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Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the best-of-the-best dept.

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.

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  1. Congratulations! by zephc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congratulations! You have lost!

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  2. I was thinking about a shirt said: by mb12036 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am an insensitive clod.

    1. Re:I was thinking about a shirt said: by dytin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Those of us that are insensitive clods would have been very offended by such a shirt, you insensitive clod!

    2. Re:I was thinking about a shirt said: by Daniel_Staal · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about 'I am an Anonymous Coward"? ("and proud of it!"?)

      If only I could draw...

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    3. Re:I was thinking about a shirt said: by zephc · · Score: 4, Funny

      you seem a little sensitive, for such an insensitive clod :P

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    4. Re:I was thinking about a shirt said: by RetroGeek · · Score: 3, Informative

      I also third this idea.

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

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    5. Re:I was thinking about a shirt said: by roka · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would forth this, but I prefer lisp.

  3. color choices by Patik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nearly all of them are designs to be put on black t-shirts... Probably because black doesn't show pit/food stains as easily and can be reworn for months on end without washing.

    1. Re:color choices by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Funny

      But you forget, a black shirt easily shows up dandruff.

      The solution is a kind of mottled charcoal/grey shirt.

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    2. Re:color choices by FreshFunk510 · · Score: 5, Funny

      While we're at it, can we manufacture the shirts so that deoderant is somehow embedded in the fabric so that they'll take effect when being worn (by smelly, non-showering nerds)?

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    3. Re:color choices by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Duct tape and two Speed Sticks, my friend.

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    4. Re:color choices by FreshFunk510 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Only with geek wearing Slashdot shirts does the issue of a well designed solution (embedded deoderant) go up against a hacked (duct tape) one. :P

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    5. Re:color choices by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny

      The hack won't work for purely socialogical reasons. It makes the faulty assumption that Geekus malodorous would acknowledge a problem in the first place. So it's better to just make all geek t-shirts self-deodorizing.

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  4. Finally! by Chicane-UK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keep it up guys.. keep loading those images.

    We might finally be able to Slashdot Slashdot!! :)

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    1. Re:Finally! by arcanumas · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes. This is what it technically called "Recursive Slashdotting"
      It would be better illustrated if hey posted all 331 images. This would be the "Slashdot - hit of death" attack.

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  5. All those images.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could this be the first time /. gets /.ed by /.?

  6. Thank God. by heldlikesound · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought I was going to have to do laundry.

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  7. Has to be said... by thrillbert · · Score: 4, Funny

    But when can I see the results of the Wet /. T-Shirt contest??

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    1. Re:Has to be said... by Biomechanoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      But when can I see the results of the Wet /. T-Shirt contest??

      You need at least two females for that.

    2. Re:Has to be said... by binaryDigit · · Score: 5, Funny

      But when can I see the results of the Wet /. T-Shirt contest??

      Dude, the image of all those /.'ers out there in wet tshirts, all of whom could use the "bro" or the "manssiere" just about made me lose my lunch.

  8. So... by Patik · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...are there any shirts available for those of us who don't want to look like a complete dork?

    1. Re:So... by CableModemSniper · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why are you here then?

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    2. Re:So... by error502 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're a /. subscriber, and you're trying to *not* look like a complete dork?

  9. My favorite designs by pq · · Score: 4, Insightful
    My personal favorite is the Topoleski design, "If you can read this, you belong here." And I really like the Morse code (Russ Clarke) design too. Don't really get any of the cheesy cartoon ones... but to each his own, I guess.

    Congratulations to the winners.

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    1. Re:My favorite designs by Gudlyf · · Score: 3, Funny
      I would've liked to have seen a design with a cartoon troll (something like this) staring at a computer screen and a post on Slashdot that's moderated as "Troll". Then have a thought bubble over his head: "Hrm. Slashdot. How do they always know."

      I dunno. Something like that. Not like I refined the idea or anything.

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  10. Question about the shirts by flikx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will they have big advertisements on them? Specifically, Microsoft advertisements?

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    1. Re:Question about the shirts by Keighvin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not if you're a subscriber.

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  11. images.slashdot.org by cmburns69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    slasdotted already. How ironic.

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  12. Chris Hoover needs a faster connection by Ridgelift · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think we should take a collection and buy Chris Hoover a faster internet connection. His Syringe with a RJ-11 jack is really nice, but who uses a phone line anymore? I would think a RJ-45 high-speed ethernet connection would be more apropos.

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  13. Say what? by Otter · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I don't get it -- the "mainline geek culture" picture is a syringe attached to what? (Oh, it's an Ethernet cable, right? OK, I do get it. Still, it's a bit excessively stylized.)

    I'd have gone with the "soothing green light" shirt as #1 and "Get back to work!" as #2, but that's me.

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  14. Mainline Geek Culture - via what network media? by RevMike · · Score: 4, Insightful
    My favorite is Chris Hoover's "Syringe becomes Modular plug".

    But, being a geek, I have an annoying nitpick. The modular plug is for a three-pair cable (RJ-14). Why do a modem cable when broadband is so popular. Most ethernet connections are four-pair (RJ-45).

    If you wanted to be retro geeky, use the BNC connector for 10Base-2 (ThinNet).

  15. I prefer some ot the runner ups by C_nemo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any chance there could be high resolution tiff/ps/pdf of the runner up entries posted somewhere? I realy like the 'bathing geeks in soothing green light' thing. Want to send it to a A3 color printer, or A1 color plotter...

  16. All of the entrys by Dante · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would of loved to have seen all of the hundreds of entrys, why not post them all?

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  17. Re:Haha! by Maskull · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I buy anything that ThinkGeek sells because I'm 1337." Come to think of it, that would make a good shirt.

  18. Proofreading? by NetDrain · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.)

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    1. Re:Proofreading? by joldc · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'd hate to have people think that no one on slashdot actually reads what was written.

      (the top three are winners and will be printed)

  19. Big-endian/Little-endian by inertia187 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    01010011-01101100
    01100001-01110011
    01101000-011 00100
    01101111-01110100
    00101110-01001111
    01010 010-01000111
    If you can read this, you belong here.
    Very funny. Does .ORG really have to be capitalized? It's like yelling. :) And does this mean that Slashdor favors a particular endian?

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  20. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  21. Re:Haha! by stratjakt · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  22. Cafe Press the other shirts PLEASE!!! by gsfprez · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    I for one won't be seen in any of the winner shirts - but i'm all over the "soothing green light" shirt when that becomes available.

    and where the fsck is the ad-shirt for Natalie Portman's Hot Grits?

    it would have Yakov holding a box of the grits pouring them into his pants saying : "Natalie Portman's Hot Grits : In SOVIET RUSSIA you MOD PARENT UP and ??? Profit!"

    i wanted to do this design myself - but i'm as artistic as a dung beetle.

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  23. Re:Copyright? by stevel · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  24. My open source variant by mbourgon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Front: Anonymous
    Back: Coward

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  25. Show of hands... by El · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, how many of you actually looked up the "If you can read this, you belong here" T-shirt to confirm that it actually said "Slashdot.org"??? If you did, then you DEFINATELY belong here!

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    1. Re:Show of hands... by echucker · · Score: 5, Funny

      Are you mad? That'd be like reading the fucking article! ;-)

    2. Re:Show of hands... by panaceaa · · Score: 3, Interesting

      What do you mean "look up?" You don't know that 01000001 is A and 01100001 is a? And that you just have to subtract each letter's value from the above numbers to know what letter number the value represents?

      Come on: it's binary, not rocket science. You should have learned to subtract numbers in elementary school.

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  26. Required Information.... by coryboehne · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

  27. Re:That's what that is? by Xerithane · · Score: 3, Funny

    A syringe with an RJ11... It just makes no sense...

    At first I thought it was a vacuum cleaner, Apple style (kinda like the iBrator.) It was funny then, because it was like, "Slashdot: Still sucking", but then I realized it was a syringe and was just confused.

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  28. I'm not trolling but... by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This SERIOUSLY isn't a troll post. But one thing that irritates me about this is how little compensation the designers are getting for their work versus how much Thinkgeek will make and how much Slashdot will make on commissions (or maybe its the other way around). What I'd really like to see is how much revenue/profit they've made from these shirts. C'mon guys, you got our designs for dirt cheap, the least you can do is let us know how much more you're getting for this than we are.

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  29. Re:multiple entries? by CTate · · Score: 5, Informative
    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?
  30. 1 more vote for the "Soothing Green Light" one by mooman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Shame that Taco didn't pick the "Soothing Green Light" one as a favorite of his, because I liked it the best of the set.

    Can we have a writein vote where the most popular one with the readers also gets made into a shirt? If so, this is my vote for the "soothing green light" one...

    Oh, and don't forget extended sizes.. XXL or XXXL would be a nice thing. Some of us like our shirts baggy.

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  31. Soothing Green Light by embedded_C · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Please make Dan Sandler's "Soothing Green Light" design into a t-shirt. I'll buy one then.

    Can't we mod Dan's shirt up?

  32. Amusing geek T-shirt sightings at DEFCON by c64cryptoboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just flew back in from DEFCON 11, where people were selling/wearing the following:

    - Life ain't nothin but bitches, money, and root.

    - I need a girl who's name doesn't end with .JPG

    - I rooted your girlfriend's box, and I didn't use a trojan

    - Computer security is like sex. Once your penetrated, you're pretty much f*cked.

    - Chicks dig guys that write recursive algorithms

    - Save a filesystem -- Mount a sysadmin

    - When you're caught, we're splitting up your warez

    - My other computer is your linux box

    - Trinity is a script kiddie

    - There's no place like 127.0.0.1

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  33. My T-Shirt Suggestion by MyHair · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish I were funny enough to keep the nested +5 Funny thread going.

  34. Like this... by Gudlyf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's a quick hack-n-slash job of it.

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  35. Re:Bravo! by DeborahArielPickett · · Score: 3, Funny

    Note the second of this designer's entries with the big-headed geek saying:

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

    Take a look at the spelling of "it's" there. This is either a terribly sad indictment or masterfully brilliant observation; I haven't figured out which yet.