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ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkGEEK!
ThinkGeek writes "ThinkGeek
ThinkGeek
ThinkgEEk
ThinkGeek!
ThinkGeek
ThinkGeek
THINK geek
think GeEk
thinkgEek.
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. "
For the 3rd time, Nothing to see here, move along.
In protest of the April Fools insanity, I am replying to all news items with the following... Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
[Posted at]11:59pm
YES.
It's the 3rd story promoting ThinkGeek today. April Fools is one thing, but drop the propaganda.
A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
ThinkGeek
ThinkGeek? ThinkGeek
Just like Malcovich
Seriously, stop. It's not funny anymore. I want my news back.
THE SYSTEM IS DOWN, YO!
This was supposed to be a ThinkSECRET!
The honesty. Yeah. One day a year, they are honest and hammer their customer base with ads.
My little site.
April 1 is now over. No mas merde postage por la editadores!
It's flooding!!
Oh the floods.... please make it stop. So many posts, so little time for me to make up witty comments.
Brain tired. Damn you April 1st
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
Stop taking the piss, Taco.
Once upon a time it had relevant tech news
this is not a sig
Okay, the Executive Pong is pretty cool, but I'd rather have a PONGMECHANIK!
The two iPods in the iCopulate image are from different generations! That 3rd gen iPod could be the 4th gen iPod's father!
You think you're having a hard time today? Imagine how subscribers feel.
see subject.
From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry:
/. editors. for not having enought sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.
Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.
Curse the
-- Given enough time and money, Microsoft will eventualy invent UNIX.
This'll be the last April Fool's story then (12.59PM shown, please let it be true). Phew. I wonder if the Mods have a posting limit or is it just not possible for them to post them more frequently than every 3 minutes or so...
You DO know that /. and Thinkgeek are both related through OSTG?
Stop making that big face!
If I put CmdrTaco in my enemies list, will I stop seeing his news?
I think slashdot has been hacked. Watch out, it might try to install something on your hard disk through some browser hole.
The original article is here...
Before you walk a mile in someone's shoes, you should insult them so you know how they are and what they're doing.
Slashdot
" News for foooools. stuff that doesnt matter."
please mod this post up if yes.
The CIA suffered from "group-think" (that strange affliction that makes them mislead the president into doing exactly what he was going to do anyway), and now Slashdot's suffering from "geek think".
Just think.
Which would you rather see happen to Cmdr Taco after all these ThinkGeek posts?
ProofReading Markup Language - and yes, I find typos.
I always dread April Fools Day on Slashdot.
This shit isn't even believable.
Geek, of course.
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
*phew*
Umm, I meant 11.59, not 12. oops.
Who the hell is in charge? The monkeys? OSTG's PR group? I want some proper news, and I want it RIGHT NOW. April Fools is one thing, but this constant stream of *crap* is *not* funny, or entertaining. Whoever is behind this constant flood of shite is neither big nor clever.
This has no effect on me.
/. anyway.
:-)
I always find myself thinking 'geek' when I'm reading
Mind you, I also find myself thinking 'geek' when I'm at work. Or at home. Or looking in a mirror. I really need to get out more.
I do believe all the "waaah it's april 2nd i need my slashdot or my leprosy kicks in!" posts just goes to show how little a sense of humor the non-NorthAm /. community really has. Quit browsing /. and get back to work if it offends you so much. Or hell, go OUTSIDE! Let us with a sense of humor laugh our asses off at crude humor for another 8 hours!
You know you've lost it when you begin signing physical documents with =^_^=
that made me laugh out loud. Yeah, the April Fools and Think Geek thing is over the top, way over the top. Come on guys, this is performance art here. Andy Kaufman would be proud.
Please, MAKE IT STOP!
They were funny for a while, but anything gets stale over time. Especially humor.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I have a sense of humor. I enjoy the occasional April Fool's joke thats good. But at this point, what is the point anymore? Just let a dead horse lie. Hell, people aren't even bothering to comment. Was there any real news today? Anyone got anything good to share?
-Gamma
From The Eyes of Kid Midas
Josh shook his head. "I don't think that's how the world's going to end." Josh leaned in closer as he spoke. "I think it's going to be a quieter thing. It's going to happen so that no one even notices anything is wrong. I think things are going to sort of... stop making sense... bit by bit. Things won't work right, people won't think right, everything's going to get all mixed up, until nothing in the universe works the way it's supposed to... And then, everything will just...stop."
"The dream time."
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this is CmdrTaco's way of annoying the collective Slashdot readership in response to people nagging him about the natural-language parsing story posted a few days back being a dupe.
If that's the case, I'm amused that he'd spend the time giving a collective "Fuck you, it's my site" to the readers. If that's not the case, I'm honestly curious. Taco and associates can't be so clueless as to think that the majority of the readership is pleased with the day's stories.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
Ha! So you think.
The REAL April Fools gag is that we get them all back again tomorrow as dupes.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
Cmdr Taco is just a shill for Think Geek. He has obviously been paid off to post as many Think Geek related articles. In fact most of the links in his other posts actually link to Think Geek.
Think Geek, Think Geek, Think Geek
Though seriously you should click on some of the links in the original article. There is some funny stuff there.
Insert Generic Sig Here:
I just tried to order that free shirt from thinkgeek. aparently, i have to order another item more than 10 dollars as well. Ok i said, and i picked out a nice Network Security shirt. Then it came to select my shipping options and put in a credit card.
Thats all good too, but when i put in my address, it tells me that because im in Canada, it will be 18 USD to ship!!! (that btw is the CHEAPEST shipping method)
This is an order of two shirts with the first shirt costing 14.99. So basically, if im understanding this, I would have to pay more for shipping a light cloth shirt, than the actual shirt is worth. Obviously i would be a fool to do that as it just doesnt sit right in my head.
So in conclusion, to fix think geek and get people to buy from there, LOWER YOUR INTERNANTIONAL SHIPPING
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
This kind of thing makes me think of this part of The Eyes of Kid Midas
.
Josh shook his head. "I don't think that's how the world's going to end." Josh leaned in closer as he spoke. "I think it's going to be a quieter thing. It's going to happen so that no one even notices anything is wrong. I think things are going to sort of... stop making sense... bit by bit. Things won't work right, people won't think right, everything's going to get all mixed up, until nothing in the universe works the way it's supposed to... And then, everything will just...stop."
"The dream time," said Kirkpatrick, raising his eyebrows
"What?"
Kirkpatrick took on that knowing look of a shaman -- the way he had around the campfire two weekends before. "There are some cultures," he said, "that believe in a future time when dreams cross the barrier into the real world, and the real world is dragged into an endless dream. All the laws of science, and logic break down to the chaos of nightmares. Pretty wild, huh."
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
For those who haven't noticed, the links in the posting mostly go to placed other than ThinkGeek. Sadly, that's the first laugh I've had as a result of all of the day's spamming.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
I Think it is informative!
Thanks for the not work-safe links slashdot. Even on april fools, I expected better. It's not funny anymore.
Gmail addded another GB to their storage and included the ability to import contacts, among other things. I'm particularly excited about the contact import feature. it's not much, but it's more worty than all the tripe that's been posted do far today.
harmonious design
This never gets old. April 1-05 I can imagine it in wikipedia "Day slashdot went mad"
It looks to me like /. was trying to get an April 1st joke article in every topic.
that either Slashdot has been hacked somehow, or CmdrTaco has suddenly caught a case of the retardeds.
Reverse Googlebombing???
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/05shirt.shtml
FOOLS SHOP AT THINKGEEK
has the april fool's day madness ended we havent had a new topic in like 20 minutes hooray
ax the lpaent hax the plabnet haxk the plenter hax trhe plane t and teh gibson ahcx the planet ehac eht ekabet agsd okeba eplanet hasx teh ahpklebnt if you mod this i will hack your face kthxbye
:-M
Somone get the Cattle prods! Cmdr Taco needs a reboot - he's stuck in a loop again.
Real SUV's don't have cupholders
It's 5:42 A.M., do you know where your stack pointer is?
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! Okay, the lame stories are bad enough, but the ThinkGeek ads just make it worse. I've seen the jokes at ThinkGeek. Really. They were moderately funny. Now quit it.
/. RSS feed on 1. April every year. Anyone interested? :-)
I'm now thinking of writing a Thunderbird plugin that simply disables the
Taco's grammar and diction have improved ten-fold.
Somewhere, pleeease somewhere it has to be April 2nd! Japan? Korea? China? Stop with the jokes, my head is so full of it that it's gonna explode.
In other news:
Man's head explodes while reading Slashdot, Film at 11.
Cmd Taco has posted the fifteenth dupe of the day...
It's April Fool's Day, moron, not DUPE DAY!
The words do NOT mean the same thing!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
NT
Do you actually enjoy listening to other people whine about pointless crap? No? Then why are YOU doing it? When you get YOUR own news website with thousands of hits everyday YOU can run it whatever way YOU want. Ignore April Fools Day completely if YOU like. The admins at slashdot are just having some fun with their site. I think most of the stories are intended to be incredulous and humorous and I read them with that thought in mind- or I skip them. Typically I scan the comments looking for informative, anecdotal or humorous responses. What I don't expect to see are readers whining and complaining about the articles. So I guess you could construe this post as a complaint about complaining, but I'd like think it's at least a little bit constructive. If you're going to complain at least make it funny or sarcastic so that others get something out of reading it rather than just a few seconds ticked off their life? Please?
Not for him. Let him have his fun.
;-)
It's his site (and ad revenue), after all.
...after reading Slashdot all day, I lost my ability to think.
Audioscrobbler
If you want computer news, and it is April 1st, please, for the love of Pete (or Patricia if you don't like guys) please stay away from /. on this day. They have been doing this for a long time now and I don't see it stopping just because you say: /. on some other day. You pick.
Enough, Enough already!
One year from now it will happen again. My only request is that you leave for this one day. Go get your news else where...or just disregard the news this day. Crap...go outside. If you leave April 1st, I promise to not visit
Unstable Apps: Our Android Apps Don't Suck
It's even on the same main page
... if thinkgeek gets slashdotted?
This signature is part of a balanced post.
when you can't top posting a clever blank article, you repost! http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/0 1/1643212&tid=191
there has not been a new story in like 5 min whats up with is the fun over?
then GO AWAY and read the New York Times!!! Come back tomorrow. April fools is always celebrated by slashdot... take a step back and smile. geez
Rob, you should have screwed all the links up in the first place. I mean ALL the links. That would have had us in uproar. Well, some of us, anyway ;-)
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.
I've been complaining about the Internet community's obession with April 1st since 1998. Of course, back then, the pranks were at least partially subtle.
'fraid not. It was posted at 6:59pm EST. You poor Europeans get dredged into several more hours of terrible April Fools posts. C'est la vie.
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.
If you're not a fucking subscriber, than STOP WHINING!!!
It's fucking April Fools Day!!
If you can't take a joke or 20...GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!
(posted anon. because i'm not a subscriber. =)
Am I the only one who actually moused over the links?
ThinkGeek writes "ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkgEEk ThinkGeek! ThinkGeek ThinkGeek THINK geek think GeEk thinkgEek.
(If you don't have the linky-checky-in-brackets thing on, the links are actually to cmdrtaco.net, fark.com, randomdialogue.net, penny-arcade.com, deansplanet.com, mccarthy.vg, cowboyneal.org, homestarrunner.com, and sarcasta.net)
Or he could be waiting for just the right time to jump out and say:
"April Fools! I'm really not an ass!"
Or not.
== Shop at ThinkGeek, Fools
|| Fools Shop at ThinkGeek
wohooo!
Cmdtaco slashdotted himself!
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
That more than makes up for the dupe.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
Dude, where are my overused /. form phrases, not this pop-culture reference I wish I didn't comprehend?
BEEP!
The Executive Pong photo makes it seem as if the projector shines darkness on the wall. Now *that* would be revolutionary. Shining darkness is perhaps why they call it "executive"?
Table-ized A.I.
What is this bullshit?
For a moment I thought that was a story submitted by Roland Piquepaille.
The editor, go fuck yourself.
iCopulate
This is slashdot. Nobody believes you.
"The newly born animals are then whisked off for a quick run through a giant baking oven." --heard on Food Network
April Fools is supposed to be funny. This deluge is like the random output of a crack addict.
Come on, previous April Fools at least had some *subtle* joke/stories rather than this random output of poorly written blurbs gleaned from google news.
Lay off the coffee already Taco...
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
Spangrish?
- sigs are for wimps.
Transfer audio tracks and files directly, faster than real time
Just think, files are transfered faster than it takes to transfer them. Crafty, very crafty...
April is also... Grass Month Pets Are Wonderful Month Uh-huh Month Cancer Control Month Child Abuse Prevention Month Freedom Shrine Month International Guitar Month Keep America Beautiful Month Listening Awareness Month Mathematics Education Month Multicultural Communication Month National Anxiety Month National Garden Month National Home Improvement Month National Humor Month National Occupational Therapy Month National Welding Month Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month Sports Eye Safety Month Boscov's Did-You-Boscov-Today Month Philatelic Societies Month VD Awareness Month National Food Month Stress Awareness Month Alcohol Awareness Month Holy Humor Month International Amateur Radio Month International Twit Award Month Month of the Young Child National Florida Tomato Month Multicultural Communication Month National Knuckles Down Month National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Education and Awareness Month National Woodworking Month Sea Cadet Month Thai Heritage Month Sports Eye Safety Month Community Services Month (California) and Listening Awareness Month
Hahahaha, awesome Taco. I agree with what someone else noted: You should've gotten the links wrong too ;)
"this shit never gets old" haha, nice!
Oh, it is only /. plugging its own product on /.
Hmmm.... subtle joke? I'll see what I can do.
:(
Subtle Joke SUbTle JoKe SUBTLE JOKE suBTLe jOKe SUBtle jOKE sUbTlE jOke SuBtLe JoKe!! This is a subtle joke aprile fools subtle joke april fools!! Fake Ghostlike Protons! Fools shoP at think Geek!! I think we're gonig to be successful, I think we're going to be phenominally successful! Numa Numa! GanG FigHt! Why is #COFFEE about the exact opposite of the colour of Coffee? Did you hear that they're going to get rid of the Internet? OMG APRIL FOOLS I gotcha good! You won't like me when I'm pet urBed! SAVe sidTALKIn'! Yo! This has nothing to do with April Fools! Shine GET! I don't know what I'm YELLING ABOUT!
Well, as Homer once said, trying is the first step toward failure
I'll warn you ahead of time, I'm going to make another post like this in another 365 days.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
"and when the action is finished thinkgeek will say: Thinkgeek halts spoof ;)"
;)
Spooof is spelled with three "o"s.
This is my sig. It's prescription, I swear. I need it for reading things... on the other side of things
I would get an iCopulate but can't stand the idea of my iPod getting more action than me.
...Thinkgeek Thinkgeek MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
Well, the anagram solution is:
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(I Base-64 encoded it, so I wouldn't spoil it for anyone else working on it. You can decode it here: http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base6
mushroom, mushroom...
ill-informed. Do you read any of the slashcode lists? (slashcode-general@lists.sourceforge.net)
From: Rob Malda
To: slashcode-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Wes Moran
Subject: [Slashcode-general] CSS Slashdot/Slashcode mockups
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:09:13 -0500 (Tue, 09:09 EST)
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spend some time working on bringing Slashdot's HTML into this century.
He gave me permission to share where he is with you guys.
What about installing slash?. If you did you would see that improvements are being made though slashcode.
peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup