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Mega Mags, Life Sized Magnetic Toys
A random user noted MegaMags , a life size version of the popular MiniMag toys available 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.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/141222 3&tid=159
The purposeful dupes weren't funny last year, either.. :(
It's pretty sad when the jokes are so lame that they need to dupe them after two hours.
You've ruined my April Fools Day.
I didn't fall for it in my email this morning, I'm not falling for it here!
Some of the products are really funny though. Especially the green laser airline tracker.
I had a sucky sig.
a lot. Maybe I should whore myself on Thinkgeek... Then again maybe not.
If the dollar is an "I owe you nothing", then the Euro is a "Who owes you nothing." - Doug Casey
'Happy Time'
Grrrrr. Just a few more hours of this...
(first!)
Good ole Slashdot posing thinkgeek twice. Not funny anymore.
Ha Think Geek Fools Post
fools shop at thinkgeeks!
I just don't waste time at work as well because I don't feel like reading these stories
holy dupe of a dupe of an email, batman!
And for those of you who didn't notice... you can read the same freaking thing posted just 2 hours ago! By the same person no less.
"Chances of RHIC-induced Armageddon are exceedingly rare, but... you never know." - MIT Physicist Bob Jaffe
That would make a great system for disposing of AOL CD's, retired floppy disks, etc. If the media is magnetic, it can erase it. Otherwise, it can simply crush it to death.
If memory serves, there was already a ThinkGeek April fools article here this morning.
"When Nature Calls We All Shall Drown" Johan Edlund
Bet this pisses off those people with the "dupe post" hate-on. Two words: "GET OVER IT".
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of.
Worst part is, both were posted By Taco
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
Man, a dupe when the original is still on the front page! Yeesh!
With the first link, the chain is forged.
You know it's bad when an editor dupes his own submission...
The best April Fool's Day joke ever would have been a dupe-less day of news on Slashdot! We would have looked forward to high standards of dupe checking!
by a band of monkeys!!
APRIL FO.. no wait
The funny thing is that someone out there would have bought the "executive pong".
"Jeremy, you need to get to an internet cafe and cut and paste some appropriate sentiments about me from the world wide
You must be with the Italian media who the Vatican has said is wrong, last I checked (15 seconds ago) the headlines were along the lines of "Pope Clings to Life".
/. on 4/1... the tradition continues.
But yes, still more non funny stuff from
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
This is the most amusing thing I spotted on slashdots frontpage today!
6 of 9 comments.
LoL!!!
(For fucks sake post something funny for April Fools you insensitive super-clods)
The title is different, and it was posted by different people, it can't *possibly* be a dupe
I'm not so much upset about my liver leaving me. Its really fair enough, I guess. But did it have to take the dog?
There has to be some Xmen geek somewhere with a big homoerotic fixation on Magneto. But, I mean, really.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
My favorite part: "Directly" is, evidently, faster than real-time! :) Happy 4/1.... 4/20 will be happier.
I thought, looking at a lot of these, that they would be things someone might legitimately buy, if for a conversation piece if nothing else. I wonder if Aprl Fools' day joke might double as a way to actually sell things.
After all, I'm giving away Google Gulp caps for free -- I got one in the mail last night, see -- but I hear some people are selling them on eBay.
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
Here's the plan..
./ on IIS for the day on April 1st?
-> Sit back and collect all of the mod points from 11am.
Sigh, if they want to something original. How about hosting
Here's a reply post. I'm just going to write whatever. I figure if Slashdot doesn't have to try today, neither do I.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
there must be some economic incentive to push ThinkGeek today...
n/a
betwen a practical joke and just plain being an asshole. Where's the line? Turn around, you just crossed over it.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
If slashdot is where you go to satisfy all of your news needs I feel sorry for you anyway. FYI there's more things happening in the world than appear on slashdot, and there's more places to find news than just slashdot.
i left my account logged in on a public console. Please ban my account. Please ban my account.
You guys should put up a static /. home page that says "due to the amount of great news today, the slashdot site has been slashdotted." Comedy gold, I tell you.
The purposeful dupes_weren't funny last year, either.. :(
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
We all hope it'll soon be over. No more suffering.
No. I don't mean the editors. All I've seen today in the comments is a bunch of whining, humorless, schmucks.
Yes. Same old, same old. However, today instead of "I can't laid". It's "I don't get it." Again... same old, same old.
This rant has run itself out now. Thank you, and piss off.
And yet this country can't seem to produce a decent comedy moovie to save its life.
Its too bad Slashdot will never become a reputible source for news when they pull stunts like these every year.
Anyone else finding April Fool's day tiring now..? Perhaps rebranding as "Irritate your audience" day or "Bandwidth saving" day for next year may help... >:-(
Is it possible to mod the entire Slashdot website, the entire day, as -2 Redundant?
Damn, that must be a record for dup stories...
Wow, reposting something he himself posted 6 articles ago. This must be a new dupe record for Taco. I guess we know who the April Fool is this year.
Have fun: Join D.N.A. (National Dyslexics Association)
And why is it that they only announce their connection with TG on April Fools, and not on any of the other occasions when they post a TG Slashvertisement?
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Wow! What's with CmdrToco and the iCompulate? He's posted on it twice already! Any ideas?
Pat
That's not funny that's just annoying... we'd get even more internal server errors then usual, along with the bad M$ error page.
Isn't it enough to flood the site with boring April Fools jokes that no one falls for? Do we really also need dups of those jokes?
This is turning into a sad "I desperately want to be funny" day for geeks.
I put the MegaMags in my trunk and drove home. On my way, I heard a giant "click", almost as if a satellite had taken my photo. While I was distracted, I ran off the road and hit a man. I went to see if he was okay, but just before he died, he thanked me for putting him out of his misery. It seems he had contracted the human form of a PC virus. As I got back into my car, I noticed Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton fighting in front of Fry's. Paris was yelling something about more exposure. When Tiger clubbed her with a 5-iron, I decided it was time to leave.
Once I got home, I set the MegaMags next to my PC, and it completely erased my hard drive. I was really upset because I had just installed my new Gentoo NT distribution.
Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.
:)
Sure it's not funny. But that doesn't really seem to matter today
Anonymous Kev
Proudly posting as AC since 1997
(Finally got a dang account in 2004)
Includes a guilt and auto-purchase module. After disconnection of iPods, a Shuttle is charged to your account and shipped 9 months later.
If you cancel or dispute the charge you get a sharp note from the GOP and a one year membership with planned parenthood.
.. pa-ra-bo-la, pa-ra-bo-la, 2 pi R, 2 pi R, where's your latus rectum, where's your latus rectum, 2 pi R
Jesus ed's. Come on its April 1st and you still managed to dupe. THERES NOTHING GOING ON AND THE ARTICLES WERE A FEW HOURS APART.
Sheesh.
snowulf.com
iCopulate sounds to scientific. Let's just give it the proper name that everyone's so familier with, why not call it: i[censored]
Check out the other items, I've figured out the shirt anagram, its pretty cool.
I extracted "Think Geek" and "Fools" from the string, and fed the rest to an anagram generator
It hasn't been funny for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2005
iDupe
It amazes me that if people posting here are in IT, a world where nothing is ever good enough and the standards of the customer are too high. Then aren't you all being hypocrites by applying your customer's standards to slashdot? The editors are having fun, give them a break. All I see on here is hate post after hate post every single day. It also amazes me when someone has the time to lookup all of the repeat articles and post them like they discovered gold. Are people on here proud that they can put down slashdot everyday? Does it help the low self esteem that runs rampant on here? Go read another site if you're too smart for this one.