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USB Fundue Set
Several anonymous readers found this hysterical USB Fundue Set, which despite the power limitations of USB 2 should make for great snacks. It's from 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.
I see the trolls have finally rubbed off on you! Welcome to the Dark Side!
The sad thing is, you could actually do this. Well, maybe USB is too wimpy to heat up cheese or chocolate, but a Firewire Fondue set would be completely possible.
I think that's enough already with the jokes.
Looks like Cmdr Taco has been hitting the USB 2.0 Bourbon Bottle today!
The sharks and slashdot are now playing leapfrog with one another. Who's going to jump whom next? This makes that Happy Days episode a definite Cannes festival winner.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Oh, no wait, it's not. It's yet another motherfucking stupid, unfunny April Fool's post that neither fools nor amuses anyone besides the low grade morons that apparently work for Slashdot.
All of you should eat a dick. Then eat shit. Then die.
i hate the internet on april fools day.
I'm waiting for the USB Deep Fryer, thank you very much.
iCopulate is on the front page 3 times. I mean, it wasn't that funny the first time, or even the second time.
Introducing Microsoft Vacuum 1.0 The first Microsoft product that doesn't suck.
I'm now taking a break for one year - I'll come back next year on 1st April to check if the quality of this site has improved and the flood of April fools jokes decreased.
We even get a dupe joke! Who would of thought it, a dupe on slashdot!
I like muppets.
Gotta love the dupes for the April Fools jokes. Like there aren't enough today anyway. Oh, look above as I type this ... a Fundue ad from ThinkGeek...
Hm. The banner ad for the USB Fundue was kind of hard to find, located at the top of the page and all.
Quoting that exact OSTG disclaimer in Google should be fun in a few weeks...
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
It's the third time today that the iCopulate has been posted... Nice!!
Stop with the april fools jokes!*)#^$!@*%!
You got my hopes up for nothign!@#
This was posted A FEW HOURS AGO! Come on!
What is the point? Seriously, maybe if the entire kitchen was automated and you could download a recipe from the net and your kitchen would make it for you it would be cool. But isn't that really going too far. Some of us actually like cooking and think they can do it better than a machine.
"Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
The pathetic collection of "this sucks" "stop the jokes" "oh! the humanity!" commens will commence once again...
If you don't like it, leave.
is that too hard to comprehend?
I was looking forward to lowbrow geek humour, keeps me entertained one day out of the year - not much, but it's still free!
JC
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
What is the difference between this thing and an Athlon?
Someone you trust is one of us.
Give it a fucking rest. We get it, it's April Fools Day. Please, give it a fucking rest and either put some proper news up or nothing at all.
Jesus fuck, he posted the same story not once, not twice (as usual), but THREE TIMES!
All of my life's problems have been solved.
Slashdot does every fucking April Fools joke somehow related to ThinkGeek, which strangely enough is owned by Slashdot.
Way to whore ThinkGeek guys.
is he just an idiot and doesnt know better. or is he an idiot who thinks this crap is funny/
give up, preferably by jumping off a bridge.
Can we just list all of ThinkGeek's fun April Fools products in ONE article instead of a separate article for each one?
Or is today dedicated to ThinkGeek?
Perhaps there should be a new category just for ThinkGeek April Fools products...
Or give them their own URL: ThinkGeek.Slashdot.Org
Oh, by the way, just to ruin your fun: 'Fake Ghostlike Photons' = 'Fools Shop Think Geek'.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
Nothing like rubbing off on Taco.
He goes by "wetboi" in #bukkake
Its good to know slashdot isn't joking around when it comes to its regularly scheduled dupes...
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Ever dream you could fly? Get up from the Flight Sim. I Fly
This sounds like a good idea. Now I can get rid of that old Mac G4 Cube I've kept around just because it is great for melting cheese on its top.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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.
BoingBoing had this yesterday. :-P
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Y'know, the onomatopoeic, self-deprecating April Fools' jokes about Slashdot's predilection for duplicate articles were funnier the first time around, back in 2003.
It's kinda sad that one of Slashdot's most glaring faults remains alive and healthy a full two years later. Would it kill you to get your collective act together and hire an actual editor? Y'know, the kind of person who can proofread, keep track of what's been posted and other heinously challenging tasks?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
My complaint about John Bolton
If you are stimulated by new ideas, and if you can think for yourself rather than simply accept what John Bolton dishes out, I think you will find this letter of interest. With this letter, I hope to preserve the peace. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: Bolton says that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to his uncouth prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. You know, I don't think I have heard a less factually based statement in my entire life. Generally speaking, he never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. Bolton presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, he seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that I can reword my point as follows. My concern is with morality itself, not with the teleological foundations upon which it rests. Isn't it historically demonstrated that by opting for the easy, short-term, feel-good path, he will pit people against each other sooner than you think? I ask, because all he really wants is to hang onto the perks he's getting from the system. That's all he really cares about.
It is deeply unfortunate that Bolton makes decisions based on random things glamorized by the press and the resulting rantings of the most intellectually challenged rubes I've ever seen, since far too many people tolerate Bolton's contrivances as long as they're presented in small, seemingly harmless doses. What these people fail to realize, however, is that everything I've said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that if you intend to challenge someone's assertions, you need to present a counterargument. Bolton provides none. Bolton insists that he is beyond reproach. This fraud, this lie, is just one among the thousands he perpetrates. He exhibits an air of superiority. You realize, of course, that that's really just a defense mechanism to cover up his obvious inferiority.
Those of us who are still sane, those of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still think that the continuing misunderstandings that some stupid, sick twits seem to have merely underscore this point, have an obligation to do more than just observe what Bolton is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to do something good for others. We have an obligation to find the common ground that enables others to respond to his precepts. And we have an obligation to appeal not to the contented and satisfied, but embrace those tormented by suffering, those without peace, the unhappy and the discontented.
He is attracted to nihilism like a moth to a candle. That should serve as the final, ultimate, irrefutable proof that Bolton is locked into his present course of destruction. He does not have the interest or the will to change his fundamentally cantankerous strictures. He is not only superficial, but he also lacks the self-control necessary to conform his behavior to reasonable norms. We can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but oligarchism doesn't work. So why does Bolton cling to it? This isn't such an easy question to answer, but let me take a stab at it: Bolton claims that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, I beg to differ. It's amazing how low Bolton will stoop to heat the cauldron of terror until it boils over into our daily lives. In that context, one could say that not everyone agrees with him. That said, let me continue.
If I had to choose the most raucous specimen from his welter of mingy gabble, it would have to be his claim that the Universe belongs to him by right. Plan to join Bolton's camp? Be sure to check your conscience at the door. Did Bolton get dropped on his head when he was young, or did he take massive
How many times are you going to post that stupid ad? There are 7 items on that page. Does that mean we're in for another 4 "stories" about funny stuff you can only buy on April 1st? Cut it out already.
BTW the new ThinkGeek jokes are OK for now. Many more is stretching the limits of humor.
Wow, I never saw this coming...considering I've seen the banner ad quite a few times...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
How about a USB powered CRT monitor to cook your eyes?
I only have USB 1.1 does that mean that it will take forever to cook?
ac
For those who don't want to go through the trouble of decrypting the free tshirt anagram at thinkgeek:
fake ghostlike photons!
translates to
Fools shop at thinkgeek!
I'm not trolling, check it yourself.
$750 for a projection game of 'pong'? LOL.
4 Google stories so far...
I'm guessing we will have a fourth Think Geek story by the end of the day.
What, no one has noticed and/or mentioned the Xbox2 now shipping! image to the left of the fundue set?
Interestingly enough...clicking doesn't do anything...
Kind of a cool pic though, even if it is all dreamed up by someone at ThinkGeek.
Whoa. I thought this post was just a dupe gag. I now realize that it's at once a dupe gag and a paid advertisement gag. Greatness.
Honor Among Slackers. A veri
Look, it's nearly April the fucking second now - so on behalf of your remaining two readers:
JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE JOKE ARTICLES!
Please.
Really.
Any time now would be great.
No more.
The pain is too much.
Are the slashdot editors just reading people's sarcastic "what next" comments and then posting stories of them?
I am trolling
You mentioned this before. OMG, how very very crass of you! You should be ashamed of yourself!
Happy 4/1/05, /.'ers.
This is ridiculous
I can't believe no one noticed this:
> 1 Fundue(TM) pot with blue LED regulated heating element
LED heating element... great one.
Wasn't there a dupe gag last April fools? How meta do we want to get with this?
(And is it funny at all?)
Does the new USB 3.0 specification include legacy support for the Fairchild WOM chip? I know the part is real old. Used P-channel (?). Needed a bunch of different power rails..( like 115 VAC, ANDED with chip destruct).
we have headed into unheard-of territory: the Trupe.
It's TRIPLICATES! God, Taco, why don't you go dig around in some month old rejected submissions, surely there'll be something better there than this dupe, uh, tripe.
Lenny: [whispering] Get ready, everybody. He's about to do ... [spills a
something stupid.
Homer: Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you gentlemen, but you seem to
have me confused with a character in a fictional show. Now,
if you'll excuse me, my fondue is just about
fondue pot, which had been resting on the control panel]
D'oh!
...i think I'm about to commit suicide
USB power is insufficient to create enough heat for deep frying, particularly after you put in room-temperature or colder food, dropping the temperature of the oil.
The obvious solution is to harness a heat source second only to the sun: Intel's Pentium 4.
Strap on a sexy custom-made heatsink attached to a vat of oil, and you've got yourself number-crunching, deep-frying electronic goodness! Yeah, baby, yeah!
Predictable traffic spike ---> link to advertisers.
Because it's april fools day!
hhahahaahaah