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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!
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"?
I submit the old t-shirt design. The editors won't notice.
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
Yes, and since it's a Slashdot shirt, make sure it's ugly as hell!
"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?
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?
I knew it!!! SCO is sponsoring this contest...
Would a picture of Goatse on the back of the shirt be in (ahem) bad taste (ahem)?
I submitted this design to slashdot, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt (and a $75 gift certificate) :-)
Vote for Pedro
Option 1: Implement it your own damned self.
Option 2: Shut up.
Sheesh. "I have an idea, but not enough talent to follow through. If anyone else does have the talent, I want something for spouting off for 10 seconds!"
Forward, retransmit, or republish anything I say here. Just don't misquote me.
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.
Slashdot: (Score:5, Troll)
I want one already!
Oh Anonymous Coward , it's always about the GOAT with you, isn't it?!!!
1) Design slashdot t-shirt ...
2)
3) Karma!
"I trolled at /. and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt"
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.
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.
Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico
CmdrTaco was threatened by the T-shirt mafia in those states...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
More importantly
/.'ers girth, surely those size limits should be, well, made a tad more generous?
No larger than 12" wide by 15" high
Considering the average
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!
into their local paper as a kid's drawing symbolising "unity"...
I wonder why..
They have anti-sodomy laws there and Taco would like to thank the winner personally.
Nonono
Slashdot THIS!
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"I wear a 2XL"
Shocker.
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.
Since we're the ones buying the shirts.. shouldn't we be the ones voting for it?
Don't be silly. What's next, readers moderating the story submission queue? Catching dupes? Fixing typographical errors? Posting Google Cache links or no-registration partner links to NYT articles?
That's crazy talk, man!
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*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.
But that would suggest that there is somekind of value to a /. subscription...
While your at it throw in a Taco big toe nail (lightly chewed) and some CowboyNeal bellybutton lint (size large)
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
On the front:
My other shirt has buttons.
On the back:
My other ass is smaller.
I got $75 for this T-shirt design and VA Software (OSDN) lost $3,610,000 last quarter!
;-)
I doubt that would win.
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
I'd enter if I wasn't totally lacking in artistic ability :-)
I'd enter if I wasn't totally lacking in american ability.
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Dear Transient0:
Your plans for proxy-submission are in violation of the DMCA (see: circumvention device). Cease and desist immediately or face legal action.
Sincerely,
You know who we are!
P.S. YVAN EHT NIOJ!
"Ask me about Loom"
"Yes, I would like to return this utility belt."
"Do you have a receipt?"
"No; I won it as a lucky door prize at the Star Trek convention. Though I must say that I find their choice of size highly illogical, as the average Trekker has no use for a medium sized belt."
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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
Slashdot
Back:
-1 Overrated
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
Hey! I'm only 25!
That on the front or the back of the shirt?
...a baseball cap.
Back has little Slashdot logo. Front reads, "Karma Cap."
Thankew, thankewverymuch, I'll be here all week...
Breakfast served all day!
Can you figure out how to make these slashdot tshirts not magically start smelling like body order after 5 to 6 days of use?
Already done. In english-speaking countries it's called "laundry".
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
You mean slashdot@pwhite.mailhaven.com ?
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!
I remember those shirts when I was a kid "My parents went to Hawaiiand all I got was this lousy t-shirt", well how about:
"I designed Slashdot's new T-Shirt and All I got was this Lousy shirt (and a $75 gift certificate)"
if common sense was common, wouldn't everyone have it?
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.
I am the newly appointed Finance and Accounts Director of INTC, meaning, Independent Nigerian T-Shirt Corporation. This organization, INTC is the sole body that produces T-Shirts and T-Shirt designs in my country Nigeria.
We have several winning slashdot T-Shirt designs, unfortunately as top civil servants of the Nigerian government establishment we are not allowed to enter them in the slashdot T-Shirt contest.
Therefore we have a proposal for you, which we hope you will accept. We wish to transfer the T-Shirt designs out of the country to any reliable U.S. citizen for the specific purpose of winning the contest.
All we need from you is nothing but to allow us to use your bank account to receive the winnings. We are going to give you 15% of the total sum for your support and cooperation in seeing that the designs get to you safely. There is no atom of risk involved. On acceptance of this request, which I believe you will give me a positive answer, I will appreciate you contact me indicating your capability and willingness to enable me to give you more details of my modus operandi of getting these designs to you hitch free. This matter requires your urgent attention and confidentiality whatever your decision may be. Contact me on my e-mail: olusegun_aka@hknetmail.com
Awaiting your urgent response
Chief Olusegun Akanni (actual nigerian spammer)
A day in the life of /.