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iCopulate Romances iPods, Executive Pong
mboverload was one of several readers to note that you can purchase aircraft tracking laser today at ThinkGeek. (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now).
You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong.
Funny....truly funny and an amusing use of corporate cooperation for a joke . However, I will say this: I am always amazed at the things humans will buy. I will betcha $1000 that if these were actual items for sale, they would sell big time. Of course the government would come down hard on the first item, and with the current administrations moves for more religion in government, they may crack down on the iCopulate as well (little spikey things are a bit too.....titillating for some folks), but that pong thing.... Wow, I can think of more than one dumb jock executive that would dump lots of cash into something like that. :-)
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Am I the only one who wishes the Pong thing *wasn't* a joke? I mean, how cool would it be to project Pong onto an entire wall? If others are like me, ThinkGeek may end up having to make it into a *real* product. :-)
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I didn't notice the iCopulate was a joke, because it sounds like exactly the sort of thing iPod users would go for.
I am trolling
Forget the toys... I'm just excited I can finally get a classy snack at my desk now!
The RIAA would be on them like stink on shit for allowing/encouraging customers to mix and mash copyrighted music to create their own.
It's still funny though.
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Do they Spawn Baby Ipod's I can sell on Ebay Too? It would be nice to make those Ipod's pay for themselves, heck I can start a Slave Ipod Mill!!! The possibilities are endless!!
Oh I see, April 1st...never mind...
...in bed
Here's another really funny (or scary, if it's remotely true) one about Big Brother... makes you think...
Joke... or not?
There are some April Fools pranks here.
A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
With all of these fake stories today, I would've expected to have seen one or two about SCO.
The funny thing is that we've all seen such strange things from SCO that no matter how outrageous it was, it wouldn't be immediately disbelieved.
I'm a big tall mofo.
I think it's appropriate that the add-on for Executives is mispeld.
But is it available on BSD?
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Reminds me of two dogs.
If you experience interruptus, do you have to throw cold water on the joined iPods?
...without any form of virus protection available. I'd just say no.
Anyone else notice the The Magic Supersecret Anagram T-Shirt that is on sale?
It says "Fake Ghostlike Photons" on the front, which apparently is an anagram for something that won't be revealed until tomorrow.
So far, my best guess is: Fools Shop at Think Geek
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Executive Pong would be a big hit with them.
stinking like a tarts handbag with all the aftershave they are soaked in because they didnt shower this morning
Does ICopulate have a vibrate mode?
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Why is it that every other place realizes that, although April 1st lasts an entire 24 hour day, April Fools pretty much ends around lunch because everyone is on the lookout and anything slightly odd is considered a joke.
Really, its cool and all, but now its just boring. It'd be nice to see regular stories now, but I know slashdot hasn't changed in the past...
I guess its time to either ignore the frontpage for the day or just go back to reading peoples journals, cause we all know that nothign but crap will appear on the front page until at least midnight....
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
"Fake Ghostlike Photons" is an anagram for "Fools Shop at ThinkGeek"
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Actually, it comes in two forms, the iCopulate and the iMasturbate. iCopulate is an add-on for the iPartner product.
(Somebody please tell me there's no truth to the notion that the internal project name for iMasturbate was "Hand Jobs a Winner". That's simply too bizarre to believe...isn't it?)
...can be as gay as you are!
....Slashdot editors were forced to flee for their lives after posting the Nth April Fool's article of the day. Whilst beating a hasty retreat, Slashdot editors Zonk and a visibly shaken CmdrTaco were overheard by onlookers as stating "Today's CowboyNeal option is 'RUN!!!'"
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
Im sure im attracting nothing by flames and negative moderation by saying this, but despite think geeks awsome stock, I've been greatly displeased to notice alot of their products sell for double the cost of the same item at almost any other location on the web.... (go ahead look ;P )
How about combing through the mass of April Fools detritus and posting just the few headlines that are actually, um, funny?
Fools shop at Think Geek
Now you know.
Do not touch -Willie
...it's April 1st.
I feel your pain, but here is a suggestion.
... read a book ... go for a walk ... call some friends and have a beer ... finally do the spring cleaning ...
Instead of reading peoples journals and waiting for midnight, how about turning off the computer and
Simply amazing! I must own one!
;P
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Why, oh why, does this have to be fake! Somebody should make this happen and make a million in the process. I'd buy one. Especially if it was more like the iGangBang and you could make a little iLAN out of up to 5 iPods. That would iFucking rule.
So, first comment after reading the couple of Slashdot April Fools articles. Geez, all of them are so fucking obvious, that it makes Slashdot (and the geek community releasing the joke articles) look so laaame. A real joke is supposed to begin with somehthing plausible and make people believe them. Somehow Paris Hilton promoting FOSS fails that category...
Is it just me, or are ThinkGeek's April Fools Day products a bit lame this year compared to previous years? They are usually pretty funny, but they are a bit weak this year. The Megamags are kinda cool though...
Serioulsy, I had my credit card out and everything. Bitches.
I was thinking about it for a minute... This really won't be that difficult to do, in fact, fairly easy using open source software (Namely Linux) and a small general purpose embedded controller...
.mp4 and then copy. Update the library of the iPod the files were copied to and you're good to go.
The database and file structure of the iPod is fairly well documented, so here is the base structure of the project, if some other people want to get one board we could get this done in a matter of weeks from start to finish:
Small Embedded PC with USB host capabilities (I'm thinking something cheap and ARM/XScale based)
Add in HFS+ support in the Kernel (Already been done)
USB Mass storage driver
A few hours worth of specific programing
So, you would have a small box with the embedded controler with a small LCD and a few buttons hooked up the the serial controller of the embedded system along with two USB ports. When you plug two iPods into the ports they are both mounted as USB mass storage devices where you can read the iPod music database file and all the music files. The big problem is, most iPods are going to be too full to properly sync all the music between them, solution; Taking advantage of the fact that Apple now allows you to make on-the-go playlists, you would then be presented two options on the LCD:
1. Copy Playlist
2. Copy entire iPod Useful in the case of say coping a Mini to a 60 gig iPod photo.
Then just check each file to make sure there aren't any duplicates, skip over any files ending in
If anyone is interested in making this project happen I would love to help organize it:
To email me take the first initial of my first name and my full last name (From my username, no spaces or underscores) @gmail.com
...on the iCopulate.
$69 is good, but $77 is better because you get "8" more.
I actually want to buy these items!
Schrodinger's cat is either dead or really pissed off...
I sure would like to see some of ThinkGeeks famed action shots for the iCopulate.
This isn't funny, the story on Space Daily about Bush supposedly cancelling the shuttle program isn't funny. None of this garbage is funny.
Why does every news source, especially those online, feel the need to pull a cutsie April Fools prank. The practice makes the web practically useless on this day for any news.
We get enough of this from our local morning drive-time morning zoo wacky radio DJs. Why cant Slashdot be above this?
iNconceivable!
...I'd rather have a Google Gulp! 8-)
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Has anyone actually tried to implement this? It would require:
* Dual-ended iPod cables
* Ability to develop and download iPod software to do the transfer
* Ability not to get sued by Apple (or RIAA) for commercializing the solution
I'm sure others have thought of trying to do this as soon as the iPod appeared. It would obviously be a huge hit to "mate" iPods and swap collections, but who has come closest to making it happen? What is the current technical and legal status of each of these barriers?
I hear he's playing the world's greatest April Fools joke today.
He's gonna pop up tomorrow and be like, "0wn3d!"
Or something.
Most folk'll never lose a toe, and then again some folk'll...
FireWire devices are peers, so it would be relatively easy (assuming the availability of an iPod SDK, which doesn't exist outside Apple). The solution proposed by the iCopulate is mode feasible though - produce something small and lightweight that looks like a computer to both, and sucks files from one to the other.
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iRiver H300 series can do transfers with any USB mass storage device (which means anything that isn't an iPod.
sucks files from one to the other
Which explains why the thing is really mis-named (IMO).
Slashdot has finally been slashdotted!
Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Bugs are good for building character in the user.
Shop at Think Geek, Fools
or
Fools shop at Think Geek
Or some other permutation of this that I'm too inept to figure out because I wasted what little mental capacity I had anagramming "Fake Ghostlike Photons"
I have discovered a truly remarkable sig which this margin is too small to contain.
fake ghostlike photons = fools shop at thinkgeek Thank you anagram finder....
From the features list:
(will not work with the iPod Shuffle®)
heh so this would be like the iSuck, or the i69? ;)
Audioscrobbler
...would have a sporting chance at copulation; unlike unwholesome, smelly geeks with their obscure, unstylish ogg vorbis players.
iJob
hey guys, check out this Apple iThong mini story, hehe ;)
I nearly made a fool out of myself. Well , it was early in the morning without coffee.
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greets, stefano
Different colors means different sexes???? Or are they all same sex??
no, really, I do
Anyone else notice the ads running now? ThinkGeek is going all out in trying to fool the everyone. Will they spam my mail box next?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/other/looflirpa/no wshipping_xbox2.gif
haha i laughed
this sig has been discontinued.
a good FF joke-extension idea. Prepend every word on an HTML page with an i and capitalize the next letter. Beginnings of sentences will have the capital I.
Iam iTired iOf iThe iApril's iFools iDay,
iFuckIt.
You can't handle the truth.