Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners!

We had 331 entries in the Slashdot T-Shirt Design Contest, and at long last, I'm pleased to announce that our winners are Scott Lewallen, Chris Hoover, and Jude Hansen. There were tons of great entries... and we've made the 3 winning designs, as well as 9 of my favorites available for your perusal. Congrats to the winners, and thanks to everyone who entered the contest! The shirts themselves will be made available at ThinkGeek in the next few weeks.

Comments

Proofreading?

[NetDrain]

Not to be too much of a grammar nazi, but I do hope that the apostrophe error on Chris Hil's middle t-shirt is corrected before these shirts get printed -- I'd hate to have people think that no one on slashdot has good grammar *coughcough* (Oh, the irony.)

"Yes! With a single push of this button I can bring any website to it's [sic] knees, just like SLASHDOT!!

Re:Proofreading?

[Koushiro]

As great as that shirt is (despite the grammatical error), note that only the top line of shirts is being printed: that is, Volatile Hyperlinking, mainline geek culture, and News w/ nerd slant are the only shirts being printed.

Mind you, I'd have preferred one of Chris Hil's shirts to Jude Hansen's, but -- c'est la vie.

Re:PHB's coffee mug text?

[TopShelf]

I believe it says "World's Fattest", which some people underneath...

Re:Haha!

[stratjakt]

It's no drawing, it's probably the most photo ever taken of Einstein.

And you can't use his image without his estate's permission. He's handled by the same company that handles the Three Stooges, Monroe, James Dean, etc, etc.. Can't think of the company's name, though.

Re:Copyright?

[stevel]

Not only that, but using any image of Albert Einstein for commercial purposes requires a license from the heirs of Einstein.

http://www.albert-einstein.org/contact3.html

Somehow ...

[sudotcsh]

It's only fitting that one of the entries should have a typo, eh?

Well, to be _completely_ accurate

[TheTranceFan]

53|6c|61|73|68|64|6f|74|2e|4f|52|47
S |l |a |s |h |d |o |t |. |O |R |G

__________________
Sigless and proud.

Re:Haha!

[LearnToSpell]

The Roger Richman Agency, Inc.

Re:My favorite designs

[elmegil]

So I'm lazy and don't want to translate the binary into hex or ascii. What does the Topoleski design say?

Re:My favorite designs

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot.ORG

The ORG is uppercase... weird if you ask me.

Also, I'd prefer matrix-like numbers, in fuzzy green... Would be WAY cooler, I don't know how the author missed that idea!

Required Information....

[coryboehne]

Well, in this case because it's merchandizing use of Einstein's image you need to contact the Roger Richman Agency:>/a>
But, if you really want to know, material originally published prior to 1971 belongs to the Albert Einstein Archives at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
But if it's unpublished material or material originally published after 1971 or further if it was published in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, you should contact the Princeton University Press..


I hope this *ahem* clears things up a little...

I don't know if I've ever seen one person who could potentially have so many different requirements to use their image... Especially a DEAD person.. Anyway though I did think that shirt was pretty funny.. I did a peice of artwork with Einstein's image in it, and even though I asked for permission about four months ago, I still have not received word back, so good luck!

Re:I was thinking about a shirt said:

[RetroGeek]

I also third this idea.

There, we have three thirds. Now we have a whole idea.

Binary Shirt

[A Cheese Danish]

For those too lazy to translate it yourself:

01010011011011000110000101110011011010000110010001 1011110111010000101110010011110101001001000111 = Slashdot.ORG

Oh, and I really would've loved to see Dan's design (soothing green light) done. As is, I'll probably go with the Lewallen one.

And for those who DON'T belong here...

[BlueOtto]

T-Shirt LinkFor those that can't just read binary...

0101001101101100
0110000101110011
0110100001100100
0110111101110100
0010111001001111
0101001001000111

comes out to Slashdot.ORG or figure it out yourself using a Binary/Text converter.

The binary design

[falcon5768]

Oh well I tried, as for why it came out Slashdot.ORG I have no clue, I must admit I cheated cause I didnt feel like figuring it out by hand so I think the program I used f--ked it up. Shows me not to trust a program again :-P. I actually like a lot of the designs, they are all pretty cool, and beat my design hands down, congrats to the winners.

Re:Cafe Press the other shirts PLEASE!!!

[mhore]

Would there be any rights violations if folks went and sold these other shirts on CafePress?

I think so -- because in the Official Rules (we all read them, right?) it said that the entry becomes property of Slashdot (or whoever owns them now -- I forget). So, I believe it would be a violation.

Re:multiple entries?

[CTate]

Indeed:

4. Number of Entries Deemed Eligible. You may enter only one Entry for the entire Contest Period.

I know people who had multiple (IMO good) t-shirt ideas but only submitted one because of this rule. And yet Chris Hil has three different shirts out of the nine runners-up?

Re:That's what that is?

[eKto1]

Or it could represent the "fix" of news that us /.'ers require, similar to that of a.. say.. heroin addict?