the guy was, "Hey! Cool!", which was just a bit inappropriate for the situation, I was informed.
This slashdotter was generated by a Barrel of Rabid Chickens
OR
This slashdotter was generated by a Team of Albino Midgets
OR
This slashdotter was generated by a Swarm of Stealth Mummies
is also Slashdot blue ... mathematically :
RGB green value == RGB blue value
Am i right?
------- The last Sig. got fired.
I'm going to design a shirt for a bunch of millionaire fratboy nerds who like to play video games,. watch the cartoon channel and stay aggressively misinformed for a living, so that they can get richer still, in return for which I get a 75$ gift certificate at a store that sells clothing meant to turn women completely off? OK, sure, I guess, why not.
/. karma whore
1. Quote the Simpsons
2. ?????
3. Profit!!!!!
on the front a little "construction" style sign that says
:)
WARNING!
If this shirt dissapears then it has just been slashdotted.
Back: Continue to hammer me until I respond.
This idea is free to anybody, unless it's chosen whereby it becomes prior art
I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission. Slashdot's "Green" is 006666 in hex. 0,102,102 in RGB. Entries will not be excluded for failing to use the green, but I like it, and I'm the judge!
Actually, those values don't represent colors. They're device settings, and they will display different colors on different devices, since they all have different gamuts and different RGB -> Output color matching. This is the reason for ICC profiles.
If you want to define the color, you need to measure it and post Lab values, which represent actual color. So if the standard is, say, Taco's monitor, you should make a patch of the appropriate color in Photoshop and assign your montor profile. Then convert the image to Lab and report that color. Then you will have truly defined Slashdot green.
For further explanation, check out this article on our web site:
The Color of Toast
Because I think it is, at the moment, the most *craptacular* t-shirt I've ever seen.
Certain states require hella lot of documentation to be filled out when games of skill are involved. In this case, I doubt Rob has the time to do so. Therefore, he simply banned entries from those locations.
Games of chance are another story, but there are some states that are quite anal about that documentation too.
IANALegislator, etc., etc., duh.
--
dman123 forever!
Filtering out the -1s and 0s since 1999.
Noise Noise Noise Noise Noise
;)
Noise Noise Signal Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise Noise Noise
But seriously, love ya slashdot
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Has anyone played that cute little game, Defendguin?
It uses the BillG borg head quite effectively.
How about like the screen in Zerowing when the Cats leader first appears: replace Cats with the BillG borg.
"Resistance is futile"
Either that or have a floating BillG borg head zapping a red laser beam, cutting a chunk out of the slashdot logo.
C'mon, the very essence of Slashdot is Microsoft bashing: that would be an awsome teeshirt.
Another good one would be to use the famous Che Guevera picture with the beret, and replace Che with a Penguin wearing the beret with the red start.
"Vive el Revolucion"
"Vives los Penguinistas"
Do we submit our entries? >
Slashdot
Back:
-1 Overrated
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
99% of entries will confirm to these basic idea
o This is my only Tshirt you Insensitive Clod!
o CowboyNeal is my Kalvin Clein
or
In Soviet Russia Slashdot tshirts design YOU
or
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of me
or
1) Design tshirt
2) ?????
3) PROFIT!
<fnord>OBEY</fnord>
I'll pay you $75 if you let me redesign that menu over there on the left side that looks like shit.
(not even in Soviet Russia either!)
Slashdot green shirt with white letters:
Micro$oft sux0rs.
But Black is not a color. It is the absence of color!
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
dont sweat it if you come in 4th place, since the announcement of the winners will be duped a couple of times over (in true slashdot fashion). you'll pick up 1st on the rebound post.
-dB
"It if was easy to do, we'd find someone cheaper than you to do it."
"I am a slashotaholic" or "/.aholic"?
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
$75 and they OWN your shirt. They will charge people for something you created and gave away and society will be poorer for it. If there is a rip or tear - will they provide support?? How long will it take for your patch to arrive? How do you know it's really 50 Cotton 50 Poly if you didn't make it yourself?
This is just another way THE (TACO) MAN is trying to control you. Post your designs on the web and license it under an Open Shirt License. The lightweight cotton GPL, Creative Clothing, or Big Shirt or Dress license.
That on the front or the back of the shirt?
Front:
/., you couldnt posibly understande
its
Back:
Best...tech site...ever
The ThinkGeek "First Post" T-Shirt ? :)
I wanted one !
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Nearly all states have their own differing laws regarding contests, giveaways, sweepstakes, and the like; making nationwide competitions difficult at best to pull off. In many states, it's a requirement that the operator of the [contest|giveaway|sweepstakes] provide a way to obtain printed copies of the official rules or a list of winners.
If you happen to live in a ClearChannel radio market - which, if your town is large enough to have its own radio station(s), you almost certainly do - you'll occasionally hear their CYA disclaimers. They usually run at something like 3 in the morning, last upwards of 2 full minutes, and feature a guy talking really fast, reading all of the "fine print" rules of the contest. That's because some of the states in which CrapChoiceless's contests run mandate that the entire terms of the contest be provided.
Some states also specify that the rules must be available for inspection in person during the terms of the contest. IANAL, but I'm willing to bet that Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee are those states, and that's why those of us in those states can't enter the contest.
ClearChannel runs their disclaimers when nobody's listening because that's when it's most convenient and is least likely to cause them any trouble (like, say, pissing off advertisers whose spots follow the legal-bumper, or annoying the hell out of listeners). VA is probably offering the hardcopy rules after the contest ends because that's when it's most convenient for them; they'll gather up the requests that come in (all 2 of them) and deal with them all at one time.
Shirt Front Shirt Back ...well, maybe Slashdot is the exception.
I have permission to select as many as 3 winners if there are many good entries!
One of the founders needs "permission". Geesh!
...a baseball cap.
Back has little Slashdot logo. Front reads, "Karma Cap."
Thankew, thankewverymuch, I'll be here all week...
Breakfast served all day!
Or all three of them are the same shirt with slightly different wording.
...and the links... http://www.doomworld.com/gbd2/misc/shirtfront.png Shirt Front http://www.doomworld.com/gbd2/misc/shirtback.png Shirt Back
We had a t-shirt discussion on another mailing list I'm part of. Everybody wanted different designs with different slogans and different artists were submitting different concepts.
Turns out anybody with a JPG file can open a store on cafepress and sell various merchandise with their choice of logos. Either at cost (about $15 for a t-shirt) or with some built-in profit.
Why don't we just do that here?
--D
p.s. I know people will bitch about me spamvertising (that's why I didn't link it), but it was a site I hadn't heard about until last week (and that's super-rare!) and seems to fulfill an awesome purpose for a pretty reasonable price (for one-offs) and handles all the billing and shipping. You're welcome to submit similar alternatives.
Ah yes, once again, CT doesn't practice what he preaches. First, it took him forever and a day to release the slash source. Now it seems that the open content license (and similar) don't really exist. The rules for this contest say, in effect, AYBABTU. Don't feed the trolls. Don't feed Rob. And tell the VA keiretsu to go fuck themselves.
Whatever, I'm sure the slashkids will submit and be bought out for $75 worth of overpriced stuff from ThinkGeek. You're the same people who scream about the MPAA, but line up for The Matrix. (Yes, I know slash is not some monolithic entity. Save it.)
Flame me, mod me down, but know in your heart that Rob (and his corporate masters) have just snubbed OSS and its principals. Again.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Isn't this something that warrants posting in the main guidelines, and not the morray-effect-inducing legal wording?
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
Does this mean that our T-Shirt submissions are going to be open-sourced? That would be interesting to see a shirt under the GPL or BSD licenses.
Good one.
:-)
How about "My other dot is a slash"?
Of course it would be prejudice because it implies that a slash is much more than a dot when we all know that the dot is much more powerful.
Lets see if I got this right. Slashdot wants people to design t-shirts for them that they will sell and make money with. In exchange Slashdot will give the winner 3 t-shirts and $75 to spend at the over-priced ThinkGeek store. All I can say is may the biggest sucker win!
The hex for the color is the same everywhere, just like pantone is. Because your monitor isnt viewing it the same as I am, doesnt mean that the hex value has changed. In theory, if we calibrated correctly, it would be the same.
If what you said was true, then every printed brochure with slightly different hue would mean that the "pantone colors" aren't very accurate... you *DO* know that that you shouldn't blame the output medium, right?
But, just so you can move on, here's the CMYK, cleverly gathered from looking to the right of the hex value in Photoshop:
C90%
M42%
Y55%
K22%
He also mentioned the
R0
G102
B102
Now go make a t-shirt.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Hey just because we didn't help out in Iraq is no reason to bar us Canadians from your /. t-shirt contest.
Hell can you imagine a nice Canadian beauty modelling you new "T" in the cool Canadian air (:-
front: /.
back:
"everything that has a beginning has an end"
am i trying imply something? hmmm
my blog
Source: http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0627.petreley.html
GNOME/GTK calories
KDE/Qt calories
SCO calories
Gentoo Linux calories
Debian GNU/Linux calories
He he...
This totally stinks.
If your design is good enough, they use it and everybody buys it; what do you get?
less than $100
If your design is so good they should give you a cut. period.
______________________________________________
sigamajig...
My sig is appropriate, I think.
FIRST POST!
(ask questions later)
stand back...
I think I'm gonna post.
For great justice take off every sig.
I've had this argument with ThinkGeek and now, God help me, I'm going to have it with Slashdot..
Why no other colours? White is boring but black is a no-no in a tropical country unless you're in airconditioned offices and home.
I'd LOVE to wear quite a few of the t-shirts I see on ThinkGeek. But not in black or white (they don't offer 'Both'). Why no other colours?
Backward%20compatibility%20is%20over-rated
Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy Sig
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
And I was hoping that this would catapult me out of this dead end job as a programmer and into the exciting world of T-Shirt design...
IANAL... But I play one on
"Annonymous Coward -- I am legion"
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"/. , because 550,000 trolls can't be wrong"
Slashdot is too American-centric
d035 7hi5 100k 1ik3 4n l337 5i6 2 j00 ?
Front:
If the network is up, I'm reading slashdot.
Back:
If you can see this, I'm out of my chair, fixing the network so I can read slashdot.
GPL'd web-based tradewars themed space game
It started as a 3-color design, but ended up as a 5-color design once I read the happy-fun and absolutely agreeable T&C's. Yay! Lawyers!
Reminds me of this one.
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
In the new Harry Potter book, their OWLs (standardized tests) have a lowest score of "T, Troll."
chdir("c:\\con\\con");
that was a good stab, high quality stab even.
Slashdot has paid more for its lawyer to write rules, than the winner will get for the design. The worst part of the rules is the "work for hire" part, which I believe denies the winner the right to affix his *name* to the design, a much stronger act than copyright assignment. Now I wonder why the design cannot just be GPLed ?
This is not a signature.
I worked my ass off for Cowboy Neal and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
nope; they were sold off last night in a bid to raise money to support for prosecuting the war on [noun].
Really? I think California is more in need of the money than the next war is right now...
A latent existence
Winners will be chosen by me.
:)
So, spelling won't count?
In (a href="http://goatse.cx")Soviet Russia(/a), hot grits pour a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans down your pants because Linux is better than Windows so...???...Profit! Oh, and, BTW, *BSD is dying!
T-Shirt HTML done in parentheses intentionally
Fuck that shit. Holy christ, how many of these t-shirts do you think you'll sell? at least a couple thousand I would guess, if not more over the years. And you only want to pay $75!? That's worse then the RIAA! And not even real money, but store credit!
Oh wait, you're also throwing in copies of your own design! That makes it totaly worthwhile.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
They should at least give royalties, Even if they are as low as 1% or something. Personaly, I'd rather have $75 of actual cash then 'bragging rights' at this point.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
That would be an awesome one. It's incredibly crude, and disgusting, but it captures the spirit of slashdot forums. (Emphasis added.)
I would have said "therefore".
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
Here you go:
click here!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Hey since we are knee deep into baseball season and baseball IS a geeky sport and slashdot hits homeruns on a daily basis a design built around a bat and a ball would work. Too bad I'm not an artist or I would draw it myself.
The closer to your soul you choose your goal, the nearer to your heart the work can start.
I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission.
I strongly recommend not using the bright fucking purple from games.slashdot.org. I don't want to burn out anybody's retinas.
even better... I got slashdotted and all I got was this stupid T-shirt -or- Downloading Matrix Reloaded - $5000 fine ... ...
Being Slashdotted in record time - priceless.
think before you write, it'll save me moderator points.
Damn dude, you totaly fucked that up. Should have used some san-serif font like Verdana or Ariel for the exclamation point, not that fugly thing.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
DAMMIT!. I have to be a US citizen over 18. bugger.
Australian and 13 years old here.
I wonder if we'll be able to download the winning design from Kazaa, then make our own t-shirt on our inkjets. I can't afford to pay Think Geek prices!!
Open Source Soft Wear...
Can I ban myself?
Why not pay a graphic designer some real money?
From the official rules:
:(
This Contest is for United States residents only.
Might be nice to post on the story itself these obvious limitations and stop wasting our time
/* affect != effect */ void affect(int *thing,int effect) { *thing += effect; }
we should start an "under 1000 UID" club...
I find that absolutely and arbitrarily discriminating!
Now, an "under 10000 UID" club...
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
if a picture of that goatse.cx guy's prolapsed rectum does not end up on that t-shirt, it will validate my deepest conspiracy theories.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Front:
/.
Back:
\.
The power of Christ compiles you!
Well depending of the interpretation, he could even put the arrow upwards :)
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
Since the JUDGE ("me") is such a FASHION PLATE
Prizes!
The submittor (1st Place) of each winning design will get $75 credit at ThinkGeek
3 Copies of your T-Shirt Design...
As the "arbiter" of good design,
2nd Place deserves to recieve
$150
6 COPIES of your T-Shirt Design...
Better not wear this in prison.
"Orthodoxy is unconsciousness" - Orwell
logo that shows up in the browser location widget.
They've gotta have made that one, right? So why
can't I find it?
If not, maybe I oughta submit it. I'd buy one
(if I can't get it for free).
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
As a graphic designer and illustrator living in Arizona, I would love to enter. Why do you have such strange rules to exclude those of us living in Arizona, Vermont and Tennesse?
:)
For the type of contest that this is, I certainly do not have an issue with assigning the (IP) rights over. Winning would be a very good portfolio piece
design is art - art is design
Ok, here is a shameless plug for my stupid web site and a cool t-shirt design.
Doubtless this will be the winning entry.
... we call it "Turquoise"
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
If we don't win, do you still get the IP rights to the design? Because my idea isn't Slashdot-specific, and i'd like to make a shirt of it someday, if no one else does. So if you're going to claim ownership of something you're not going to use, then forget it - I'll come up with something else.
c-hack.com |
The t-shirt wears YOU!
(I know, I know . . . . I just couldn't resist)
Congratulations. You win the contest.
--SolidGold
Everything you know is wrong. Or more accurately, inaccurate.
A day in the life of /.
Only 3 copies? From Slashdot I'd expect at least 6 copies spread over a 2 week period.
here's a link to the current /. stuff on thinkgeek:
fleece (clearance)
hat
sticker
Jeremy Logan's Website.
hilarious!
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
hahaha. That's some funny stuff.
Yah, if they're only going to pay $75, I want royalties on sales as well.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
"Will Moderate For Sex"
I know you are a bunch of programmers, and don't think very much of designers, but $75 credit for a T-shirt design? /. Sells like 5 shirts and the design is paid for. Cheap cheap cheap cheap. Bad Karmas a'brewing.
Talk is cheap. Supply exceeds demand.
Yeah, so everybody complain about the prize. Go ahead, I know more people will. But hey, I guess that's what /. is all about.
I already submitted my design, I started working on it right after I read the contest post. You know why? To me, $75 is a decent amount of money. I could use it at Think Geek to get some Penny Arcade swag and help out the guys there. Or get some cool new tech gadget and maybe post a review somewhere about it and further the geek knowledge. Or something else neat... I dunno.
So grouse if you want, but you'd better do what you say and not enter... because then I'll have a better chance to win.
Go ahead and mod me down, I'm probably at the karma cap anyways, I have the points to spare.
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
Many would think it was cool just to see something they design on the backs of lots of nerds like us. Who cares about the money? If YOU do then you shouldn't be a part of this at all.
Bitch about it here
The only open port available for exploit?
I have no life, I think I am better then any one else since I am a anti-social geek, I hate every one, so I read slashdot so I can look down my nose at rest of the world.
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I hate windows, I hate any one who uses windows, I read slashdot
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First Post
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goat sex
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in russia the shirts wear you
are Vermont, Arizona and Tennessee barred from the contest. Also as a non-American, what is the US's relationship to Puerto Rico (also barred).
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
"Eligibility. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To be eligible for the Slashdot T-Shirt Design Contest (the "Contest"), you must: (i) be eighteen (18) years of age or older; and (ii) be a legal resident of the United States." Why the heck is this limited to US residents?
It's already a shirt and everything!
chuk
I suggest the following design, which I am for reasons of nationality not able to contend with.
The best design for this T-shirt
was not American enough.
This is what was.
I'll stop whining now.