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Last Chance for Slashdot T-Shirt Contest
This is your last chance to enter Slashdot's T-Shirt Design Contest that we announced a few weeks ago. The contest officially ends tomorrow. We've had over 200 submissions, and some of them are pretty cool, but I don't think there yet is a Lock for the winner. So if you've got what it takes to design a T-Shirt (we're too cheap/lazy to do it ourselves!) you can win store credit at ThinkGeek plus free shirts with your winning design on them! Here are the Official Rules. Read the original story for submission details.
...to buy a dictionary?
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!
How about a Slashdot poll to pick the 3rd shirt?
-Bill
SlashSig Karma: Excellent (mostly affected by moderatio
Every time I go out in public, nubile young women maul me and molest me, my penis is rubbed nearly raw from their attacks.
At least with a Slashdot shirt, I'll repel most of them.
CowboyNeal option: Gone, but not forgotten.
"We've had over 200 submissions, and some of them are pretty cool, but I don't think there yet is a Lock for the winner" ...they all suck? Is that how we are to interpret that?
Don't yell at/moderate me, I'm not the one who said it!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Should be: "We are too lazy to put the extra 'o' on 'to':
1: First Post? :-)
2: +5 Flamebait
3: 'n a bucket of Cowboy ONeal
4: Goatse
5: FreeBSD Dies!
6: ???
7: PROFIT!
8: Picture of Steven King in car crash in Maine
9: Stupid 'laundry lists' like this
And Where my CowboyNeil Option Damit?
Wet T-Shirt contest!
Oh wait, what's this slashdot thing?
CowboyNeal designs my t-shirts...
I'm naked aren't I...yes...very nude... - So I Married an Axe Murderer
"I got first post on Slashdot!" on the front, and "All I got was modded down and this lousy t-shirt" on the back.
ASCII weightlifter on the back
My designed infringed on patent #910310: "A cloth (or otherwise) device which covers the torso and some length of the arms without requiring a staplegun."
Just a warning to other would-be t-shirt designers; there are alternatives, please use them!
Back: T-shirts Wear YOU!!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
BUCK GILL FATES
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe by three o'clock... with nail polish."
I gave away an idea before ... I'll do it again ...
Front:
"I may be an out of work computer science graduate"
Back:
"But I still read slashdot every hour!"
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
I love how the slashdot editors are so eager to push Open Source, Open Content, Open Whatever on people, but not on themselves.
Why not open source the winning design??? You could use some open content license for this.
Instead you'll be working for free for 'The Man'.
No Thanks.
"I'm a nudist, you insensitive clod!"
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Jeez, we're supposed to find time to perform our jobs, read Slashdot, post to Slashdot and now we are supposed to design T-shirts? Some folks have to work for a living ya know. :-)
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
1000+ submissions of:
I'm with CowboyNeal
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Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
Just put this on the shirt: http://www.theonion.com/onion3929/infograph_3929.h tml
if you put 'news for nerds, stuff that matters' somewhere on it and wear it in public... wouldn't it feel weird?, i guess it's ok to wear at home though.... but i'd certainly wouldnt think highly of someone if i saw them wearing it and i didnt know about slashdot... (i think nobody likes to be considered a nerd/geek in the real world)
so a suggestion, maybe just having the word 'slashdot' alone is good idea, or change the slogan somehow... just my 2 cents
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
well I was reading the fine print, and...
This Contest is for United States residents only.
well fine then have it your way.
I am not trying to make it so that the readers of slashdot try to select the winner, but I was wondering if it would be possible to see all the submitted t-shirt candidates at some point? How about after the contest is over?
/.ers have come up with, just for fun.
Personally, I'd like to see what clever, warped, deranged, "sexy" t-shirt ideas
So, Taco, what do you say? Maybe you with your celebrity powers can get some hotties to model a few of them for us?
I participated in the Slasdot effect... ...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
(1st sig) If this were a snappy sig, you'd be reading it right now. (2nd sig) I'm a karma whore. >Insert FUD here
Slashdot is read all over the world. Why are non-american readers not allowed to join in?
Check out Balzout.
And they're in NITRO, baby!
- Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
Contests like these are the cheapest way to get (almost) free labor.
If they were to pay for a professional designer, they'd spend hundreds and get just a couple designs to choose from.
This way they get hundreds of designs for just a few buck to ThinkGeek and 3 t-shirst.
Wise they are.
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Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
"Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
Why not?
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Why buy from TG when we all know in less then 6 months they are going to be onsale a "overstock" type clothing store with the tag cut.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
http://salbatar.free.fr/slashshirt.png
:)
the suggestion got modded up here so this can neither be offtopic, nor flamebait !
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Now I know, babies suck BIG TIME....nothing like a whining baby to distract you while you're sitting at the computer reading /.. But girls needn't know that!! I would recommend a catchy phrase saying something like : "I love babies", or "I want to be a father" to attract females, who normally wouldn't step within 300 feet of you. Bold vertical stripes (purple or some such color), would also helpfully hide bulging beer bellies and give build a macho-escaped convict look.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Front:
Become 007 On The Internet
The Internet | Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 31, @09:20PM
from the large-scale-pests dept.
Another entertaining use of the internet is now available- a company is selling photographs taken from satellites of anywhere in the world. Resolution is 10sq/ft per pixel, and it costs a few hundred bucks a pixel, but it's only money, right?
The article also talks about using cel phones as a homing device. Crazy stuff. check out the story sent to us by Garrett
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Last Chance for Slashdot T-Shirt Contest
Slashdot.org | Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 31, @03:22PM
from the here-we-go-again dept.
This is your last chance to enter Slashdot's T-Shirt Design Contest that we announced a few weeks ago. The contest officially ends tomorrow. We've had over 200 submissions, and some of them are pretty cool, but I don't think there yet is a Lock for the winner. So if you've got what it takes to design a T-Shirt (we're too cheap/lazy to do it ourselves!) you can win store credit at ThinkGeek plus free shirts with your winning design on them! Here are the Official Rules. Read the original story for submission details.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
I've got it...
here's the new t-shirt design:
Mod this up!
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i'll take it!
Black shirt design:
/. t-shirt
Front: The words "I designed this lousy T-shirt and all I got was $75 in pretend money" in slashdot green with a white outline
Back: All the official rules, in slashdot green 10 point Courier, with the paragraph "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." In white 12-point Courier bold.
Alternate design: Black text on white shirt
1) Design new
2) Assign and irrovokably transfer my work to Taco's lawyers
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!1
0 1 - just my two bits
Well that's what happens when you pay for grade-c hamburger and expect tenderloin steak.
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.
RIAA: "Show me your Subpoenas!"
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
Moderators, do your worst!
I am design-challenged, you insensitive clod.
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I met two old friends the other day. One is an ex-con who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. The other is a quadruple amputee who grew up *on* the tracks.
Because we all know the red-shirts always are the first to get offed when going on a landing party!
see?
The thought of a bunch of geeks in wet T-Shirts kind of turns my stomach...
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Will the new Slashdot shirts have a 'Man Bra' sewn directly into the shirt? Or will that be extra? Just Curious :)
You ROCK! That's the coolest design ever. I'll take 2.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of me!
Ceci n'est pas une signature
And their are actually people so dumb, they actually give money to this stupid site.
-2 Flamebait,-3 Whine,
I've made a really cool looking design, to bad I can't submit it. (EU citizen)
How about someone starting a "slashdot rejects" t-shirt competition.
Warning: This sig contains a small bug. ==> *
Yeah but you get what you pay for - ie, 200 shitty designs. Me personally, I vote for the GNAA t-shirt. Can't go wrong there, eh? ;)
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Label me a Troll but this section of the Official Rules sounds like it was copied from a Record Contract. Doh!
On the Front: The Competition Rules
On the Back: The lawyer got paid more for writing the rules than I did for designing this shirt!
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
"Finally our lawyer demands that you read the Official Rules. Do it! "
Fuck you and your lawyer.
oh.. nevermind this is a diffrent kind of t-shirt contest.
screw that. see ya
1) Have members design T-Shirt
2) Poll for Best 3
3) Market t-shirt
4) ??????
5) PROFIT
Just realise the reality of the situation..... There is no reality.
To sleep with your brother (oh, and to make me a shirt).
Front: R T F A /. picture: Exploding server caption: Slashdot.org: News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters.
Back: Title:
Why not an international t-shirt design competition? I know some brazilian girls that would love to take part on that. Me, for example.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
This is your last chance
Whatever.
Next.
Reading through the other story, I found this. Damn good.
Did you expect to collect a royalty? It's called a transfer of ownership in IP rights. Happens every day, whether you like it or not.
Others:
Why Work? Slashdot!
./ : Uhvoiding speel cheek liek teh plahge
/. : \/\/h3r3 73h 733t m337 70 b3 corrected. /.
/. : Inciting kneejerk reactions since 1997.
Slashdot: Helping IT stay out of the way since 1997!
Why thanks for asking! Yes! I have excellent karma!
No thanks. I get my crack from the Mods at Slashdot.
Slashdot, Nevada: Legalized Karma Whores since 1997!
Slashdot: The internet's WMD
Slashdot: It's not just for the bathroom anymore!
I got a story posted on Slashdot! But I'm still a virgin.
+5 Troll, -1 Insightful, and chock full o' nuts.
My mom says I have to clean the basement before I can post to Slashdot.
RIAA, SCO, MS, RFID! Read about the stuff you hate on Slashdot!
I heard that Slashdot killed a server just for opening a Window!
and finally:
Slashdot - post your opinion, and we'll tell you why you're an idiot.
Design a condom and win $80 ThinkGeek dollars.
Winners get picked by my girfriend.
Desigeners: Ensure you make the logo nice and large... XL will be the smallest size demanded.
Bitch-ass moderators! It's not like you didn't go watch "Seabiscut" eight times!!! You told everyone the floor was sticky from the buttered popcorn!
I thought this was the winning entry!
will those pictures include you pissing gasoline onto fire?
Who took my tinfoil hat?
The best shirt would be completely blank. Everyone wants to see the cool design but they can't because the shirt itself has been /.ed.
My eyes!
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
To All Sys Admins,
/etc/hosts files:
Please add this to all
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
Thank you,
Management
"Meet slash dot and dot"
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Slashdot: Where nerds do IT best.
"Hi, I'm Slash, this is my brother Dot and my other brother Dot."
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The Slashdot T-Shirt contest is only a prelude to the much more widely anticipated Slashdot _Wet_ T-Shirt Contest!
... geek boobs.
Mmmm
Devin
I still like my Slashdot Gladiator shirt. :)
30% off web hosting. Coupon code "SLASHDOT".
I must have missed it-- who actually "won" the old Slashdot Cruiser contest?
But I live in the wrong country, so...
Date of first +5 funny:____________
Date of first +5 insightful:_________
Date of first +5 interesting:_________
etc..
and issue cloth writing pens.. I know, the first time I got a +5, (funny), I almost ordered a custom shirt with the date & comment on it..
I was just that proud..
I told my co-workers, I told my family, I told my wife, they all gave me that 'slight amused stare' and not a one understood..
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Draw a UFO on the T-shirt and with the text "Close encounter of the nerd kind"
Hell, if this is News for Nerds, it oughta be a special t-shirt. Maybe it could come with a chip in the collar that emits the sound of a CPU fan, kinda the low woo-woo-woo sound we all know and love. How about smart nano-fibers that resist coffee, jelly donut, and mountain dew stains? How about luminescent threads that only spell something out in the dark?
Or my absolute dream: a shirt that uses the peltier effect to cool you down in the summer. That I'd buy.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
should be a picture of Cowboy Neal.
Before I part with'em: two pennies weigh ~4.996+/-0.014g, have a zinc core, and the face of Lincoln. You can keep 'em.
Mix and match:
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Modding opinions into answers for over 315360000 seconds.
Where plots to take over are hatched every day.
The only non-machine language I understand.
FIRST SHIRT! -5 Irrelevant
This world's largest geek collective.
Anonymous thought sharing.
Measuring mountains and molehills with precision.
Educate your geek.
Not your mother's home page.
Layouts
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Title Logo on front. Catchphrase below. All "topic logos" on back smaller.
Title Logo on front. Catchphrase on back.
Title Logo on front. Generic "slouching geek" (like olymipic event symbol) picture below. Catchphrase on back.
Will this gentleman be required to pay an extra dollar or two? Or is there an employee discount? :)
When you absolutely, positively, HAVE to crash every server in the room, accept no substitues.
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Guaranteed to crash your home server, or your Karma back.
Flatlining servers since
Catch the digital tidal wave.
Now available for wedding proposals and bar mitzvahs.
Need load testing? Ask Slashdot!
I took a crack at it here: http://www.gnuarts.com/slashdot.jpg
Wow, now I can impress girls by proving my uber-geek status by wearing a Slashdot t-shirt!
.. I have plenty to spare.
/. .\
or
Front:
Back:
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My other t-shirt sucks too.
or
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I'm with +5 Troll
Live web cams
my design
Submissions
Click on the Slashdot folder to view them...
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
Didn't I already win this competition?
With my awesome t-shirt design.
Which you can check out right here.
Now wash your hands.
http://www.kobotica.com/inline/taco-shirt.jpg
I'd like a statement from Taco explaining those contest [in]eligibility rules.
in my sig.
... if we could see the submissions so far on the site somewhere.
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
that's the most pathetic thing I've ever heard. And it's about on par for /.
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All of whose base are belong to the what-now?
For a minute I thought that said "Slashdot wet T-Shirt contest".
This isn't any ordinary darkness. It's advanced darkness.
Did I hear Slashdot is sponsoring a wet t-shirt contest? When will the pics be posted?
If there are several good ones? Isn't the beauty of slashdot that there are is a diverse variety of stances on whatever topic is being discussed?
Personally, I'd probably buy a different slashdot t-shirt for each moderation type, depending on the mood I'm in... Insightful or Interesting or Informative when I go to political rallies, Funny when I'm kicking around the house, Flamebait or Troll when I'm feeling obnoxious... Overrated when I go out on a first date.
It only makes sense to do up a different design fore each moderation category.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
for revenge on stupid people:
www.goatse.cx
I read the title as "Slashdot *wet* t-shirt contest"
I want a t-shirt design released under the GPL.
Oh, wait. SCO will claim that the design belongs to them, or Apple will claim that it infringes on their look and feel.
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
/. Should Be Upfront & Let People Know That This Is Not A Worldwide Competition In The Actual Post ... Not In The 'Fine Print'
And just think... since "The odds of winning the Contest will be determined solely by the number of Entries submitted and deemed eligible for the Contest" (emphasis added) everyone has an equal chance of winning! Just submit a blank shirt and cross your fingers!
In Soviet Russia Dot-slash!
Slashdot
Slashdot
Dupe.
--- These are not words: wierd, genious, rediculous
Im in the Army and cannot take part...
My sausage tree didn't grow, does that make me a bad mommy?
I can't believe there are all these comments and no one's said that Slashdot is making us do the work so they can make money. They could actually pay someone to do professional art work, but they're asking the unemployed masses to pour their creativity in to something that might make significant money for them.
And don't tell me $75 is anywhere near what they'll rake in. How about $1k or more.
Of course with the totalitarian mods here Rob will probably change my karma from excellent to -1000 now. Heck maybe this is the tenth post on this topic but they've all been deleted.
I would simply put "/." on the front of the shirt and on the back in quotations "Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these shirts."
I thought this was the winning entry..!!